Thread by @MollyBeck

The state Assembly will meet at 10 a.m. today to vote on a resolution to end the state's mask mandate -- the only statewide COVID-19 mitigation measure in place.

If it passes, it will go to the Senate. Because it's a joint resolution, @GovEvers doesn't have to sign it.

@GovEvers Nearly 60 organizations are opposed to the mask repeal, including groups that represent doctors, hospitals, small businesses and educators, among others.

@GovEvers Republican Sen. Steve Nass of Whitewater said Republicans should have acted last year to end the emergency order and mask mandate. But he said he was pleased Assembly Republicans were acting now.

@GovEvers "If appearing to dominate the state Senate is what it takes for Speaker Vos to finally join the state Senate in fighting to end the unlawful acts of Gov. Evers, so be it," he said.

@GovEvers The Assembly also will amend -- again -- the second COVID-19 bill the Legislature has considered since April 2020. The amendment seeks to prevent WI from losing tens of millions in federal funding for food assistance by voting to repeal the emergency order that mandates masks.

@GovEvers Also happening today is a public hearing on three bills that would make it easier to drink alcohol during the pandemic.

@GovEvers One bill would allow to-go drinks, a second would allow you to pick up alcohol in the parking lot of a store that sells booze, and a third would allow delivery of alcohol to your home.

@GovEvers The lobbying on two of these bills pits the Tavern League against the grocers.

Assembly Democrats have introduced an amendment to a COVID-19 relief bill up today that would implement a mask mandate statewide, to replace the governor's if/when Republican lawmakers repeal the guv's mandate.