Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings
Committee on Agriculture
Assembly Bill 5
Relating to: the authority of the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection to prohibit the use of atrazine in a specified area in the town of North Lancaster, Grant County.
Administrative Rules
January 21, 1997 Referred to committee on Agriculture.
February 20, 1997
PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Present: (14) Representative Ott, Sykora, Ainsworth, Hahn, Otte, Ward, Zukowski, Skindrud, Gronemus, Reynolds, Springer, Dueholm, Steinbrink and Plouff.
Absent: (0) None.
· Representative David Brandemuehl
· Caryl Terrell for Sierra Club, WI Environmental Decade and Citizens for a Better Environment
· Lisa Morrison for WI Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
· Russ Weisensel for WI Agribusiness Council
· Paul Zimmerman for WI Farm Bureau
· David Flakne for WI Agribusiness Council and Novantis Crop Protection
· Michael R. Vaughan for Ciba Crop Protection
· None.
February 20, 1997
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Present: (14) Representative Ott, Sykora, Ainsworth, Hahn, Otte, Ward, Zukowski, Skindrud, Gronemus, Reynolds, Springer, Dueholm, Steinbrink and Plouff.
Absent: (0) None.
Moved by Representative Gronemus, seconded by Representative Sykora, that
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 to AB 5
be recommended for introduction.
Ayes: (14) Representative Ott, Sykora, Ainsworth, Hahn, Otte, Ward, Zukowski, Skindrud, Gronemus, Reynolds, Springer, Dueholm, Steinbrink and Plouff.
Noes: (0) None.
Absent: (0) None.
INTRODUCTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 14, Noes 0, Absent 0
Moved by Representative Zukowski, seconded by Representative Gronemus, that
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 to AB 5
be recommended for adoption.
Ayes: (14) Representative Ott, Sykora, Ainsworth, Hahn, Otte, Ward, Zukowski, Skindrud, Gronemus, Reynolds, Springer, Dueholm, Steinbrink and Plouff.
Noes: (0) None.
Absent: (0) None.
ADOPTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 14, Noes 0, Absent 0
Moved by Representative Gronemus, seconded by Representative Ott, that
Assembly Bill 5
be recommended for passage as amended.
Ayes: (10) Representative Ott, Sykora, Ainsworth, Hahn, Otte, Ward, Zukowski, Skindrud, Gronemus and Steinbrink.
Noes: (4) Representative Reynolds, Springer, Dueholm and Plouff.
Absent: (0) None.
PASSAGE AS AMENDED RECOMMENDED, Ayes 10, Noes 4, Absent 0
Kim Markham
Committee Clerk