By: Michaela Paukner, [email protected]//January 22, 2020//
By: Michaela Paukner, [email protected]//January 22, 2020//
Wisconsin public defenders are on pace to receive pay parity with state prosecutors. The state Senate on Tuesday passed an amended version of Senate Bill 468 to provide a pay-progression plan for assistant state public defenders.
The bill would have originally provided the office with $1.4 million for that purpose in 2019-20 and $2.6 million in 2020-21. Sen. Duey Stroebel, R-Saukville, offered an amendment changing the first amount to $468,200 and stipulating that the act wouldn’t take effect until March 1, 2020. The amended version of the bill was passed unanimously and sent to the Assembly.
Among other bills passed by the Senate during its floor session on Tuesday: