Noes, 1 - Senator
Fitzgerald.
Senate Bill 47
Relating to: production by the state and local governments of customized work products compiled from public records.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Moore, Plache, Fitzgerald and Weeden.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Moore, Plache, Fitzgerald and Weeden.
Noes, 0 - None.
Gwendolynne Moore
Chairperson
The joint committee on Finance reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 119
Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates, payments to authorized special groups, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Shibilski, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig.
Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Shibilski, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig.
Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 158
Relating to: increasing the fees charged by a register of deeds for recording certain plats.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Shibilski, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig.
Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates associated with the Green Bay Packers professional football team, payments to D.A.R.E. Wisconsin, Ltd., and making an appropriation.
Senate amendment 2 adoption.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Shibilski, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig.
Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Shibilski, Cowles, Schultz and Rosenzweig.
Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 268
Relating to: school district bonds, promissory notes and revenue limits and excluding certain debt service from a school district's shared cost.
Senate amendment 1 to Senate substitute amendment 1 adoption.
Ayes, 12 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Jauch, Cowles and Rosenzweig. Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Schultz.
Senate substitute amendment 1 adoption.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Jauch and Rosenzweig. Representatives Gard, Porter, Kaufert and Linton.
Noes, 5 - Senators
Cowles and Schultz. Representatives Ourada, Harsdorf and Albers.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Jauch, Shibilski and Rosenzweig. Representative
Linton.
Noes, 8 - Senators
Cowles and Schultz. Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter and Kaufert.
Senate Bill 406
Relating to: the Wisconsin Humanities Council and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Jauch, Shibilski and Rosenzweig. Representative
Linton.
Noes, 8 - Senators
Cowles and Schultz. Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter and Kaufert.
Brian Burke
Senate Chairperson
The committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 773
Relating to: formation of mutual insurance holding companies, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Rodney Moen
Chairperson
The committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 167
Relating to: changing the name of a minor.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 486
Relating to: holding juveniles in municipal lockup facilities and granting rule-making authority.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 455
Relating to: making gamma hydroxybutyrate a controlled substance.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Robert Wirch
Chairperson
The committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 95
Relating to: a state minimum wage, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Passage and without recommendation.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Plache, Moore and Decker.
Noes, 3 - Senators
Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Kimberly Plache
Chairperson
The joint survey committee on Retirement Systems reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 436
S517
Relating to: transferring from the department of workforce development to the department of commerce the administration of the housing design and construction requirements of the fair housing law; a grant for a distance education center; grants for revolving loan funds for economic development; loans for renovation of buildings, purchase of land, buildings, machinery or equipment or construction of buildings; tourism marketing; the rural economic development program; administration of brownfields redevelopment activities; use of penalty revenues under the physician and health care provider loan assistance programs; transferring from the department of health and family services to the department of corrections the responsibility for establishing and collecting fees for juvenile correctional services provided by the department of corrections; parental liability for guardian ad litem fees in juvenile court proceedings; increasing the per diem payments made to temporary reserve judges; litigation by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison; petitions for writs of habeas corpus and limiting access to public records by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison; requirements for promotion from 4th grade to 5th grade and from 8th grade to 9th grade; grants to teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; creating a grant program for peer review and mentoring of teachers; determining the amount appropriated as general school aid; the college tuition prepayment program; leasing technical college facilities to others; the family practice residency program of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.; grants to certain school districts for telecommunications access awarded by the technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin board; revising dispute settlement procedures in local government employment other than law enforcement and fire fighting employment; the dry cleaner environmental response program; hazardous waste disposal facilities; voluntary party liability for cleaning up property that is contaminated with hazardous substances and that was acquired from a local governmental unit; tire waste cleanup; arbitration of appeals under the petroleum storage remedial action program; clean water fund program federal financial hardship assistance; administrative forfeitures for violations of safe drinking water rules; providing community aids funding for Milwaukee County; child welfare, children in out-of-home care, termination of parental rights and adoption; criminal history and abuse record searches of operators, employes and nonclient residents of certain entities that provide care for children or adults; a child's first book initiative; eligibility criteria for kinship care payments; proposed legislation to establish a new long-term care system for services to elderly and adult disabled individuals; a pilot project for management of long-term care programs; authorizing counties to contract for health and social services on a prepaid or postpaid, per capita basis; care required and provided in adult family homes, community-based residential facilities and nursing homes; critical access hospitals; reimbursement of the Marquette University School of Dentistry for providing dental services in Waushara and Monroe counties; inclusion of stepparents in the badger care program; transferring food service operations of the Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled from the department of health and family services to the department of corrections; the submittal date for a report on the future of the state centers for the developmentally disabled; rates by which reimbursement is reduced to the state centers for the developmentally disabled; eliminating the monthly reimbursement limit on community options program services for medical assistance recipients; medical assistance eligibility for working recipients of supplemental security income; eliminating the requirement for an annual report on access to obstetric and pediatric services under the medical assistance program; interim assistance for applicants of supplemental security income; specialized medical vehicles; electronic benefits transfer under the food stamp program; county administration of public assistance records; guaranteed renewability of individual health benefit plans; an exemption from renewability requirements for short-term insurance; the transportation and sale of fish; the Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River commission; fees for snowmobile trail use stickers; benefits payable and contributions permitted under the Wisconsin retirement system; payment and performance assurance requirements for public works projects; state interfund borrowing limitations; transfers from the general fund to the property tax relief fund; grants for recycling of computers and wheelchairs; creating a refundable individual income tax credit for educational expenses paid for dependents who attend public or certain private elementary and secondary schools; creating an individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for elementary and secondary educational costs; creating an individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for certain higher education costs; defining the Internal Revenue Code for state income and franchise tax purposes; a property tax exemption for computers; state aid payments to municipalities; creating a tax amnesty program; increasing the department of revenue's ability to collect delinquent taxes; denying and revoking licenses and similar documents to persons who owe delinquent taxes or fail to reveal their social security numbers or federal employer identification numbers; administration of the adult entertainment tax; weight limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting bulk potatoes; the transportation infrastructure loan program; administration of a national guard youth program; the maximum allowable veterans home loan; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting and decreasing bonding authority; and making and decreasing appropriations.
Recommendation.
