STATE OF WISCONSIN
Senate Journal
December 2013 Special Session
11:01 A.M.   MONDAY, December 2, 2013
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by President Pro Tempore Leibham.
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
EXECUTIVE ORDER #123
Relating to a Special Session of the Legislature
WHEREAS, the State of Wisconsin is committed to protecting and caring for its citizens, especially its poorest and most vulnerable; and
WHEREAS, after the difficulties many have experienced in using the federal exchange and seeing the dismal enrollment numbers from the federal government, it is necessary to take action to protect Wisconsinites from the failure of the federal government’s rollout of the Affordable Care Act;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Scott Walker, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, pursuant to Article IV, Section 11, and Article V, Section 4 of the Wisconsin Constitution, do hereby require the convening of a special session of the legislature at the Capitol in Madison, solely to consider and act upon the following legislation:
1. LRB-3678;
2. LRB-3687, both relating to a three-month delay through March 31, 2014. Of BadgerCare and the Health Insurance Risk Sharing Plan.
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 twenty-second day of November, in the year two thousand thirteen.
SCOTT WALKER
Governor
By the Governor:
  DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
  Secretary of State
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Adjournment
Senator Leibham, with unanimous consent, asked that the December 2013 Special Session of the Senate stand adjourned until Thursday, December 5, 2013.
Adjourned.
11:02 A.M.
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