Assembly adoption bills pass, despite criticism
Assembly lawmakers advanced eight measures Tuesday to change Wisconsin laws governing adoption and termination of parental rights, but only after rewriting them, in some cases making them substantially different from the Senate versions.
Five of the eight bills approved Tuesday by the Assembly Committee on Family Law have already had a public hearing in the Senate Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families, but still await a vote in that committee. The other three bills the Assembly committee passed Tuesday don’t have Senate versions.
Because of amendments made in the Assembly committee, however, one or both houses will have to rewrite the five shared bills if they are to be enacted. With few floor sessions scheduled in the new year, the time to do that is limited.
And despite their passage, the bills themselves got mixed to poor reviews in public hearings earlier this year.
Read more: https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2019/12/18/assembly-adoption-bills-pass-despite-criticism/