MADISON - Wisconsin lawmakers plan to take action on a relief package next week on legislation to help the state handle thousands of people who are sick or unemployed, or both — five weeks after the virus began to spread here.

The legislation won't include a provision Republican lawmakers proposed during negotiations that would have pushed Gov. Tony Evers to veto the entire bill: allowing a panel of 16 lawmakers to make spending cuts if a deficit materializes without the governor's input.

Live Updates: The latest on coronavirus in Wisconsin

Get daily updates on the Packers during the season.

Daily Digest: What you need to know about coronavirus in Wisconsin

Share Your Story: We want to talk to doctors, nurses and others affected by coronavirus

Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke and Sen. Dan Feyen said Thursday the proposal is not expected to be included in the final package Democratic and Republican lawmakers are negotiating.

"It is not something I supported for the reason being that it should be the Legislature as a whole that makes those decisions with the governor signing off on it at the end of the day," Feyen said in an appearance on WFAW-AM. "There are going to be some tough decisions that we are going to have to make but we should all make those coming together as a Legislature instead of just Joint Finance Committee.”

© Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wi, Doug Raflik/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wi State Sen. Dan Feyen

Feyen said the state Senate plans to meet virtually next week and state Assembly leaders notified members on Friday they plan to also meet virtually on Tuesday.

The final details of the package lawmakers will take up haven't been released as of Friday morning.

Evers proposed two bills that would spend at least $1 billion — the first on March 21 — but Republican legislative leaders said the price tag was too high without the $2 billion in federal relief funds Wisconsin is waiting to receive, and are developing their own package.

Wisconsin is in a minority of states that haven't passed any legislation related to the coronavirus outbreak. Evers has issued a number of orders, but next week's action will be the first time lawmakers have weighed in on the outbreak directly.

Evers said in an appearance on WTMJ that working with GOP leaders of the Legislature on relief legislation hasn't gone well.

"We've been working with them over the last several weeks on bringing forward legislation around the virus and we continue to do that but at the end of the day, (when they say) 'Well we'll share our plan when it's passed and it's on your desk' ... it's all childish," he said.

Steineke said Wednesday Evers was damaging the negotiations between Republican and Democratic lawmakers on the package by saying publicly he opposed the now-jettisoned proposal to allow the Legislature's finance committee fill budget gaps without his input.

"Negotiations were being had between legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle to come up w/a pkg that hopefully all will support," he tweeted.

Evers said the measure was a "poison pill."

"The whole issue of giving the Joint Finance Committee powers that are superman powers, frankly, to cut budgets and essentially take over state government," he said. "Yeah, did I voice an opinion on that out loud? Yes. Why wouldn't I?"

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said in a statement Friday the legislation that ultimately will be taken up will allow the state to capture millions more in federal funding in addition to the federal relief funding.

“We’re confident that this plan will make the necessary legislative changes to help Wisconsin deal with the extensive challenges from this public health crisis, while also protecting the integrity of our state budget,” Vos said.

Patrick Marley of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contributed to this report.

Our subscribers make this reporting possible. Please consider supporting local journalism by subscribing to the Journal Sentinel at jsonline.com/deal. DOWNLOAD THE APP: Get the latest news, sports and more

Contact Molly Beck at molly.beck@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @MollyBeck.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Lawmakers will meet next week on coronavirus relief after abandoning plans to give finance committee power to make cuts