The Assembly held a floor session on April 22, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following items: Assembly Joint Resolution 13 relating to the life and public service of John A. Volk; Assembly Joint Resolution 118 relating to proclaiming May 14, 15, and 16, 2010, Syttende Mai Weekend; Senate Joint Resolution 2 relating to commending Jim Miller on his retirement as president of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute; Senate Joint Resolution 64 relating to the life and public service of Mary Anne McNulty; Senate Joint Resolution 65 relating to lead poisoning hazards, lead abatement, and requesting a study; Senate Joint Resolution 66 relating to proclaiming May 5, 2010, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff; Senate Joint Resolution 67 relating to honoring the life and public service of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and others; Senate Joint Resolution 68 relating to commending the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point men's basketball team; Senate Joint Resolution 69 relating to commending past and present members of the Friends of the Wisconsin Historical Society on its 60th anniversary; Senate Joint Resolution 70 relating to recognizing Aquaculture Day; Assembly Bill 303 relating to special distinguishing registration plates expressing support for the family members of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty; Assembly Bill 394 relating to the color and design of special distinguishing registration plates for fire fighters and emergency medical technicians; Senate Bill 557 relating to notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation; Senate Bill 573 relating to public access to certain shared law enforcement records; Senate Bill 609 relating to requiring informed consent before administration of psychotropic medication to a nursing home resident who has degenerative brain disorder; Assembly Joint Resolution 8 relating to taxation of principal homesteads of individuals (first consideration); Assembly Bill 48 relating to special distinguishing registration plates for groups that are military in nature and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 314 relating to pesticide use by railroads, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 342 relating to operation of lightweight utility vehicles on certain highways by persons with disabilities to access hunting and fishing areas; Assembly Bill 367 relating to employment discrimination based on credit history; Assembly Bill 371 relating to privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements; 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 Bill 729 relating to residential mortgage loan foreclosures; Assembly Bill 837 relating to age restrictions, headgear requirements, and safety certificate requirements regarding the operation of an all-terrain vehicle; Assembly Bill 876 relating to expanding the authority of political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans, and authorizing political subdivisions to make water efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; Assembly Bill 885 relating to creation of a wage council to study and make recommendations concerning increases in the living wage, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 899 relating to payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients; Assembly Bill 910 relating to establishment of a Wisconsin conservation corps program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations; Assembly Bill 911 relating to designating and marking a portion of STH 241 in the city of Milwaukee as Historic U.S. Highway 41; Assembly Bill 939 relating to compliance by employers with certain laws whose enforcement depends on the proper classification of persons as employees or nonemployees and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 944 relating to agreements between political subdivisions to operate a nursing home or intermediate care facility; Assembly Bill 952 relating to bonding authority for major interstate bridge projects and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 961 relating to targets for the allocation of federal tax credits by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority; Senate Bill 2 relating to the filing of a wage claim or the bringing of a wage claim action by a collective bargaining representative on behalf of an employee and the priority of a wage claim lien over a prior lien of a commercial lending institution and over the rights of a purchaser of any property of the employer; Senate Bill 127 relating to notification to the state and certain public agencies regarding a medical malpractice claim and limits on liability; Senate Bill 218 relating to penalties and private actions for violations of restrictions on telephone solicitations; Senate Bill 224 relating to notice of proposed vacation of certain highways; Senate Bill 243 relating to hunting of deer during the open bow hunting season; Senate Bill 264 relating to trespass by operators of snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, and other off-road vehicles; Senate Bill 266 relating to creating a Nonmotorized Recreation and Transportation Trails Council; Senate Bill 276 relating to requiring governmental bodies of school districts and certain political subdivisions to post meeting notices and minutes on their Web sites; Senate Bill 287 relating to transferring ownership and jurisdiction of a municipality's highways to an American Indian tribe or agency of the United States government; Senate Bill 297 relating to the immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal of motor vehicles for multiple nonmoving traffic violations; Senate Bill 304 relating to the veterans tuition reimbursement program; Senate Bill 314 relating to traditional neighborhood development ordinances, mixed-use zoning, and the state housing strategy plan; Senate Bill 391 relating to expenditure of $30,000 from moneys appropriated to the Department of Natural Resources in payment of a claim against the state made by Stillmunkes, Inc.; Senate Bill 392 relating to registration of former military vehicles; Senate Bill 403 relating to authorizing the release of certain personal identifying information collected by the Department of Regulation and Licensing; Senate Bill 427 relating to expanding the types of governmental units that may participate in a joint local governmental self-insured health insurance plan; Senate Bill 434 relating to the sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream; Senate Bill 435 relating to the period for retention of certain election materials in state and local elections; Senate Bill 445 relating to labeling requirements for certain substances that may create a fire hazard when mixed with organic matter (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Commerce); Senate Bill 446 relating to eliminating a requirement for reporting on the petroleum storage remedial action program (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Commerce); Senate Bill 456 relating to special distinguishing registration plates supporting motorcycle safety and making appropriations; Senate Bill 457 relating to the placement of advertising signs in highway rights-of-way and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 460 relating to prescriptions for antimicrobial drugs for treatment of chlamydial infections, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis; Senate Bill 472 relating to adopting revised article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code concerning general provisions; Senate Bill 473 relating to modifications to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; Senate Bill 490 relating to registration plates for vehicles leased to persons with a disability that limits the ability to walk (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Transportation); Senate Bill 520 relating to requiring municipalities to pay health insurance premiums for survivors of a fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty; Senate Bill 531 relating to annual or consecutive month permits for vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting loads near the Wisconsin-Michigan border; Senate Bill 541 relating to providing public notice of a sale of personal property or real estate on execution; Senate Bill 552 relating to consideration for the purpose of gambling; Senate Bill 572 relating to suitability of annuity contracts and granting rule-making authority; Senate Bill 574 relating to exemption from execution for payments made to certain family farm businesses; Senate Bill 578 relating to adding a member to the council on veterans programs; Senate Bill 585 relating to prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters; Senate Bill 615 relating to exemption for interstate natural gas companies from certain requirements regarding real estate transactions and court actions, creation and powers of municipal electric companies, and exemption from certificate of public convenience and necessity for certain electric transmission line projects; Senate Bill 616 relating to energy conservation standards for the construction of certain buildings, energy and environmental design standards for state buildings, structures, and facilities, energy and environmental design standards for school district facilities and other local government buildings, leasing of state buildings, structures, and facilities, standards for the construction and use of graywater systems, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation; Senate Bill 618 relating to raffles; Senate Bill 622 relating to the number of raffles permitted in a year; Senate Bill 624 relating to expanding the authority of political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans, and authorizing political subdivisions to make water efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; Senate Bill 625 relating to streamlined sales and use tax agreement changes; Senate Bill 631 relating to: submission of biological specimens for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis; Senate Bill 661 relating to general permits for certain wetland restoration activities and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 664 relating to financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; Senate Bill 681 relating to adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an appropriation.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on April 20, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following items: Assembly Joint Resolution 126 relating to commending the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point men's basketball team; Assembly Joint Resolution 127; relating to the life and public service of Erwin Bessler; Assembly Resolution 20 relating to the life and public service of Sande Robinson; 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 Bill 842 relating to requiring bittering agents in certain engine coolants and antifreeze and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 903 relating to safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 950 relating to eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems; Assembly Bill 446 relating to authorizing county treasurers to provide notice of unclaimed funds by using the Internet; Assembly Bill 604 relating to eligibility for academic excellence higher education scholarships; Senate Bill 96 relating to diversions under a community integration program of Medical Assistance-eligible persons from imminent entry into nursing homes; Senate Bill 374 relating to creating a commercial driver license exception for law enforcement officers operating commercial motor vehicles; Senate Bill 389 relating to licensing sign language interpreters, creating an evidentiary privilege for communications with those interpreters, creating a Sign Language Interpreter Council, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 407 relating to eligibility for academic excellence higher education scholarships; Senate Bill 497 relating to creating a food animal veterinarian loan assistance program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 282 relating to the creation of regional transit authorities and making appropriations; Assembly Bill 734 relating to the creation of a Fox Cities regional transit authority; Assembly Bill 895 relating to various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties; Senate Joint Resolution 61 relating to prohibiting partial vetoes of parts of bill sections (first consideration); Assembly Bill 242 relating to the removal of nonconforming outdoor advertising signs; Assembly Bill 457 relating to road closure barriers; Assembly Bill 465 relating to special distinguishing registration plates associated with the Lions Clubs of Wisconsin and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 467 relating to creating an optional holiday for state employees to observe the birthday of Cesar