Wednesday, March 11, 1998
1:39 P.M.
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
The prayer was offered by Representative Otte.
Representative Springer 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, Baldwin, Baumgart, Black, Bock, Boyle, Carpenter, Coggs, Cullen, Dobyns, Dueholm, Duff, Foti, Freese, Gard, Goetsch, Green, Gronemus, Grothman, Hahn, Handrick, Hanson, Harsdorf, Hasenohrl, Hebl, Hoven, Huber, Hubler, Huebsch, Hutchison, Jeskewitz, Johnsrud, Kaufert, Kedzie, Kelso, Klusman, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krug, Kunicki, La Fave, Ladwig, F. Lasee, Lazich, J. Lehman, M. Lehman, Linton, Lorge, Meyer, Morris-Tatum, Murat, Nass, Notestein, Olsen, Ott, Otte, Ourada, Owens, Plale, Plouff, Porter, R. Potter, Powers, Reynolds, Riley, Robson, Ryba, Schafer, Schneider, Seratti, Skindrud, Spillner, Springer, Staskunas, Sykora, Travis, Turner, Underheim, Urban, Vander Loop, Vrakas, Walker, Ward, Wasserman, Wieckert, Williams, Wood, L. Young, R. Young, Ziegelbauer, Zukowski and Speaker Jensen - 93.
Absent with leave - Representatives Brandemuehl, Gunderson, Krusick, Musser and Steinbrink - 5.
Vacancies - 82nd Assembly District - 1.
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Representative R. Potter asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representatives Krusick and Steinbrink. Granted.
Representative Vrakas asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representatives Brandemuehl and Musser. Granted.
Representative Freese asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representative Gunderson. Granted.
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Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 690 offered by Representatives Wood and F. Lasee.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 866 offered by Representatives Goetsch and Skindrud.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 873 offered by Representative Schafer.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 899
Relating to: exempting certain vehicles from the rental vehicle fee.
By
Representatives Foti and Jensen; cosponsored by Senator Ellis
.
To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
.
Assembly Bill 900
Relating to: increasing forfeitures for motor vehicle speed restriction violations committed in school zones and providing penalties.
By
Representatives Hanson and Walker; cosponsored by Senators Drzewiecki and Rosenzweig.
To committee on Highways and Transportation
.
Assembly Bill 901
Relating to: creating a nonrefundable income and franchise tax credit for agricultural education expenses, investments and sales taxes.
By
Representatives Spillner, Ott, Green, Musser, Hahn, Olsen and Lorge; cosponsored by Senator Roessler
.
To committee on Agriculture.
Assembly Bill 902
Relating to: prohibiting urban mass transit aid payments for newly established rail service.
By
Representatives Grothman, Jensen, Walker and Zukowski; cosponsored by Senator Rosenzweig
.
To committee on Highways and Transportation
.
Assembly Bill 903
Relating to: the effective period of a docketed judgment and the fee for filing certain court papers.
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By
Representatives Grothman, Ott, Owens and Goetsch; cosponsored by Senator Fitzgerald
.
To committee on Judiciary.
Assembly Bill 904
Relating to: the elimination of the badger care program.
By
Representative
Grothman
.
To committee on Health.
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The committee on Children and Families reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 651
Relating to: suspension of licenses, permits and other credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and other credential applications and on certain documents concerning marriage and children; creating a record matching program to match information about delinquent child support obligors with financial account information of financial institutions; creating a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability support program and cooperation with child support efforts under Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance, adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other technical changes related to child support enforcement; access to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health care coverage for a child; hospital-based voluntary establishment of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; access by county child support employes to tax information; acknowledgment of paternity; procedure, temporary orders and probable cause in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement; intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from court judgments and settlements; granting rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Huebsch, Dobyns, Goetsch, Ainsworth, Ladwig, R. Young, Notestein, Krug and Hebl.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Huebsch, Dobyns, Goetsch, Ainsworth, Ladwig, R. Young, Notestein, Krug and Hebl.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Michael Huebsch
Chairperson
Committee on Children and Families
The committee on Housing reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 846
Relating to: experience and continuing education requirements for certified general and residential appraisers and licensed appraisers and granting rule-making authority.