To committee on Agriculture, Financial Institutions and Insurance.
Senate Bill 327
Relating to: expenditure of $12,600 from the general fund in payment of a claim against the state made by Alan and Marlene Sieker.
By
Senators
Welch, Schultz and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives D. Meyer, Hahn, Albers, Bies, Stone, Ziegelbauer, Ott, Hines and Jeskewitz, by request of State of Wisconsin Claims Board.
To joint committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 328
Relating to: expenditure of $23,053.80 from the general fund in payment of a claim against the state made by Jerome and Theresa Wagner.
By
Senators
Welch, Schultz and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives D. Meyer, Hahn, Travis, Stone, Jeskewitz, Albers, Bies, Ott and Hines, by request of State of Wisconsin Claims Board.
To joint committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 329
Relating to: expenditure of $56,300 from moneys appropriated to the Department of Transportation in payment of a claim against the state made by the city of West Allis.
By
Senators
Welch, Reynolds and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives D. Meyer, Hahn, Albers, Hines, Jeskewitz, Staskunas and Bies, by request of State of Wisconsin Claims Board.
To joint committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 330
Relating to: expenditure of $13,785.25 from moneys appropriated to the Department of Transportation in payment of a claim against the state made by the city of West Allis.
By
Senators
Welch, Reynolds and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives D. Meyer, Hahn, Albers, Hines, Jeskewitz, Staskunas and Bies, by request of State of Wisconsin Claims Board.
To joint committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 331
Relating to: expenditure of $76,150 from moneys appropriated to the Department of Transportation in payment of a claim against the state made by Walworth County.
By
Senators
Welch, Kedzie, Schultz and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives D. Meyer, Stone, Bies, Gunderson, Hahn, Albers, Nass, Hines, Jeskewitz and Lothian, by request of State of Wisconsin Claims Board.
To joint committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 332
Relating to: prohibiting an insurer from canceling or refusing to issue or renew an insurance policy on the basis that the applicant or insured is not insured under another policy issued by the insurer.
By
Senators
Chvala, Risser, Carpenter and Breske; cosponsored by Representatives J. Lehman, Musser, Taylor, Ziegelbauer, Ainsworth and Gronemus.
To committee on Agriculture, Financial Institutions and Insurance.
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The committee on Health, Children, Families, Aging and Long Term Care reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 279
S497
Relating to: creating a rebuttable presumption against awarding a parent joint or sole legal custody if the court finds that the parent has engaged in a pattern or serious incident of abuse, requiring a guardian ad litem and a mediator to have training related to domestic violence, and requiring a guardian ad litem to investigate and a mediator to inquire whether a party in an action affecting the family engaged in domestic violence.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
Roessler, Kanavas, Brown, Schultz, Robson, Chvala, Jauch and Carpenter.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Welch.
Assembly Bill 477
Relating to: creating an individual income tax subtract modification for certain individuals who donate a human organ.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 9 - Senators
Roessler, Kanavas, Brown, Welch, Schultz, Robson, Chvala, Jauch and Carpenter.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 287
Relating to: multiple municipal local health departments in Milwaukee County.
Passage.
Ayes, 7 - Senators
Roessler, Kanavas, Brown, Welch, Schultz, Robson and Jauch.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Chvala and Carpenter.
Carol Roessler
Chairperson
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Statement of Canvass
for
State Senator
RECALL ELECTION, November 18, 2003
I, Shane Falk, Chairperson of the State Elections Board, certify that the attached tabular statement, as compiled from the certified returns made to the State Elections Board by the Milwaukee County Board of Election Commissioners, contains a correct abstract of the total number of votes given for the election of a candidate for State Senator at a Recall Election held in the several election districts in said county on the Eighteenth day of November, 2003.
I DO, THEREFORE, DETERMINE AND CERTIFY that the following candidate, having received the greatest number of votes, is duly elected State Senator:
District Elected
6th District G. Spencer Coggs
Done in the City
of Madison, this 24th day of November, 2003.
Shane Falk
Chairperson, State Elections Board
Senator Coggs was given the oath of office November 25, 2003.
executive order #33
Relating to a Special Election for the Seventeenth Assembly District
WHEREAS, the Honorable G. Spencer Coggs, submitted his resignation as a State Representative for the Seventeenth Assembly District, effective November 25, 2003;
NOW, THEREFORE, I Jim Doyle, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, pursuant to section 8.50(4) of the Wisconsin Statutes, order that a special election be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 to fill the vacancy in the Seventeenth Assembly District. A description of the boundaries of the Seventeenth Assembly District as created in the combined cases of Baumgart et al. v. Wendelberger, Case No. 01-C-0121 (E.D. Wis. 2002) and Jensen et al. v. Wendelberger, Case No. 02-C-0366 (E.D. Wis. 2002) are set out in the 2001-02 Wisconsin Statutes following section 4.005. The term for the Seventeenth Assembly District will expire on the first Monday in January, 2005. If a primary is necessary, it shall be held on Tuesday, December 30, 2003. Circulation of nomination papers for candidates may begin on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 and nomination papers may be filed no later that 5:00 P.M., December 2, 2003 in the office of the State Elections Board. This election shall be held, conducted, canvassed and returned in accordance with law.
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 twenty-fifth day of November in the year two thousand and three.
JIM DOYLE
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
November 21, 2003
To the Honorable, the Senate:
The following bill(s), originating in the Senate, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Sincerely,
Jim Doyle
Governor
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
November 25, 2003
To the Honorable, the Senate:
The following bill(s), originating in the Senate, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Sincerely,
Jim Doyle
Governor
S498
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Secretary of State
To the Honorable, the Senate:
Sincerely,
Douglas La follette
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
November 19, 2003
The Honorable, The Senate:
