Thursday, June 23, 2005
12:00 P.M.
Ninety-Seventh Regular Session
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Alan Lasee.
The roll was called and the following Senators answered to their names:
Senators Breske, Brown, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Reynolds, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Taylor, Wirch and Zien - 33.
Absent - None.
Absent with leave - None.
The Senate stood for a moment of silent meditation.
The Senate remained standing and Senator Robson led the Senate in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
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The Chief Clerk makes the following entries dated Wednesday, June 22, 2005.
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The committee on Senate Organization reports:
Assembly Bill 5
Relating to: health benefit purchasing cooperatives.
Rereferred to the joint committee on
Finance, pursuant to Senate Rule
41 (1)(e):
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Schultz, Lasee, Kedzie, Robson and Hansen.
Noes, 0 - None.
Withdrawn from the joint committee on
Finance and placed on the calendar of 6-23-2005, pursuant to Senate Rule
41 (1)(e):
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Schultz, Lasee, Kedzie, Robson and Hansen.
Noes, 0 - None.
Dale Schultz
Senate Majority Leader
The committee on Judiciary, Corrections and Privacy reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 56
Relating to: actions against sport shooting range owners or operators, against gun or sportsman's clubs, and against manufacturers, importers, trade associations, or dealers of firearms, firearm components, or firearm ammunition.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Zien, Roessler and Grothman.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Taylor and Risser.
David Zien
Chairperson
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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 100
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Assembly Bill
100
Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2005 legislature.
By joint committee on Finance, by request of Governor Jim Doyle.
Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 247
Relating to: considering a person's criminal record and evidence of abuse or neglect of a child when modifying custody or physical placement of a child.
By
Senators
Harsdorf, Lassa, Carpenter, A. Lasee, Reynolds, Risser, Roessler, Stepp, Zien and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Wood, Lamb, Ainsworth, Albers, J. Fitzgerald, Freese, Gard, Gunderson, Gundrum, Hines, Honadel, Jensen, Kleefisch, Krawczyk, Kreibich, Lehman, Moulton, Petrowski, Pettis, Rhoades, Strachota, Suder, Townsend, Wasserman, Gronemus, Lothian and Nass.
To committee on Health, Children, Families, Aging and Long Term Care.
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The joint committee on Finance reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 119
Relating to: funding for identification cards provided without charge by the Department of Transportation and making appropriations.
Introduction and adoption of Senate Amendment 1.
S271
Ayes,
13 - Senators
S. Fitzgerald, Lazich, Darling, Cowles, Leibham, Olsen and Decker.
Representatives Kaufert, Ward, Jensen, Stone, Rhoades and Meyer.
Noes, 3 - Senator
Taylor. Representatives Pocan and Colon.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 13 - Senators
S. Fitzgerald, Lazich, Darling, Cowles, Leibham, Olsen and Decker.
Representatives Kaufert, Ward, Jensen, Stone, Rhoades and Meyer.