To joint committee on Finance.
Scott Gunderson
Chairperson
Committee on Natural Resources
The committee on Transportation reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 374
Relating to: adult school crossing guards signaling traffic to stop at school crossings.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Ainsworth, Petrowski, Hahn, Friske, Ott, Van Roy, Davis, Steinbrink, Sherman, Vruwink, Molepske and Nelson.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Suder.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Ainsworth, Ott, Steinbrink, Sherman, Vruwink, Molepske and Nelson.
Noes: 6 - Representatives Petrowski, Hahn, Suder, Friske, Van Roy and Davis.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 431
Relating to: special distinguishing registration plates associated with persons who are emergency responder personnel.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Ainsworth, Petrowski, Hahn, Friske, Ott, Lamb, Van Roy, Davis, Steinbrink, Sherman, Vruwink, Molepske and Nelson.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Ainsworth, Petrowski, Hahn, Friske, Ott, Lamb, Van Roy, Davis, Steinbrink, Sherman, Vruwink, Molepske and Nelson.
Noes: 0.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 671
Relating to: designating and marking a portion of STH 21 as the 2nd Infantry Division Memorial Highway.
Passage:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Ainsworth, Petrowski, Hahn, Suder, Friske, Ott, Van Roy, Davis, Steinbrink, Sherman, Vruwink, Molepske and Nelson.
Noes: 0.
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To committee on Rules.
John Ainsworth
Chairperson
Committee on Transportation
The committee on Veterans Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 234
Relating to: a sales tax exemption for sales to veterans organizations.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Loeffelholz, Musser, Townsend, Hundertmark, Bies, Sherman and Turner.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Loeffelholz, Musser, Townsend, Hundertmark, Bies, Sherman and Turner.
Noes: 0.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 674
Relating to: development zone tax credits for providing full-time jobs to veterans of the United States armed forces.
Passage:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Loeffelholz, Musser, Townsend, Hundertmark, Bies, Sherman and Turner.
Noes: 0.
To joint committee on Finance.
Gabe Loeffelholz
Chairperson
Committee on Veterans Affairs
From: Robert J. Marchant, Senate Chief Clerk.
Mr. Speaker:
I am directed to inform you that the Senate has
Amended and concurred in as amended:
Assembly Bill 64
(Senate amendment 2 adopted)
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Assembly Bill 64
Relating to: polling hours.
By
Representatives Freese, Jensen, Jeskewitz, Berceau, Nass, Hines and Lehman; cosponsored by Senators Reynolds and Kedzie.
To committee on Rules.
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Reference Bureau Corrections
Assembly Bill 791,
1. Page 2, line 4: delete "adult home, as defined in s.
50.01 (1)" and substitute "adult family home, as defined in s.
50.01 (1)".
Note: "Adult family home" rather than "adult home" is the term defined in s. 50.01 (1). __________________
Executive Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
January 6, 2006
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
The following bill, originating in the Assembly, has been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Bill Number Act Number Date Approved
Assembly Bill 184105January 6, 2005
Respectfully submitted,
JIM Doyle
Governor
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Governor's Veto Message
January 6, 2006
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I am vetoing Assembly Bill 56 in its entirety. This bill restricts state and local governments from bringing civil actions against firearms importers, manufacturers, dealers or trade associations, as well as against gun club or sport shooting range owners or operators. Assembly Bill 56 also grants, with certain exceptions, these same groups immunity from civil liability in any action for an injury or death caused by a firearm.
The President granted the gun industry sweeping immunity this past October when he signed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, Public Law No. 109-092. Under the federal law, no civil actions may be filed in federal or state court by individuals or governmental entities seeking relief for injury or death resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of a firearm.
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Assembly Bill 56 unnecessarily extends these protections beyond the new federal law, by granting immunity irrespective of whether there is an injury resulting from a criminal or unlawful misuse of a firearm. The bill also extends the immunity to gun club or sport shooting range owners or operators, even though Wisconsin has never seen any such lawsuits filed here. Although I honor the long tradition of hunting and shooting sports in Wisconsin and the value this tradition brings to our state, this bill is not about protecting hunters and other sportsmen and women.