E. Chavez; Assembly Bill 578 relating to healthy and environmentally sensitive cleaning in certain buildings, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 595 relating to hunting permits issued to persons who are terminally ill; Assembly Bill 696 relating to authority of the Public Service Commission over certain telecommunications utilities, telecommunications access charges, universal service fund contributions based on interconnected voice over Internet protocol service, tandem switching provider electronic call records, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 752 relating to members of the Board of Veterans Affairs and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 775 relating to throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 779 relating to designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 789 relating to insurance coverage of the services of behavior analysts for autism treatment; Assembly Bill 793 relating to animals taken into custody; Assembly Bill 81 relating to suitability of annuity contracts and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 823 relating to training for foster parents; Assembly Bill 828 relating to allowing certified advanced practice nurse prescribers to determine an illness or injury and complete forms for the purpose of medical review related to motor vehicle operator's licenses, allowing certified advanced practice nurse prescribers to treat minors for sexually transmitted diseases, and allowing certified advanced practice nurse prescribers to determine disability for the purpose of issuing certain hunting permits; Assembly Bill 830 relating to the collection of an administrative fee by the county sheriff; Assembly Bill 851 relating to special distinguishing registration plate decals for certain vehicles owned by certain members of special groups associated with the armed services; Assembly Bill 855 relating to authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to waive fishing license requirements for a weekend fishing event; Assembly Bill 859 relating to semiannual meetings of small winery cooperative wholesalers; Assembly Bill 860 relating to the appointment of members of the governing body of a political subdivision to a transit authority board of directors; Assembly Bill 875 relating to restoring the Minority Business Development Board and the Minority Business Grant and Loan Program; Assembly Bill 878 relating to a grant for providing assistance to individuals to obtain and maintain health care benefits and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 884 relating to various changes in the unemployment insurance law and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 904 relating to loans to manufacturing businesses for energy improvements, job creation, retooling, or clean energy production; the administration of energy utility programs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of emergency rule-making procedures; and making appropriations; Assembly Bill 906 relating to modifications to platting requirements; Assembly Bill 913 relating to public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court; Assembly Bill 916 relating to deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System; Assembly Bill 930 relating to adding a member to the council on veterans programs; Senate Bill 25 relating to the use of race-based names, nicknames, logos, and mascots by school boards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 43 relating to the scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law; Senate Bill 172 relating to limiting a city's and village's use of direct annexation and authorizing limited town challenges to an annexation; Senate Bill 203 relating to claims for loss of society and companionship in medical malpractice cases; Senate Bill 273 relating to creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority; Senate Bill 279 relating to financial assistance related to bioenergy feedstocks, biorefineries, and conversion to biomass energy; the definition of the term agricultural use for the purpose of determining the assessed value of a parcel of land; requiring a strategic bioenergy feedstock assessment; creation of a bioenergy council; the agricultural and forestry diversification programs; biofuels training assessment; a study of regulatory burdens relating to biofuel production facilities; marketing orders and agreements for bioenergy feedstocks; exempting personal renewable fuel production and use from the motor vehicle fuel tax, the petroleum inspection fee, and business tax registration requirements; an income and franchise tax credit for installing or retrofitting pumps that mix motor vehicle fuels from separate storage tanks; offering gasoline that is not blended with ethanol to motor fuel dealers; state renewable motor vehicle fuels sales goals; required sales of renewable motor vehicle fuels; use of petroleum-based transportation fuels by state vehicles; use of alternative fuels in flex fuel vehicles owned by the state; use of public alternative fuel refueling facilities; duties of the Office of Energy Independence; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties; Senate Bill 321 relating to operation of neighborhood electric vehicles; Senate Bill 323 relating to requiring newborn hearing screening; Senate Bill 338 relating to maximum amount of funeral and burial expenses under the funeral, burial, and cemetery expenses program; Senate Bill 341 relating to reckless bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 342 relating to pupils attending a school district under the Open Enrollment Program who are habitually truant; Senate Bill 348 relating to declarations creating marina condominiums and technical corrections to the laws governing marina condominiums; Senate Bill 417 relating to the threshold for registration and reporting by groups and individuals seeking to influence referendum results; Senate Bill 437 relating to authorizing the state superintendent of public instruction to direct a school district to implement a new curriculum or instructional design, make personnel changes, or adopt accountability measures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Senate Bill 475 relating to reimbursement of counties and Indian tribes for unexpected or unusually high-cost out-of-home care placements of Indian juveniles who have been adjudicated delinquent by tribal courts and making an appropriation; Senate Bill 480 relating to adopting revised Article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code, concerning documents of title; Senate Bill 484 relating to the BadgerCare Plus Basic Plan, Benchmark Plan benefits, and making an appropriation; Senate Bill 485 relating to displaying the empty weight on the side of certain motor vehicles (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Transportation); Senate Bill 486 relating to the liability release exception to the requirement that proof of financial responsibility be provided after a motor vehicle accident (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Transportation); Senate Bill 487 relating to motor vehicle occupational licenses issued by the Department of Transportation (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Transportation); Senate Bill 488 relating to policies and bonds issued by out-of-state insurers offered as proof of financial responsibility after a motor vehicle accident (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Transportation); Senate Bill 489
relating to the requirement that a nonresident provide proof of financial responsibility for the operation of a motor vehicle to reinstate a suspended operating privilege or vehicle registration (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Transportation); Senate Bill 491 relating to requiring an aging and disability resource center to perform a financial screening for, provide information to, and assist individuals choosing to participate in the self-directed services option (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services); Senate Bill 494 relating to allowing nonprofit corporations to operate an aging and disability resource center (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services); Senate Bill 505 relating to motor vehicle emission inspections and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Senate Bill 507 relating to changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program; Senate Bill 513 relating to life settlements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 514 relating to additions to the 2009-11 Authorized State Building Program; Senate Bill 523 relating to unfair labor practices in violation of collective bargaining rights; Senate Bill 530 relating to regulating consumer small loans, limiting the areas in which a payday lender may operate, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 533 relating to an integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation; Senate Bill 581 relating to: prohibiting social security numbers on instruments under the corporate registration system and on records under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code; Senate Bill 586 relating to apprentice contracts, the appointment and composition of the Wisconsin Apprenticeship Council, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 587 relating to commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens; Senate Bill 601 relating to comprehensive planning; Senate Bill 604 relating to defining political subdivision of a state for purposes of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law; Senate Bill 614 relating to the operation of motor vehicles on the exposed beds of outlying waters to control Phragmites australis; Senate Bill 619 relating to Celebrate Children special distinguishing registration plates; Senate Bill 656 relating to construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on April 15, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following items: Assembly Joint Resolution 107 relating to the life and military service of United States Army Reserve Captain Russell Seager; Assembly Joint Resolution 116 relating to the life and military service of Lance Corporal Jacob Alexander Meinert; Assembly Joint Resolution 124 relating to the life and military service of Sgt. Ryan C. Adams; Assembly Joint Resolution 108 relating to commending the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 32nd Brigade, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry, for receiving the Walter T. Kerwin Jr. Award; Assembly Joint Resolution 121 relating to proclaiming May 2010 as Motorcycle Awareness Month; Assembly Bill 13 relating to creating an individual income tax subtract modification for amounts received from the well contamination and abandonment compensation program; Assembly Bill 70 relating to adjudications for involuntary commitment, appointment of a guardian of the person, and protective placement or protective services, background checks for the purchase of handguns, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 171 relating to unlawful use of a global positioning device and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 262 relating to raffle licenses; Assembly Bill 432 relating to notification requirements for persons who must register as sex offenders and who are on school premises and providing penalties; Senate Bill 44 relating to adjudications for involuntary commitment, appointment of a guardian of the person, and protective placement or protective services, background checks for the purchase of handguns, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Senate Bill 193 relating to raffle licenses; Senate Bill 286 relating to collection agencies; Senate Bill 375 relating to the exchange of electronic records contained in the Consolidated Court Automation Program and in the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System between the director of state courts and the Department of Children and Families and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 771 relating to a grant to Wisconsin Workforce Development Association from the Department of Commerce and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 853 relating to tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 898 relating to trial job program and transitional jobs demonstration project and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 106 relating to underage persons possessing, consuming, or being provided alcohol beverages on licensed premises when accompanied by a parent, guardian, or spouse; Assembly Bill 146 relating to notice to a victim of the right to make a statement at sentencing or disposition; Assembly Bill 193 relating to the privilege of self-defense; Assembly Bill 223 relating to the right to a trial by jury for a juvenile for whom the petitioner has reserved the right to recommend placement in the Serious Juvenile Offender Program or in a juvenile correctional facility beyond the