Monday, March 12, 2001
Ninety-Fifth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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The committee on Environmental Resources reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 54
Relating to: discharges of dredged or fill material into nonfederal wetlands.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Baumgart, Hansen, Wirch and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Baumgart, Hansen, Wirch and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Jim Baumgart
Chairperson
The committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Garvin
, Robert "Bert",
of Madison, as a member of the Public Service Commission, to serve for the term ending March 1, 2007.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 9 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach, M. Meyer, Rosenzweig, Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.
Noes, 0 - None.
Rodney Moen
Chairperson
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executive order #1
Relating to the Findings of the Governor's Task Force on Racial Profiling
WHEREAS, the Task Force on Racial Profiling was commissioned to study the existence of racial profiling during traffic stops in Wisconsin; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force, chaired by Judge Maxine A. White, included law enforcement officials, the defense bar, state legislators and community leaders; and
WHEREAS, the practice of racial profiling should not be tolerated in this or any state; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force sought and received input from the community; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force utilized the expertise of both national and local law enforcement officials and racial profiling experts to educate them on training practices and the means necessary to combat racial profiling; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force recommended law enforcement should enhance training while ensuring the uniform protocol on traffic stops is followed; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force recommended law enforcement should develop means to encourage community input, including modifying their complaint policies as necessary; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force recommends local law enforcement agencies should develop a process to collect data on traffic stops in their communities
NOW, THEREFORE, I, SCOTT McCALLUM Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of this State, do hereby:
1. Require all law enforcement agencies in the State of Wisconsin to enact a policy prohibiting the practice of racial profiling; and
2. Require law enforcement agencies to implement the recommendations authored by this learned Task Force without delay; and
3. Require law enforcement agencies across the state to take this opportunity to identify the means necessary to implement the recommendations in cooperation with their communities.
IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Madison this sixth day of March in the year two thousand and one.
SCOTT McCALLUM
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
March 8, 2001
The Honorable, The Legislature:
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Section 9101(20c) of
1999 Wisconsin Act 9 required the Wisconsin Department of Administration to study the idea of selling and transferring Wisconsin's rights to revenues from the Master Tobacco Settlement Agreement of November 23, 1998, for the purpose of creating a permanent endowment fund. Pursuant to s.
13.172(2), Wisconsin Statutes, the Department of Administration is hereby submitting to the Legislature its findings and recommendations resulting from the above-referenced study.
Sincerely,
George Lightbourn
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
March 8, 2001
The Honorable, The Legislature:
