Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Ninety-Ninth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 269 offered by Senators Sullivan and Taylor.
Senate amendment 2 to Senate Bill 337 offered by Senator Coggs.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 540
Relating to: political disbursements by corporations and cooperative associations and the scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law.
By
Senators
Wirch, Lassa, Coggs, Lehman and Miller; cosponsored by Representatives Black, Pope-Roberts, Turner, Steinbrink, Kessler, Cullen and Berceau.
To committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs.
Senate Bill 541
Relating to: providing public notice of a sale of personal property or real estate on execution.
By
Senators
Risser, Taylor and Coggs; cosponsored by Representatives Hraychuck, Turner, Berceau, Molepske Jr., Smith, Sinicki and Brooks.
To committee on Judiciary, Corrections, Insurance, Campaign Finance Reform, and Housing.
Senate Bill 542
Relating to: encouraging the purchase of food produced in this state, creating goals and a preference in state procurement for food produced in this state, and creating a council.
By
Senators
Wirch, Lassa, Schultz and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Garthwaite, Danou, Berceau, Black, Clark, Hilgenberg, Jorgensen, Mason, Molepske Jr., Steinbrink, Turner, Vruwink, Young and Pope-Roberts.
To committee on Agriculture and Higher Education.
Senate Bill 543
Relating to: registration plates for certain disabled veterans.
By
Senators
Plale, Wirch, Taylor, Lehman, Kedzie, Darling and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives Sinicki, Turner, A. Williams, Berceau, Zigmunt, Ziegelbauer, Hraychuck, Bies, Lothian and Pridemore.
To committee on Transportation, Tourism, Forestry, and Natural Resources.
Senate Bill 544
Relating to: equalizing physical placement to the highest degree, requiring the court to state the reasons for ordering sole legal custody or not equalizing physical placement, and standards for modifying legal custody or physical placement.
By
Senator
Plale
; cosponsored by Representatives Schneider, Pridemore, Van Akkeren and Gunderson.
To committee on Judiciary, Corrections, Insurance, Campaign Finance Reform, and Housing.
Senate Bill 545
Relating to: payment by the Department of Transportation of the costs of relocating utilities beneath or adjacent to a highway in the village of Sauk City.
By
Senators
Schultz and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Hilgenberg and Clark.
To committee on Transportation, Tourism, Forestry, and Natural Resources.
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Senate Bill 452
Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities.
By Senators
Kreitlow, Taylor, Wirch, Lassa, Olsen, Lehman and Grothman; cosponsored by Representatives Dexter, Sinicki, Pope-Roberts, Berceau, Suder, Clark, A. Ott, Ziegelbauer and Ripp.
To committee on
Health, Health Insurance, Privacy, Property Tax Relief, and Revenue, pursuant to
Senate Rule
36(2m).
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The committee on Economic Development reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 461
Relating to: an income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1.
Ayes, 7 - Senators
Lassa, Lehman, Vinehout, Kreitlow, Kanavas, Darling and Leibham.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 7 - Senators
Lassa, Lehman, Vinehout, Kreitlow, Kanavas, Darling and Leibham.
Julie Lassa
Chairperson
The committee on Small Business, Emergency Preparedness, Technical Colleges, and Consumer Protection reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 261
Relating to: soliciting purchases of goods or services using unsolicited checks or money orders and providing a penalty.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Plale, Holperin and Lazich.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Hopper.
Assembly Bill 509
Relating to: exempting certain capital expenditures made by a technical college district from the requirement for a referendum.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Wirch, Plale and Holperin.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Hopper and Lazich.
Senate Bill 504
Relating to: professional employer organizations.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Wirch, Plale, Holperin, Hopper and Lazich.