Senate "punts" on water Bill
We do however get schtupped in other ways.
The Senate sent several bills to Gov. Scott Walker's desk on Tuesday night, including a repeal of Wisconsin's decades-old moratorium on new nuclear power plants and plans that would scale back environmental laws in favor of encouraging private development.
But the Senate punted on other controversial bills, including one that would make it easier for private companies to purchase public water utilities and another that would significantly increase what the state pays to people who served prison time for crimes they didn't commit.
The water utility bill had come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks as news spread about the water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan. The bill would have made it harder for the public to block the sale of water utilities. Right now, those sales require referendums. This bill would have made those referendums optional.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said after the Senate met on Tuesday that some of his members remained uncomfortable with the plan and it won't pass this year.
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