Senate
Bill 250
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 260
Relating to: the sales tax imposed on the sale of mobile telecommunications services.
Read a second time.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill 260?
Adopted.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Moen, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate
Bill 260
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes weredemanded and the vote was: ayes, 26; noes, 7; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Baumgart, Breske, Burke, Chvala, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, George, Grobschmidt, Hansen, Harsdorf, Huelsman, Jauch, M. Meyer, Moen, Moore, Plache, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Schultz, Shibilski and Wirch - 26.
Noes - Senators S. Fitzgerald, Kanavas, A. Lasee, Lazich, Panzer, Welch and Zien - 7.
Absent or not voting - None.
Passed.
Senate Bill 261
Relating to: increasing a school district's revenue limit for heating costs.
Read a second time.
Senator Burke, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 261 be referred to the Joint Committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 265
Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual income and corporate income and franchise tax credit for contributions to the artistic endowment fund.
Read a second time.
Senator Burke, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 265 be referred to the Joint Committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 271
Relating to: environmental regulation of mining and notice to transferees of interests in mining sites.
Read a second time.
The question was: Adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 271?
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 18; noes, 15; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Baumgart, Burke, Chvala, Cowles, Decker, Erpenbach, George, Grobschmidt, Hansen, Jauch, M. Meyer, Moen, Moore, Plache, Risser, Robson, Shibilski and Wirch - 18.
Noes - Senators Breske, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Harsdorf, Huelsman, Kanavas, A. Lasee, Lazich, Panzer, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Schultz, Welch and Zien - 15.
Absent or not voting - None.
Adopted.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate
Bill 271
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 19; noes, 14; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Baumgart, Burke, Chvala, Cowles, Decker, Erpenbach, George, Grobschmidt, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, M. Meyer, Moen, Moore, Plache, Risser, Robson, Shibilski and Wirch - 19.
Noes - Senators Breske, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Huelsman, Kanavas, A. Lasee, Lazich, Panzer, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Schultz, Welch and Zien - 14.
Absent or not voting - None.
Passed.
Senate Bill 276
Relating to: various changes in the unemployment insurance law, appointment of temporary reserve appeal tribunals, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Read a second time.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 276 be referred to committee on Senate Organization.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Bill 553 be withdrawn from the committee on Labor and Agriculture and taken up at this time.
Assembly Bill 553
Relating to: various changes in the unemployment insurance law, appointment of temporary reserve appeal tribunals, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 553
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 33; noes, 0; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Baumgart, Breske, Burke, Chvala, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, George, Grobschmidt, Hansen, Harsdorf, Huelsman, Jauch, Kanavas, A. Lasee, Lazich, M. Meyer, Moen, Moore, Panzer, Plache, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Schultz, Shibilski, Welch, Wirch and Zien - 33.
Noes - None.
Absent or not voting - None.
Concurred in.
Senate Bill 295
Relating to: funding for the Biostar program.
Read a second time.
Senators Shibilski, Hansen and Wirch, with unanimous consent, asked to be made coauthors of Senate Bill 295.
Senators Shibilski, Hansen and Wirch, with unanimous consent, asked to be made coauthors of Senate Bill 296.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate
Bill 295
Read a third time.
S454
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 17; noes, 16; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Baumgart, Breske, Burke, Chvala, Decker, Erpenbach, Grobschmidt, Hansen, Jauch, M. Meyer, Moen, Moore, Plache, Risser, Robson, Shibilski and Wirch - 17.
Noes - Senators Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, George, Harsdorf, Huelsman, Kanavas, A. Lasee, Lazich, Panzer, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Schultz, Welch and Zien - 16.
Absent or not voting - None.
Passed.
Senate Bill 296
Relating to: investment in venture capital investment firms, a grant to a high-technology business development corporation, and making an appropriation.
Read a second time.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill 296?
Adopted.
Senate amendment 2 to Senate Bill 296 offered by Senator Chvala.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 2 to Senate Bill 296?
Adopted.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate
Bill 296
Read a third time.
Senator Panzer asked to be excused from voting according to Senate Rule
73(1).
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 18; noes, 14; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Baumgart, Breske, Burke, Chvala, Decker, Erpenbach, Grobschmidt, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, M. Meyer, Moen, Moore, Plache, Risser, Robson, Shibilski and Wirch - 18.
Noes - Senators Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, George, Huelsman, Kanavas, A. Lasee, Lazich, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Schultz, Welch and Zien - 14.
