Thursday, September 9, 1999
10:00 A.M.
Ninety-Fourth Regular Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Representative Gundrum in the chair.
The Assembly dispensed with the call of the roll.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Joint Resolution 72
Relating to: urging Congress to raise the amount of a veteran's pension paid to a surviving spouse.
By
Representative
Musser
.
To committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
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Assembly Bill 448
Relating to: Vietnam veteran eligibility for veterans benefits.
By
Representative
Musser
.
To committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
.
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The committee on Campaigns and Elections reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 343
Relating to: authorization for electors who are victims of domestic abuse to be listed confidentially on poll and registration lists and providing penalties.
Assembly amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Freese, Suder, Walker, Montgomery, Ladwig, Travis, Cullen, Miller and Sherman.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Freese, Suder, Walker, Montgomery, Ladwig, Travis, Cullen, Miller and Sherman.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 363
Relating to: the composition of municipal boards of canvassers in certain municipalities.
Passage:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Freese, Suder, Walker, Montgomery, Ladwig, Travis, Cullen, Miller and Sherman.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 410
Relating to: acceptance of political contributions made by owners, operators or managers of casinos or racetracks and providing penalties.
Passage:
Ayes: 5 - Representatives Freese, Suder, Walker, Montgomery and Ladwig.
Noes: 4 - Representatives Travis, Cullen, Miller and Sherman.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 42
Relating to: qualifications for absentee voting.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Freese, Suder, Walker, Montgomery, Travis, Cullen, Miller and Sherman.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Ladwig.
To committee on Rules.
Stephen Freese
Chairperson
Committee on Campaigns and Elections
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Communications
State of Wisconsin
Revisor of Statutes Bureau
Madison
DATE: September 1, 1999
TO: Charles Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
Donald J. Schneider
Senate Chief Clerk
A312
FROM: Gary L. Poulson
Deputy Revisor of Statutes
SUBJECT: Rules published in the August 31, 1999,
Wisconsin Administrative
Register, No. 524.
The following rules have been published:
part eff. 1-1-00
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Transportation
Madison
September 7, 1999
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
The enclosed report has been sent to you pursuant to sec. 1.11(2)(j), Stats. This statute states:
"Annually, no later than September 15, submit a report to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172(2), including the number of proposed actions for which the agency conducted an assessment of whether an impact statement was required under par. (c) and the number of impact statements prepared under par. (c)."
This report addresses the activities of the Department of Transportation for Fiscal Year 1998, the period from July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999.