Thursday, March 15, 2012
10:06 A.M.
One-Hundredth Regular Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Speaker Fitzgerald in the chair.
Representative Suder asked unanimous consent for a quorum call. Granted.
A quorum was present.
The prayer was offered by Representative Ballweg.
Representative Meyer led the membership in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Present - Representatives August, Ballweg, Barca, Berceau, Bernard Schaber, Bernier, Bewley, Bies, Billings, Brooks, Clark, E. Coggs, Craig, D. Cullen, Danou, Doyle, Endsley, Farrow, Hebl, Hintz, Honadel, Hulsey, Jacque, Jorgensen, Kapenga, Kaufert, Kerkman, Kessler, Kestell, Kleefisch, Klenke, Knilans, Knodl, Knudson, Kooyenga, Kramer, Krug, Krusick, Kuglitsch, T. Larson, LeMahieu, Litjens, Loudenbeck, Marklein, Mason, Meyer, Milroy, Molepske Jr, Mursau, Nass, Nerison, Nygren, A. Ott, J. Ott, Pasch, Petersen, Petrowski, Petryk, Pocan, Pope-Roberts, Pridemore, Radcliffe, Richards, Ringhand, Ripp, Rivard, Roys, Seidel, Severson, Sinicki, Spanbauer, Staskunas, Steineke, Stone, Strachota, Stroebel, Suder, Tauchen, C. Taylor, Thiesfeldt, Tiffany, Toles, Tranel, Turner, Van Roy, Vos, Vruwink, Weininger, Williams, Wynn, Young, Zamarripa, Zepnick, Ziegelbauer and Speaker Fitzgerald - 95.
Absent with leave - Representatives Fields, Grigsby, Murtha and Steinbrink - 4.
Vacancies - None.
Speaker Pro Tempore Kramer in the chair.
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Representative Ballweg asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representative Murtha. Granted.
Representative Clark asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representatives Fields, Grigsby and Steinbrink. Granted.
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Representative Ballweg asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for part of today's session for Representatives Klenke, Krug, Tranel, Williams and Ziegelbauer. Granted.
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Assembly amendment 3 to Assembly Bill 371 offered by Representative Sinicki.
Assembly amendment 3 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 561 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 4 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 561 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 5 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 561 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 6 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 561 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 7 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 561 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 466 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 2 to Senate Bill 466 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 3 to Senate Bill 466 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 4 to Senate Bill 466 offered by Representative Hebl.
Assembly amendment 5 to Senate Bill 466 offered by Representative Hebl.
Read first time and referred:
Assembly Joint Resolution 135
Relating to: religious liberty and the right of conscience (first consideration).
By
Representatives Craig and Jacque; cosponsored by Senator Leibham
.
To committee on Judiciary and Ethics
.
Assembly Joint Resolution 136
Relating to: limiting the number of years of service permitted for members of the state legislature (first consideration).
By
Representative
Rivard
.
To committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs
.
Assembly Joint Resolution 137
Relating to: participation in the legislative and electoral process, the right to vote, the right to an impartial judiciary, the right of privacy, the right to a quality education, the right to health care services, voting rights for certain felons, uniform voting procedures, mandatory recounting of ballots, the procedure for legislative redistricting and congressional reapportionment, the establishment of a state governmental accountability board, administration of election laws, ethics laws, and lobbying laws, public access to the capitol, requiring the legislature to enact laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to meetings of governmental bodies, including the legislature, and making members of the legislature subject to citations and civil penalties for violations of such laws, petition and referendum by the people to reject acts of the legislature, open meetings of the supreme court, public funding of supreme court election campaigns, graduated and progressive taxation of individuals, the right to a clean, healthy environment, safe drinking water, and clean air, establishment of a board and a department of natural resources and the appointment of the secretary of natural resources, independence of the superintendent of public instruction, the authority of the superintendent of public instruction to require minimum staffing levels and minimum funding levels for public schools, appropriating public funds to support sectarian schools, treatment of corporations as natural persons, and the right of workers to organize and collectively bargain (first consideration).
By
Representatives C. Taylor and E. Coggs.
To committee on Assembly Organization
.
Assembly Joint Resolution 138
Relating to: elimination of restrictions on marriage (first consideration).
By
Representative
Roys
.
To committee on Assembly Organization
.
Assembly Bill 698
Relating to: limitations on the use of an occupational license.
By
Representative
Van Roy
.
To committee on Transportation.
