Domestic partner benefits debate returns to spotlight with hiring of new leader
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In December 2006, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously voted to include domestic partner benefits as part of their pay plan for 2007-08 budget year.
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle similarly introduced domestic partner benefits in the last two biennial budgets and plans to include it in the 2009-11 budget.
But despite both the state and university efforts, the clause was removed as a compromise in order to pass the budget, leaving UW-Madison as the only school in the Big Ten to not offer benefits for the same-sex partners of its faculty.
