Tuesday, January 30, 1996
10:13 A.M.
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
The prayer was offered by Mr. Richard Erickson, named Grafton's "Citizen of the Year for 1995".
Representative Hoven 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, Baldus, Baldwin, Baumgart, Bell, Black, Bock, Boyle, Brancel, Brandemuehl, Carpenter, Coggs, Coleman, Cullen, Dobyns, Dueholm, Duff, Foti, Freese, Gard, Goetsch, Green, Gronemus, Grothman, Gunderson, Hahn, Handrick, Hanson, Harsdorf, Hasenohrl, Hoven, Huber, Hubler, Huebsch, Hutchison, Jensen, Johnsrud, Kaufert, Kelso, Klusman, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krug, Krusick, Kunicki, La Fave, Ladwig, F. Lasee, Lazich, Lehman, Linton, Lorge, Meyer, Morris-Tatum, Murat, Musser, Nass, Notestein, Olsen, Ott, Otte, Ourada, Owens, Plache, Plombon, Porter, R. Potter, Powers, Reynolds, Riley, Robson, Rutkowski, Ryba, Schneider, Schneiders, Seratti, Silbaugh, Skindrud, Springer, Travis, Turner, Underheim, Urban, Vander Loop, Vrakas, Walker, Ward, Wasserman, Wilder, Williams, Wirch, Wood, L. Young, R. Young, Ziegelbauer, Zukowski and Speaker Prosser - 98.
Absent with leave - None.
Vacancies - 21st Assembly District - 1.
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Representative Vrakas asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representative Ainsworth. Granted.
Representative R. Potter asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representatives Ryba and Vander Loop. Granted.
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Assembly amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 330 offered by joint committee on Finance.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 344 offered by joint committee on Finance.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 548 offered by joint committee on Finance.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 695 offered by Representative R. Young.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 834 offered by Representative Kaufert.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 831
Relating to: venue in certain habeas corpus actions.
By
Law Revision Committee
.
To committee on Judiciary.
Assembly Bill 832
Relating to: commitment to jail for failure to pay a fine, costs and applicable assessments.
By
Law Revision Committee
.
To committee on Judiciary.
Assembly Bill 833
Relating to: preparation of a plaque honoring the public service of Dr. H. Rupert Theobald and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Prosser, Kunicki, Krug, Ladwig, Porter, Notestein, Urban, Coleman, Hanson, Lazich, Bock, R. Young, Otte, Goetsch, Schneiders, Lorge, Dobyns, Johnsrud, Ainsworth and Lehman; cosponsored by Senators Rude, Burke, Panzer, Buettner, C. Potter and Grobschmidt
.
To Calendar.
Assembly Bill 834
Relating to: permissible loan origination fees in certain consumer credit transactions and excluding agricultural transactions from the Wisconsin consumer act.
A789
By
Representatives Kaufert, Travis, Hoven, Freese, Wirch, Foti, Otte, Rutkowski, Green, Meyer, Baldus, Silbaugh, Vrakas, Hasenohrl and Vander Loop; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Wineke, Andrea, Burke, Breske, Drzewiecki, Petak, C. Potter, Jauch and Schultz
.
To committee on Financial Institutions
.
Assembly Bill 835
Relating to: a tax exemption and interest and penalty waivers for certain payments made to national guard technicians.
By
Representatives Albers, Musser, Baldus, Bell, Black, Boyle, Goetsch, Dobyns, Grothman, Gunderson, Gronemus, Hahn, Johnsrud, Nass, Ourada, Plombon, R. Potter, Powers, Reynolds, Rutkowski, Seratti, Silbaugh, Skindrud, Owens, Travis, Ward, Ziegelbauer, Zukowski and La Fave; cosponsored by Senators Schultz, Buettner, Jauch, Moen, C. Potter, Risser, Rude and Grobschmidt
.
To committee on Ways and Means.
Assembly Bill 836
Relating to: the insurance security fund.
By
Representative
Albers
.
To committee on Insurance, Securities and Corporate Policy.
Assembly Bill 837
Relating to: the grounds for involuntary termination of parental rights over a child, appeals of and motions for relief from orders terminating parental rights and denial of visitation by a parent of a child adjudicated to be in need of protection or services; the statement of legislative purpose in the children's code; abuse and neglect of a child; grounds for jurisdiction over a child alleged to be in need of protection or services; criteria for holding a child in physical custody; payment by a parent for alcohol and other drug abuse services or special treatment or care for a child; duties of a county department of human services or social services with respect to child abuse and neglect investigations; grounds for a child abuse restraining order and injunction; the defense in criminal prosecutions based on the privilege of reasonable discipline of a child; determining whether a child alleged to be in need of protection or services needs protection or services that can be ordered by a juvenile court; extension of an informal disposition for a child when the informal disposition is based on allegations that the child is in need of protection or services; the duties of a guardian ad litem appointed in proceedings involving a child alleged to be in need of protection or services; the right to a jury trial in proceedings involving children alleged to be in need of protection or services; the release of certain information, including the results of tests for the human immunodeficiency virus or viral hepatitis, type B, regarding a child to the child's foster parent or treatment foster parent or the operator of a group home or child caring institution in which the child is placed; a county's authority to use certain community aids funds to employ private attorneys for proceedings under the children's code; disclosure of certain information to certain voluntary reporters of suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect; the time by which a detention hearing must be held and the time by which a petition must be filed under the children's code if a child is held in custody; petitioning a court, at the time a petition is filed for involuntary termination of parental rights to a child, for an order prohibiting visitation or contact with that child; the role of foster parents, treatment foster parents and certain other physical custodians in hearings under the children's code; permitting genetic testing for paternity determinations under the children's code, paternity determination proceedings for a child alleged to be in need of protection or services and disclosure of records Relating to paternity determination proceedings; guardianship for certain children adjudged to be in need of protection or services; requesting the joint legislative council to study the use, effectiveness and funding of systems and programs directed at the prevention of child abuse and neglect; and discovery in proceedings under the children's code.
By
Joint Legislative Council
.
To committee on Children and Families
.
Assembly Bill 838
Relating to: qualification of candidates for justice of the supreme court for grants from the Wisconsin election campaign fund in 1996 and making an appropriation.
By
Representative
Prosser
; cosponsored by Senator Adelman
.
To Calendar.
