Sincerely,
Ben Brancel
Assembly Speaker
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The committee on Criminal Justice and Corrections reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 351
Relating to: sentences for felony offenses, parole, community supervision, granting rule-making authority and providing penalties.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Goetsch, Dobyns, Nass, Owens, Walker, Gunderson, Jeskewitz and Rutkowski.
Noes: 6 - Representatives F. Lasee, Wood, Travis, Huber, Baldwin and Murat.
Assembly amendment 2 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Goetsch, Dobyns, Nass, Owens, Walker, Gunderson, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Wood, Rutkowski, Travis, Huber, Baldwin and Murat.
Noes: 0.
Assembly amendment 3 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Goetsch, Dobyns, Nass, Owens, Gunderson, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Wood, Travis, Huber, Baldwin and Murat.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Walker and Rutkowski.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Goetsch, Dobyns, Nass, Owens, Walker, Gunderson, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Wood, Rutkowski, Travis, Huber, Baldwin and Murat.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Goetsch, Dobyns, Nass, Owens, Walker, Gunderson, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Wood, Rutkowski, Travis, Huber and Murat.
Noes: 1 - Representative Baldwin.
To committee on Rules.
Robert Goetsch
Chairperson
Committee on Criminal Justice and Corrections
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By Donald J. Schneider, Senate Chief Clerk.
Mr. Speaker:
I am directed to inform you that the Senate has
Concurred in as amended:
Assembly Bill 186
(Senate substitute amendment 1 adopted)
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Assembly Bill
186
Relating to: notification of the general public concerning sex offenders.
By
Representatives Goetsch, Coggs, Wood, Johnsrud and Huber; cosponsored by Senators Moen, Darling, C. Potter, Panzer, Grobschmidt and Fitzgerald.
Referred to committee on Rules.
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Speaker's appointments
May 20, 1997
Representative Dan Vrakas
Room 123 West, State Capitol
Madison, WI 53702
Dear Dan:
Pursuant to
1995 Wisconsin Act 27, it is my pleasure as Speaker of the Assembly to appoint you to the Council on Workforce Excellence (COWE).
This appointment is effective immediately.
Sincerely,
Ben Brancel
Assembly Speaker
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
Madison
May 8, 1997
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Chapter we, Laws of 1979, requires that when the Department of Administration maintains an office in Washington, DC, for the purpose of promoting federal/state cooperation, it should submit a report detailing the activities of the office and reporting the status of federal legislation of concern to the Legislature and other state agencies (Wis. Stats. 16.548(2)).
The report for the period January 1, 1997, through March 31, 1996, is attached.
Sincerely,
Mark D. Bugher
Secretary, DOA
Referred to committee on State-Federal Relations.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Revenue
Madison
May 14, 1997
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Enclosed is an Order of the Department of Revenue Adopting An Emergency Rule, relating to the sales and use tax treatment of landscaping services. A copy of this emergency rule is being sent to you pursuant to the requirements specified in s.
227.24(3), Stats. A certified copy of the order has been filed in the Office of the Secretary of State and the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, as required by s.
227.20, Stats.
This emergency rule will become effective on May 18, 1997 after publication in the official state newspaper. It will remain in effect for 150 days after publication, when a permanent rule should be in place.
Copies of this letter and the emergency rule order are also hereby being transmitted to the Chief Clerk of the Senate and of the Assembly with the request that the order, or a notice of it, be published in the Journal of each house to make the rule amendments known to persons who will be affected by them.
Sincerely,
Cate Zeuske
Secretary or Revenue
Referred to committee on Ways and Means.
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Representative Vrakas asked unanimous consent that the Assembly stand recessed for one hour.
The Assembly stood recessed.
1:15 P.M.
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2:26 P.M.
The Assembly reconvened.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
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Assembly Joint Resolution 38
Relating to: commending African-American veterans.
The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 38 be adopted?
Motion carried.