Tuesday, October 20, 2009
11:00 A.M.
Ninety-Ninth Regular Session
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by President Risser.
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The roll was called, disclosing the presence of a quorum.
Pursuant to Senate Rule
15, the official attendance for session was:
Senators Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Holperin, Hopper, Jauch, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor and Wirch - 32.
Absent -None.
Absent with leave - Senator Vinehout - 1.
The Senate stood for the prayer which was offered by Reverend Alex Thornburg from Westminster Presbyterian Church in Madison.
The Senate remained standing and Senator Jauch led the Senate in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
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Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that Senator Vinehout be granted a leave of absence for today's session.
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Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill 291 offered by Senator Sullivan.
Senate amendment 4 to Senate Bill 299 offered by Senator Jauch.
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The Chief Clerk makes the following entries dated Monday, October
19
, 2009.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Hopper added as a coauthor of
Senate Bill
331
.
Pursuant to Senate Rule
17 (5), Representative Lothian withdrawn as a cosponsor of
Senate Bill 66.
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Read and referred:
Senate Joint Resolution 51
Relating to: proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
By
Senators
Erpenbach, Taylor, Decker, Robson, Carpenter, Vinehout, Lehman, Hansen, Wirch, Risser, Lazich, Darling, Olsen, Cowles, Hopper, Schultz, Kedzie and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Roys, Berceau, Shilling, Hixson, Pasch, Hebl, Hilgenberg, Cullen, Molepske Jr., Soletski, Hraychuck, Bernard Schaber, Parisi, Jorgensen, Hintz, Zepnick, Benedict, Turner, Zigmunt, Mursau, Townsend, A. Ott, Gunderson, Kerkman, Davis, M. Williams, Strachota, Tauchen, Kaufert and Pope-Roberts.
To committee on Senate Organization.
Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 356
Relating to: acreage requirements for areas in which farm-raised deer that may be hunted are kept.
By
Senators
Lassa, A. Lasee, Taylor and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives Schneider, Vruwink, Gunderson, Ballweg and Brooks.
To committee on Agriculture and Higher Education.
Senate Bill 357
Relating to: awarding grants to school districts for pupil academic achievement, allowing the results of pupil examinations to be used to evaluate teacher performance, and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Darling, Lazich and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Davis, Montgomery, Knodl, Vos, J. Ott, Townsend, Newcomer, Tauchen, Ballweg, Gunderson, Vukmir, Huebsch, LeMahieu, Lothian and Bies.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 358
Relating to: creating new grounds for discipline of hearing instrument specialists, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists, changing licensing requirements for audiologists, and granting rule-making authority.
By
Senators
Lehman, Taylor, Olsen and Kedzie; cosponsored by Representatives Zepnick, Turner, Kerkman, Danou, A. Ott, Newcomer and Townsend.
To committee on Health, Health Insurance, Privacy, Property Tax Relief, and Revenue.
Relating to: directing school boards to provide instruction about the recent history of the Hmong people.
By
Senators
Lehman, Coggs, Plale, Wirch, Hansen and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Soletski, Kessler, Seidel, Turner, Berceau, Black, Fields, Grigsby, Hintz, Shilling, Pocan, Spanbauer and Zepnick.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 360
Relating to: sale of a parcel of land located in Marinette County to the Wied Trust.
By
Senators
A. Lasee and Holperin; cosponsored by Representatives Mursau, Montgomery, Zepnick, Meyer, Gunderson, Vruwink, Brooks, Bies and Townsend.
To committee on Transportation, Tourism, Forestry, and Natural Resources.
Senate Bill 361
Relating to: the monthly rates that are paid for foster care; the levels of care that a foster home may provide; licensing of kinship care relatives to operate foster homes and, subject to certain exceptions, time limits on the receipt of kinship care payments; and licensing of foster homes across county lines.
By
Senators
Jauch and Lehman; cosponsored by Representatives Pasch, Turner, Berceau, Seidel and Roys.
To committee on Children and Families and Workforce Development.
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