In accordance with Joint Rule
81(2), it is moved that the committee on Senate Organization and the committee on Assembly Organization authorize the Legislature to meet in Extraordinary session at 12:00 P.M. on Wednesday, July 20, 2005, solely for the purpose of taking action on bills relating to:
• Ratification of the agreements negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 2003-05 biennium, covering employees in the administrative support, blue collar and nonbuilding trades, security and public safety, and technical collective bargaining units, and authorizing expenditure of funds.
• Paid vacation leave for certain nonrepresented state employees.
Committee on Senate Organization (Ayes 5, Noes 0)
Committee on Assembly Organization (Ayes 8, Noes 0)
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The joint committee on Employment Relations reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 261
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 2003-05 biennium, covering employees in the administrative support collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Introduction.
Ayes 6, Senators Lasee, Schultz, and Robson; and Representatives Gard, Huebsch, and Kaufert.
Noes, 0 - None.
Absent 2, Senator Fitzgerald; and Representative Kreuser.
Read first time and referred to the committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Bill 262
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 2003-05 biennium, covering employees in the blue collar and nonbuilding trades collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Introduction.
Ayes 6, Senators Lasee, Schultz, and Robson; and Representatives Gard, Huebsch, and Kaufert.
Noes, 0 - None.
Absent 2, Senator Fitzgerald; and Representative Kreuser.
Read first time and referred to the committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Bill 263
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 2003-05 biennium, covering employees in the security and public safety collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Introduction.
Ayes 6, Senators Lasee, Schultz, and Robson; and Representatives Gard, Huebsch, and Kaufert.
Noes, 0 - None.
Absent 2, Senator Fitzgerald; and Representative Kreuser.
Read first time and referred to the committee on Senate Organization.
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 2003-05 biennium, covering employees in the technical collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Introduction.
Ayes 6, Senators Lasee, Schultz, and Robson; and Representatives Gard, Huebsch, and Kaufert.
Noes, 0 - None.
Absent 2, Senator Fitzgerald; and Representative Kreuser.
Read first time and referred to the committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Bill 265
Relating to: paid vacation leave for certain nonrepresented state employees.
Introduction.
Ayes 6, Senators Lasee, Schultz, and Robson; and Representatives Gard, Huebsch, and Kaufert.
Noes, 0 - None.
Absent 2, Senator Fitzgerald; and Representative Kreuser.
Read first time and referred to the committee on Senate Organization.
Alan Lasee
Senate Chairperson
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Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 261 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up.
Senate Bill 261
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 2003-05 biennium, covering employees in the administrative support collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
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.
Senate
Bill 261
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 29; noes, 1; absent or not voting, 3; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Brown, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Leibham, Olsen, Plale, Reynolds, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Taylor, Wirch and Zien - 29.
Noes - Senator Grothman - 1.
Absent or not voting - Senators S. Fitzgerald, Miller and Stepp - 3.
Passed.
Senator Kedzie, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 262 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up.
Senate Bill 262
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 2003-05 biennium, covering employees in the blue collar and nonbuilding trades collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
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.
Senate
Bill 262
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 30; noes, 0; absent or not voting, 3; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Brown, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Leibham, Olsen, Plale, Reynolds, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Taylor, Wirch and Zien - 30.
Noes - None.
Absent or not voting - Senators S. Fitzgerald, Miller and Stepp - 3.
Passed.
Senator Schultz, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 263 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up.
Senate Bill 263
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, and its appropriate affiliated locals, AFL-CIO, for the 2003-05 biennium, covering employees in the security and public safety collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Senator Risser raised a point of order that the Senate Rules apply to extraordinary sessions and that, pursuant to those rules, Senate Rule
18 requires the production and distribution of a calendar for the extraordinary session.
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The Chair ruled the point of order not well taken. Although the Senate Rules generally do apply to extraordinary sessions, the Senate Rules do not require the production of a calendar for a session day. In the absence of a calendar, the Senate may convene and follow the orders of business required under Senate Rule
17. For purposes of this extraordinary session, the committee on Senate Organization called the session but did not prepare a calendar. Thus, the Senate followed the orders of business dictated by Senate Rule
17. Bills taken up during the session may be taken up by unanimous consent
Senator Risser appealed the ruling of the Chair.
The question was: Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the Senate?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 17; noes, 13; absent or not voting, 3; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Brown, Cowles, Darling, Ellis, Grothman, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lazich, Leibham, Olsen, Reynolds, Roessler, Schultz and Zien - 17.
Noes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Decker, Erpenbach, Hansen, Jauch, Lassa, Plale, Risser, Robson, Taylor and Wirch - 13.
Absent or not voting - Senators S. Fitzgerald, Miller and Stepp - 3.
The decision of the Chair stands as the judgment of the Senate.
Read a second time.
Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 263 offered by Senators Breske and Decker.
