Friday, April 16, 2010
Ninety-Ninth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date:
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Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 773 offered by Representative Friske.
Assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 437 offered by Representative Kessler.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 961
Relating to: targets for the allocation of federal tax credits by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.
By
Representative
Young
; cosponsored by Senator Taylor
.
To committee on Housing.
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The special committee on Clean Energy Jobs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 649
Relating to: goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Black, Soletski, Steinbrink, Zepnick, Parisi and Mason.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Huebsch, Montgomery and Gunderson.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Black, Soletski, Steinbrink, Zepnick, Parisi and Mason.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Huebsch, Montgomery and Gunderson.
To calendar.
Spencer Black
Assembly Co-Chairperson
Special Committee on Clean Energy Jobs
James Soletski
Assembly Co-Chairperson
Special Committee on Clean Energy Jobs
A874
The committee on
Consumer Protection reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 842
Relating to: requiring bittering agents in certain engine coolants and antifreeze and providing a penalty.
Passage:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Hintz, Soletski, Hixson, Pope-Roberts, Roys, Lothian, Spanbauer and Meyer.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Kleefisch.
To calendar.
Assembly Bill 903
Relating to: safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Passage:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Hintz, Soletski, Hixson, Roys, Lothian, Spanbauer and Meyer.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Pope-Roberts and Kleefisch.
To calendar.
Gordon Hintz
Chairperson
Committee on Consumer Protection
The committee on Corrections and the Courts reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 353
Relating to: restoring the right to vote to certain persons barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction and changing the information required on voter registration forms.
Passage:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Parisi, Benedict, Seidel, Pope-Roberts, Zigmunt and Pasch.
Noes: 5 - Representatives Van Roy, Gundrum, Kestell, LeMahieu and Brooks.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 759
Relating to: conditions of release to extended supervision, parole, conditional release, and supervised release, and conditions of probation, for sex offenders who committed certain crimes against children; prohibited areas for sex offenders who committed certain crimes against children; prohibiting a political subdivision from regulating the placement or residency of sex offenders; and providing a penalty.
