{"id":194,"date":"2009-05-22T14:24:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-05-27T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T18:28:53","slug":"one-step-closer-domestic-partnership-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"One Step Closer: Domestic Partnership Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairwisconsin.com\">Fair Wisconsin<\/a> just announced that the Joint Finance Committee of the Wisconsin Legislature has approved domestic partner benefits as part of the upcoming biennial budget.<\/p>\n<p>Now we just have to wait until June for the vote from the full legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on Fair Wisconsin&#8217;s blog:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fairwisconsin.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/joint-finance-committee-approves.html\">Joint Finance Committee Approves Domestic Partnerships!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> 5.27.09<br \/>\nThe plan also includes a same-sex domestic partner registry. This also is pending approval from the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wispolitics.com\/budget\/2009\/05\/domestic-partner-benefits-approved.html\">WisPolitics.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/domesticPartnerBenefits\/\">UW-Madison<\/a> have more information on the matter as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair Wisconsin just announced that the Joint Finance Committee of the Wisconsin Legislature has approved domestic partner benefits as part of the upcoming biennial budget. Now we just have to wait until June for the vote from the full legislature. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1105,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-happening-here","category-lgbt-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}