Noes - None.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Passed.
Senate Bill 250
Relating to: construction and operation of a Hmong cultural center, granting bonding authority, and making appropriations.
Read a second time.
Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 250 offered by Senator Decker.
Senator Zien, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly.
Senator Zien, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 250 be placed at the foot of the calendar of November 5, 2003.
Senate Bill 252
Relating to: Joint Committee on Finance review of stewardship acquisitions.
Read a second time.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill 252?
Adopted.
Senate amendment 2 to Senate Bill 252 offered by Senator Cowles.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 2 to Senate Bill 252?
Adopted.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Zien, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate
Bill 252
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:
Ayes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Panzer, Reynolds, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Welch and Zien - 18.
Noes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Chvala, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Lassa, M. Meyer, Moore, Plale, Risser, Robson and Wirch - 14.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Passed.
Assembly Bill 375
Relating to: leaving the scene of an accident and providing a penalty.
Read a second time.
Senator Carpenter, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 375 be withdrawn and returned to author.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Zien, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 375
Read a third time and concurred in.
Assembly Bill 475
Relating to: marriage between one man and one woman.
Read a second time.
Senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 475 offered by Senator Carpenter.
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4:30 P.M.
Senator Welch in the chair.
Senataor Carpenter moved that the Senate adjourn.
The question was: Shall the Senate adjourn?
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 12; noes, 20; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Chvala, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Lassa, M. Meyer, Moore, Plale, Risser and Robson - 12.
Noes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Panzer, Reynolds, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Welch, Wirch and Zien - 20.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Refused adjournment.
POINT OF ORDER
Senator S. Fitzgerald raised the point of order that Senate amendment 1 was not germane.
The Chair rules the point of order well taken.
Senator Carpenter appealed the ruling of the Chair.
The question was: Shall the Decision of the chair stand as the judgement of the Senate?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 18; noes, 14; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Panzer, Reynolds, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Welch and Zien - 18.
Noes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Chvala, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Lassa, M. Meyer, Moore, Plale, Risser, Robson and Wirch - 14.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
The Decision of the Chair stands as the judgement of the Senate.
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5:01 P.M.
Senator Lasee in the chair.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 475
Senataor Carpenter, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Bill 475 be laid on the table.
Senator Panzer objects.
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 22; noes, 10; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Brown, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Panzer, Reynolds, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Welch, Wirch and Zien - 22.
Noes - Senators Carpenter, Chvala, Erpenbach, Jauch, Lassa, M. Meyer, Moore, Plale, Risser and Robson - 10.
Absent or not voting - Senator George - 1.
Concurred in.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate return to the eighth order of business.
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By Patrick E. Fuller, chief clerk.
Mr. President:
I am directed to inform you that the Assembly has passed and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Bill 592
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Assembly Bill
592
Relating to: supplemental Medical Assistance payments to county, city, town, or village nursing homes and making an appropriation.
By Representatives LeMahieu, Lothian, Kestell, Towns, Grothman, Powers, Wieckert, Gunderson, F. Lasee, Johnsrud, Ladwig, Van Roy, Suder, Gronemus, Schneider, Ainsworth, Musser, W. Wood, Gottlieb, Ziegelbauer, Hundertmark, J. Fitzgerald, McCormick, Townsend, M. Lehman, Van Akkeren, Pocan, Petrowski, Schooff, Hahn and Albers; cosponsored by Senators Leibham, Welch, Zien, Robson, Brown, Kedzie, Breske, Cowles, Reynolds, Stepp, S. Fitzgerald, Schultz, Wirch, A. Lasee and Roessler.
Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization.