Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Ninety-Ninth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date:
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Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 496 offered by Representative Barca.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 645
Relating to: the threshold for registration and reporting by groups and individuals seeking to influence referendum results.
By
committee on Elections and Campaign Reform, by request of Government Accountability Board
.
To committee on Elections and Campaign Reform
.
Assembly Bill 646
Relating to: the period for retention of certain election materials in state and local elections.
By
committee on Elections and Campaign Reform, by request of Government Accountability Board
.
To committee on Elections and Campaign Reform
.
Assembly Bill 647
Relating to: miscellaneous modifications to the condominium laws.
By
Representatives Hebl, Turner, Pocan and Bies; cosponsored by Senator Risser
.
To committee on Housing.
Assembly Bill 648
Relating to: adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes.
By
Representatives Molepske Jr., Dexter, Hilgenberg, Zigmunt, Pasch, Petersen, Turner, Ziegelbauer, Black, Kerkman, Hebl, Steinbrink, Clark, Bernard Schaber, Barca, Staskunas, Roys, Pope-Roberts, Zepnick, Strachota, Lothian, Bies, Fields, Gunderson and Vos; cosponsored by Senators Sullivan, Lassa, Holperin, Wirch, Kreitlow, Lehman, Leibham, Plale, Schultz, Miller, Darling, Vinehout and Taylor.
To committee on Jobs, the Economy and Small Business.
Assembly Bill 649
Relating to: goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.
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By
Representatives Black and Soletski; cosponsored by Senators Miller and Plale, by request of Governor James E. Doyle.
To special committee on Clean Energy Jobs
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Assembly Bill 650
Relating to: person under age 18 playing bingo.
By
Representatives Vruwink, Hubler, Zepnick and Schneider; cosponsored by Senators Plale, Taylor and Grothman.
To committee on State Affairs and Homeland Security
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Speaker's Communications
January 6, 2010
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
Pursuant to Assembly Rule
10, I hereby create the Special Assembly Committee on Clean Energy Jobs to be co-chaired by Representative Spencer Black and Representative Jim Soletski.
This special committee will have all of the powers, duties and authority of a standing committee. This special committee shall cease to exist upon making its final recommendation on Assembly Bill 649/LRB-4076.
This special committee will consist of ten members, seven of which I will appoint and three of which the minority leader will nominate. These members will be named shortly.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Sheridan
Assembly Speaker
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Communications
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Reference Bureau
Madison
DATE: December 29, 2009
TO: Patrick E. Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
Robert Marchant
Senate Chief Clerk
FROM: Bruce J. Hoesly
Code Editor
SUBJECT: Rules published in the December 31, 2009
Wisconsin Administrative
Register, No. 648.
The following rules have been published:
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January 6, 2010
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
Please remove my name as a co-sponsor of Assembly Bill 643, relating to waiving certain federal bond limitations allocated to cities and counties and requiring the Department of Commerce to develop a system for reallocating the bond limitations to other state and local units of government.
Sincerely,
Alberta Darling
State Senator
8th Senate District
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee
December 28, 2009
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Enclosed please find the Medical College of Wisconsin's (MCW) annual report for the Breast Cancer Research Program funded through the income tax check-off created by 2003 Wisconsin ACT 176. The document represents the annual report highlighting the fiscal reporting period of July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the report, please contact me at (414) 955-8217.
Sincerely,
Kathryn A. Kuhn
Associate Vice President of Government Affairs
Referred to committee on Public Health.