Thursday, October 11, 2007
3:45 P.M.
Ninety‐Eighth Regular Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Representative Ballweg in the chair.
The Assembly dispensed with the call of the roll.
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Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 51 offered by Representative Friske.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 503 offered by Representative Zipperer.
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Relating to benefits covered by the Wisconsin medical assistance program, and affecting small businesses.
Submitted by Department of Health and Family Services.
Report received from Agency, October 5, 2007.
To committee on Health and Healthcare Reform
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Referred on October 11, 2007.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 531
Relating to: the frequency of wage payments to volunteer fire fighters and emergency medical technicians.
By
Representatives Parisi, Gunderson, A. Williams, Musser, Jorgensen, Bies, Boyle, Davis, Nygren, Albers and Smith; cosponsored by Senators Miller, Risser, Lassa, Schultz, Roessler and Kedzie.
To committee on Homeland Security and State Preparedness.
Assembly Bill 532
Relating to: restrictions relating to soil testing and the installation, design, maintenance, repair, and sale of private sewage systems and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Gunderson, Musser, Berceau, Hahn, LeMahieu, Mursau, A. Ott and Turner; cosponsored by Senators Miller, Cowles, Lassa, Lazich, Lehman, Olsen and Schultz.
To committee on Natural Resources
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The committee on Corrections and Courts reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 216
Relating to: community service work option for certain defendants.
Passage:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Bies, Kaufert, Owens, LeMahieu, Parisi, Pocan, Wasserman and Pope-Roberts.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 248
Relating to: powers and duties of part-time court commissioners.
Passage:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Bies, Kaufert, Owens, LeMahieu, Parisi, Pocan, Wasserman and Pope-Roberts.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Garey Bies
Chairperson
Committee on Corrections and Courts
The committee on Natural Resources reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 454
Relating to: issuance by the Department of Natural Resources of federal hunting, fishing, and trapping approvals.
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Gunderson, J. Ott, Bies, LeMahieu, M. Williams, Moulton, Nerison, Mursau, Black, Molepske, Steinbrink, Hraychuck and Hebl.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Scott Gunderson
Chairperson
Committee on Natural Resources
The committee on Urban and Local Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 420
Relating to: exempting a city, town, village, or school district from the county library tax.
Passage:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Gottlieb, LeMahieu, Gunderson, Lothian, Pridemore, Berceau, Turner, Hintz and Parisi.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Mark Gottlieb
Chairperson
Committee on Urban and Local Affairs
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Reference Bureau Corrections
Assembly Bill 515
1. Page 4, line 11: delete “the".
2.. Page 8, line 6: before “retail" insert “
a".
3. Page 8, line 11: before “amended" insert “and".
4. Page 11, line 22: substitute “means" for “are".
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Office of State Employment Relations
Madison
September 26, 2007
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
I am pleased to forward the Fiscal Year 2007 report on employment of customers of the Wisconsin Works (W‐2) program. Included in this report are the number of W‐2 job seekers employed by each state agency and the classification of each position filled from July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007. Of the 2576 new hires to state employment, 153, or 5.9 percent were W‐2 hires. This exceeds the state's hiring goal of 2.5 percent.
