Thursday, January 30, 2003
1:30 P.M.
January 2003 Special Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Speaker Gard in the chair.
The prayer was offered by Representative Owens.
Representative Gronemus led the membership in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Present - Representatives Ainsworth, Albers, Balow, Berceau, Bies, Black, Boyle, Coggs, Colon, Cullen, J. Fitzgerald, Foti, Freese, Friske, Gielow, Gottlieb, Gronemus, Grothman, Gunderson, Gundrum, Hahn, Hebl, Hines, Huber, Hubler, Huebsch, Hundertmark, Jensen, Jeskewitz, Johnsrud, Kaufert, Kerkman, Kestell, Krawczyk, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krug, Krusick, F. Lasee, Lassa, J. Lehman, M. Lehman, LeMahieu, Loeffelholz, Lothian, D. Meyer, Miller, Montgomery, Morris, Musser, Nass, Nischke, Olsen, Ott, Owens, Petrowski, Pettis, Plale, Plouff, Pocan, Pope-Roberts, Powers, Rhoades, Richards, Schneider, Schooff, Seratti, Sherman, Shilling, Sinicki, Staskunas, Steinbrink, Stone, Suder, Towns, Townsend, Travis, Turner, Underheim, Van Akkeren, Van Roy, Vrakas, Vruwink, Vukmir, Ward, Wasserman, Weber, Wieckert, A. Williams, M. Williams, J. Wood, W. Wood, Young, Zepnick, Ziegelbauer and Speaker Gard - 96.
Absent with leave - Representatives Ladwig and McCormick - 2.
Vacancies - 18th Assembly District - 1.
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Representative Vrakas asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representatives Ladwig and McCormick. Granted.
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Executive Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
Executive Order Number 2
Relating to a Special Session of the Legislature
I, JIM DOYLE, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, pursuant to Article IV, Section 11 and
Article V, section 4 of the Constitution of Wisconsin do hereby require the convening of a special session of the Legislature at the Capitol in Madison, beginning at 10:00 A.M. on January 30, 2003, solely to consider and act upon legislation relating to:
Decreasing appropriations; lapsing moneys from certain program revenue appropriation accounts to the general fund; transferring moneys from certain segregated funds to the general fund; increasing funding for out-of-state inmate contracts and for health care for inmates of state prisons; increasing funding for the Medical Assistance and Badger Care programs; increasing segregated funding for the payment of principal and interest costs incurred in financing land acquisition and development under the stewardship program; restricting distribution of funds by the Tobacco Control Board to the Tobacco Research and Intervention Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; lapsing or reestimating expenditures from certain general purpose revenue appropriations; exempting the actions of the legislature on these matters from the required general fund structural balance and the required general fund statutory balance; and making appropriations.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the City of Madison this twenty-ninth day of January in the year two thousand and three.
JIM DOYLE
Governor
By the Governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that the Assembly stand recessed. Granted.
The Assembly stood recessed.
1:40 P.M.
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5:20 P.M.
The Assembly reconvened.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
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Representative Foti moved that the Assembly stand adjourned until 10:00 A.M. on Tuesday, February 4.
The question was: Shall the Assembly stand adjourned?
Motion carried.
The Assembly stood adjourned.
5:21 P.M.
