Gov. Scott Walker signed seven bills into law Wednesday, including one that would all but eliminate the secretary of state from the bill publishing process and another that would give $15 million to workforce development over two years.
The secretary of state currently has the power to wait up to ten days before recommending that the state paper, the Wisconsin State Journal, publish a bill the governor has signed into law.
Under the new law, the secretary of state will lose that responsibility and the Legislative Reference Bureau will recommend publishing immediately after a bill is signed, making a law fully enforceable the day after it gets the governor’s signature.
The second bill, which was authored by three Republicans but gained nearly unanimous support in both houses of the state legislature, will allocate $15 million toward bridging the state’s skills gap by giving potential employees specific skills they need to get a job with state businesses.
