Legislative Leaders Call Extraordinary Session Tuesday For COVID-19 Bill

Republican leaders plan to hold an extraordinary session of the Wisconsin Legislature next week to pass a coronavirus relief bill.  The special session would begin Tuesday as a virtual meeting.  Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said, “this legislation will allow Wisconsin to capture millions of federal dollars in addition to the two-billion dollars in coronavirus funding that will aid Wisconsin’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.”  Vos and Fitzgerald say they continue to work Democrats on the bill.  It is still being determined which day each chamber will hold a session.  Governor Tony Evers threatened to veto a package that had been negotiated because it gave the Joint Finance Committee the ability to make cuts to the state budget.