March 2018 Special Session
1:13 P.M. THURSDAY, March 15, 2018
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Fitzgerald.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (6), the Chief Clerk made the following entries under the above date. _____________
Petition and Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
EXECUTIVE ORDER #278
Relating to a Special Session of the Legislature on School Security and Safety
WHEREAS, events throughout the country have prompted the State of Wisconsin to reexamine school security and safety; and
WHEREAS, schools must remain a safe environment, free from fear and the threat of violence; and
WHEREAS, parents should be confident in the knowledge that their children’s schools have taken every precaution to protect the students who attend; and
WHEREAS, the State of Wisconsin must act to ensure all school districts are sage and properly secured; and
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 9:00 AM. on March 15, 2018, solely to consider and act upon legislation relating to the following:
1. LRB-5595 and 5686, relating to grants to schools for school safety and safety-related upgrades to school buildings, equipment, and facilities; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; and make an appropriation.
2. LRB-5599 and 5685, relating to creating an office of school safety in the Department of Justice and making appropriations.
3. LRB-5601 and 5687, relating to mandatory reporting of suspected intent to carry out violence involving a dangerous weapon and explosive in or targeting a school and proving a criminal penalty.
4. LRB-5683 and 5688, relating to the Department of Public Instruction’s model school policy on bullying by pupils.
5. LRB-5684 and 5689, relating to school safety plans.
6. LRB-5690 and 5691, relating to allowing a school board to share safety camera footage with law enforcement.
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 fifteenth day of March, in the year two thousand eighteenth.
SCOTT WALKER
Governor
By the Governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
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Adjournment
Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the March 2018 Special Session of the Senate stand adjourned until Monday, March 19, 2018.
Adjourned.
1:14 P.M.
