Senator Grothman, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate
Bill 61
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 75
Relating to: prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from establishing certain restrictions on hunting antlered deer and regulating the establishment of fall open seasons for hunting deer with firearms.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Grothman, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate
Bill 75
Read a third time and passed.
Senator Miller, with unanimous consent, asked that he be recorded as voting "no" on the question of final passage of Senate Bill 75.
Senate Bill 81
Relating to: eligibility of hydroelectric resources under the renewable portfolio standard.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Grothman, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate
Bill 81
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Senate Bill 81 be passed?
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 21; noes, 11; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators S. Coggs, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Galloway, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Holperin, Hopper, Kapanke, Kedzie, Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Moulton, Olsen, Vukmir, Wanggaard, Wirch and Zipperer - 21.
Noes - Senators Carpenter, Cowles, T. Cullen, Erpenbach, Jauch, C. Larson, Miller, Risser, Schultz, Taylor and Vinehout - 11.
Absent or not voting - Senator Lassa - 1.
Passed.
Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly:
Senate Bill 18
Senate Bill 28
Senate Bill 41
Senate Bill 42
Senate Bill 54
Senate Bill 61
Senate Bill 75
Senate Bill 81
Messaged.
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Senator S. Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that that Assembly Bill 7 be placed at the foot of today's calendar and that Assembly Bill 23 be withdrawn and taken up at this time.
Assembly Bill 23
Relating to: disinfection of municipal water supplies.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator S. Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 23
Read a third time.
The question was: Shall Assembly Bill
23 be concurred in?
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 21; noes, 11; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Galloway, Grothman, Harsdorf, Holperin, Hopper, Jauch, Kapanke, Kedzie, Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Moulton, Olsen, Schultz, Vukmir, Wanggaard and Zipperer - 21.
Noes - Senators Carpenter, S. Coggs, T. Cullen, Erpenbach, Hansen, C. Larson, Miller, Risser, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 11.
Absent or not voting - Senator Lassa - 1.
Concurred in.
Senator S. Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Joint Resolution 3 and Assembly Joint Resolution 40 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up at this time.
Assembly Joint Resolution 3
Read.
Relating to: commending the Stars of Life honorees.
The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 3 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Assembly Joint Resolution 40
Relating to: proclaiming May 2011 as Mental Health Awareness Month.
Read.
The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 40 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly:
Assembly Joint Resolution
3
Assembly Joint Resolution
40
Assembly Bill 23
Messaged.
Senator S. Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess.
1:40 P.M.
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3:24 P.M.
The Senate reconvened.
President Ellis in the chair.
Assembly Bill 7
Relating to: requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Read a second time.
Senate substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 7 offered by Senators Hansen, Holperin, Wirch, Miller, Risser, S. Coggs, Carpenter, T. Cullen, Taylor, Erpenbach, Jauch and Vinehout.
The Senate stood informal.
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Pursuant to Senate Rule
2 (1), Senator Kedzie in the chair.
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Senator Erpenbach moved a call of the Senate.
There were sufficient seconds.
The Sergeant was ordered to close the doors.
The roll was called and the following Senators were listed as absent:
