Julie Lassa
Chairperson
The committee on Judiciary, Corrections, and Housing reports and recommends:
Bagadia, Nikhil, of Milwaukee, as a member of the Real Estate Appraisers Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2011.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Taylor, Sullivan, Vinehout, Lazich and Grothman.
Noes, 0 - None.
Lee , Kenneth, of River Falls, as a member of the Real Estate Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2011.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Taylor, Sullivan, Vinehout, Lazich and Grothman.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 278
Relating to: threatening or committing battery against certain employees of first class cities and providing a penalty.
Adoption of Senate Amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Taylor, Sullivan, Vinehout, Lazich and Grothman.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Taylor, Sullivan, Vinehout, Lazich and Grothman.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 384
Relating to: disclosure of juvenile court records to other courts, law enforcement agencies, district attorneys and other prosecutors, and agencies providing services to a juvenile court and providing a penalty.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Taylor, Sullivan, Vinehout, Lazich and Grothman.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 461
Relating to: liability of the state for a violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Passage.
Ayes, 3 - Senators Taylor, Sullivan and Vinehout.
Noes, 2 - Senators Lazich and Grothman.
S651 Senate Bill 497
Relating to: assistant district attorney positions and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 3 - Senators Taylor, Sullivan and Vinehout.
Noes, 2 - Senators Lazich and Grothman.
Lena Taylor
Chairperson
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Petitions and Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Senate President
March 4 , 2008
The Honorable, the Senate:
Pursuant to Senate Rule 46 (2)(c), I am writing to inform you that I have directed the following proposal(s) to be withdrawn from committee and rereferred. I have obtained the consent of the appropriate standing committee chairperson and the chairperson of the committee on Senate Organization.
Assembly Bill 485 withdrawn from joint survey committee on Retirement Systems and rereferred to committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Biotechnology and Financial Institutions.
Sincerely,
FRED A. RISSER
Senate President
State of Wisconsin
Senate
March 4 , 2008
The Honorable, the Senate:
I am writing to you in my capacity as the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job Creation. Assembly Bill 710 which creates a new crime or revises an existing criminal penalty, was referred to my committee. I am writing to you under s. 13.525 (5) (a), Wis. Stats., to request that the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties prepare a report on the bill under s. 13.525 (5) (b), Wis. Stats.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
JON ERPENBACH
Chairperson
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Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Kapanke added as a cosponsor of Assembly Joint Resolution 94 .
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Representative Hilgenberg added as a cosponsor of Senate Bill 512 .
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Hansen added as a coauthor of Senate Joint Resolution 95 .
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Darling added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 434 .
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Carpenter added as a cosponsor of Assembly Bill 741 .
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Hansen added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 434 .
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Advice and Consent of the Senate
Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that all appointments be taken up en masse.
Anderson, Marcia, of Verona, as a member of the Board of Veterans Affairs, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2013.
Naylor, Daniel, of Waupaca, as a member of the Board of Veterans Affairs, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2013.
Neumann, Judith, of Madison, as chair of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, to serve for the term ending March 1, 2013.
Read.
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Senator S. Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess until 1:00 P.M.
12:49 P.M.
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Recess
1:04 P.M.
The Senate reconvened.
President Risser in the chair.
The question was: Confirmation?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 33; noes, 0; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Carpenter, Coggs, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, S. Fitzgerald, Grothman, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kapanke, Kedzie, Kreitlow, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Lehman, Leibham, Miller, Olsen, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Sullivan, Taylor, Vinehout and Wirch - 33.
Noes - None.
Absent or not voting - None.
Confirmed.
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Consideration of Motions, Resolutions, and Joint Resolutions Not Requiring a Third Reading
Senate Joint Resolution 82
Relating to: opposing a federal mandate requiring the suspension or revocation of driver's licenses in all circumstances where a person has been convicted of a drug or other controlled substances violation and exercising the state's option to opt out of this federal mandate.
The question was: Shall Senate Joint Resolution 82 be adopted?
Adopted.
Senate Joint Resolution 95
Relating to: the life and public service of Anne Carol Kok.
The question was: Shall Senate Joint Resolution 95 be adopted?
Adopted.
S652 Senator Decker, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Joint Resolution 97 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up.
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