Alan Lasee
Chairperson
The committee on Energy, Utilities and Information Technology reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 748
Relating to: discharging a firearm in the direction of an electric transmission facility and providing a penalty.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Cowles, Kapanke, Plale, Wirch and Kedzie.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 459
Relating to: administration and funding of programs for utility public benefits; renewable energy requirements for utilities and retail electric cooperatives; energy efficiency requirements for state construction; revising and reviewing the state energy conservation code; state use of renewable energy resources; anaerobic digestor research; and granting rule-making authority.
Introduction and adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Cowles, Kapanke, Plale, Wirch and Kedzie.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Cowles, Kapanke, Plale, Wirch and Kedzie.
Noes, 0 - None.
Robert Cowles
Chairperson
The committee on Natural Resources and Transportation reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 448
Relating to: allowing school buses to tow trailers.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 581
Relating to: licensing, vehicle identification, and record-keeping requirements for wholesale fish dealers and commercial fishers, inspections of wholesale fish dealer and commercial fisher records and premises, commercial fishing boats, periods when a commercial fisher may fish on the waters of Green Bay, the sale and purchase of eggs from certain trout and salmon, commercial fishing approval fees, seizure of certain fishing devices, access to places used to store or retain wild animals, establishing a commercial fish reporting system, imposing certain surcharges, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, making an appropriation, and providing penalties.
Concurrence.
S602
Ayes,
5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Raaths
, William,
of Menasha, as a member of the Fox River Navigational System Authority, for the term ending July 1, 2008.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Stark
, Robert,
of Appleton, as a member of the Fox River Navigational System Authority, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2008.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 374
Relating to: designating the bridge on STH 141 in the town of Lena in Oconto County as the Nichole M. Frye Memorial Bridge.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 467
Relating to: well drilling, pump installing, well inspection and abandonment, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Introduction and adoption of Senate Amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 469
Relating to: the conveyance of certain submerged lands to Brown County.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 499
Relating to: recording and filing transportation project plats.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 546
Relating to: identification and cleanup of properties that are environmentally contaminated; properties with residual contamination; modifying the environmental remediation tax incremental financing program; exempting local governmental units from solid waste management standards with respect to certain properties; the liability of certain persons for environmental contamination on property on which a cleanup has been conducted; and granting rule-making authority.
Adoption of Senate Amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Neal Kedzie
Chairperson
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The committee on Natural Resources and Transportation reports and recommends:
Relating to deer hunting season and permit issuance regulation changes.
Modifications requested, Ayes 5, Noes 0.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Relating to deer hunting season and permit issuance regulation changes.
Modifications requested, Ayes 4, Noes 0.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Kedzie, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
relating to deer hunting season and permit issuance regulation changes.
Report objection in part recommended, Ayes 5, Noes 0.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Kedzie, Stepp, Kapanke, Wirch and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Neal Kedzie
Chairperson