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Representative Turner asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representatives Fields, Pocan and Sinicki. Granted.
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Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 7 offered by Representative Albers.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 99 offered by Representative Friske.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Senate Joint Resolution 2 offered by Representatives Kessler, Grigsby, A. Williams, Toles, Schneider, Colon and Boyle.
Assembly amendment 1 to Senate Joint Resolution 2 offered by Representative Kessler.
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Relating to technology commercialization programs and affecting small businesses.
Submitted by Department of Commerce.
Report received from Agency, February 3, 2005.
To committee on Economic Development
.
Referred on February 14, 2005.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Joint Resolution 14
Relating to: the military service of Pvt. 1st Class James Anagnostopoulos.
By
Representative
Hines
.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 101
Relating to: product liability of manufacturers, distributors, and sellers.
By
Representatives Huebsch, Nischke, Gundrum, Van Roy, Kestell, Hahn, Nerison, Gielow, Vos, Nass, Kreibich, Vrakas, Pettis, Ott, Petrowski, Gunderson, Hines, McCormick, F. Lasee and Musser; cosponsored by Senators Kanavas, Grothman, Stepp, Kapanke, Roessler and Reynolds.
To committee on Judiciary.
Assembly Bill 102
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Relating to: decreasing an appropriation of general purpose revenues for the Badger Care health care program; increasing an appropriation of general purpose revenues for prescription drug assistance; increasing an appropriation of general purpose revenues for Medical Assistance; transferring moneys from the general fund to the Medical Assistance trust fund; required general fund statutory balance; and making an appropriation.
By
Representative
Kaufert
; cosponsored by Senator S. Fitzgerald.
To joint committee on Finance.
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The following Assembly proposals, which have been approved by both the Assembly and Senate, have been enrolled by the Legislative Reference Bureau:
Assembly Bill
3
Patrick E. Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
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Communications
February 15, 2005
Assembly Chief Clerk
Patrick Fuller
17 West Main Street, Room 208
Madison, WI 53708
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
Please add my name as a cosponsor to Assembly Bill 22, relating to carrying forward a school district's unused revenue limit authority to the succeeding school year. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Senator Bob Jauch
25th Senate District
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction
Madison
February 10, 2005
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
The Department of Public Instruction is submitting the 2004 annual report on the status of bilingual-bicultural education programs as required under s.
115.96, Wis. Stats. The report provides data from the state-aided bilingual-bicultural/ESL education programs for the 2004 fiscal year (July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2004).
This annual report presents details on the state's administration and funding of bilingual education in Wisconsin, including the number of pupils from minority languages served, the locations of the state-aided programs during the 2002 and 2004 fiscal years, and staff-related data. In addition, the report comments on factors contributing to program expansion and the continuously lower annual reimbursement rates for school districts.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Burmaster
State Superintendent
Referred to committee on Education.
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Representative Turner asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representatives Kreuser, Wasserman and A. Williams. Granted.
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Representative Huebsch asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 14 be withdrawn from the committee on Rules and taken up at this time. Granted.
Assembly Joint Resolution 14
Relating to: the military service of Pvt. 1st Class James Anagnostopoulos.
The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution
14 be adopted?
Motion carried.
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Special Guest
Representative Hines introduced Private First Class James Anagnostopoulos of VFW Post 6003 in Oxford, who addressed the members from the rostrum.
Representative Huebsch asked unanimous consent that all members of the Assembly be made coauthors of Assembly Joint Resolution 14. Granted.
Representative Huebsch asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 14 be immediately messaged to the Senate. Granted.
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Special Guest
Representative Gundrum introduced members of the 432d Civil Affairs Battalion who were deployed in Iraq; Major Mark Chamberlain, the Public Health Team Chief and Captain David Albino, who addressed the members from the rostrum and presented Speaker Gard and members of the State Assembly with a Wisconsin Flag that was flown over Iraq.
Representative Vrakas asked unanimous consent that the Assembly stand recessed. Granted.
The Assembly stood recessed.
11:38 A.M.
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3:10 P.M.
The Assembly reconvened.
Speaker Gard in the chair.
Representative Kreuser asked unanimous consent that his leave of absence be lifted. Granted.
