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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 672
Relating to: hours of labor and one day of rest in 7 for persons employed in the manufacture of butter, cheese or other dairy products, in the distribution of milk or cream or in canning or freezing agricultural commodities and granting rule-making authority.
By
Senators
Drzewiecki and Cowles; cosponsored by Representatives F. Lasee, Ainsworth and Ryba
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To committee on Human Resources, Labor, Tourism, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 673
Relating to: the taxation of telephone companies, imposing the sales tax on coin-operated telephone services, transfer of moneys from the general fund to the property tax relief fund and an expression of legislative intent concerning appropriations for the 1997-99 fiscal biennium.
By
Senators
Panzer, Rude and Jauch; cosponsored by Representatives F. Lasee, Huebsch and Jensen
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To joint committee on Finance.
Senator Drzewiecki, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 546 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and referred to the joint committee on Finance.
Senator Rude, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 655 be withdrawn from the committee on State Government Operations and Corrections and referred to the committee on Senate Organization.
Senator Rude, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 604 be withdrawn from the committee on State Government Operations and Corrections and referred to the joint committee on Finance.
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The Chair, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess until 4:27 P.M..
4:09 P.M.
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4:27 P.M.
The Senate reconvened.
Senator Rude in the chair.
Senator Welch, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 841 be laid on the table.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 841
Read a third time and concurred in.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 565 be withdrawn and taken up at this time.
Senate Bill 565
S750
Relating to: recovery of enforcement costs by the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection in drainage district cases; transferring responsibility for administration of the Wisconsin consumer act; transferring responsibility for supporting the uniform commercial code statewide lien system; correcting references in certain appropriations of the department of financial institutions; the number of unclassified division administrator positions in the department of financial institutions; reversion of transferred funds to the Wisconsin development fund; minority business early planning projects; renumbering the appropriation for administrative services for regulation of industry, safety and buildings; the Milwaukee parental choice program; waiver of relocation payments and services when property is acquired by an entity vested with the power of eminent domain; collection of certain fees by the employment relations commission; payment of principal and interest on bonds issued for the clean water fund program; purses for horse races and pari-mutuel tax for simulcast races; establishing a Mendota juvenile treatment center; a plan to assure continued funding for the mental health institutes; transferring an appropriation for principal repayment and interest from the department of industry, labor and job development to the department of health and family services; changing references to low-income and at-risk child care funding; state involvement with certain municipal boundary changes; refunding of municipal bonds; a performance evaluation audit of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority; the initial period of the lease agreement and affiliation agreement between the University of Wisconsin System and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority; the contractual services agreement between the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Board and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority; storage and management of records of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority; applicability of municipal ordinances and regulations to certain buildings, structures and facilities constructed for the benefit or use of local professional baseball park districts; changing the name of the Kickapoo valley governing board; the effective date and initial applicability of adjustments in certain lobbying regulation fees; railroad stockholder reports; granting rulemaking authority; and making and decreasing appropriations.
The question was: Shall Assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 565 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
The question was: Shall Assembly amendment 4 to Senate Bill 565 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly.
Senator Buettner, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of "Best of Class" for K-12 schools, Oshkosh, Rosendale-Brandon and Winneconne, which have produced above-average student performance results at below-average cost.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of Melissa Agard who has a special relationship to one of my Senate staff assistants, she is celebrating her birthday today, Melissa who is 27 today, accepted the marriage proposal of Justin Sargent one of my Senate staff assistants, on Christmas Day 1995.
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Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn until Pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.
Adjourned.
4:33 P.M.
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Senate amendment 2 to Senate Bill 617 offered by Senators Decker, C. Potter, Burke, Clausing, Grobschmidt and Chvala.
