To committee on Tourism, Recreation and State Properties.
Referred on February 15, 2010.
Relating to waiver of school hours.
Submitted by Department of Public Instruction.
Report received from Agency, February 12, 2010.
To committee on Education.
Referred on February 15, 2010.
__________________
Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 749
Relating to: an income and franchise tax credit for equipment used to harvest or process woody biomass.
By
Representatives Clark, Friske, Milroy, Zigmunt, Radcliffe, Molepske Jr., Hraychuck, Smith, Soletski, Hilgenberg, Hixson, Fields, Sinicki, Mursau, Townsend, Meyer, Petrowski, Suder, M. Williams, Ballweg and Nerison; cosponsored by Senators Holperin, Kreitlow, Taylor and A. Lasee.
To committee on Forestry.
Assembly Bill 750
Relating to: mandatory testing of prison inmates upon release for HIV or sexually transmitted diseases.
By
Representatives Toles, Kessler and Staskunas.
To committee on Corrections and the Courts
.
Assembly Bill 751
Relating to: entering into an agreement among the states to elect the president of the United States by means of a national popular vote.
By
Representatives Roys, Kaufert, Berceau, Black, Newcomer, Clark, Dexter, Fields, Grigsby, Pocan, Sinicki, Toles, A. Williams, Zepnick and A. Ott; cosponsored by Senators Risser and Wirch.
To committee on Elections and Campaign Reform
.
Assembly Bill 752
Relating to: members of the Board of Veterans Affairs and granting rule-making authority.
By
Representatives Sinicki, Gottlieb, Hilgenberg, Hubler, Petersen, Townsend, Clark, Honadel, Zigmunt, Stone, Shilling, Gunderson, Pasch, Lothian, Soletski, Nygren, Fields, Roth, Grigsby, Van Roy, A. Williams, A. Ott, Richards, Bies, Jorgensen, Spanbauer, Berceau, Brooks, Hixson, Kleefisch, Kaufert, Montgomery and Nass; cosponsored by Senators Lehman, Cowles, Leibham, Kanavas, Plale, Kedzie, Taylor, Schultz, Olsen, Grothman and Darling.
To committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
.
Assembly Bill 753
A651
Relating to: providing information to a firearms dealer when purchasing a handgun, authorizing the Department of Justice to prosecute violations of certain laws regulating firearms, receiving a stolen firearm, and providing penalties.
By
Representatives Hraychuck, Gunderson, Staskunas, LeMahieu, Kestell, Berceau, Zigmunt, Turner, Petersen, Smith, A. Ott, Mursau, Townsend, Brooks, Knodl, Ballweg, Gottlieb and Benedict; cosponsored by Senators Carpenter, Vinehout, Olsen, Cowles and Lassa.
To committee on Criminal Justice
.
__________________
The committee on Housing reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 543
Relating to: barring landlords from requiring certain payments and from making certain claims against estates.
Passage:
Ayes: 4 - Representatives Young, A. Williams, Turner and Pasch.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Roth, Newcomer and Murtha.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 87
Relating to: increasing the maximum annual loan amount under the property tax deferral loan program of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Young, A. Williams, Turner, Pasch, Roth, Newcomer and Murtha.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Leon Young
Chairperson
Committee on Housing
__________________
Speaker's Communications
February 15, 2010
Representative Joe Parisi
Co-Chair, Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties
Room 126 North, State Capitol
Madison, WI 53708
Dear Representative Parisi,
I am writing in my capacity as Assembly Speaker to request that the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties prepare a report under Wisconsin Statute 13.525 (5)(b) on Assembly Bill 753, which creates a new crime or revises an existing criminal penalty.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Sheridan
Assembly Speaker
