2017-08-01 Assembly Journal (AU7)

STATE OF WISCONSIN

Assembly Journal

August 2017 Special Session

11:57 A.M.   TUESDAY, August 1, 2017

The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.

Representative Swearingen in the Chair.

The Assembly dispensed with the call of the roll.

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Executive Communications

State of Wisconsin

Office of the Governor

Madison

Executive Order Number 250

Relating to a Special Session of the Legislature

focused on Economic Development

WHEREAS, since 2011, Wisconsin has become a leader in providing a business climate that encourages research and development, technological innovation, and workforce development; and

WHEREAS, the 21st century workforce demands economic conditions that foster ingenuity, opportunity, and prosperity; and

WHEREAS, Wisconsin's current business climate makes it an excellent location to create an electronics and information technology manufacturing zone;

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, to commence at 11 a.m. on August 1, 2017, solely to consider and act upon the following legislation:

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Legislation relating to promotion of economic development and job retention.

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-eighth day of July in the year two thousand seventeen.

SCOTT WALKER

Governor

By the Governor:

  DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE

  Secretary of State

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Introduction and Reference of Proposals

Read first time and referred:

hist73701 Assembly Bill 1, August 2017 Special Session

Relating to: authorizing the creation of an electronics and information technology manufacturing zone, making changes to the enterprise zone tax credit program, authorizing limited use of the design-build construction process, granting contingent highway bonding authority, and making appropriations.

By Committee on Assembly Organization, Representatives Vos, Steineke, August, Kerkman and Weatherston, by request of Governor Scott Walker.

hist73702 To committee on Jobs and the Economy.

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Adjournment

Representative Steineke moved that the Assembly stand adjourned until 10:01 A.M. on Thursday, August 3.

The question was: Shall the Assembly stand adjourned?

Motion carried.

The Assembly stood adjourned.

11:58 A.M.

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