Senate Journal
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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INTRODUCTION, first reading and reference of bills
Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 362
Relating to: fees for outdoor advertising signs owned by nonprofit organizations.
By Senators Harsdorf, Darling and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Johnsrud, Gronemus, Sherman, Musser, Plouff, Pettis, Olsen, Ott, Petrowski, Albers, Townsend, Rhoades, Freese, Hines, Miller and Kreibich.
To committee on Insurance, Tourism, and Transportation.
Senate Bill 363
Relating to: prohibitions related to explosives, destructive devices, detonators, or weapons of mass destruction; increased penalties for crimes committed with intent to terrorize; causing bodily harm or threatening to cause bodily harm to a public officer or employee and threatening to damage the property of a public officer or employee; communicating with or harassing or intimidating jurors; threatening to cause bodily harm or property damage; providing or soliciting material support for acts of terrorism; money laundering; making false statements to financial institutions and the definition of personal identification document; prohibitions related to automatic weapons; theft of a firearm or a machine gun; interfering with disarmament of an explosive or a destructive device; crimes that may entail the interception of wire, electronic, or oral communication, interception of communications in emergency situations, roving electronic surveillance, and providing assistance to persons authorized to engage in electronic surveillance; grand jury authority; John Doe proceedings; court orders for disclosure of the existence of depository accounts with financial institutions; court orders for disclosure regarding subscribers of electronic communications services; access to license and identification card photographs; the procedure for making a legal name change; and providing penalties.
By Senators Baumgart, Darling and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Kaufert, Freese, Hahn, Hines, Jeskewitz, Ladwig, M. Lehman, Lippert, D. Meyer, Musser, Olsen, Ott, Owens, Petrowski, Ryba, Urban and Vrakas.
To committee on Judiciary, Consumer Affairs, and Campaign Finance Reform.
Senate Bill 364
Relating to: proclaiming Purple Heart Day.
By Senators Moen, Schultz, Breske, Rosenzweig, Erpenbach, Moore, Burke, Darling, Cowles, Grobschmidt, S. Fitzgerald, Roessler and Hansen; cosponsored by Representatives Musser, Gronemus, Kestell, Plouff, Nass, Sherman, Jeskewitz, Bock, Ladwig, Ryba, Boyle, Huber, Carpenter, Starzyk, Turner, Albers, Lassa, D. Meyer, Kreibich, Urban, Gundrum, Hahn, Hundertmark, Rhoades, Freese, Krawczyk, Coggs, Pettis, Miller, Vrakas, Steinbrink and Sykora, by request of Department of Wisconsin Military Order of the Purple Heart.
To committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 365
Relating to: nondisclosure of certain information on credit and debit card receipts.
By Senators Erpenbach, Hansen, Burke, Grobschmidt, Kanavas, Roessler and Harsdorf; cosponsored by Representatives Jeskewitz, Plouff, Powers, Ladwig, Starzyk, Lassa, Owens, J. Lehman, Rhoades, Cullen, J. Fitzgerald, Sinicki, Sykora, Hines, Ott, Gunderson, Townsend, Hahn, Musser, Montgomery, Pocan, Urban and Miller.
To committee on Privacy, Electronic Commerce and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 366
Relating to: a single registration plate for motor vehicles, local examining centers, grants to Brown County and municipalities, transfers from the transportation fund to the general fund, and making an appropriation.
By Senators Hansen and Cowles; cosponsored by Representatives Miller and Boyle.
To committee on Insurance, Tourism, and Transportation.
Senate Bill 367
Relating to: repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of ss. 10.62 to 10.82 of the statutes for the purpose of correcting conflicts between the listings in ss. 10.62 to 10.82 and the substantive statutes to which those sections refer (Revisor's Correction Bill).
By Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations.
S489 Senate Bill 368
Relating to: numbering unnumbered subchapter titles in the statutes (Revisor's Revision Bill).
By Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 369
Relating to: amending and revising section 409.109 (1) (intro.) of the statutes for the purpose of reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).
By Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 370
Relating to: setting certain priorities that the higher educational aids board must observe in awarding loans under the nursing student loan forgiveness program and forgiveness of the principal and interest of a loan awarded under that program.
By Senators George, Robson and Grobschmidt; cosponsored by Representatives Morris-Tatum, Turner, Lassa, Walker, Carpenter, Miller, Plouff, Urban, Pettis, Underheim, La Fave and Staskunas.
To committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations.
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report of committees
The committee on Environmental Resources reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 30
Relating to: the issuance of wild turkey hunting licenses to qualified resident landowners.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Baumgart, Hansen, Wirch, Cowles and Schultz.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 219
Relating to: the billboard elimination grant program, prohibiting the erection of new billboards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 1 - Senator Baumgart.
Noes, 4 - Senators Hansen, Wirch, Cowles and Schultz.
Senate Bill 264
Relating to: prohibiting certain persons from obtaining licenses that authorize hunting with a firearm and providing a penalty.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Baumgart, Hansen, Wirch, Cowles and Schultz.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Joint Resolution 30
Relating to: memorializing the U.S. Congress to provide funding for research on recycled lumber by the Forest Products Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Baumgart, Hansen, Wirch, Cowles and Schultz.
Noes, 0 - None.
Adoption as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Baumgart, Hansen, Wirch and Schultz.
Noes, 1 - Senator Cowles.
Jim Baumgart
Chairperson
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petitions and communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
January 4, 2002
The Honorable, The Legislature:
As required by Article V, Section 6 of the Wisconsin Constitution, I am submitting the annual Executive Clemency report to the Legislature, covering those clemency cases upon which final dispositions were rendered for applicants during the calendar year 2001. The following applicants received full pardons or conditional pardons in 2001:
Aaron Foreman, convicted of Possession of THC with Intent to Deliver and sentenced on 6/21/91 to two years probation, nine months jail with Huber rights and a fine, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 3-2 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 10, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
John Gonsalves, convicted of Battery to a Police Officer and sentenced on 6/30/75 to eighteen months probation, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 5-0 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 10, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
Kenneth Rucker, convicted of Delivery of Controlled Substance and sentenced on 8/17/81 to three years prison (stayed), four years probation, ten weekends in jail, restitution and costs, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 4-1 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 10, 2001 (Conditional pardon to possess firearms that are discharged from the shoulder), because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
William Grosskreuz, convicted of Theft and Operating a Motor Vehicle without the Owner's Consent and sentenced on 8/18/58 to two years imprisonment on each count (concurrent), recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 5-0 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
Paul Karlen convicted of Theft by Fraud, Fraudulent Writing, and Forgery and sentenced on 5/13/91 to four months jail, twelve years probation and restitution, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 4-0 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
David Krings, convicted of Delivery of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on 1/13/87 to two years probation and restitution, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 5-1 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
S490 Stephanie Taylor, convicted of Public Assistance Fraud and sentenced on 1/6/71 to a fine, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 4-0 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because she is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
Gregory Kelly, convicted of Battery and sentenced on 9/9/86 to two years imprisonment, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 3-1 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
Jake Lasee, convicted of Possession of Cocaine with Intent to Deliver and sentenced on 9/19/97 to six months imprisonment (five months stayed) and three years probation, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 3-1 to be denied a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001 (effective February 1, 2011 and shall only become effective if there is no subsequent contact with the criminal justice system), because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
William Manthey, convicted of Misconduct in Office and sentenced on 8/18/92 to two years probation, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 2-1 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
Bryan Morgan, convicted of Delivery of Marijuana and sentenced on 6/15/87 to three years probation, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 5-0 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
Raymond Thomas, convicted of Delivery of Cocaine and sentenced on 3/10/86 to two years probation, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 5-0 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
Duane Tracy, Sr., convicted of Breaking and Entering and sentenced on 1/17/62 to no more than eighteen months jail, recommended by the Governor's Pardon Advisory Board by a vote of 4-0 to be granted a pardon, was granted a pardon on January 30, 2001, because he is a productive member of society and otherwise deserving of extraordinary relief.
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