TREIG PRONSCHINSKE
Chairperson
Committee on Sporting Heritage
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The committee on State Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 681
Relating to: employer liability under worker's compensation for mandatory or coerced COVID-19 vaccines.
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Swearingen, Vorpagel, Kuglitsch, Tauchen, Summerfield, Spiros, Knodl, Brooks and Schraa.
Noes: 4 - Representatives Sinicki, McGuire, Ohnstad and Pope.
ROB SWEARINGEN
Chairperson
Committee on State Affairs
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The committee on Transportation reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 202
Relating to: sourcing materials from within the right-of-way of a highway improvement project.
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Plumer, Vorpagel, Thiesfeldt, Skowronski, Ramthun, Brooks, Callahan and Rozar.
Noes: 5 - Representatives Considine, Moore Omokunde, Ortiz-Velez, Shelton and Snodgrass.
JON PLUMER
Chairperson
Committee on Transportation
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The committee on Ways and Means reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 308
Relating to: creating an individual income tax checkoff for donations to the Wisconsin State Firefighters Memorial, Inc., and making an appropriation.
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Macco, Wittke, Kerkman, Knodl, Snyder, Dittrich, Ramthun, Brooks, Armstrong, McGuire, Conley, Ohnstad and Riemer.
Noes: 0.
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Macco, Wittke, Kerkman, Knodl, Snyder, Dittrich, Ramthun, Brooks, Armstrong, McGuire, Conley, Ohnstad and Riemer.
Noes: 0.
JOHN MACCO
Chairperson
Committee on Ways and Means
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Action on the Senate Message
Senate Joint Resolution 58
Relating to: applying to Congress under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for a convention to propose an amendment providing that the Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of 9 justices. By Senators Bradley, Wimberger, Felzkowski and Marklein; cosponsored by Representatives Kurtz, Brandtjen, Cabral-Guevara, Dittrich, Horlacher, Krug, Kuglitsch, Magnafici, Moses, Ramthun, Rozar, Steffen, Tusler and Wichgers.
Senate Joint Resolution 83
Relating to: honoring the life and commemorating the career and accomplishments of Ed Lump.
By Senators Kapenga, Ballweg, Darling, Jacque, Jagler, Nass and Petrowski; cosponsored by Representatives Kuglitsch, Steineke, Sinicki, Allen, Cabral-Guevara, Dittrich, Horlacher, Knodl, Loudenbeck, Murphy, Mursau, Penterman, Petryk, Schraa, Spiros, Spreitzer, Steffen, Subeck, Swearingen, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel and Vruwink.
Senate Joint Resolution 105
Relating to: expressing support from the Wisconsin State Legislature for the grant application entitled A Wisconsin Forest Products Cluster: A Catalyst for Sustainable, Enduring Transformation to the United States Economic Development Administration's Phase 2 Build Back Better Regional Challenge.
By Senators Felzkowski, Ballweg, Jagler, L. Taylor and Ringhand; cosponsored by Representatives Mursau, Krug, Edming, Swearingen, Tittl, Moses, Callahan, Milroy, Sinicki, Hebl, Andraca, Snodgrass and Tusler.
Senate Bill 178
Relating to: elections administration, recall petitions, and recount procedures.
By Senator Bernier; cosponsored by Representative Magnafici.
Senate Bill 179
Relating to: voter registration.
By Senator Bernier; cosponsored by Representative Magnafici.
Senate Bill 180
Relating to: absentee voting, voting procedures, and providing a penalty.
By Senator Bernier; cosponsored by Representative Magnafici.
Senate Bill 209
Relating to: returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk.
By Senators Darling, Stroebel, Wimberger, Felzkowski, Nass, Petrowski and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Steffen, Edming, Gundrum, Knodl, Krug, Murphy, Neylon, Skowronski, Spiros, VanderMeer and Wichgers.
Senate Bill 214
Relating to: early canvassing of absentee ballots, issuance of presidential ballots, combined polling places, timeline for sending or transmitting absentee ballots, nomination papers for certain independent candidates, and providing a penalty.
By Senators Stafsholt, Stroebel, Darling and Feyen; cosponsored by Representatives Tauchen, Gundrum and Loudenbeck.
Senate Bill 232
Relating to: allowing the Department of Safety and Professional Services and credentialing boards to grant credentials with provisional status, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.
By Senators Kooyenga, Jacque, Marklein, Wimberger and Stroebel; cosponsored by Representatives Horlacher, VanderMeer, Haywood, Allen, Bowen, Brandtjen, Brooks, Dittrich, Edming, James, Katsma, Moses, Novak, Oldenburg, Rozar, Snodgrass, Sortwell, Spiros, Stubbs, Thiesfeldt, Wichgers, Wittke, Tittl, Knodl and Zimmerman.
Senate Bill 261
Relating to: reporting of sex and fetal anomaly and facility following induced abortion.
By Senators Jacque, Ballweg, Bernier, Bradley and Nass; cosponsored by Representatives Wichgers, Gundrum, Allen, Armstrong, Brandtjen, Brooks, Cabral-Guevara, Dittrich, Edming, Horlacher, Moses, Petersen, Ramthun, Rozar, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Thiesfeldt, Tittl and Tusler.
Senate Bill 268
Relating to: compensation of election officials performing duties during a recount.
By Senators Bernier, Ballweg, Marklein, Nass and Stroebel; cosponsored by Representatives Horlacher, Callahan, Edming, Kuglitsch, Moses, Mursau, Ramthun, Rozar, Skowronski and Tusler.
Senate Bill 346
Relating to: grants to map, control, eradicate, monitor, and minimize the spread of wild parsnip; funding for the Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation.
By Senators Testin, Carpenter, Bewley, Larson, Pfaff, Ringhand, Roys, Smith and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Shankland, VanderMeer, Baldeh, Billings, Cabrera, Conley, Doyle, Emerson, Hebl, Hesselbein, B. Meyers, Milroy, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Oldenburg, Pope, Rozar, Shelton, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck and Moore Omokunde.