Senate

Senate
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs

Assembly Bill 220

Relating to: prohibiting performance of certain partial-birth abortions and providing a penalty.

By Representatives Goetsch, Wood, Ladwig, Seratti, Freese, Ryba, Green, Walker, Lorge, Lazich, Otte, Ziegelbauer, Duff, Huebsch, Hutchison, Staskunas, Handrick, Dobyns, Ainsworth, Owens, Hoven, Zukowski, Harsdorf, Urban, Nass, F. Lasee, Powers, Ward, Kreibich, Jeskewitz, Schafer, Ott, Gunderson, Vrakas, Sykora, Gard, Hahn, Kelso, Brandemuehl, Vander Loop, Porter, Olsen and Plale; cosponsored by Senators Fitzgerald, Grobschmidt, Zien, Huelsman, Buettner, Darling, Welch, A. Lasee, Cowles, Farrow, Schultz and Weeden.

May 27, 1997 Referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.

March 18, 1998 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (4) Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· Representative Robert Goetsch, 39th Assembly District

· Senator Scott Fitzgerald, 13th Senate District

· Susan Armacost, WI Right to Life

· John Huebscher, WI Catholic Conference

· Gene Malone, Kenosha

· John Janusz, Burlington

· Kenneth W. Eyre, Iron Ridge

· Arden Degner, South Shore Republican Club

· David A. Nothem, Beaver Dam

· William Neu, Burlington

· Robert Johnson, Beaver Dam

· James Flogel, Black Earth

· Dolores Flogel, Mazomanie

· Valerie Flogel, Mazomanie

· Warren Lister, Heather Lane

· Rodney Hale, Pittsville

· Marianne Linane, Kohler

· Albert Forner, Cleveland

· Joseph DeMott, Milwaukee

· James Burchell, Brodhead

· Carol Shirk, Beaver Dam

Appearances against

· Amalia Vagts, Planned Parenthood of WI

· Cecelia Bellcross, Oregon

· Rachel Trobaugh, Racine NOW

· Vera Boone, Twin Lakes

· Hilde Surbaugh, Madison

· George Keiegl, Oconomowoc

Appearances for Information Only

· Mary Matuska, Beloit

Registrations for

· Representative Scott Walker, 14th Assembly District

· Senator Robert Welch, 14th Senate District

· Joyce Ann Koller, Madison

· Lianne Ripatte, Milwaukee

· Jerry Meythaler, Waukesha

· Joan Tatarsky, Milwaukee

· Ross Kapp, Cedarburg

· Mary Krug, Sussex

· Jim Brown, Milwaukee

· Mark Jacques, West Allis

· Barbara Kaiser, Beaver Dam

· Charlene Ehlert, Oak Creek

· James Mauer, Deerfield

· Beverly Mauer, Deerfield

· Don Ganden, Spring Green

· Val Barbian, Greenfield

· Bonnie Zurich, Milwaukee

· Harley Herold, Watertown

· Carolyn Walsh, Fall River