13.111 Joint committee on employment relations. (1) CREATION. There is created a permanent joint legislative committee known as the joint committee on employment relations with such powers and authority as are provided by law and composed of the following 8 members: (a) Senate cochairperson, joint committee on finance. (b) Assembly cochairperson, joint committee on finance. (c) Assembly majority leader. (d) Assembly minority leader. (e) Senate majority leader. (f) Senate minority leader. (g) Speaker of the assembly. (h) President of the senate. (2) DUTIES. The joint committee on employment relations shall perform the functions assigned to it under subch. V of ch. 111, subch. II of ch. 230 and ss. 16.53 (1) (d) 1., 20.916, 20.917, and 20.923. History: 1971 c. 270; 1977 c. 196 s. 131; 1977 c. 325, 418; 1979 c. 34; 1979 c. 177 s. 86; 1983 a. 27 s. 2201 (33); 1983 a. 30 s. 13; 2009 a. 28; 2011 a. 10.
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Legislators’ salaries and benefits. (1) CURRENT MEMBER. From the appropriation under s. 20.765 (1) (a) or (b), each member of the legislature shall be paid, in equal installments, the salary provided under s. 20.923. (2) DECEASED MEMBER. The salary of any member who dies during a term of office shall be paid for each pay period to a beneficiary named by the member in writing and filed with the chief clerk of the house in which the member serves, until a personal representative has been appointed and qualified, and then to such personal representative until a successor has been elected and qualified. When any person elected a member dies before commencement of the term of office to which the person is elected, the person shall be deemed a member dying during such term of office and the person’s salary shall be paid for each pay period to the person’s estate or personal representative until a successor is elected and qualified. (3) SPEAKER. For services as speaker, the speaker of the assembly shall receive $25 per month, payable monthly, in addition
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to the speaker’s compensation, expenses and mileage as a member. (4) INSURANCE. For the purpose of premium determinations under s. 40.05 (4) and (5) each member of the legislature shall accrue sick leave at a rate equivalent to a percentage of time worked recommended for such positions by the administrator of the division of personnel management in the department of administration and approved by the joint committee on employment relations in the same manner as compensation for such positions is determined under s. 20.923. This percentage of time worked shall be applied to the sick leave accrual rate established under s. 230.35 (2). The approved percentage shall be incorporated into the compensation plan under s. 230.12 (1). History: 1973 c. 51, 243; 1977 c. 196 s. 131; 1981 c. 96 s. 67; 1983 a. 27 ss. 8, 9, 2202 (33); 1991 a. 316; 2003 a. 33 ss. 11, 12, 9160; 2005 a. 25; 2015 a. 55.