Passage:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 486
Relating to: requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in making reasonable efforts to place a child in a permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring notice to relatives when a child is removed from the home; requiring reasonable efforts to place siblings together or to provide for visitation between siblings; requiring agencies to assist children in developing a plan for transition to independent living; requiring health care providers to report cases of infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings; specifying certain placements for purposes of calculating how long a child has been placed outside the home for purposes of filing a termination of parental rights petition; and permitting disclosure of information to a relative of a child for purposes of facilitating placement of the child with the relative or to a public or private agency in this state or any other state for purposes of investigating a proposed foster or adoptive placement.
Assembly Amendment 2 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 510
Relating to: the monthly rates that are paid for foster care; the levels of care that a foster home may provide; licensing of kinship care relatives to operate foster homes and, subject to certain exceptions, time limits on the receipt of kinship care payments; and licensing of foster homes across county lines.
Assembly amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Grigsby, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Sinicki, Berceau, Kestell, Pridemore and Spanbauer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Tamara Grigsby
Chairperson
Committee on Children and Families
The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 458
Relating to: providing instruction in human growth and development.
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Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Pope-Roberts, Dexter, Hilgenberg, Sinicki, Hixson, Smith, Krusick, Radcliffe, Davis, Nass, Townsend, Vukmir and Nygren.
Noes: 0.
Assembly Amendment 2 adoption:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Pope-Roberts, Dexter, Hilgenberg, Sinicki, Hixson, Smith, Krusick, Radcliffe, Davis, Nass, Townsend, Vukmir and Nygren.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Pope-Roberts, Dexter, Hilgenberg, Sinicki, Hixson, Smith, Krusick and Radcliffe.
Noes: 5 - Representatives Davis, Nass, Townsend, Vukmir and Nygren.
To committee on Rules.
Sondy Pope-Roberts
Chairperson
Committee on Education
The joint committee on Finance reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 159
Relating to: the charge-back of refunded or rescinded taxes and of personal property taxes and sharing certain collected taxes.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption:
Ayes: 16 - Representatives Pocan, Colon, Mason, Shilling, Sherman, Grigsby, Vos and Montgomery; Senators Miller, Hansen, Taylor, Lehman, Robson, Lassa, Darling and Olsen.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 16 - Representatives Pocan, Colon, Mason, Shilling, Sherman, Grigsby, Vos and Montgomery; Senators Miller, Hansen, Taylor, Lehman, Robson, Lassa, Darling and Olsen.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 267
Relating to: licenses and limited X-ray machine operator permits to engage in the practice of radiography, creating a radiography examining board, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Passage:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Pocan, Colon, Mason, Shilling, Sherman, Grigsby and Montgomery; Senators Miller, Hansen, Taylor, Lehman, Robson, Lassa, Darling and Olsen.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Vos.
To committee on Rules.
Mark Pocan
Assembly Chairperson
Joint Committee on Finance
The committee on Jobs, the Economy and Small Business reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 449
Relating to: a sales tax exemption for fuel used for commercial fishing.
Passage:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Molepske Jr., Bernard Schaber, Fields, Hintz, Barca, Krusick, Benedict, Toles, Zipperer, Friske, M. Williams and Strachota.
Noes: 0.
Louis Molepske Jr
Chairperson
Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Small Business
The committee on Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 382
Relating to: fishing licenses issued to disabled veterans.
Passage:
Ayes: 10 - Representatives Hilgenberg, Schneider, Turner, Hubler, Sinicki, Milroy, Petersen, Petrowski, Townsend and Meyer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Steve Hilgenberg
Chairperson
Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
The committee on Workforce Development reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 266
Relating to: the provision of support services information to employees who are affected by a business closing or mass layoff and providing a penalty.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Toles, Hintz, Seidel, Hixson, Kestell, Honadel and Tauchen.
