Wednesday, November 9, 2005
10:14 A.M.
Ninety-Seventh Regular Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
The prayer was offered by Reverend Kristin Frederich of the First Presbyterian Church in Cambria.
Representative Kaufert led the membership in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Present - Representatives Ainsworth, Albers, Ballweg, Benedict, Berceau, Bies, Black, Boyle, Colon, Cullen, Davis, Fields, J. Fitzgerald, Freese, Friske, Gielow, Gottlieb, Grigsby, Gronemus, Gunderson, Gundrum, Hahn, Hebl, Hines, Honadel, Hubler, Huebsch, Hundertmark, Jeskewitz, Kaufert, Kerkman, Kessler, Kestell, Kleefisch, Krawczyk, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krusick, Lamb, F. Lasee, Lehman, LeMahieu, Loeffelholz, Lothian, McCormick, Meyer, Molepske, Montgomery, Moulton, Mursau, Musser, Nass, Nelson, Nerison, Nischke, Ott, Owens, Parisi, Petrowski, Pettis, Pocan, Pope-Roberts, Pridemore, Rhoades, Richards, Schneider, Seidel, Sheridan, Sherman, Shilling, Sinicki, Staskunas, Steinbrink, Stone, Strachota, Suder, Toles, Towns, Townsend, Travis, Turner, Underheim, Van Roy, Van Akkeren, Vos, Vruwink, Vukmir, Ward, Wasserman, Wieckert, A. Williams, M. Williams, Wood, Young, Zepnick, Ziegelbauer and Speaker Gard - 97.
Absent with leave - Representatives Jensen - 1.
Vacancies - 33rd Assembly District - 1.
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Representative Gundrum asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representative Jensen. Granted.
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Representative Gundrum asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representative M. Williams. Granted.
Representative Turner asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representatives Sheridan, Steinbrink and Van Akkeran. Granted.
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Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 594 offered by Representative Hundertmark.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 631 offered by Representative Lehman.
Assembly amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 631 offered by Representative Lehman.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 642 offered by Representative Musser.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 730 offered by Representative Lehman.
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Relating to an all-terrain vehicle registration exemption.
Submitted by Department of Natural Resources.
Report received from Agency, November 2, 2005.
To committee on Tourism.
Referred on November 9, 2005.
Relating to all-terrain vehicle noise testing procedures.
Submitted by Department of Natural Resources.
Report received from Agency, November 2, 2005.
To committee on Tourism.
Referred on November 9, 2005.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 813
Relating to: the transfer of funds from Medical Assistance to the Long-term Support Community Options Program under certain conditions.
By
Representative
Black
.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 814
Relating to: registration and reporting by principals who employ lobbyists to attempt to influence certain actions of state agencies.
By
Representative
Black
.
To committee on Campaigns and Elections
.
Assembly Bill 815
Relating to: designating a state tartan.
By
Representatives Jeskewitz, Schneider, M. Williams, Kerkman, Lothian, Cullen and Fields; cosponsored by Senators Lazich, Darling and Kanavas, by request of St. Andrew's Society of Milwaukee and Bob Seay of Menomonee Falls.
To committee on State Affairs.
Assembly Bill 816
Relating to: tax-exempt accounts for health care expenditures for an individual's parents.
By
Representatives Townsend, Krawczyk, Vos, Hahn, McCormick, Hundertmark, Gunderson, Van Roy, Petrowski, Ainsworth, Nass and Suder; cosponsored by Senators Roessler and A. Lasee.
To committee on Insurance.
Assembly Bill 817
Relating to: limiting the number of pupils who may transfer under the Open Enrollment Program.
By
Representatives Davis, Gunderson, Freese, LeMahieu, Lothian, Ainsworth and Lehman.
To committee on Education Reform
.
Assembly Bill 818
Relating to: public utility aid payments, imposing local general property taxes on production plant general structures and substations, and creating a credit against license fees imposed on light, heat, and power companies and electric cooperatives.
By
Representatives Honadel, Hahn, Albers, Gottlieb, Gronemus, Hines, Hundertmark, Jensen, Kerkman, Kreibich, Kreuser, F. Lasee, LeMahieu, McCormick, Montgomery, Nerison, Nischke, Ott, Petrowski, Sheridan, Steinbrink, Towns and Van Roy; cosponsored by Senators Plale, Leibham, Kanavas, Brown, A. Lasee and Wirch.
To committee on Energy and Utilities
.
Assembly Bill 819
Relating to: directing the University of Wisconsin Law School to require students to complete a clinical practicum.