Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the District 1199W/United Professionals for Quality Health Care, SEIU, AFL-CIO, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional patient care collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 580 pass?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 2; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 30.
Noes - Senators Grothman and Lazich - 2.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Passed.
Senate Bill 581
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Education Association Council, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional education collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 581 pass?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 2; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 30.
Noes - Senators Grothman and Lazich - 2.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Passed.
Senate Bill 582
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Professional Employees Council, WFT/AFT, AFL-CIO, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional fiscal and staff services collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 582 pass?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 2; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 30.
Noes - Senators Grothman and Lazich - 2.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Passed.
Senate Bill 583
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Science Professionals, AFT, Local 3732, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional science collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of fund.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 583 pass?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 2; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 30.
Noes - Senators Grothman and Lazich - 2.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Passed.
Senate Bill 584
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association, AFT/WFT, Local 2169, AFL-CIO, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the program, project, and teaching assistants of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 584 pass?
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, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kapanke, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 28.
Noes - Senators Grothman, Kanavas, Kedzie and Lazich - 4.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Passed.
Senate Bill 585
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Physicians and Dentists Association, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional patient treatment collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 585 pass?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 2; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 30.
Noes - Senators Grothman and Lazich - 2.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Senate Bill 586
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Public Defenders Association, WFT/AFT, Local 4822, AFL-CIO, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the public defenders collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 586 pass?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 2; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 30.
Noes - Senators Grothman and Lazich - 2.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Passed.
Senate Bill 587
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association, Inc., for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional legal collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 587 pass?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 2; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 30.
Noes - Senators Grothman and Lazich - 2.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Passed.
Senate Bill 588
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, AFL-CIO, and its appropriate affiliated locals, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 588 pass?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 2; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 30.
Noes - Senators Grothman and Lazich - 2.
Absent or not voting - Senator Jauch - 1.
Passed.
Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly.
Messaged.
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Senator Taylor, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of Pastor Matt Saarem of Amery in the 10th Senate District, and his son Tony, who journeyed to the capitol and Madison today to look back in history at the life of Tony's great-great-great-grandfather, Joseph Hamilton of Milwaukee. Mr. Hamilton was a member of the Assembly in 1874 and again in the 1877 session from Milwaukee's Second Ward and also was a publisher of the old Milwaukee Daily Journal. Pastor Matt serves at Balsam Evangelical Lutheran Church in Amery. He and Tony spent the morning in the archives at the Historical Society gleaning information on their ancestor.
Senator Wirch, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of Richard Lindgren a long-time County Board Supervisor and County Clerk in Kenosha County who recently passed away three days shy of his 100th birthday. Mr. Lindgren was a kind and generous man. We will miss him.
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of the Legislative Audit Bureau. “Wisconsin's Legislative Audit Bureau remains among the most important and credible audit shops in the country. Not only has the office proved itself willing to go after the hot-button news items of the day, it has managed to direct the legislature's attention to crucial management deficiencies." (Governing, March 2008.)
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of Dean Thomas of Dodgeville. Dean was a friend and community leader. He was a World War II veteran and businessman for 40 years. Dean was somebody who in every way exemplified what a leader should be. He was a good friend and all of us in Southwestern Wisconsin will miss him.
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of Moni Rohr.
