Tuesday, February 10, 1998
10:00 A.M.
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Brian Burke.
The Chair, with unanimous consent, asked that the proper entries be made in the journal.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 447
Relating to: updating obsolete terminology in the fair employment, vocational rehabilitation, worker's compensation, minimum wage and fair housing laws and deleting an obsolete reference in the fair employment law (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of workforce development).
By
Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 448
Relating to: the display of license plates upon vehicles consigned for sale by dealers, distributors, manufacturers and transporters.
By
Senators
Shibilski, A. Lasee, Drzewiecki and Weeden; cosponsored by Representatives Hasenohrl, Musser, Ainsworth, Albers, Goetsch, Green, Brandemuehl, Powers, Kreuser, Plouff, Grothman, Seratti and Ryba.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 449
Relating to: costs related to investigations regarding weights and measures violations, protection for persons reporting weights and measures violations, providing for business and consumer education and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Clausing, Panzer, Decker, Burke and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Otte, Huber, Albers, Springer, Harsdorf, Notestein, Porter, Hasenohrl, Hahn, Wasserman, Musser, R. Potter, Kedzie and Seratti.
To committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
Senate Bill 450
Relating to: formation of mutual insurance holding companies, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Moen, Schultz, Burke, Huelsman, Shibilski, Panzer, Moore, Darling, Decker, Welch, Grobschmidt, Fitzgerald, Breske, Farrow, C. Potter, Rude, Wineke, Roessler, Weeden, George, Rosenzweig and Jauch; cosponsored by Representatives Green, Krug, Lorge, Meyer, Jensen, Plale, Ward, Kunicki, Underheim, Hanson, Gard, Huber, Schafer, Riley, Albers, Bock, Brandemuehl, Carpenter, Duff, Cullen, Freese, Hasenohrl, Goetsch, Kreuser, Grothman, La Fave, Hahn, J. Lehman, Hoven, Linton, Handrick, Murat, Kaufert, Springer, Kedzie, Staskunas, Klusman, Wasserman, Kreibich, Ladwig, F. Lasee, Lazich, M. Lehman, Musser, Nass, Ott, Ourada, Porter, Seratti, Vrakas, Walker and Coggs.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 451
Relating to: dispositional orders, consent decrees and informal dispositions for certain children in need of protection or services; taking a child into custody; criminal history and child abuse record searches of employes, contractors and volunteers of court-appointed special advocate programs; immunity from civil liability for volunteers appointed by and employes of court-appointed special advocate programs; and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Wirch, Darling, Burke and Clausing; cosponsored by Representatives Green, Kreuser, Steinbrink, Porter, Musser, Dobyns, R. Young, Turner, Murat, Jeskewitz and L. Young.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 452
Relating to: permits for 3-vehicle combinations.
By
Senator
Plache
, by request of Jim Meyer, Racine.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 453
Relating to: requiring that income levels of patients be included in required induced-abortion reporting and granting rule-making authority.
By
Senator
Wineke
; cosponsored by Representatives Kedzie, Baldwin, Hanson and R. Young.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 454
Relating to: payments for children of recipients of supplemental security income.
By
Senators
Wineke, Risser, Clausing and Moore; cosponsored by Representatives Notestein, Hasenohrl, Baldwin, R. Young, Riley and Morris-Tatum.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Relating to: making gamma hydroxybutyrate a controlled substance.
By
Senators
Darling, Welch, Wirch, Rosenzweig, Moen, A. Lasee, Schultz, Drzewiecki, Huelsman, Fitzgerald, Farrow, Roessler and Panzer; cosponsored by Representatives Green, Jensen, Brandemuehl, Dobyns, Ott, Otte, Ryba, Olsen, Kreibich, Underheim, Porter, Plale, Urban, Musser, Ladwig, Walker, Lorge, Gard, Robson, Lazich, Plouff, Zukowski, Owens, Albers, F. Lasee, Harsdorf, Gunderson, Klusman and Hasenohrl.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 456
Relating to: evaluating pupil academic standards.
By
Senators
Darling, Farrow and Panzer; cosponsored by Representatives Duff and Jensen.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 457
Relating to: lake bed areas owned by Milwaukee County that are used for certain recreational purposes and to Milwaukee County's creating or acting as a board of harbor commissioners.
By
Senators
Grobschmidt, Moore, Darling, Burke, George, Farrow and Rosenzweig; cosponsored by Representatives Notestein, Walker, Riley, Williams, Gunderson, Staskunas, R. Potter, Bock, Krug, Coggs, Wasserman, Kunicki, L. Young, Carpenter, Duff, La Fave, Krusick, Lazich, Plale, Morris-Tatum and Cullen.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
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The committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 262
Relating to: the regulation of massage therapists and bodyworkers, creating a massage therapy and bodywork examining board, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
