May 21, 2024
Funds

Lawmakers agree on opioid plan, remain deadlocked on PFAS, hospital funds • Wisconsin Examiner

Republican state lawmakers on the Legislature’s budget committee rewrote the spending plan Tuesday for Wisconsin’s next allotment of opioid settlement money, throwing out items the state health department had pushed for and instead boosting spending on existing programs to address addiction to the powerful drugs. The committee’s GOP leaders also once again snubbed Gov. Tony

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Legislature would limit governor’s power over federal funds

Wisconsin voters could decide in August if the Legislature should have final say over how the governor spends federal funds allocated to the state. The Assembly voted along party lines Thursday, with all Democratic lawmakers opposed, to advance a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to limit the governor’s authority over how some federal funds are

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