Madison – Representative Mark Pocan and Senator Jon Erpenbach unveiled their action plan today on the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act to allow seriously ill Wisconsin residents access to a medicine to ease their pain. Announced today is a combined public hearing with the Assembly Public Health Committee and the Senate Health, Health Insurance, Privacy, Property Tax Relief and Revenue Committee for December 15th.... ... READ MORE
Madison – Senator Jon Erpenbach, author of Wisconsin’s popular “Do Not Call” Law, is pleased an increase in penalties and fines for breaking the law passed the Senate today.... ... READ MORE
Labor Day provides communities the opportunity to celebrate how unions have helped shape the workplace with laws that are applied every day in Wisconsin. The 40 hour work week, overtime for hourly employees, child labor restrictions, work safety laws, cooperatives, family and medical leave, minimum wage, health care benefits delivered through employment and even social security were all laws directly shaped by the labor movement in the United States and Wisconsin. Changes in workforce laws that affect nearly all of our families are ongoing even now at the state and local level.... ... READ MORE
The recently announced extension of Wisconsin’s SeniorCare program is great news for our senior citizens. This wildly popular program saves older adults in Wisconsin on prescription drugs and is widely regarded as a much stronger than the Federal Medicare Part D program that was set to replace it at the end of this year barring the Federal action. Last year the Bush administration refused the extension of SeniorCare but the new Obama administration granted a three year extension to carry the program through 2012. This announcement was made this week in Sun Prairie.... ... READ MORE
A new law enacted this week gives Wisconsin 10 and 11 year olds and others that have not first taken the hunter’s safety course an opportunity to learn to hunt under the guide of a mentor. Supporters of the proposal hope that the new opportunity will foster and develop a life long love of the outdoors and hunting. In addition, the mentoring program could give those that would not otherwise hunt the opportunity to go out with an experienced hunter.... ... READ MORE