Assembly

Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Housing

Assembly Bill 872

Relating to: charging a tenant for a credit check, presumption that tenant caused damage, allowing plaintiffs to remove and store property under a writ of restitution and providing a penalty.

By Representatives Grothman, Wasserman, Albers, Duff, Goetsch, Handrick, Kedzie, F. Lasee, Nass, Seratti, Staskunas, Walker, Ward, Ziegelbauer and Zukowski; cosponsored by Senators Weeden, Rosenzweig, Roessler, Farrow and Welch.

March 2, 1998 Referred to committee on Housing.

March 5, 1998 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (6) Representatives Owens, Kedzie, Foti, Vrakas, Wieckert and La Fave.

Absent: (3) Representatives Morris-Tatum, L. Young and Baldwin.

Appearances for

· Representative Glenn Grothman, 59th District, West Bend

· Orville Seymer, Apartment Assn. of S.E. WI, Franklin

· David Ohrmundt, Pewaukee

· Robert Jovanovich, Apartment Assn. of S.E. WI, Sussex

Appearances against

· Brenda Konkel, Madison

· Megin Hicks, Madison

· Dawn Buchholz, Madison

· Bob Andersen, Legal Action of WI, Madison

· E. Joe Murray, WI Realtors Assn., Madison

Appearances for Information Only

· Bill Oemichen, Administrator for Division of Trade & Consumer Protection (Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection), Madison

· Chet Gerlach, WI Apartment Assn., Madison

Registrations for

· Norval L. Adams, Greenfield

Registrations against

· Marc Bentley, WI Movers Assn., Madison

March 18, 1998 EXECUTIVE SESSION

Present: (9) Representatives Owens, Kedzie, Foti, Vrakas, Wieckert, Morris-Tatum, La Fave, L. Young and Baldwin.

Absent: (0) None.

Moved by Representative Foti, seconded by Representative Vrakas, that Assembly Substitute Amendment 1

be recommended for adoption.

Ayes: (7) Representative Owens, Kedzie, Foti, Vrakas, Wieckert, La Fave and Baldwin.

Noes: (2) Representative Morris-Tatum and L. Young.

Absent: (0) None.

ADOPTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 7, Noes 2, Absent 0

Moved by Representative Foti, seconded by Representative Kedzie, that Assembly Bill 872

be recommended for passage as amended.

Ayes: (5) Representatives Owens, Kedzie, Foti, Vrakas and Wieckert.

Noes: (4) Representatives Morris-Tatum, La Fave, L. Young and Baldwin.

Absent: (0) None.

PASSAGE AS AMENDED RECOMMENDED, Ayes 5, Noes 4, Absent 0

Jacque Zibrowski

Committee Clerk