STATE OF WISCONSIN
Assembly Journal
One-Hundred and First Regular Session
  Corrected Copy MONDAY, December 9, 2013
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date:
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Amendments Offered
Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 407 offered by Representative Czaja.
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Introduction and Reference of Proposals
Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 541
Relating to: the sales and use tax exemption for equipment used in a fertilizer blending, feed milling, or grain drying operation.
By Representatives Nerison, Kulp, Tauchen, A. Ott, Vruwink, Mursau, Ripp, Marklein, Brooks, Ballweg, Petryk, Murphy, Jacque and Spiros; cosponsored by Senators Moulton, Shilling, Harsdorf, Grothman and Schultz.
To committee on Agriculture.
Assembly Bill 542
Relating to: a state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
By Representatives Mason, Barnes, Ohnstad, Riemer, Goyke, Hesselbein, Genrich, Johnson, Sargent, Wachs, Berceau, Clark, Hebl, Hulsey, Kessler, Milroy, Pasch, Pope, Shankland, Sinicki, C. Taylor, Young and Zepnick; cosponsored by Senators Wirch, Lehman, Carpenter, T. Cullen, Erpenbach, Hansen, Harris, Jauch, Miller, Risser and L. Taylor.
To committee on Labor.
Assembly Bill 543
Relating to: public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties.
By Representatives Hebl, Kolste, Kahl, Sargent, Mason, Wright, C. Taylor, Doyle, Shankland, Bernard Schaber, Berceau, Pope, Ringhand, Clark, Hintz, Ohnstad, Wachs, Goyke, Pasch, Genrich and Young; cosponsored by Senators Miller, Schultz, Lassa, Vinehout, Hansen, Carpenter, Risser, T. Cullen, Harris, C. Larson and Lehman.
To committee on Campaigns and Elections.
Assembly Bill 544
Relating to: a pupil's possession and use of an epinephrine auto-injector.
By Representatives Pasch, A. Ott, Berceau, Billings, T. Larson and Ohnstad; cosponsored by Senators Olsen and Gudex.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 545
Relating to: disinfection of drinking water supplied by a municipal water system.
By Representatives Mason, Pasch, Berceau, Ringhand, Pope, Wachs, Ohnstad, C. Taylor and Hebl; cosponsored by Senators Miller, Lehman, Vinehout and Risser.
To committee on Energy and Utilities.
Assembly Bill 546
Relating to: short-term tax incremental districts and expenditure of tax increments for relocation of commercial or industrial enterprises.
By Representatives Weininger, Ballweg, Bies and Kahl; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Grothman, Gudex and Schultz.
To committee on State and Local Finance.
Assembly Bill 547
Relating to: disseminating information about a tax incremental district's annual budget and value increment, requiring a political subdivision to evaluate a tax incremental district's performance, increasing the amount that a political subdivision may add to its levy limit upon the dissolution of a tax incremental financing district, and extending the life and expenditure period for certain tax incremental financing districts.
By Representatives Weininger, Bies, Hintz, Kahl and Pridemore; cosponsored by Senators Cowles and Gudex.
To committee on State and Local Finance.
Assembly Bill 548
Relating to: expanding the definition of project costs to include certain cash payments with regard to a tax incremental financing district.
By Representatives Weininger, Bies, Genrich, Kahl and Ohnstad; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Gudex and Schultz.
To committee on State and Local Finance.
Assembly Bill 549
Relating to: authorizing independent charter schools, eliminating noninstrumentality charter schools, establishing magnet schools, replication process for certain operators of charter schools, and utilizing an alternative process for educator effectiveness.
By Representatives Kooyenga, Kleefisch, Hutton, Pridemore, Sanfelippo and Ballweg; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Vukmir, Farrow and Grothman.
To committee on Urban Education.
Assembly Bill 550
Relating to: requirements and local ordinances related to certificates of food protection practices.
By Representatives Thiesfeldt, Brooks, Bernier, A. Ott, Sinicki, Bies, Kahl, Ripp and Petryk; cosponsored by Senators Farrow and L. Taylor.
To committee on Consumer Protection.
Assembly Bill 551
Relating to: smoking in private residences that are used as child care centers.
By Representatives Kerkman, C. Taylor, Barnes, Berceau, Bies, Billings, Kahl, Kolste, T. Larson, Milroy, Ohnstad, A. Ott, Pope, Tranel, Wachs and Wright; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Risser, T. Cullen, Harris, L. Taylor, Lassa and Lehman.
To committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security.
Assembly Bill 552
Relating to: the definition and practice of dentistry for professional licensing purposes.
By Representatives Jagler, Born, Weatherston, Billings, Petersen, Tittl, A. Ott, Ballweg, Tranel, Murphy, Mason, Riemer, Doyle, Williams, Weininger, Krug, Kestell, Craig, Hintz, Thiesfeldt, Genrich, Kahl, Kerkman, Bernier, Sargent, Wachs, Bernard Schaber, Petryk, Ringhand, Bies, Tauchen, Barca, Kaufert, Endsley, Loudenbeck, C. Taylor and Bewley; cosponsored by Senators Farrow, Petrowski, Lasee, Lassa, Grothman, Kedzie, Hansen, Shilling, Wirch, Schultz, Olsen, Lehman, Gudex, Moulton and Ellis.
To committee on State Affairs and Government Operations.
Assembly Bill 553
Relating to: arbitration agreements used by long-term care facilities, civil and criminal actions against health care providers and long-term care providers, use in civil and criminal actions and confidentiality of incident and occurrence reports, use as evidence of records given to a regulatory agency, use in criminal actions of records of reviews and evaluations of health care providers, limits on noneconomic damages, limits on punitive damages, and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Richards, Hebl, Wachs, Goyke, Barnes, Berceau, Billings, Jorgensen, Kessler, Mason, Milroy, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Ringhand, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, C. Taylor, Vruwink, Wright, Young, Zamarripa, Zepnick, Hintz, Johnson, Clark and Danou; cosponsored by Senators T. Cullen, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Hansen, Harris, C. Larson, Lassa, Lehman, Risser and L. Taylor.
To committee on Judiciary.
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Chief Clerk Reports
The Chief Clerk records:
Assembly Bill 194
Presented to the Governor on Monday, December 9.
PATRICK E. FULLER
Assembly Chief Clerk
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Communications
November 1, 2013
Executive Director Wyman Winston  
Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority

201 W. Washington Ave., Ste. 700

Madison, WI 53703
Dear Executive Director Winston:
I am writing to inform you that the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economy and Mining has reviewed WHEDA’s report to the legislature, Dividends for Wisconsin, pursuant to s. 234.165 (2)(b), Wis. Stats.
No objections have been raised by the Committee; therefore, the report is approved.
Sincerely,
Mary Williams
State Representative
87th Assembly District
Chair, Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economy and Mining
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