Assembly Bill 476
Relating to: county and municipal canvassing procedures, provisional ballot information, the deadline for filing a recount petition, terms of town officers, the date of the annual town meeting, and technical revisions to certain election laws.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 4 - Representatives Tauchen, Stone, Pridemore and Weininger.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Roys and Zamarripa.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 4 - Representatives Tauchen, Stone, Pridemore and Weininger.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Roys and Zamarripa.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 506
Relating to: requiring the county clerk to organize the first election of officers following the incorporation of a city or village.
Passage:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Tauchen, Stone, Pridemore, Weininger, Roys and Zamarripa.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Chairperson
Committee on Election and Campaign Reform
The committee on Financial Institutions reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 493
Relating to: the procedure for the administrative dissolution of corporations.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Kramer, Kooyenga, Kaufert, Kerkman, Marklein, Tranel, Craig, Stroebel, Fields, Zepnick, Young, Hintz and Richards.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Kramer, Kooyenga, Kaufert, Kerkman, Marklein, Tranel, Craig, Stroebel, Fields, Zepnick, Young, Hintz and Richards.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 307
Relating to: foreclosure on abandoned properties.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Kramer, Kooyenga, Kaufert, Kerkman, Marklein, Tranel, Craig, Stroebel, Fields, Zepnick, Young, Hintz and Richards.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 356
Relating to: the authority of credit unions to make donations and grants.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Kramer, Kooyenga, Kaufert, Kerkman, Marklein, Tranel, Craig, Stroebel, Fields, Zepnick, Young, Hintz and Richards.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Bill Kramer
Chairperson
Committee on Financial Institutions
The committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 418
Relating to: agreements to locate unclaimed property reported to the state treasurer.
Passage:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Van Roy, Kuglitsch, Ballweg, August, Kooyenga, Danou, Zamarripa and Bewley.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 419
Relating to: interest due on property determined to be abandoned and due to be paid or delivered to the state treasurer.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Van Roy, Kuglitsch, Ballweg, August, Kooyenga, Danou, Zamarripa and Bewley.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Van Roy, Kuglitsch, Ballweg, August, Kooyenga, Danou, Zamarripa and Bewley.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Karl Van Roy
Chairperson
Committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs
The committee on Labor and Workforce Development reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 450
Relating to: participation in certain training by unemployment insurance claimants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Ballweg, Kapenga, Nass, Kuglitsch, Litjens, Sinicki, Toles and C. Taylor.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Ballweg, Kapenga, Nass, Kuglitsch, Litjens, Sinicki, Toles and C. Taylor.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 153
Relating to: permitting governmental employers who are not participating employers in the Wisconsin Retirement System to be covered in the local government health insurance plan offered by the group insurance board.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Ballweg, Kapenga, Nass, Kuglitsch, Litjens, Sinicki, Toles and C. Taylor.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Joan Ballweg
Chairperson
Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
Speaker's Communications
DATE: February 13, 2012
TO: Patrick E. Fuller, Assembly Chief Clerk
FROM: Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald
RE: Appointment to Joint Committee on Finance
Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald has confirmed, and hereby appointed, Representative Peter Barca's nomination of Representative Jon Richards to temporarily serve on the Joint Committee on Finance. Representative Richards will fulfill this duty until Representative Tamara Grigsby is able to make a full medical recovery.
