Noes - Senators Carpenter, Chvala, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Moore, Risser and Robson - 8.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Passed.
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Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate stand informal until 4:31 P.M..
4:30 P.M.
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4:31 P.M.
The Senate reconvened.
Senator A. Lasee in the chair.
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Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the vote by which Senate refused to suspend the rules on Assembly Bill 120 and give the bill its third reading be reconsidered.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 120
Relating to: notice regarding ineligibility to vote.
Read a third time and concurred in as amended.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the vote by which Senate refused to suspend the rules on Assembly Bill 121 and give the bill its third reading be reconsidered.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 121
Relating to: recruitment, training, certification, and compensation of election officials.
Read a third time and concurred in.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the vote by which Senate refused to suspend the rules on Assembly Bill 261 and give the bill its third reading be reconsidered.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 261
Relating to: charter schools located in a 1st class city school district.
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 18; noes, 14; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
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Ayes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Panzer, Plale, Reynolds, Roessler, Stepp, Welch and Zien - 18.
Noes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Chvala, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Lassa, M. Meyer, Moore, Risser, Robson, Schultz and Wirch - 14.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Concurred in as amended.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the vote by which Senate refused to suspend the rules on Assembly Bill 372 and give the bill its third reading be reconsidered.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 372
Relating to: live birth or the circumstance of being born alive.
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 31; noes, 1; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Brown, Carpenter, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Leibham, M. Meyer, Moore, Panzer, Plale, Reynolds, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Welch, Wirch and Zien - 31.
Noes - Senator Chvala - 1.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Concurred in.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the vote by which Senate refused to suspend the rules on Assembly Bill 388 and give the bill its third reading be reconsidered.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 388
Relating to: designating and marking the bridge on STH 13 across the south fork of the Flambeau River in the town of Fifield in Price County as Freedoms Bridge.
Read a third time and concurred in.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the vote by which Senate refused to suspend the rules on Assembly Bill 458 and give the bill its third reading be reconsidered.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 458
Relating to: operating a vehicle or operating or going armed with a firearm after using certain controlled substances and providing penalties.
Read a third time and concurred in.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the vote by which Senate refused to suspend the rules on Assembly Bill 487 and give the bill its third reading be reconsidered.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 487
Relating to: the purpose and integrity of the patients compensation fund and changing its name to the injured patients and families compensation fund.
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 29; noes, 3; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Brown, Carpenter, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Leibham, M. Meyer, Panzer, Plale, Reynolds, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Welch, Wirch and Zien - 29.
Noes - Senators Chvala, Jauch and Moore - 3.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Concurred in.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the vote by which Senate refused to suspend the rules on Assembly Bill 503 and give the bill its third reading be reconsidered.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 503
Relating to: the enrollment of the charter school established by the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 20; noes, 12; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Moore, Panzer, Plale, Reynolds, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Welch and Zien - 20.
Noes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Chvala, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Lassa, M. Meyer, Risser, Robson and Wirch - 12.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Concurred in.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 253 be withdrawn from the committee on Higher Education and Tourism and referred to the committee on Education, Ethics and Elections.
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State of Wisconsin
October 23, 2003
The Honorable, The Senate:
As acknowledged by the Senate Leadership, members of both parties broke the rules of the decorum of the Senate last night, October 22, 2003; for being one of them, I extend my sincere and heartfelt apology to the Senate.
I look forward to working with the Senate Leadership on having a deliberative body that not only follows rules of decorum but also allows for the rights of each member to state their views under the protection of fair rules of procedure.
Sincerely,
Tim Carpenter
State Senator
State of Wisconsin
October 23, 2003
The Honorable, The Senate:
As acknowledged by the Senate Leadership, members of both parties broke the rule of the decorum of the Senate last night, October 22, 2003; for being one of them I extend my sincere regrets to the Senate.
My statement of last evening to the Senate was heartfelt and is enclosed in the body of this letter:
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"Thank you Mr. President. I count as an extreme privilege something that no one, I think, in my life, would ever have expected that I would have earned the extreme pleasure of serving in this august body and become a state senator to have the voice, have a voice for 160,000 people. And Mr. President, I can tell you that I, I was raised to always be at my best behavior. I was raised by parents who taught me Christian charity and taught me to behave and I am not proud, Mr. President, when I, when I am disruptive in the body, Iam not proud of that Mr. President, and I, it is very clear that I allow certain members of this body to push my buttons. I think, I think members pretty much know that I am very intolerant of disrespect. I am very intolerant of being cut off because Mr. President it is not my voice, it is the voice of 160,000 people that I represent. Many of the people that I represent are very poor and they don't, they don't have a voice, they don't have a lot of money to hire lobbyists to come up here and so I'm it. And, given the vacancy that is in the other Senate district currently, I feel even more compelled to represent my, my constituents. And, I can tell you that, that I do treasure my relationships with members of both parties. I think I have had some very constructive dialogue, good relationships with the Senator from the 13th, I'm thinking, of the Senator, just to name a couple of people here. Don't want to exclude anybody, the Senator from the 33rd as we look at ways on a bi-partisan basis, to improve the lot of citizens and I have enjoyed these relationships and I don't want negative stuff to happen on this floor that would endanger or threaten those relationships. Because I value those relationships in order to build a constructive reality for my constituents. Having said that, Mr. President, what I, I want to make a final pitch for my Senate amendment 2 and the reason that I offered this amendment is because I had at least 50 kids pile, jam into my office, to ask me, hysterically, Mr. President, because they have been told by the lobbyist for school choice that if we don't raise this cap that their parents will be forced to disenroll them from various, the very successful choice schools that they're currently in. This amendment, Mr. President, is a direct result of those conversations with my constituents. I think this amendment does address the issue, what it does, again, for those who may not recall, what it does is that it requires the Department of Public Instruction, it gives them a protocol for how to prorate the parental choice student slots once the 15% cap has been reached. Which is current law. It would require them to prioritize those kids who are already in the program and then to extend any additional slots to siblings of those students. I guess had the debate gone the way I would have wanted it to go, I, I you know, I was going to ask the Senator from the 8th or other authors of this bill to explain why this wasn't, why they moved rejection and why this wasn't a reasonable approach. Because I think it, it directly responds to a concern, or an issue that those parents had. And, I, so I think it is time to move on, Mr. President, I won't enflame anyone's temper by asking them to respond to that question. I simply want to share with the body that, that the amendment was offered in sincerity, it was offered to directly deal with a constituent, a problem my constituents are currently dealing with as we approach the enrollment cap. Thank you."