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Chief Clerk's Entries
Amendments Offered
hist69689Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 53 offered by Senator Vukmir. _____________
Introduction, First Reading, and Reference of Proposals
Read and referred:
Relating to: proclaiming May 2017 as Mental Health Awareness Month.
By Senators Vukmir, Bewley, Carpenter, Darling, Harsdorf, Marklein, Shilling, Wirch and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Ballweg, Allen, Considine, Hebl, Horlacher, Jacque, Kessler, Kitchens, Kolste, Milroy, Murphy, Mursau, Ripp, Rohrkaste, Snyder, Spreitzer, Subeck and VanderMeer.
hist69704To the committee on Senate Organization. Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Rachel Ann Veum.
By Senators Fitzgerald, Shilling, Bewley, Cowles, Darling, Erpenbach, Harsdorf, Johnson, Kapenga, C. Larson, Lasee, Miller, Moulton, Nass, Olsen, Petrowski, Ringhand, Risser, Roth, Stroebel, L. Taylor, Tiffany, Vinehout, Vukmir, Wanggaard and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Vos, Barca, Berceau, Bowen, Crowley, Genrich, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Horlacher, Kessler, Kleefisch, Kolste, Kremer, Mason, Milroy, Murphy, Mursau, Petryk, Pope, Ripp, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Subeck, C. Taylor, Thiesfeldt, Tranel, Tusler, Vruwink, Wachs and Zepnick.
hist69705To the committee on Senate Organization. Relating to: congratulating Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay on 125 years of continuous operation.
By Senators Hansen, Cowles, Lasee, Vinehout, Wirch and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Genrich, Steffen, Macco, Berceau, Kessler, Jacque, Rohrkaste, Riemer, Pope, Crowley, Spreitzer, Tittl, Subeck, Ohnstad, Thiesfeldt, Wachs, Hintz, Bowen, Tusler, Zepnick, Zamarripa, Kitchens, Nygren and Brostoff.
hist69706To the committee on Senate Organization. _____________
Report of Committees
The committee on Senate Organization reported:
Referred to, and withdrawn from, the joint committee on Finance, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e): Ayes: 5 - Senators Fitzgerald, Roth, Vukmir, Shilling and Bewley.
Noes: 0 - None.
Public hearing requirement waived, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m): Ayes: 5 - Senators Fitzgerald, Roth, Vukmir, Shilling and Bewley.
Noes: 0 - None.
Placed the following appointments and proposals on the Senate Calendar of Wednesday, May 10, 2017:
Ayes: 5 - Senators Fitzgerald, Roth, Vukmir, Shilling and Bewley.
Noes: 0 - None.
SCOTT FITZGERALD
Chairperson
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Petitions and Communications
hist69688Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Representative Ohnstad added as a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 125. _____________
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
May 5, 2017
The Honorable, the Senate:
This letter is to remove the following appointment from consideration for confirmation by the Wisconsin Senate:
hist69715FROEHLICH, THE HONORABLE HAROLD of Appleton, as a seat 3 on the Government Accountability Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2016. Respectfully Submitted,
SCOTT WALKER
Governor
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Senate President
March 21, 2017
The Honorable, the Senate:
Pursuant to Senate Rule 36 (2)(c), I am writing to direct the request for the joint committee on Tax Exemptions to submit a report be withdrawn. I have obtained the consent of the appropriate standing committee chairpersons and the chairperson of the committee on Senate Organization. hist69794Senate Bill 89, relating to: tax administration changes, the police and fire protection fee, defining restaurant for purposes of alcohol beverage regulation, lottery ticket couriers, background investigations of persons associated with the lottery, and providing a criminal penalty. Sincerely,
ROGER ROTH
President
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Adjournment
Senator Risser, with unanimous consent, asked that the 2017 Regular Session of the Senate stand adjourned until Wednesday, May 10, 2017.
Adjourned.
11:41 A.M.
