To committee on Judiciary.
Senate Bill
459
Relating to: vacating or discontinuing public access to lakes and streams.
By
Senators
Shibilski, Cowles, Burke, Breske, Roessler, Wirch, Jauch, Grobschmidt, Rude, A. Lasee, Moore, Decker, C. Potter, Weeden, Rosenzweig, Panzer and Wineke; cosponsored by Representatives Ourada, Kunicki, Gunderson, Linton, Hubler, Seratti, Krug, Bock, Robson, Kedzie, Plale, J. Lehman, R. Young, Grothman and Baumgart.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill
460
Relating to: fishing licenses issued to disabled residents.
By
Senators
Moen, Shibilski, Breske, Darling, Drzewiecki and Burke; cosponsored by Representatives Boyle, Hasenohrl, Musser, Hoven, Brandemuehl, Dobyns, Zukowski, Grothman, Notestein, Robson, R. Young, Baumgart, Springer, Plouff, Bock, Ryba, Powers, J. Lehman, Turner, Porter, Ladwig, Ziegelbauer and Owens.
To committee on Natural Resources.
Senate Bill
462
Relating to: requirements for driver education courses.
By
Senator
Rude
; cosponsored by Representative Hahn
.
To committee on Highways and Transportation.
Senate Bill
468
Relating to: eliminating obsolete language and provisions from the statutes governing public schools and the department of public instruction (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of public instruction).
By
Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill
490
Relating to: Downer Woods on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
By
Senators
Grobschmidt and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Wasserman and Walker, by request of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill
495
Relating to: mental health crisis intervention services; requirements for a Level I local health officer; coordination by a local board of health of activities of a sanitarian; fetal death reports; access by a coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner or medical examiner's assistant to patient health care records; confidentiality restrictions on cancer reports; service contracts under community integration programs; eliminating outdated requirements for bed assessments for nursing homes and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded; designation by a nursing home of a person to accept service of notice or mail; required information for licenses for nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating a date for posting notice about the long-term care ombudsman program; eliminating dates for determinations that nursing homes are institutions for mental diseases; resident rights and responsibilities for residents of nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating dates for requesting and providing information about nursing homes; evaluations of integrated services projects; matching funds requirements for participants in integrated services projects; eliminating a requirement for a plan and report on school-community alcohol and drug abuse prevention and other services; eliminating a requirement that a person investigating a report of suspected or threatened emotional abuse of a child determine that the person responsible for the emotional damage is neglecting, refusing or unable for reasons other than poverty to remedy the harm; and prohibiting an adoptive parent from moving for relief from an order granting adoption or petitioning for a rehearing of such an order (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of health and family services).
By
Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill
496
Relating to: ozone-depleting refrigerant and mobile air conditioners.
By
Senators
Cowles, Shibilski, Huelsman, Farrow, Darling and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives Schafer, Ainsworth, Otte, Goetsch, Ryba, Foti, Musser, Owens, Albers, Hasenohrl, Olsen, Vander Loop, Lorge, Grothman and Plouff, by request of Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
.
To committee on Rules.
Speaker's Communications
March 23, 1998
Charles Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
1 East Main Street, Suite 402
P.O. Box 8952
Madison, Wisconsin 53708
Dear Mr. Sanders:
On March 19, 1998,
Assembly Bill 938 relating to taxes on personal property was referred to the Assembly Committee on
Ways and Means. Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I hereby withdraw
Assembly Bill 938 from the Assembly Committee on
Ways and Means and re-refer AB 938 to the Assembly Committee on
Small Business and Economic Development.
Representative Michael Lehman has consented to the re-referral.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
Assembly Speaker
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SPECIAL GUEST
Representative Harsdorf introduced Karyn Bye, a member of the United States Women's Olympic Hockey Team, which won the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, who addressed the members from the rostrum.
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SPECIAL GUESTS
Representative Hanson introduced Lori Mountford, Debbie Henry, Lisa Schoeneberg and Erika Brown of the United States Women's Olympic Curling Team from Madison, who participated at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Erika Brown addressed the members from the rostrum.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 125 be withdrawn from the committee on Rules and taken up at this time. Granted.
Assembly Joint Resolution 125
Relating to: honoring the 1998 U.S. women's Olympic team members who have ties to Wisconsin.
Representative Hanson in the chair.
The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 125 be adopted?
Motion carried.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that all members of the Assembly be made coauthors of Assembly Joint Resolution 125. Granted.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 125 be immediately messaged to the Senate. Granted.
Representative Ladwig asked unanimous consent to be withdrawn as a coauthor of Assembly Bill
769. Granted.
Representative Morris-Tatum asked unanimous consent to be added as a cosponsor of Senate Bill
329. Granted.
Representative R. Potter asked unanimous consent that the Assembly stand recessed. Granted.
The Assembly stood recessed.
10:31 A.M.
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2:32 P.M.
The Assembly reconvened.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that Senate Bill 313 be withdrawn from the committee on Small Business and Economic Development and referred to the committee on Rules. Granted.
Speaker Jensen in the chair.
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Assembly Bill 651
A714
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.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that Assembly Bill 651 be laid on the table. Granted.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Senate Bill 494 be withdrawn from the twelfth order of business on the calendar of Tuesday, March 24 and taken up at this time.
Representative Schneider objected.
Representative Foti moved that the rules be suspended and that Senate Bill 494 be withdrawn from the twelfth order of business on the calendar of Tuesday, March 24 and taken up at this time.
The question was: Shall the rules be suspended and that Senate Bill 494 be withdrawn from the twelfth order of business on calendar of Tuesday, March 24 and taken up at this time?
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Ainsworth, Albers, Dobyns, Duff, Foti, Freese, Gard, Green, Grothman, Gunderson, Hahn, Handrick, Hanson, Harsdorf, Hebl, Hoven, Huebsch, Hutchison, Jeskewitz, Johnsrud, Kaufert, Kedzie, Klusman, Kreibich, Ladwig, F. Lasee, J. Lehman, M. Lehman, Murat, Musser, Nass, Olsen, Ott, Otte, Ourada, Owens, Powers, Schafer, Seratti, Skindrud, Spillner, Sykora, Travis, Underheim, Urban, Vrakas, Walker, Ward, Wasserman, Wieckert, R. Young and Speaker Jensen - 52.
Noes - Representatives Baldwin, Baumgart, Black, Bock, Boyle, Carpenter, Coggs, Cullen, Dueholm, Goetsch, Gronemus, Hasenohrl, Huber, Hubler, Kreuser, Krug, Kunicki, La Fave, Lazich, Linton, Lorge, Meyer, Morris-Tatum, Notestein, Plale, Plouff, Porter, R. Potter, Reynolds, Riley, Robson, Ryba, Schneider, Springer, Staskunas, Steinbrink, Turner, Vander Loop, Williams, Wood, L. Young and Ziegelbauer - 42.
Absent or not voting - Representatives Brandemuehl, Kelso, Krusick and Zukowski - 4.
Motion failed.
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Assembly Bill 492
Relating to: authorizing the department of natural resources to allow wetland compensatory mitigation projects and granting rule-making authority.
Representative Notestein asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill 201 be withdrawn from the committee on Environment and taken up at this time.
Representative Freese objected.
