Read and referred:
Senate Resolution 24
Relating to: memorializing Congress to make such changes to the federal laws as are necessary to restrain the purview of the federal courts to the clear language of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and to amend that constitution to restore the term due process to its original meaning.
By
Senator
Reynolds
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To committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Joint Resolution 53
Relating to: commending the life and public service of Officer Richard A. Meyer.
By
Senators
Ellis, Zien, Brown, Darling, Kanavas, Hansen, Schultz, S. Fitzgerald, A. Lasee, Kedzie, Lassa, Stepp, Roessler and Decker; cosponsored by Representatives Kaufert, McCormick, Olsen, LeMahieu, Krawczyk, Jeskewitz, Underheim, Vruwink, Bies, Van Roy, Lothian, Boyle, Krug, Ziegelbauer, Molepske, Musser, Ladwig, M. Lehman, Suder, Taylor, Miller, Gunderson, Weber, Plouff and Owens.
To committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Bill 341
Relating to: requiring cities and villages to make payments to towns from which land is annexed.
By
Senator
A. Lasee
; cosponsored by Representatives Musser, Owens, Seratti, Bies, Ainsworth and M. Lehman.
To committee on Homeland Security, Veterans and Military Affairs and Government Reform.
Senate Bill 342
Relating to: requiring the president and chancellors of the University of Wisconsin System to obtain Ethics Board approval before accepting corporate board compensation.
By
Senator
Hansen
; cosponsored by Representatives Turner, Ott, Albers, Kreibich, Hines, J. Lehman and Seratti.
To committee on Education, Ethics and Elections.
Senate Bill 343
Relating to: payments to ethanol producers and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Harsdorf, Welch, Roessler, A. Lasee, Schultz, Zien and Hansen; cosponsored by Representatives Freese, J. Wood, Gronemus, Ward, Ott, Ainsworth, Petrowski, Suder, Hines, Loeffelholz, Towns, Balow, Vruwink, Gunderson, Hahn, Pettis, Albers, Owens, McCormick, Musser and Bies.
To committee on Agriculture, Financial Institutions and Insurance.
Senate Bill 344
Relating to: payment of fixed annuity increases under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
By
Senators
Schultz and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Vrakas, Musser, Albers, Hahn, Hines, Seratti, Stone and J. Lehman.
To joint survey committee on Retirement Systems.
Senate Bill 345
Relating to: payday loan providers and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Robson, Hansen and Jauch; cosponsored by Representatives Grothman, Ainsworth, Berceau, Black, Boyle, Hines, Miller, Petrowski, Plouff, Pocan and Taylor.
To committee on Agriculture, Financial Institutions and Insurance.
Relating to: allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed to any section 529 college tuition program.
By
Senators
Kedzie, Reynolds, A. Lasee, Roessler, Lazich, Kanavas, Schultz, Stepp and Coggs; cosponsored by Representatives Nass, Gunderson, Ziegelbauer, Suder, Towns, Ladwig, Taylor, Krawczyk, Bies, F. Lasee, Pope-Roberts, Vrakas, Jeskewitz, Gronemus, Pettis, Kreibich, Townsend, Petrowski, Weber, Lothian, Johnsrud, Musser, Nischke, Schooff, Gottlieb, Grothman, Hundertmark, Stone, Gundrum, Hines, Rhoades, M. Lehman, Freese, Colon, J. Wood, Loeffelholz and Albers.
To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions.
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The committee on Agriculture, Financial Institutions and Insurance reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 283
Relating to: an income and franchise tax credit for expenses related to operating a dairy farm.
Introduction and adoption of Senate Amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Schultz, Brown, Kedzie, Hansen and Lassa.
Noes, 0 - None.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Schultz, Brown, Kedzie, Hansen and Lassa.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 459
Relating to: inclusion of social security numbers and employer identification numbers in Uniform Commercial Code financing statements.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Schultz, Brown, Kedzie, Hansen and Lassa.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Joint Resolution 52
Relating to: calling for concerted action to support, renew, and expand the agricultural economy in Wisconsin.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Schultz, Brown, Kedzie, Hansen and Lassa.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 320
Relating to: requirements for recommendations made by insurers and insurance intermediaries to senior consumers in annuity transactions; committees of the board of directors of domestic stock and mutual corporations; annuity minimum nonforfeiture amount; merger of town mutual and domestic mutual insurance corporation into a town mutual; the insurance security fund; other miscellaneous changes to the insurance provisions; and granting rule-making authority.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Schultz, Brown, Kedzie, Hansen and Lassa.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 322
Relating to: the definition of a group health benefit plan.
Passage.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Schultz, Brown and Kedzie.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Hansen and Lassa.
Dale Schultz
Chairperson
The committee on Labor, Small Business Development and Consumer Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 633
Relating to: preemption of county, city, village, or town living wage ordinances.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Reynolds, Kedzie and Zien.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Decker and Hansen.
Senate Bill 289
Relating to: civil liability exemption for claims resulting from weight gain and obesity.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Reynolds, Kedzie, Zien and Decker.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Hansen.
Thomas Reynolds
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
December 3, 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
