Thursday, March 26, 1998
9:44 A.M.
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
The prayer was offered by Representative R. Potter.
Representative Lazich led the membership in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Present - Representatives Ainsworth, Albers, Baldwin, Baumgart, Black, Bock, Boyle, Carpenter, Coggs, Cullen, Dobyns, Dueholm, Duff, Foti, Freese, Gard, Goetsch, Green, Gronemus, Grothman, Gunderson, Hahn, Handrick, Hanson, Harsdorf, Hasenohrl, Hebl, Huber, Hubler, Huebsch, Hutchison, Jeskewitz, Johnsrud, Kaufert, Kedzie, Kelso, Klusman, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krug, Kunicki, La Fave, Ladwig, F. Lasee, Lazich, J. Lehman, M. Lehman, Linton, Lorge, Meyer, Morris-Tatum, Murat, Musser, Nass, Notestein, Olsen, Ott, Otte, Ourada, Owens, Plale, Plouff, Porter, R. Potter, Powers, Reynolds, Riley, Robson, Ryba, Schafer, Schneider, Seratti, Skindrud, Spillner, Springer, Staskunas, Steinbrink, Sykora, Travis, Turner, Underheim, Urban, Vander Loop, Vrakas, Walker, Ward, Wasserman, Wieckert, Williams, Wood, L. Young, R. Young, Ziegelbauer, Zukowski and Speaker Jensen - 95.
Absent with leave - Representatives Brandemuehl, Hoven and Krusick - 3.
Vacancies - 82nd Assembly District - 1.
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Representative R. Potter asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representative Krusick. Granted.
Representative Green asked unanimous consent for a leave of absence for today's session for Representatives Brandemuehl and Hoven. Granted.
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Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 466 offered by committee on Consumer Affairs.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 902 offered by Representative Grothman.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 935 offered by Representative Baldwin.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 274 offered by Representative Olsen.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 953
Relating to: employment discrimination based on creed and exemption from liability and discipline for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers and hospital employes who refuse to participate in sterilization, abortion, assisted suicide and other procedures on moral or religious grounds.
By
Representatives Walker, Owens, Green, Handrick, Ryba, Spillner, Albers, Staskunas, Seratti, Sykora, Gunderson, Otte, Lorge, Grothman, Hutchison, Nass, Underheim, F. Lasee, Ott, Huebsch, Wieckert, Duff and Lazich; cosponsored by Senators Roessler, Farrow, Fitzgerald, Drzewiecki, Schultz and Welch.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 954
Relating to: escrowing certain payments to the federal government for the disposal of radioactive waste and making an appropriation.
By
Representative
Duff
; cosponsored by Senator Cowles
.
To committee on Environment.
Assembly Bill 955
Relating to: establishing a single-payer, publicly financed health care system for residents of this state, creating the department of health planning and finance, health policy board and regional health councils and establishing duties of the health policy board.
By
Representatives Baldwin and Bock; cosponsored by Senators Chvala and Risser.
To committee on Health.
Relating to: the collection of the costs of seized, forfeited and sold motor vehicles.
By
Representatives Grothman, Ladwig and Owens; cosponsored by Senators Farrow, Drzewiecki and Roessler.
To committee on Judiciary.
Assembly Bill 957
Relating to: a sales tax and use tax exemption for coinage, bullion and similar goods.
By
Representatives Grothman and Seratti; cosponsored by Senators Welch, Huelsman and Roessler.
To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
.
Assembly Bill 958
Relating to: restoration and reinstatement rights of classified employes appointed to unclassified positions; leaves of absence from state employment to seek partisan political office; compensation and employment rights of assistant district attorneys; the salary of the position of Wisconsin veterans museum superintendent; authority of the administrator of the division of merit recruitment and selection in the department of employment relations to appoint local examiners; solicitation of recommendations for positions in the classified service of the state; the appeal of certain decisions of the administrator of the division of merit recruitment and selection in the department of employment relations to the personnel commission; and closed records Relating to state employment (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of employment relations).
By
Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Government Operations
.
Assembly Bill 959
Relating to: absentee voting qualifications; late voter registration; location of polling places; reports on impediments to voting; selection of party committeemen and committeewomen; recount fees; delivery of recount petitions to affected candidates; minutes of recount proceedings; certifications by circulators of nomination papers and election-related petitions; presidential ballots; maintenance of poll lists in an electronic format; an elector's residency for voting purposes after municipal annexation; qualification of political parties for separate positions on partisan primary and election ballots; the date of special elections; the composition of the county board of canvassers; eligibility of adult children of overseas electors to vote in this state; reporting of election returns by ward; authorizing a county board of election commissioners to bring civil actions for violations of the campaign financing law; administration of elections for joint municipal judges; depositing ballots in ballot boxes; the time for a hearing on recount appeals; write-in absentee ballots; consolidated paper ballots; filing of referenda questions; ballot design; filing of declarations of candidacy and recording of votes received by write-in candidates in certain elections; the method of selection of election officials; the procedure for challenging electors; terms of office of town officers; granting rule-making authority; and requiring a referendum.
By
Joint Legislative Council.
To committee on Elections and Constitutional Law
.
Assembly Bill 960
Relating to: the authorized positions for the elections board and making an appropriation.
By
Joint Legislative Council.
To committee on Elections and Constitutional Law
.
Assembly Bill 961
Relating to: point-of-service coverage options and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
By
Representatives Schafer, Ainsworth, Albers, Bock, Boyle, Brandemuehl, Freese, Gronemus, Handrick, Hoven, Huebsch, Johnsrud, Kaufert, Kedzie, Kreuser, Krug, Kunicki, Linton, Musser, Ott, Owens, Porter, Powers, Ryba, Seratti, Skindrud, Sykora, Travis, Turner, Urban, Vander Loop and Gunderson; cosponsored by Senators Burke, Decker, Fitzgerald, Jauch, Moen and Welch.
