Ayes, 4 - Senators
Galloway, Lazich, Carpenter and Shilling.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Vukmir.
Senate Bill 297
Relating to: eliminating ambulatory surgical center assessment.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Galloway, Lazich, Vukmir, Carpenter and Shilling.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 302
Relating to: increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Galloway, Lazich, Vukmir, Carpenter and Shilling.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 321
Relating to: limiting the number of individual income tax checkoffs and combining the breast cancer and prostate cancer checkoffs into a checkoff for cancer research.
Passage.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Galloway, Lazich and Vukmir.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Carpenter and Shilling.
Senate Bill 377
Relating to: changing terminology for those with an intellectual disability.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Galloway, Lazich, Vukmir, Carpenter and Shilling.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 93
Relating to: prohibiting purchase of tobacco products on behalf of, or to provide to, a minor and providing penalties.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Galloway, Lazich, Vukmir, Carpenter and Shilling.
Noes, 0 - None.
Pam Galloway
Chairperson
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Senate President
January
25
, 2012
The Honorable, the Senate:
Pursuant to Senate Rule
46 (2)(c), I am writing to inform you that I have directed the following proposal(s) to be withdrawn from committee and rereferred. I have obtained the consent of the appropriate standing committee chairperson and the chairperson of the committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Bill
111
, relating to
the regulation of indirect sources of air pollution and the suspension of a rule promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources,
withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Senate Bill
138
, relating to
the regulation of emissions of hazardous air contaminants associated with agricultural waste and the partial suspension of rules promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources, withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
Senate Bill
139
, relating to
prohibiting the promulgation of certain rules concerning campaign financing by the Government Accountability Board, withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to committee on Transportation and Elections.
Senate Bill
380
, relating to
removing cap on enrollment of Family Care and other long-term care programs,
withdrawn from committee on Public Health, Human Services, and Revenue and rereferred to committee on Health
.
Sincerely,
MICHAEL G. ELLIS
Senate President
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
executive order #57
Relating to the Repeal of Executive Order #10
WHEREAS, on March 9, 2011, I issued Executive Order #10, creating the Office of Free Market Health Care.
NOW THEREFORE, I, SCOTT WALKER, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of this State, and specifically Wis. Stat. 14.019, do hereby repeal Executive Order #10, issued on March 9, 2011, and dissolve the Office of Free Market Health Care.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the City of Madison this eighteenth day of January, in the year two thousand twelve.
SCOTT WALKER
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Senate Majority Leader
January 25, 2012
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to
2011 Wisconsin Act 46, I am appointing Senator Moulton to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Sincerely,
scott fitzgerald
Chair, Committee on Senate Organization
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President Ellis appointed Senators Kedzie and King to escort his excellency, the Governor, to the Joint Convention.
Senator S. Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess and proceed as a body to the Assembly Chamber to meet in Joint Convention to receive the Governor's State of the State Message, and further, that the Senate stand adjourned until Tuesday, February 14, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1, upon the rising of the Joint Convention.
The Senate stood recessed.
6:38 P.M.
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The Senate proceeded in a body to the Assembly Chamber to meet in Joint Convention to receive the State of the State Message.
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7:00 P.M.
Senate President Ellis in the chair.
The Committee to wait upon the Governor appeared with his excellency, Governor Scott Walker, who delivered his message as follows:
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"Speaker Fitzgerald, Speaker Pro Tem Kramer, President Ellis, Majority Leader Fitzgerald, Minority Leader Miller, Minority Leader Barca, members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Constitutional Officers, tribal leaders, members of the Cabinet, distinguished guests, members of the Legislature, my wife Tonette and our family and most importantly fellow citizens of the great state of Wisconsin, it is an honor to appear before you tonight.
Next to my wife is the Adjutant General of Wisconsin Major General Don Dunbar. I want to thank him and the more than 10,000 members of our state's National Guard.
With him tonight are the members of the 724th Engineer Battalion. I first spoke with them when they were deployed in Iraq. I greeted them when they returned home and then, I saw many of them again this summer as they responded to the massive damage caused by the wind storms in northwestern Wisconsin.
Their dedication - to their country, their state and, their communities is a prime example of what we all know as the Spirit of Wisconsin. We thank them - and all of the other men and women in uniform: both past and present - for their service.
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Before we begin our conversation, let us take a moment to honor a member of our state government family, who couldn't be with us tonight. Representative Tamara Grigsby is fighting a brave battle. Like so many of you, Tonette and I continue to send our thoughts and prayers to Representative Grigsby and her family, and we look forward to seeing her in this chamber again very soon.
Tonight, we come together to discuss the state of our state. To do so, we need to remember where we were as a state prior to a year ago, what we've accomplished over the past year and most importantly where we are headed in the year to come.
When I addressed you in this chamber last January, Wisconsin had suffered through three years of 150,000 of our fellow citizens losing their jobs. The unemployment rate was 7.5%. And after years of tax increases and budget tricks, Wisconsin faced one of the largest budget deficits in the country.
Now, our unemployment rate is down from a year ago. In fact, it's the lowest it's been since 2008.
We are turning things around. We are heading in the right direction.
During the past year, we added thousands of new jobs. And we balanced the state budget. We balanced it -- without raising taxes; without massive layoffs; and without budget tricks; all of which allowed us to put more than $1.2 billion of new state money into Medicaid programs like Badgercare and FamilyCare.
Tonight, I want to share with you how we got here and I want to share our plan for:
• Helping the people of Wisconsin create more jobs,
