During a two-day conference in La Crosse last week, the U-W Board of Regents again passed a resolution supporting domestic partner benefits for state employees.
While Governor Doyle has proposed such benefits in his last two budgets, the legislature has rejected the idea each time. Regent President Kevin Reilly says with a Democratic majority now in both the Assembly and Senate, the time might be right for it to pass. (First item.)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is the only university in the Big Ten Conference that doesn’t offer domestic partner benefits. Reilly says offering them for UW employees should cost a little more than a million dollars a year.