La Crosse state Assembly Rep. Billings on postpartum care, campaign finance, local listening session

Wisconsin state Assembly Rep. Jill Billings in the WIZM studio for La Crosse Talk to discuss a bipartisan bill on postpartum care that mysteriously didn’t get passed, her hosting two local budget listening sessions and the state of campaign finance, after the $100 million spring WI Supreme Court race. We began the show with discussing a bill that passed the state Senate last session 32-1 — that one legislator not getting reelected — and never getting to a vote in the state Assembly, because Speaker Robin Vos decided not to do so. That bill, which is getting another vote Tuesday in the state Senate, would extend Medicaid coverage to new moms from 60 days to 12 months — something all but 49 states already have. The bill has 21 co-sponsors in the state Senate and 66 in the Assembly. After that, we discussed the spring election and what can be done about campaign finance reform, before ending on the two budget listening sessions Billing and Wisconsin state Sen. Brad Pfaff (D-Onalaska) held in Sparta and La Crosse this month. Those listening sessions come, as the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee holds four statewide hearings, but none of which are close to La Crosse. The nearest hearing is April 28 in Wausau. The other is April 29 in Hayward.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.