Wednesday, September 13, 1995
10:54 A.M.
September 1995 Special Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
The Assembly dispensed with the call of the roll.
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EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS
Executive Order Number 258
Relating to Amending a Special Session of the Legislature
I, TOMMY G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, pursuant to Article IV, Section 11 and
Article V, section 4 of the Constitution of Wisconsin do amend Executive Order 255 and require the Legislature to consider and act upon:
Legislation relating to local professional baseball park districts, financing for these districts and sports and entertainment home stadia, and funding for state highway rehabilitation.
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 Eleventh day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five.
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
By the Governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
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The Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 1, September 1995 Special Session
Relating to: creating a local professional baseball park district in certain jurisdictions; giving a local professional baseball park district the authority to issue bonds and granting income tax exemptions for interest income on bonds issued by the district; making a state moral obligation pledge with respect to bonds issued by a local professional baseball park district; giving a local professional baseball park district the authority to impose a room tax, a sales tax and a use tax; creating an income and franchise tax exemption for a local professional baseball park district; creating an exception for a local professional baseball park district from certain landlord-tenant provisions; authorizing state expenditures for state highway rehabilitation; increasing a limitation on certain economic development bonding by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty.
Adoption of Report.
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Zukowski, Foti and Bell, Senators Fitzgerald, Farrow and Wineke, Secretary Bugher, Mr. Lee and Mr. Sosnowski.
Noes: 0.
To Select Committee on a Milwaukee Baseball Stadium.
Robert Zukowski
Assembly Chairperson
Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions
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Representative Underheim moved that the Assembly stand adjourned until 10:00 A.M. on Monday, September 18.
The question was: Shall the Assembly stand adjourned?
Motion carried.
The Assembly stood adjourned.
10:55 A.M.
