Adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Tim Carpenter
Chairperson
The committee on Senate Organization reports:
The following bills were referred to the joint committee on
Finance, pursuant to Senate Rule
41 (1)(e):
Senate Bill 425
Relating to: a meat processing facility investment income and franchise tax credit, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Senate Bill 459
Relating to: allowing dairy cooperatives to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit and making an appropriation.
Senate Bill 516
Relating to: providing financial aid at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Assembly Bill 262
Relating to: requirements to successfully complete training on use of an automated external defibrillator, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
The following bills were referred to, and withdrawn from, the joint committee on
Finance and made Available for Scheduling, pursuant to Senate Rule
41 (1)(e):
Senate Bill 142
Relating to: requirements to successfully complete training on use of an automated external defibrillator, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Senate Bill 358
Relating to: authorizing a school board to construct or acquire a renewable resource facility.
Senate Bill 418
Relating to: appellate time limits and procedure.
Senate Bill 419
Relating to: appellate procedure.
Senate Bill 473
Relating to: regulating the purchase and sale of scrap metal and other metal items, the determination of property value of scrap metal for a theft conviction, creating a civil cause of action regarding scrap metal, and providing a penalty.
Senate Bill 509
Relating to: driver education instruction and driver's license examinations.
Senate Bill 513
Relating to: increasing the fee for a snowmobile trail use sticker.
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Senate President
February 26
, 2008
The Honorable, the Senate:
Pursuant to Senate Rule
46 (2)(c), I am writing to inform you that I have directed the following proposal(s) to be withdrawn from committee and rereferred. I have obtained the consent of the appropriate standing committee chairperson and the chairperson of the committee on
Senate Organization.
Senate Bill
453
withdrawn from committee on Economic Development and rereferred to committee on Small Business, Emergency Preparedness, Workforce Development, Technical Colleges and Consumer Protection
.
Sincerely,
FRED A. RISSER
Senate President
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Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Roessler added as a coauthor of
Senate Joint Resolution 90
.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor of
Senate Bill
292
.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor of
Senate Bill
407
.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator A. Lasee added as a coauthor of
Senate Bill
124
.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Wirch added as a coauthor of
Senate Bill
292
.
Pursuant to Senate Rule
17 (5),
Senator Roessler withdrawn as a coauthor of
Senate Bill 537.
Pursuant to Senate Rule
17 (5),
Representative Strachota withdrawn as a cosponsor of
Senate Bill 499.
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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 377
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Assembly Bill
377
Relating to: requiring a hospital to provide to a sexual assault victim information and, upon her request, emergency contraception and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Musser, Pocan, Wood, Kaufert, Richards, Hilgenberg, Hintz, Molepske, Wasserman, Kreuser, Hebl, Soletski, Toles, Benedict, Berceau, Black, Boyle, Grigsby, Hraychuck, Kessler, Parisi, Pope-Roberts, Seidel, Sheridan, Sherman, Shilling, Sinicki, Smith, Travis, Turner, Vruwink, Young and Zepnick; cosponsored by Senators Robson, Taylor, Miller, Plale, Risser, Erpenbach, Lehman, Wirch, Hansen, Jauch, Carpenter, Kreitlow, Coggs, Lassa and Sullivan.
Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization.
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Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that all appointments except Jack Fischer, be taken up en masse.
Kuehl, Bruce,
of Menomonie, as a member of the Marriage and Family Therapy Professional Counseling and Social Work Examining Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2011.
Pike
, Mary,
of Madison, as a member of the Nursing Home Administrator Examining Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2011.
Read.
The question was: Confirmation?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 33; noes, 0; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 33.
Noes - None.
Absent or not voting - None.
Confirmed.
Fischer, Jack,
of Appleton, as Secretary of the Department of Commerce, to serve for the term ending at the pleasure of the Governor.
Read.
The question was: Confirmation?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 33; noes, 0; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 33.
Noes - None.
Absent or not voting - None.
Confirmed.
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Senate Resolution 9
Relating to: urging Congress and the President to enact the Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act.
Adopted.
Senate Joint Resolution 90
Relating to: commending students, faculty, and staff of the University of Wisconsin System campuses on Undergraduate Research Day.
Adopted.