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Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Campaigns and Elections
Assembly Bill 421
Relating to: county, city, town, and village authority to create local elections boards and to regulate the financing of campaigns for county, city, town, and village offices, duties of municipal and county boards of election commissioners, and granting rule-making authority.
By Representatives Pocan, Berceau, Miller, Black, Bock, Boyle, La Fave, J. Lehman, Richards, Turner and Wasserman; cosponsored by Senator Risser and Burke.

May 31, 2001 Referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections.

September 13, 2001 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (5) Representatives Freese, Ladwig, Stone, J. Fitzgerald and Pocan.

Absent: (1) Representative Travis.

Appearances for
· Rep. Mark Pocan, Author

· Kerry Schumann, WI Public Interest Research Group

Appearances against

· None.

Appearances for Information Only
· Gloria Waity, WI Retired Educators' Assn.

· Rev. Sue Larson, Lutheran Office for Public Policy in WI

Registrations for
· Michael Jacob, Progressive Dane
· Carolyn Castore, WI Citizen Action

· Jolene Plautz, WI Towns Assoc.

Registrations against
· Jan Baldock, West Bend
· Crystal Berg, Hartford
· Jennie Frederick, Jackson

· Kathleen Kiernan, Richfield

March 14, 2002 Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.

Terri S. Griffiths
Committee Clerk