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Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings
Committee on Labor and Employment
Relating to: permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned.
By Representatives Kelso, Walker, Grothman, Ladwig, Stone, Jensen, Musser, Montgomery, Owens, Hundertmark, Suder, Porter, Jeskewitz, Townsend, Urban, Kaufert, Nass, Underheim, Vrakas, Handrick and Plale; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Fitzgerald, Huelsman, Rosenzweig and Cowles.
September 16, 1999 Referred to committee on Labor and Employment.
October 13, 1999 PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Present: (10) Representatives Vrakas, Montgomery, Nass, Grothman, Hundertmark, Goetsch, Turner, Meyerhofer, Pocan and Schooff.
Absent: (0) None.
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Rep. Carol Kelso, Lead Assembly Author
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Rep. Scott Walker, Assembly Co-sponsor
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Mr. Martin T. Lehman, Berlin
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Ms. Julie Buchanan, Chair, Labor and Employment Relations Committee for the Independent Business Association of Wisconsin, Board Member, Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, Human Resource Management Association of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc.
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Mr. Ray E. Odya, SEEK Staffing Services
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Rep. Glenn Grothman, Assembly Co-sponsor
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Mr. Bill Smith, State Director, National Federation of Independent Business (Wisconsin)
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Mr. John Metcalf, Director of Human Resources Policy, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
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Sen. Gwendolynne Moore (4th Senate District), Milwaukee
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Mr. A. Steven Porter, Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, State Bar of Wisconsin
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Rev. LeHavre Buck, Outreach Case Manager, YW Works
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Ms. Cathleen Shapiro, Project Return
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Mr. Mark A. Hopson, Milwaukee
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Rep. Johnnie Morris-Tatum (11th Assembly District), Milwaukee
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Ms. Sharon Schmeling, Associate Director, Wisconsin Catholic Conference
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Ms. Phyllis Reed, Beloit
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Ms. Judith Romstad, Janesville
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Ms. Debbie Nisy, Beloit
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Mr. Lyle Yaun, Orfordville
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Mr. Bob Andersen, W2/Education and Training Project Attorney, Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
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Pastor Joseph W. Ellwanger, Project Return/MICAH
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Ms. Mary Steppe, Project Return
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Mr. Carvis Braxton, HOP, Inc.
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Ms. Cheryl Hayes, Milwaukee
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None.
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Sen. Robert Cowles (2nd Senate District), Senate Co-sponsor
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Rep. Lorraine Seratti (36th Assembly District), Florence
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Sen. Alberta Darling (8th Senate District), Lead Senate Author
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Rep. Marc Duff (98th Assembly District), New Berlin
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Ms. Lynn Morgan, Lobbyist, Waste Management, Inc.
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63 signatures submitted from Waste Management of Madison employees
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Ms. Kathleen Kilgore, Member Services Specialist/Lobbyist, Wisconsin Restaurant Association
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Mr. Phillip Scott, HOP, Inc.
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Rev. Sue Moline Larson, Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin
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Ms. Tamara Grigsby, Madison
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Mr. Mark Reihl, Executive Director, Wisconsin State Council of Carpenters
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Mr. Cory Mason, Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, State Bar of Wisconsin
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Rep. Leon Young (16th Assembly District), Milwaukee
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Ms. Joanne Ricca, Staff Representative, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
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Mr. Daniel L. Ross, Madison (submitted written testimony)
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Rep. Antonio R. Riley (18th Assembly District), Milwaukee (submitted written testimony)
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Ms. Anne Hazelwood and Jean Verber, Coordinators, Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative (submitted written testimony)
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Wisconsin Legislative Black & Hispanic Caucus (submitted written testimony)
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Mr. Frank A. Humphrey, Region III Representative, NAACP
October 20, 1999
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Present: (10) Representatives Vrakas, Montgomery, Nass, Grothman, Hundertmark, Goetsch, Turner, Meyerhofer, Pocan and Schooff.
Absent: (0) None.
Moved by Representative Vrakas, seconded by Representative Grothman, that
Assembly Bill 469
be recommended for passage.
Ayes: (7) Representatives Vrakas, Montgomery, Nass, Grothman, Hundertmark, Goetsch and Meyerhofer.
Noes: (3) Representatives Turner, Pocan and Schooff.
Absent: (0) None.
PASSAGE RECOMMENDED, Ayes 7, Noes 3, Absent 0
Brian Pleva
Committee Clerk
