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Relating to: exempting broadband Internet service from regulation by the Public Service Commission and local governments, requiring telecommunications utilities to provide unbundled network elements, and price regulation of telecommunications utilities.
By
Representatives Jensen, Montgomery, Nischke, Pettis, Olsen, Musser, Albers, Ott, Petrowski and Bies; cosponsored by Senators Kanavas, Welch, Stepp, Darling, Reynolds and Brown.
To committee on Energy and Utilities
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Assembly Bill 673
Relating to: the deceptive or misleading use of the name of a state-chartered bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union, the deceptive or misleading use of a name that is deceptively similar to the name of a state-chartered bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union, and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Montgomery, Van Roy, Towns, Jeskewitz, Weber, Olsen, Richards, Johnsrud, Shilling, Huebsch, Molepske, Kreibich, Krawczyk, Hundertmark, Townsend, Hines, Cullen, Hahn, Suder, Freese, Ott and J. Lehman; cosponsored by Senators Schultz, Reynolds, S. Fitzgerald, Lazich, Erpenbach, Leibham, M. Meyer, Breske, Carpenter, Kedzie, Hansen and Cowles.
To committee on Financial Institutions
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Assembly Bill 674
Relating to: payment of health insurance premiums for certain annuitants under the Wisconsin Retirement System who become employed by the state.
By
Representatives Jeskewitz, Hahn, Albers, Musser, Owens, Townsend, Ott, Seratti, Hines and Boyle; cosponsored by Senators Risser and Roessler.
To committee on Insurance.
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The committee on Corrections and the Courts reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 131
Relating to: access for sheriffs and jailers to reports regarding the competency of criminal defendants.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 10 - Representatives Bies, Albers, Underheim, Owens, F. Lasee, Suder, Pocan, Colon, Staskunas and Wasserman.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Garey Bies
Chairperson
Committee on Corrections and the Courts
The joint committee on Finance reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 653
Relating to: making changes to the Tax Incremental Financing program, authorizing the Department of Revenue to impose a fee to determine or redetermine the tax incremental base of a tax incremental financing district, and requiring the department to prepare a tax incremental financing manual.
Passage:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Kaufert, Huebsch, Ward, Stone, Rhoades, D. Meyer, Coggs and Schooff; Senators Darling, S. Fitzgerald, Lazich, Harsdorf and Kanavas.
Noes: 2 - Senators
Decker and Moore.
To committee on Ways and Means.
Assembly Bill 654
Relating to: making technical and policy changes in the tax incremental financing program based in part on the recommendations of the governor's December 2000 working group on tax incremental finance, authorizing certain counties to create tax incremental financing districts, and making a modification to the environmental remediation tax incremental financing program.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Kaufert, Huebsch, Ward, Stone, Rhoades, D. Meyer, Coggs and Schooff; Senators Darling, S. Fitzgerald, Lazich, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Decker and Moore.
Noes: 0.
Assembly Amendment 2 adoption:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Kaufert, Huebsch, Ward, Stone, Rhoades, D. Meyer, Coggs and Schooff; Senators Darling, S. Fitzgerald, Lazich, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Decker and Moore.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Kaufert, Huebsch, Ward, Stone, Rhoades, D. Meyer, Coggs and Schooff; Senators Darling, S. Fitzgerald, Harsdorf, Kanavas and Moore.
Noes: 2 - Senators
Lazich and Decker.
To committee on Ways and Means.
Dean Kaufert
Assembly Chairperson
Joint committee on Finance
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Speaker's Communications
November 13, 2003
Representative Michael Powers
310 North, State Capitol
P.O. Box 8953
Madison, Wisconsin 53707
Senator Michael Ellis
118 South, State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, Wisconsin 53707-7882
Dear Representative Powers and Senator Ellis:
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Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (1)(am) I am directing that the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions prepare a report on
Assembly Bill 663, so that the legislature may proceed with further consideration of the bill.
Sincerely,
John G. Gard
Speaker
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November 13, 2003
Representative Michael Powers
310 North, State Capitol
P.O. Box 8953
Madison, Wisconsin 53707
Senator Michael Ellis
118 South, State Capitol
P.O. Box 7882
Madison, Wisconsin 53707-7882
Dear Representative Powers and Senator Ellis:
Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (1)(am) I am directing that the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions prepare a report on
Assembly Bill 667, so that the legislature may proceed with further consideration of the bill.
Sincerely,
John G. Gard
Speaker
Wisconsin Assembly
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Representative Vrakas asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representative Gundrum. Granted.
Representative Turner asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representatives Coggs, Wasserman and A. Williams. Granted.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 57 be withdrawn from the committee on Rules and taken up at this time. Granted.
Assembly Joint Resolution 57
Relating to: the life of Army Private First Class Rachel Bosveld.
The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution
57 be adopted?
Motion carried.
Representatives Carol Owens and Luther Olsen and Senator Carol Roessler presented plaques to Army Private First Class Rachel Bosveld's mother, Mary Bosveld of Oshkosh; to her father and stepmother, Marvin and Julie Bosveld of Waupun; to her brother, Craig Bosveld of Antigo; and to her maternal grandmother, Marion Swonger of Sun Prairie.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that all members of the Assembly be made coauthors of Assembly Joint Resolution 57. Granted.
