One-Hundred and Third Regular Session WEDNESDAY, April 26, 2017
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date:
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Amendments Offered
hist68763Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 42 offered by Representative Neylon. hist68792Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 148 offered by Representative Neylon. _____________
Introduction and Reference of Proposals
Read first time and referred:
Relating to: proclaiming May 4, 2017, as Wisconsin Day of Prayer.
By Representatives Macco, Schraa, Katsma, Kulp, Murphy, Jacque, Tittl, Weatherston, Crowley and Duchow; cosponsored by Senators Kapenga, Darling, Nass and Stroebel.
Relating to: recognizing the Rock River Trail, honoring the efforts of trail founder Frank Schier, and celebrating the trail's grand opening.
By Representatives Spreitzer, Born, Loudenbeck, Berceau, Crowley, Horlacher, Jagler, Kessler, Kolste, Ohnstad, Sinicki, Subeck, Thiesfeldt, Vruwink, Wachs and Zamarripa; cosponsored by Senators Ringhand, Nass, Feyen, Risser, Vinehout and Wirch.
Relating to: the commitment-to-family policy of Karen Bogenschneider of Verona, Wisconsin.
By Representatives Ballweg, Murphy, Hintz, Kolste, Mursau, Mason, Loudenbeck, Sinicki, Berceau, Milroy, Sargent, Spreitzer, Crowley, Pope, Subeck, Novak, E. Brooks, Ripp, Vruwink, Rodriguez and Allen; cosponsored by Senators Olsen, Johnson, Erpenbach, Shilling, Miller, Vinehout, Risser, Cowles, Wirch, Darling, L. Taylor, Harsdorf and Bewley.
Relating to: congratulating the Stevens Point Area Senior High boys varsity basketball team for winning the 2017 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division I State Championship title.
By Representatives Shankland, Berceau, Bowen, Hintz, Sinicki, Subeck, Thiesfeldt, Tusler, Wachs, Zepnick and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Senators Testin, Johnson and Vinehout.
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Committee Reports
The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 95
Relating to: authorizing a school board member to refuse his or her salary.
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Thiesfeldt, Kitchens, Jagler, Tusler, Mursau, Quinn, Duchow, Wichgers, Pope, Genrich, Considine, Hebl, Bowen and Vruwink.
Noes: 0.
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Thiesfeldt, Kitchens, Jagler, Tusler, Mursau, Quinn, Duchow, Wichgers, Pope, Genrich, Considine, Hebl, Bowen and Vruwink.
Noes: 0.
Assembly Bill 233
Relating to: submitting a state plan under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Thiesfeldt, Kitchens, Jagler, Tusler, Mursau, Quinn, Duchow and Wichgers.
Noes: 6 - Representatives Pope, Genrich, Considine, Hebl, Bowen and Vruwink.
JEREMY THIESFELDT
Chairperson
Committee on Education
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The committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 160
Relating to: regulation of aquaculture and fish farms, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.
Passage:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Kleefisch, Quinn, Tittl, Edming, Nerison, Mursau, Skowronski, Ripp and Stafsholt.
Noes: 5 - Representatives Milroy, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Stuck and Brostoff.
JOEL KLEEFISCH
Chairperson
Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage
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Communications
April 26, 2017
Patrick E. Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
hist68711Please add my name as a co-author of Assembly Bill 208, relating to changing the individual income tax deduction eligibility requirements for certain adoption-related expenses. hist68712Please add my name as a co-author of Assembly Bill 259, relating to the length of the recognition period for built-in gains tax; the evidentiary standard for proving a transaction has economic substance; participation by the Department of Revenue in the Multistate Tax Commission Audit Program; and reliance by a taxpayer on past audits by the Department of Revenue.
