Wednesday, March 22, 2000
10:30 A.M.
Ninety-Fourth 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 Doctor John Splinter, Pastor of Bethany Evangelical Free Church in La Crosse.
Representative Carpenter 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, Balow, Berceau, Black, Bock, Boyle, Brandemuehl, Carpenter, Coggs, Colon, Cullen, Duff, Foti, Freese, Gard, Goetsch, Gronemus, Grothman, Gunderson, Gundrum, Hahn, Handrick, Hasenohrl, Hebl, Hoven, Huber, Hubler, Huebsch, Hundertmark, Hutchison, Jeskewitz, Johnsrud, Kaufert, Kedzie, Kelso, Kestell, Klusman, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krug, Krusick, La Fave, Ladwig, F. Lasee, Lassa, J. Lehman, M. Lehman, Leibham, Meyer, Meyerhofer, Miller, Montgomery, Morris-Tatum, Musser, Nass, Olsen, Ott, Owens, Petrowski, Pettis, Plale, Plouff, Pocan, Porter, Powers, Reynolds, Rhoades, Richards, Riley, Ryba, Schneider, Schooff, Seratti, Sherman, Sinicki, Skindrud, Spillner, Staskunas, Steinbrink, Stone, Suder, Sykora, Townsend, Travis, Turner, Underheim, Urban, Vrakas, Walker, Ward, Wasserman, Waukau, Wieckert, Williams, Wood, Young, Ziegelbauer and Speaker Jensen - 99.
Absent with leave - None.
Vacancies - None.
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Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 236 offered by Representatives Hutchison and Jensen.
Assembly amendment 4 to Assembly Bill 421 offered by Representative Gundrum.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 524 offered by Representative Staskunas.
Assembly amendment 3 to Assembly Bill 634 offered by Representatives M. Lehman and Wood.
Assembly amendment 4 to Assembly Bill 634 offered by Representatives M. Lehman and Wood.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Joint Resolution 120
Relating to: requesting Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to act to bring about the elimination of the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether in gasoline and to act to ensure that methyl tertiary butyl ether is not used in reformulated gasoline in the Milwaukee nonattainment area this summer.
By
Representatives Kedzie, Nass, Johnsrud, Walker, Huebsch, Ott, Ladwig, Kestell, Duff, Hahn, Stone, Musser, Grothman, Gunderson, Porter and Brandemuehl; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Schultz, Huelsman, Roessler and Grobschmidt.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 917
Relating to: eliminating the requirement that the department of health and family services prohibit health care information purchasers from rereleasing individual data elements.
By
Representative
Underheim
; cosponsored by Senator Moen
, by request of State Medical Society and the Department of Health and Family Services
.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 918
Relating to: eligibility requirements for private security permits and private detective licenses.
By
Representatives Grothman, Kestell, Musser, Bock, Skindrud and Sykora; cosponsored by Senator Robson
.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 919
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Professional Employes Council, WFT/AFT, AFL-CIO, for the 1999-01 biennium, covering employes in the professional fiscal and staff services collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
By
joint committee on Employment Relations.
To committee on Rules.
Relating to: repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references and eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions (Revisor's Revision Bill).
By
Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 921
Relating to: classifying certain county jailers as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin retirement system and restricting the issues subject to interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act.
By
Representative
Vrakas
.
To joint survey committee on Retirement Systems
.
Assembly Bill 922
Relating to: amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references and eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions (Revisor's Correction Bill).
By
Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 923
Relating to: expunging records of dismissed criminal charges in certain cases.
By
Representative
Hoven
.
To committee on Judiciary and Personal Privacy
.
Assembly Bill 924
Relating to: providing information on domestic abuse programs, services and options that are available under the Wisconsin works program to Wisconsin works applicants and participants; training employes of Wisconsin works agencies on issues of domestic abuse; developing a standardized assessment mechanism for the identification of Wisconsin works program applicants and participants who are victims of domestic abuse; and specifying that certain individuals are exempt from cooperating with efforts to establish a child's paternity or obtain certain support payments or property if such cooperation would pose a risk of emotional or physical harm to the participant or the participant's child.
By
Representatives Richards, Bock, Musser, Berceau, Miller, Colon and Riley; cosponsored by Senators Huelsman, George and Rosenzweig.
To committee on Children and Families
.
Assembly Bill 925
Relating to: repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions, reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).