A local Assembly representative says the legislature isn’t done working on COVID-19 relief plans. Mark Spreitzer of Beloit says he’s proud the legislature this week did hold a session remotely and passed provisions including retroactively suspending the one-week waiting period for unemployment benefits, expanded health services to protect vulnerable residents, and extended various deadlines to give schools and local governments the flexibility to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. The Democrat says more needs to be done including providing hazard pay and sick leave benefits for frontline and critical care workers who are putting their lives on the line in the face of the pandemic, making additional grant and loan funding available as soon as possible to support Wisconsin’s small businesses and nonprofits, and giving Governor Evers the authority to reopen the state’s economy in a safe measured manner so as not to create a second peak in COVID-19 cases.
