RECESS
12:18 P.M.
The Senate reconvened.
Senator A. Lasee in the chair.
The question was: Shall Assembly Bill 49 be referred to the committee on Labor and Election Process Reform?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 14; noes, 19; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Lassa, Miller, Plale, Reynolds, Risser, Robson, Taylor and Wirch - 14.
Noes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Olsen, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp and Zien - 19.
Absent or not voting - None.
Referral Refused.
Senator Grothman raised the point of order that Senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 49 was not germane.
The Chair ruled the point of order well taken.
Senator Erpenbach appealed the decision of the Chair.
The question was: Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgement of the Senate?
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 18; noes, 14; absent or not voting, 1; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Olsen, Reynolds, Schultz, Stepp and Zien - 18.
Noes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Lassa, Miller, Plale, Risser, Robson, Taylor and Wirch - 14.
Absent or not voting - Senator Roessler - 1.
The decision of the Chair stands as the judgement of the Senate.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Schultz asked unanimous consent to consider the bill for final action at this time.
Senator Miller objected.
Senator Schultz moved that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill 49 be given a third reading.
The question was: Shall the rules be suspended and Assembly Bill 49 be given a third reading?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 19; noes, 14; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Ellis, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Olsen, Reynolds, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp and Zien - 19.
Noes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Lassa, Miller, Plale, Risser, Robson, Taylor and Wirch - 14.
Absent or not voting - None.
Refused to suspend the rules.
S216 Senator Roessler, with unanimous consent, asked that the Journal reflect that she would have voted aye on the question: Shall the decision of the Chair standing as the judgement of the Senate?
Assembly Bill 261
Relating to: use of and access to digital recordings of a child's statement in certain court and administrative proceedings.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Kedzie, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 261
Read a third time and concurred in.
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MOTIONS MAY BE OFFERED
Senator Kedzie, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Bill 197 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up at this time.
Assembly Bill 197
Relating to: expanding the cancer drug repository program to include prescription drugs and supplies for chronic disease and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Kedzie, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Assembly Bill 197
Read a third time and concurred in.
Senator Robson, Hansen, Taylor, Reynolds, Harsdorf and Erpenbach, with unanimous consent, asked to be made cosponsors of Assembly Bill 197.
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 124 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up at this time.
Senate Bill 124
Relating to: authorizing a town that has entered into a cooperative boundary agreement to use tax incremental financing.
Read.
The question was: Shall Assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 124 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Joint Resolution 37 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up at this time.
Assembly Joint Resolution 37
Relating to: proclaiming that the ancient Macedonians were Hellenes and that the inhabitants of the northern province of Greece, Macedonia, are their Hellenic descendants.
Read.
The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 37 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly.
Messaged.
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announcements, adjournment honors, and remarks under special privilege
Senator Taylor, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of the women of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, a public service sorority that had Delta's day at the Capitol today.
Senator Wirch, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of Robert Brehm in his retirement from the Pleasant Prairie Fire and Rescue Department after more than 20 years of distinguished service as an EMT.
Senator Lassa, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of the victims of the forest fire in the town of Big Flats in Adams County, as well as the firefighters who fought to put out the blaze.
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of Senator Kedzie, who has been named Conservation Legislator of the Year by the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation.
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adjournment
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn until Thursday, May 12, at 8:00 A.M.
Adjourned.
1:01 P.M.
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AMENDMENTS OFFERED
Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill 136 offered by Senator Roessler.
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