Lawmakers pass business tax cuts, return-to-work plan for state employees, restrictions on local health officers Molly Beck and Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MADISON - State lawmakers overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to cut taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars, primarily to help businesses that received forgivable loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program as their revenue dried up during the coronavirus pandemic. The Republican-controlled Senate also passed a slate of bills that would require Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to create a plan to stop state employees from working at home, ban state and local health officials from requiring COVID-19 vaccine shots and stop state health officials from prioritizing prisoners in the vaccine rollout, among other measures.