Pursuant to Senate Rule
36(2)(c) and section 13.50(6)(a), Wisconsin Statutes, the Co-Chairs of the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions shall prepare and submit a report in writing setting forth an opinion on the desirability of
Senate Bill 501, relating to permitting the creation of joint local water authorities and granting rule-making authority, as a matter of public policy.
The committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 727
Relating to: designating the Root River watershed as a priority watershed for the nonpoint source water pollution abatement program.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Alice Clausing
Chairperson
The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 686
Relating to: compulsory school attendance, habitual truancy, the penalties for contributing to truancy, truancy planning committees and school district truancy plans.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 7 - Senators
C. Potter, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Jauch.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 7 - Senators
C. Potter, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Jauch.
Senate Bill 462
Relating to: requirements for driver education courses.
Passage.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
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).
Passage.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 473
Relating to: a periodic study of the public schools.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling and Roessler.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Huelsman and Fitzgerald.
Calvin Potter
Chairperson
The joint committee on Finance reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 262
Relating to: the regulation of massage therapists and bodyworkers, creating a massage therapy and bodywork examining board, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Introduction of Senate substitute amendment 2.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Jauch, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig. Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate substitute amendment 2.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Jauch, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig. Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate substitute amendment 2 adoption.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Jauch, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig. Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Jauch, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig. Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Brian Burke
Senate Chairperson
The committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 208
Relating to: false reports of police misconduct and providing a penalty.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 386
Relating to: law enforcement agency access to photographs of applicants for operators' licenses and identification cards and providing a penalty.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 431
Relating to: exempting certain persons from the sex offender registration requirements and the prohibition on child sex offenders working with children.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 510
Relating to: filing a certified copy of a petition and order for hearing for guardianship with the register of deeds, requiring a historical society to pay a register of deeds to record the society's articles of incorporation and requiring certain documents that are recorded with a register of deeds to be legible.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 60
Relating to: qualification of candidates for justice of the supreme court for grants from the Wisconsin election campaign fund and making an appropriation.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Relating to: abuse of vulnerable adults and providing penalties.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Joint Resolution 11
Relating to: the right to keep and bear arms (2nd consideration).
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing and Huelsman.