One-Hundred and First Regular Session
1:30 P.M. TUESDAY, January 21, 2014
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Fitzgerald.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (6), the Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date. _____________
Chief Clerk's Entries
Amendments Offered
hist17167Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 490 offered by Senator Darling. hist17237Senate Amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 396 offered by Senators Grothman and Lazich. _____________
Introduction, First Reading, and Reference of Proposals
Read first time and referred:
Relating to: authorizing ordinances and resolutions that specify a greater number of parcels into which certified survey maps may divide land.
By Senators Lasee, Gudex, Carpenter, Olsen and Grothman; cosponsored by Representatives Hutton, Tittl, Kulp, Kahl, Strachota, Steineke, Kapenga and Barnes.
hist17142To committee on Insurance and Housing. Relating to: requiring the Family Care benefit and self-directed services option to be provided in certain northeastern Wisconsin counties.
By Senators Cowles, Lasee, Schultz, Hansen and Shilling; cosponsored by Representatives Bies, Czaja, Kaufert, T. Larson, A. Ott, Petryk, Tauchen, Weininger, Jacque, Genrich, Klenke and Richards.
hist17143To committee on Health and Human Services. Relating to: waiver of a parent's right to counsel in a contested adoption or an involuntary termination of parental rights proceeding for failure to personally appear as ordered by the juvenile court.
By Senator Lazich; cosponsored by Representatives Strachota, Kooyenga, Tauchen and Thiesfeldt.
hist17144To committee on Judiciary and Labor. Relating to: a state minimum wage, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
By Senators Wirch, Harris, Carpenter, T. Cullen, Erpenbach, Hansen, C. Larson, Lehman, Miller, Risser, L. Taylor and Vinehout; cosponsored by Representatives Mason, Genrich, Barca, Barnes, Berceau, Billings, Clark, Danou, Goyke, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Hulsey, Johnson, Jorgensen, Kahl, Kessler, Kolste, Milroy, Ohnstad, Pasch, Pope, Richards, Riemer, Ringhand, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, C. Taylor, Wachs, Wright, Young, Zamarripa and Zepnick.
hist17145To committee on Judiciary and Labor. Relating to: transferring responsibility over biennial updating of voter registration list to the Government Accountability Board.
By Senator Lazich; cosponsored by Representative Thiesfeldt.
hist17322To committee on Elections and Urban Affairs. _____________
Report of Committees
The committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 307
Relating to: traffic violations resulting in harm to vulnerable highway users, driver education instruction, and providing a penalty.
Ayes: 4 - Senators Petrowski, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 1 - Senator Leibham.
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
Senate Bill 330
Relating to: purchase of military service under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
Senate Bill 429
Relating to: fixing an incorrect cross-reference under the statute of limitations for repeated sexual assault of the same child; numbers of subsections; sexual assault of a child; suspension of license to carry a concealed weapon if the person is prohibited from possessing a dangerous weapon as a condition of release when charged with a felony or misdemeanor (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Justice).
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
Senate Bill 491
Relating to: stalking and sexual offenses under the code of military justice.
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
Senate Bill 492
Relating to: human trafficking, human trafficking victims, property forfeitures, rights of victims, admitting evidence of past actions, definitions of certain offenses, and providing penalties.
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
Senate Bill 500
Relating to: motor vehicle fuel tax exemption certificates.
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
Senate Bill 501
Relating to: agricultural emergency permits issued by the Department of Transportation for vehicles transporting oversize loads.
Ayes: 5 - Senators Petrowski, Leibham, Cowles, Carpenter and Hansen.
Noes: 0.
JERRY PETROWSKI
Chairperson
Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs
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The committee on Workforce Development, Forestry, Mining, and Revenue reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 34
Relating to: sales and property tax exemptions for property used by commercial radio and television stations.
