Cathy Stepp
Chairperson
The committee on Energy and Utilities reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 300
Relating to: construction of electric generating facilities and transmission lines, and granting rule-making authority.
Adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Cowles, Lazich, Leibham, Wirch and M. Meyer.
Noes, 0 - None.
Adoption of Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Substitute Amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Cowles, Lazich, Leibham, Wirch and M. Meyer.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Cowles, Lazich, Leibham, Wirch and M. Meyer.
Noes, 0 - None.
Robert Cowles
Chairperson
The committee on Labor, Small Business Development and Consumer Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 267
Relating to: administrative rule making regarding small businesses, data used by administrative agencies in preparing proposed rules, increasing attorney fees, creating an Internet site for proposed rules, and creating a Small Business Regulatory Review Board.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Reynolds, Kedzie and Zien.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Decker and Hansen.
Thomas Reynolds
Chairperson
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The Chief Clerk records:
Senate Bill 122
Report correctly enrolled on November 6, 2003.
The Chief Clerk records:
Senate Bill 53
Senate Bill 234
Report correctly enrolled on November 7, 2003.
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries dated Monday, November 10, 2003.
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Assembly Bill 507 was withdrawn from the committee on
Senate Organization and referred to the committee on
Economic Development, Job Creation and Housing pursuant to Senate Rule 46 (2)(c).
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Read and referred:
Senate Joint Resolution 49
Relating to: the life and patriotic service of Christopher Glenn Mueller.
By
Senators
Kanavas, Lazich, Darling, Reynolds, Carpenter, S. Fitzgerald, Zien, Welch, Brown and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Nischke, Turner, Lothian, LeMahieu, Ainsworth, McCormick, Jeskewitz, Ladwig, M. Lehman, Jensen, Gunderson, Owens, Plouff, Van Roy, Vrakas and Musser.
To committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Joint Resolution 50
Relating to: the life of Army Private First Class Rachel Bosveld.
By
Senators
Roessler and S. Fitzgerald; cosponsored by Representative Owens
.
To committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Bill 308
Relating to: a Medical Assistance family planning demonstration project minimum age eligibility limitation change.
By
Senators
Leibham, Welch and Lazich; cosponsored by Representatives Grothman, Seratti and Gunderson.
To committee on Health, Children, Families, Aging and Long Term Care.
Senate Bill 309
Relating to: the disclosure of personal financial information by financial institutions, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
By
Senators
Chvala, Hansen, Carpenter and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Schneider, Staskunas, Miller, Berceau, J. Lehman and Taylor.
To committee on Agriculture, Financial Institutions and Insurance.
Senate Bill 310
Relating to: creating a job training grant program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Plale, Wirch, Erpenbach, Hansen, Moore, Carpenter, Robson and Lassa; cosponsored by Representatives Taylor, Balow, Berceau, Coggs, J. Lehman, Plouff, Pocan, Richards, Shilling, Sinicki, Staskunas, Turner, Young and Zepnick.
To committee on Economic Development, Job Creation and Housing.
Senate Bill 311
Relating to: bills increasing structural deficits in the general fund.
By
Senators
Carpenter and Lassa; cosponsored by Representatives Pocan, Albers, Berceau, Black, F. Lasee and Miller.
To joint committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 312
Relating to: threats to social service workers, juvenile intake workers, or school employees and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Brown, A. Lasee, Lassa, Roessler and Stepp; cosponsored by Representatives Ziegelbauer, Bies, Freese, Gunderson, Hahn, Kestell, Kreibich, Molepske, Musser, Olsen, Stone, Van Roy and Vrakas.
To committee on Judiciary, Corrections and Privacy.
Senate Bill 313
Relating to: administrative rules, guidelines, policies, and hearings; air pollution control; structures, deposits, and other activities in or near navigable waters; notice, hearing, and review procedures related to permits to place structures and materials and to conduct activities in or near navigable waters; nonmetallic mining reclamation financial assurances; strategic energy assessments; partial deregulation of telecommunications services; contributions by electric and gas utilities to the utility public benefits fund; grants for energy conservation and other programs; reciprocal agreements for real estate licenses; comprehensive planning by local governmental units; fees imposed by political subdivisions; the confidentiality of patient health care records; apprentice-to-journeyman job-site ratios; the acquisition of in-state banks and in-state bank holding companies; credit agreements; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; and granting rule-making authority.
By
Senators
Panzer, Stepp, Kanavas, Kedzie, Leibham, Zien, Darling, Roessler and Welch; cosponsored by Representatives Gard, Kaufert, Johnsrud, Grothman, Montgomery, Suder, Kestell, Nass, J. Fitzgerald, Towns, Freese, Nischke, Honadel, McCormick, D. Meyer, Krawczyk, Kreibich, Owens, J. Wood, Ott, Townsend, Huebsch, Gielow, Jeskewitz and Gunderson.
To joint committee on Finance.
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The committee on Homeland Security, Veterans and Military Affairs and Government Reform reports and recommends:
Moran
, Peter J.,
of Superior, as a member of the Board of Veterans Affairs, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2009.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Brown, Zien, S. Fitzgerald, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Ronald Brown
Chairperson
The joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 261
S475
Relating to: creating a qualified new business venture tax credit and a capital gains tax exemption regarding investments in certified venture capital funds and qualified new business ventures, requiring a study of new Wisconsin businesses, facilitating the development of certain investor networks, and granting rule-making authority.
Public Policy Involved.
The bill is good public policy if the provisions of the bill relating to capital gains deferrals, exclusions and exemptions are removed and if the tax credit provisions are narrowed.
Michael Ellis
Senate Chairperson
The committee on Transportation and Information Infrastructure reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 272
