Relating to: authorizing financial institutions to conduct savings promotion prize programs.
hist77242Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the rules be suspended and the bill be given its third reading. Assembly Bill 283
Assembly Bill 323
Relating to: requiring an open season for woodchucks.
hist77246Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the rules be suspended and the bill be given its third reading. Assembly Bill 323
Senators Erpenbach and Miller, with unanimous consent, asked to be recorded as voting “No” on the question of concurrence of Assembly Bill 323.
Assembly Bill 335
Relating to: fentanyl analogs and providing a criminal penalty.
hist77249The question was: Adoption of Senate Amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 335? Adopted.
hist77250Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the rules be suspended and the bill be given its third reading. Assembly Bill 335
hist77574Read a third time and concurred in as amended. Assembly Bill 345
Relating to: work release for inmates in Department of Corrections contracted facilities.
hist77255Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the rules be suspended and the bill be given its third reading. Assembly Bill 345
Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly:
Messaged.
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Senator Roth, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate stand informal.
The Chair noted the possible lack of a quorum.
The roll was taken and a quorum was present.
Senate Joint Resolution 70
Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Secretary Kitty Rhoades.
hist77305Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that all members of the Senate be added as coauthors of Senate Joint Resolution 70. _____________
Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess.
1:22 P.M.
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Recess
1:46 P.M.
The Senate reconvened.
Senate President Roth in the chair.
The Chair noted the possible lack of a quorum.
The roll was taken and a quorum was present.
Senator Fitzgerald, with unanimous consent, asked that all action be immediately messaged to the Assembly:
Messaged.
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Announcements, Adjournment Honors, and Remarks Under Special Privilege
Senator Hansen, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of his granddaughter, Malia Bicoy, on her 14th birthday. She loves school, band and acting.
Senator Hansen, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of the 10th anniversary of UW- Green Bay’s Kress Event Center. Back in the day, in a bi-partisan way, they were given $7.5 million to build a more than $30 million facility.
Senator Wanggaard, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of his son, Joshua Wanggaard, as he is en route to Africa on a mission trip. Please keep the team in your prayers.
Senator Wanggaard, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of his Chief of Staff, Scott Kelly, in honor of his 45th birthday yesterday.
Senator Darling, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of Judge Triggiano, who started the family drug court in Milwaukee County.
Senator Stroebel, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of Representative Bob Gannon. Bob’s recent passing was a shock to all of us. His 58th Assembly District is in Senator Stroebel’s Senate District, so he had the chance to work with Bob quite frequently. He admired his qualities of frankness and no-nonsense approach to the issues. He was always interested in doing what was right for his district as well as the entire state. He will be missed.
Senator L. Taylor, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of Representative Bob Gannon, who passed away recently.
Senator L. Taylor, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of Robert Miranda, a lead testing advocate in Milwaukee.
Senator Wirch, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of the 4 brave soldiers that lost their lives in Niger.
Senator Risser, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of Awonder Liang, who at the age of 14 years old, is the first Grandmaster born in the State of Wisconsin. The Grandmaster title is the most elite title awarded by the World Chess Federation. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by the Federation Presidential Board this past June. Awonder is a student at Madison West High School. Awonder became the youngest player to defeat a Grandmaster when he was only 9 years old. He won the World Youth Under Age 8 World Champion in 2011 and the World Youth Under Age 10 Champion in 2013. He won the 2017 United States Junior Closed Champion. Congratulations to Awonder on all of his accomplishments.
Senator Bewley, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of her father-in-law, Warren A. Saetre, retired Ninth Judicial District Trial judge, who died Tuesday, September 26, in Marshall, Minnesota. Still active at 94 year of age, Saetre died as a result of injuries suffered as a passenger in a traffic accident. Judge Saetre was born August 22, 1923 in Henning, the son of Alfred and Ida (Thoreson) Saetre, the fifth in a family of five boys and two girls. Two of his brothers, Gaylord and Homer, were also District judges in Minnesota. As a boy, Saetre learned the value of hard work from his farming family, nurtured a life-long love of the outdoors, fishing and hunting the prairie lakes of his home, and he developed the virtues of integrity and faith from his Norwegian Lutheran family. He became acquainted with grief as a boy when his father died in the midst of the Depression, and he learned from his mother’s grit as she raised her family through those hard times. Saetre enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942, receiving his officer’s commission and silver wings as a fighter pilot. He flew P-38s and P-47s during WWII, and P-51s as a Minnesota Air National Guard officer following the war. He never forgot the honor of serving his country as a pilot and the thrill of flight that marked those years. He graduated from William Mitchell Law School in 1951 and opened a solo law practice in the small town of Warren, served as Marshall County Attorney from 1953 to 1963, and grew his practice into what is now the successful law firm of Rokke and Aandal. Saetre was appointed to 9th Judicial Bench by Gov. Harold Levander in 1968 and served until his retirement in 1989. He won praise from other judges and members of the bar, who said of him at his retirement, that “He was an uncommonly good judge…a role model for many years for younger judges and lawyers around the state.” Saetre was an author of the Minnesota Criminal Jury Instructions Guide and served as Chief Judge of the 9th District. He was a Fellow in the International Academy of Trial Judges and studied at the National College of Trial Judges and also as a student of British Law at the University of Birmingham. In retirement, he continued his love of the outdoors as an avid walleye fisherman on Lake of the Woods, and had a fanatical love of duck-hunting, an all-consuming trait passed on to his son, and my husband, David. He treated Senator Bewley as a daughter, teased me mercilessly, and will be forever in her heart.
Senator Moulton, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of his grandson, Dawson Moulton, who at the age of 10, bagged his first deer with a bow and arrow. He is also the youngest member of the Moulton family to ever shoot a deer.
Senator Larson, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of his uncle Mike, who passed away last week at the age of 67.
Senator L. Taylor, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate adjourn in honor of her son, Isaiah Taylor, who turns 18 in 10 days.
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