Assembly Bill 410
Relating to: legislative committee review period of administrative rules and revisor consent regarding technical standards in rules.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 410
Read a third time and concurred in.
Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Bill 875 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up.
Assembly Bill 875
Relating to: certification of major party nominees for the offices of president and vice president in 2008.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 875
Read a third time and concurred in.
Senator Breske, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess.
5:48 P.M.
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6:45 P.M.
The Senate reconvened.
President Risser in the chair.
Senator Hansen moved that the rules be suspended and that Senate Bill 5 be withdrawn from the committee on Ethics Reform and Government Operations and taken up.
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The question was: Shall the rules be suspended and
Senate Bill 5 be withdrawn from the committee on
Ethics Reform and Government Operations and taken up?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 28; noes, 4; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Lehman, Leibham, Olsen, Plale, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 28.
Noes - Senators Jauch, Miller, Risser and Robson - 4.
Absent or not voting - Senator Ellis - 1.
Rules suspended and taken up.
Senate Bill 5
Relating to: elimination of accumulated sick leave credit program for legislators, justices and judges, all other state elected officials, and certain appointed executive branch officials.
Read a second time.
Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill 5 offered by Senator Erpenbach.
Senator Erpenbach, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill
5 be withdrawn and returned to author.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 5 be ordered engrossed and read a third time?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 29; noes, 3; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Lehman, Leibham, Olsen, Plale, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 29.
Noes - Senators Jauch, Miller and Risser - 3.
Absent or not voting - Senator Ellis - 1.
Ordered to a third reading.
POINT OF ORDER
Senator Miller raised the point of order that Senate Bill 5 was not properly before the Senate because it is required to be referred to the joint committee on Finance.
The Chair took the point of order under advisement.
Senator Kapanke asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill
854 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up.
Senator Miller objected.
Senator Kapanke moved that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill 854 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up at this time.
The question was: Shall the rules be suspended and Assembly Bill 854 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up at this time?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 14; noes, 18; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Cowles, Darling, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Olsen, Roessler and Schultz - 14.
Noes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Kreitlow, Lassa, Lehman, Miller, Plale, Risser, Robson, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 18.
Absent or not voting - Senator Ellis - 1.
Refused to suspend rules and take up.
Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly.
Messaged.
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Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn until Thursday, March 13, 2008.
Senator Fitzgerald objected.
Senator Decker moved that the Senate adjourn until Thursday, March 13, 2008.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 19; noes, 13; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Miller, Plale, Risser, Robson, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch
- 19.
Noes - Senators Cowles, Darling, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Lazich, Leibham, Olsen, Roessler and Schultz
- 13.
Absent or not voting - Senator Ellis - 1.
Adjourned.
7:16 P.M.