Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Bill 811 be withdrawn and taken up at this time.
Assembly Bill 811
Relating to: the authorization, use and verification of digital signatures, licensure and regulation of certification authorities, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
Read a second time.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Bill 811 be placed at the foot of the calendar of May 7, 1998.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate return to the eighth order of business.
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By Charles Sanders, chief clerk.
Mr. President:
I am directed to inform you that the Assembly has amended and concurred in as amended:
Senate Bill 364
(Assembly amendment 1 adopted)
Assembly Bill 660
(Assembly amendment 1 to Senate amendment 1 adopted)
Concurred in:
Senate Bill 378
Senate Bill 521
Senate Bill 527
Senate substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Joint Resolution 43
Senate amendment 1to Assembly Bill 422
Senate substitute amendment 1to Assembly Bill 516
Senate amendments 1, 2, 3, and 4 to Assembly Bill 549
Senate amendment 1to Assembly Bill 601
Senate substitute amendment 1to Assembly Bill 842
Senate amendment 1to Assembly Bill 886
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Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Bill 660 be withdrawn and taken up at this time.
Assembly Bill 660
Relating to: lifetime supervision for persons who commit certain sex offenses, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Read.
The question was: Shall Assembly amendment 1 to Senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 660 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 364 be withdrawn and taken up at this time.
Senate Bill 364
Relating to: creating a professional standards council for teachers.
Read.
The question was: Shall Assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 364 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Senator Farrow, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess until 4:08 P.M..
2:45 P.M.
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4:08 P.M.
The Senate reconvened.
Senator Rude in the chair.
The Chair, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate return to the fourth order of business.
The committee on Transportation, Agriculture and Rural Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 308
Relating to: sport shooting range immunity and responsibilities.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
A. Lasee, Zien, Clausing and Decker.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Drzewiecki.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
A. Lasee, Drzewiecki, Zien, Clausing and Decker.
Noes, 0 - None.
Alan Lasee
Chairperson
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Bill 308 be withdrawn and taken up at this time.
Assembly Bill 308
Relating to: sport shooting range immunity and responsibilities.
Read a second time.
Senator Lasee, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a cosponsor of Assembly Bill 308.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 308?
Adopted.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator A. Lasee, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 308
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 29; noes, 4; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Clausing, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Drzewiecki, Ellis, Farrow, Fitzgerald, Grobschmidt, Huelsman, Jauch, A. Lasee, Lazich, Moen, Moore, Panzer, Plache, C. Potter, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Rude, Schultz, Shibilski, Weeden, Welch, Wineke, Wirch and Zien - 29.
Noes - Senators Burke, Chvala, George and Risser - 4.
Absent or not voting - None.
Concurred in as amended.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly.
Assembly Bill 768
S681
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.
Read a second time.
POINT OF ORDER
Senator Wineke raised the point of order that the bill is not properly before the Senate.
The Chair ruled the point not well taken.
POINT OF ORDER
Senator Wineke raised the point of order that bill must be referred to the Joint Survey committee on Tax Exemptions.
The Chair ruled the point not well taken.
Senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 768 offered by Senators Decker, Jauch, Shibilski, Wirch, Grobschmidt, Clausing, C. Potter, Moore, Risser, Plache, Chvala, Moen and Burke.
