AB44AB44
Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings
Committee on Agriculture
Relating to: authorizing the payment of different prices to producers for milk based on specified criteria.
By Representatives Ward, Ainsworth, Freese, Gronemus, Hahn, Huebsch, Hundertmark, Kedzie, Kestell, Kreibich, La Fave, Montgomery, Nass, Olsen, Ott, Plale, Seratti, Starzyk, Sykora and Vrakas; cosponsored by Senator S. Fitzgerald.
January 25, 2001 Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
March 15, 2001 PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Present: (15) Representatives Ott, Hahn, Ainsworth, Wade, Petrowski, Suder, Kestell, Loeffelholz, Bies, Plouff, Steinbrink, Gronemus, Lassa, Schneider and Hubler.
Absent: (1) Representative Reynolds.
· Representative David Ward, 37th Assembly District
· William Oemichen, Administarator, Division of Trade & Consumer Protection, DATCP
· John Norton, Director, Trade Practices Bureau, DATCP
· Brad Legreid, Wisconsin Dairy Products Association
· Andrew Huppert, Dairy Farmer, River Falls WI
· Corliss Handrickson, Dairy Farmer, Beldenville WI
· Wayne Anderson, Dairy Farmer, Hager City WI
· Bob Denman, Wisconsin Farmers Union
· Senator Scott Fitzgerald, 13th Senate District
· Judy Keller, Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
· Paul Zimmerman, Wisconsin Farm Bureau
· Representative John LaFave, 23rd Assembly Dsitrict
March 29, 2001
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Present: (16) Representatives Ott, Hahn, Ainsworth, Wade, Petrowski, Suder, Kestell, Loeffelholz, Bies, Plouff, Reynolds, Steinbrink, Gronemus, Lassa, Schneider and Hubler.
Moved by Representative Ott, seconded by Representative Bies, that
Assembly Bill 44
be recommended for passage.
Ayes: (13) Representatives Ott, Hahn, Ainsworth, Wade, Petrowski, Suder, Kestell, Loeffelholz, Bies, Reynolds, Steinbrink, Gronemus and Lassa.
Noes: (3) Representatives Plouff, Schneider and Hubler.
PASSAGE RECOMMENDED, Ayes 13, Noes 3, Absent 0
Beata Kalies
Committee Clerk
