MADISON, Wis. — Republicans, Democrats, and Gov. Evers are all offering their own legislation dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and it remains unclear which bill stands the best chance of actually becoming law.

During Monday's inauguration ceremony, when Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) introduced his caucus' bill to deal with the pandemic, he said Senate Republicans supported it, but Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) said otherwise and referred to it as an Assembly Bill and not a Senate Bill.

Speaker Vos told reporters he thought his Republican colleagues in the upper house were on board with 43 of the bill's 44 provisions.

Spread out around the Assembly Chamber Thursday, lawmakers passed the Republican bill by a margin 56-34.

“We don't want one person, be it the president or the governor or whoever it would be, to make unilateral decisions,” Vos said during his floor speech. “That is not America. That's why this bill says that for new funding, if any comes from the federal government, the legislature should have the ability to have oversight, just like we do on every other single state taxpayer dollar.”

Democrats oppose that part of the Republican-authored bill, along with waiving liability for COVID-19 claims against businesses and making it tougher for schools to continue with virtual learning if they want to.

“This virus doesn't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican,” State Rep. Sara Rodriguez (D-Brookfield) said. “It's going to take all of us together to weather the storm to get through this crisis. This includes not stripping local control from schools and public health departments as this bill does.”

After the bill passed, Speaker Vos told reporters it's “wait and see” for what the Senate will do.

The legislature hasn't passed anything dealing with the pandemic since April, and even if the Senate does end up sending the bill to Gov. Evers there is a good chance it could face a veto.