Relating to: regulating rental-purchase companies and granting rule-making authority.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 10 - Representatives Jeskewitz, Kedzie, Rhoades, Kreibich, Montgomery, Hoven, La Fave, Meyer, Plouff and Turner.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Jeskewitz, Kelso, Kedzie, Rhoades, Kreibich, Huebsch, Montgomery, Hoven, Kreuser, Meyer, Plale and Plouff.
Noes: 2 - Representatives La Fave and Morris-Tatum.
To calendar.
Suzanne Jeskewitz
Chairperson
Committee on Financial Institutions
The committee on Government Operations reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 792
Relating to: the consent of this state for the acquisition by the United States of land in this state for national forests.
Passage:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Wieckert, Kestell, Nass, Jeskewitz, Sinicki, Coggs and Wasserman.
Noes: 0.
To calendar.
Steve Wieckert
Chairperson
Committee on Government Operations
The committee on Judiciary and Personal Privacy reports and recommends:
Relating to: payment of judgments in traffic cases and in municipal court and the suspension of operating privileges.
Passage:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Huebsch, Gundrum, Walker, Suder, Grothman, Sherman, Colon, Hebl and Staskunas.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Michael Huebsch
Chairperson
Committee on Judiciary and Personal Privacy
The special committee on The Renovation of Lambeau Field reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 892
Relating to: creating a local professional football stadium district; giving a local professional football stadium district the authority to issue bonds; making a state moral obligation pledge with respect to bonds issued by a local professional football stadium district; giving a local professional football stadium district the authority to impose a sales tax and a use tax; state aid for transportation facilities associated with a professional football team's home stadium; and making appropriations.
Assembly substitute amendment 3 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Gard, Hutchison, Spillner, Freese, Jeskewitz, Huebsch, Ziegelbauer, Ryba, Cullen, Meyer, J. Lehman and Sinicki.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Gard, Hutchison, Spillner, Freese, Jeskewitz, Huebsch, Ryba, Meyer and Sinicki.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Ziegelbauer, Cullen and J. Lehman.
To calendar.
John Gard
Chairperson
Special committee on The Renovation of Lambeau Field
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The joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 634
Relating to: the liability of married persons filing a joint income tax return, the payment of the alternate fuel tax and the tobacco products tax, reducing nondelinquent taxes, rounding dollar amounts to whole dollars on all tax returns, allowing a mathematical computation of sales and use taxes, items used exclusively for tax-exempt purposes, paying taxes with a credit card, extending the time for filing a tax withholding report, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation and providing a penalty.
Adoption of Report:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Hahn, M. Lehman and Hebl; Senators Decker, Breske and Huelsman; Ms. Secretary Cate Zueske, Mr. Alan Lee, Department of Justice; and Mr. Paul Vrakas.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 726
Relating to: the monitoring of property tax assessments, discontinuing the requirement that owners of treatment plant and pollution abatement equipment, except utilities and certain insurers, apply for their property tax exemptions, the notice of changed property tax assessments, the administration of the property tax exemption for computers and providing a penalty.
Adoption of Report:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Hahn, M. Lehman and Hebl; Senators Decker, Breske and Huelsman; Ms. Secretary Cate Zueske, Mr. Alan Lee, Department of Justice; and Mr. Paul Vrakas.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Ways and Means.
Assembly Bill 853
Relating to: authorizing the creation of a local cultural arts district; granting a property tax exemption for the district's property; granting a sales tax and use tax exemption for tangible personal property and services purchased by the district; giving a local cultural arts district the authority to issue bonds and granting income tax exemptions for interest income on bonds issued by the district; authorizing certain local cultural arts districts to acquire property by condemnation; and authorizing the Wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority to issue bonds to finance certain cultural arts facilities.
Adoption of Report:
Ayes: 9 -
Representatives Hahn, M. Lehman and Hebl; Senators Decker, Breske and Huelsman; Ms. Secretary Cate Zueske, Mr. Alan Lee, Department of Justice; and Mr. Paul Vrakas.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Ways and Means.
Assembly Bill 860
Relating to: references to the Internal Revenue Code for income tax and franchise tax purposes, withholding income taxes from the amount paid to purchase the assignment of a lottery prize and requiring the lottery administrator to report to the department of revenue the federal income tax number of an assignee.
Adoption of Report:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Hahn, M. Lehman and Hebl; Senators Decker, Breske and Huelsman; Ms. Secretary Cate Zueske, Mr. Alan Lee, Department of Justice; and Mr. Paul Vrakas.
Noes: 0.
A783
To committee on Ways and Means.
Eugene Hahn
Assembly Chairperson
Joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
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Speaker's Communications
March 21, 2000
Charles Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
1 East Main Street
Room 402
Madison, Wisconsin 53708
Dear Mr. Sanders:
On March 20, 2000,
Assembly Bill 896 relating to the maintenance and development of habitat areas, all-terrain vehicle gas tax payments, river protection grant amounts, rules for river grant eligibility, rules for lake management project grants and making appropriations was referred to the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources. Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I hereby withdraw
Assembly Bill 896 from the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and re-refer that bill to the Joint Committee on Finance.
Representative Johnsrud has been notified of this re-referral and approves.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen