Committee on Criminal Justice
The committee on Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 496
Relating to: tuition vouchers for students who sound Taps at military honors funerals.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Musser, Hundertmark, Petrowski, Sykora, Townsend, Ryba, Boyle, Hubler and Schneider.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Musser, Hundertmark, Petrowski, Sykora, Townsend, Ryba, Boyle, Hubler and Schneider.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 587
Relating to: creating the Wisconsin naval militia and making an appropriation.
Passage:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Musser, Hundertmark, Petrowski, Sykora, Townsend, Ryba, Boyle, Hubler and Schneider.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Terry Musser
Chairperson
Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
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Representative Bock asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representative Lassa. Granted.
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Representative Jensen asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Resolution 43 be withdrawn from the calendar of Tuesday, October 30 and taken up at this time. Granted.
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Assembly Resolution 43
Relating to: honoring the life and achievements of Jesselyn Marie Karbon and the efforts of her mother, Rosemarie Rose.
The question was: Shall Assembly Resolution 43 be adopted?
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Ainsworth, Albers, Balow, Berceau, Bies, Black, Bock, Boyle, Carpenter, Coggs, Colon, Cullen, Duff, J. Fitzgerald, Foti, Freese, Friske, Gard, Gronemus, Grothman, Gunderson, Gundrum, Hahn, Hebl, Hoven, Huber, Hubler, Huebsch, Hundertmark, Jeskewitz, Johnsrud, Kaufert, Kedzie, Kestell, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krug, Krusick, La Fave, Ladwig, F. Lasee, J. Lehman, M. Lehman, Leibham, Lippert, Loeffelholz, McCormick, D. Meyer, Meyerhofer, Miller, Montgomery, Morris-Tatum, Musser, Nass, Olsen, Ott, Owens, Petrowski, Pettis, Plale, Plouff, Pocan, Powers, Reynolds, Rhoades, Richards, Riley, Ryba, Schneider, Schooff, Seratti, Sherman, Shilling, Sinicki, Skindrud, Starzyk, Staskunas, Steinbrink, Stone, Suder, Sykora, Townsend, Travis, Turner, Underheim, Urban, Vrakas, Walker, Ward, Wasserman, Wieckert, Williams, Wood, Young, Ziegelbauer and Speaker Jensen - 96.
Noes - None.
Absent or not voting - Representatives Krawczyk and Lassa - 2.
Motion carried.
Representative Gronemus asked unanimous consent that Assembly Joint Resolution 61 be taken from the table. Granted.
Assembly Joint Resolution 61
Relating to: the life and public service of John Quentin Radcliffe.
The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution
61 be adopted?
Motion carried.
Representative Ladwig asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 61 be immediately messaged to the Senate. Granted.
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By Donald J. Schneider, Senate Chief Clerk.
Mr. Speaker:
I am directed to inform you that the Senate has
Adopted and asks concurrence in:
Senate Joint Resolution
48
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Senate Joint Resolution
48
Relating to: the life and public service of John Quentin Radcliffe.
By
Senator
Moen
; cosponsored by Representative Gronemus
.
Representative Ladwig asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Senate Joint Resolution 48 be taken up at this time. Granted.
The question was: Shall Senate Joint Resolution 48 be concurred in?
Motion carried.
Representative Ladwig asked unanimous consent that all members of the Assembly be added as cosponsors of Senate Joint Resolution 48. Granted.
Representative Ladwig asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Senate Joint Resolution 48 be immediately messaged to the Senate. Granted.
Representative Ladwig asked unanimous consent that
Assembly Rule 12 be suspended and that the committee on
Environment be permitted to complete the public hearing which began at 9:00 A.M. this morning. Granted.
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Representative Vrakas asked unanimous consent that the Assembly stand recessed. Granted.
The Assembly stood recessed.
10:36 A.M.
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1:57 P.M.
The Assembly reconvened.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent for a quorum call. Granted.
A quorum was present.
Representative Lassa asked unanimous consent that her leave of absence be lifted. Granted.
Assembly Bill 294
Relating to: authorizing the department of workforce development to order a person who discriminates in promotion, compensation, or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin, or ancestry to pay compensatory and punitive damages and an assessment, directing the secretary of workforce development to appoint a committee to study wage disparities between men and women and between minority group members and nonminority group members, and making an appropriation.
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Representative Black moved that the rules be suspended and that
Assembly Bill 294 be withdrawn from the committee on
Labor and Workforce Development and taken up at this time.
Representative Foti moved that the motion, that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill 294 be withdrawn from the committee on Labor and Workforce Development and taken up, be amended to substitute Assembly Bill 545 be withdrawn from the committee on Energy and Utilities and taken up at this time.
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Representative Staskunas rose to the point of order that the motion to amend the motion that the rules be suspended and that
Assembly Bill 294 be withdrawn from the committee on
Labor and Workforce Development be amended to substitute
Assembly Bill 545 was not in order under Assembly Rule
15.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese took the point of order under advisement.
Representative Krug asked unanimous consent that the Assembly return to the previous order of business.
Representative Foti objected.
Representative Staskunas withdrew the point of order that the motion to amend a motion to suspend the rules and that Assembly Bill 294 be withdrawn from the committee on Labor and Workforce Development was not in order.
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Representative Black asked unanimous consent that the Assembly stand informal. Granted.
The Assembly stood informal.
2:43 P.M.
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2:55 P.M.
The Assembly reconvened.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
The question was: Shall the motion, that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill 294 be withdrawn from the committee on Labor and Workforce Development and taken up, be amended to substitute Assembly Bill 545 be withdrawn from the committee on Energy and Utilities and taken up at this time?