age of majority; Assembly Bill 468 relating to municipal court fees; Assembly Bill 512 relating to health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems; Senate Bill 362 relating to health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems; Assembly Bill 524 relating to the jurisdictional amount and court fees in certain small claims actions; Assembly Bill 543 relating to barring landlords from requiring certain payments and from making certain claims against estates; Senate Bill 591 relating to termination of tenancy at death; Assembly Bill 553 relating to creating new grounds for discipline of hearing instrument specialists, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists, changing licensing requirements for audiologists, and granting rule-making authority; Senate Bill 358 relating to creating new grounds for discipline of hearing instrument specialists, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists, changing licensing requirements for audiologists, and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 556 relating to designating the bacterium Lactococcus lactis as the Wisconsin state microbe; Assembly Bill 557 relating to notification of school closings and reopenings; Senate Bill 379 relating to notification of school closings and reopenings; Assembly Bill 558 relating to the possession of a firearm by a person who has committed a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 559 relating to notice of firearm prohibition when served with notice of an injunction hearing and process for surrendering firearms following the granting of certain injunctions; Assembly Bill 596 relating to designating the Harley-Davidson as the Wisconsin state motorcycle; Assembly Bill 611 relating to changing certain administrative procedures under the tax incremental financing program; Senate Bill 412 relating to changing certain administrative procedures under the tax incremental financing program; Assembly Bill 612 relating to access to audio recordings of 911 calls; Assembly Bill 619 relating to county, city, town, and village authority to create local elections boards and to regulate the financing of campaigns for county, city, town, and village offices; duties of municipal and county boards of election commissioners; and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 622 relating to pupils attending a school district under the Open Enrollment Program who are habitually truant; Assembly Bill 624 relating to the use of the terms college, university, state, and Wisconsin in the name of a school; the issuing, manufacture, or use of a false academic credential; the false use of a legitimate academic credential; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 431 relating to the use of the terms college, university, state, and Wisconsin in the name of a school; the issuing, manufacture, or use of a false academic credential; the false use of a legitimate academic credential; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 644 relating to establishing a presumption for employment-connected communicable diseases for fire fighters, emergency medical service providers, law enforcement officers, and certain correctional employees; Senate Bill 429 relating to establishing a presumption for employment-connected communicable diseases for fire fighters, emergency medical service providers, law enforcement officers, and certain correctional employees; Assembly Bill 645 relating to the threshold for registration and reporting by groups and individuals seeking to influence referendum results; Assembly Bill 646 relating to the period for retention of certain election materials in state and local elections; Assembly Bill 655 relating to duplicate hunting licenses issued to persons who are 10 or 11 years old; Assembly Bill 671 relating to licensing anesthesiologist assistants and creating the Council on Anesthesiologist Assistants and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 675 relating to hospital staff privileges for and written agreements required for nurse-midwives and allowing nurse-midwives to elect to be covered under the injured patients and families compensation fund; Assembly Bill 680 relating to temporary restraining orders and injunctions; Senate Bill 464 relating to temporary restraining orders and injunctions; Assembly Bill 681 relating to orders to commit state prison inmates to a mental health facility; Senate Bill 478 relating to orders to commit state prison inmates to a mental health facility; Assembly Bill 701 relating to the Interstate Insurance Receivership Compact, investment guidelines for charitable gift annuity segregated accounts, Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan assessment participation, reciprocity for long-term care insurance policies, voting by fraternal members, the insurance security fund, modifications to motor vehicle insurance policy and umbrella and excess liability policy requirements, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 705 relating to the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children; Senate Bill 517 relating to the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children; Assembly Bill 717 relating to the agricultural producer security program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority; Senate Bill 527 relating to the agricultural producer security program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 725 relating to providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiocerebral resuscitation, and the use of an automated external defibrillator to high school pupils; Assembly Bill 731 relating to methods of voting by members of a cooperative; Senate Bill 528 relating to methods of voting by members of a cooperative; Assembly Bill 737 relating to weapons authorized for use under certain hunting approvals, prohibiting certain persons from obtaining or using hunting approvals, authorizing issuance of archery hunting approvals and nonfirearm hunting approvals for hunting certain animals, and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 741 relating to subpoenas and warrants requiring providers of electronic communications services or of remote computing services to provide customer information or disclose contents of wire or electronic communications; Senate Bill 524 relating to subpoenas and warrants requiring providers of electronic communications services or of remote computing services to provide customer information or disclose contents of wire or electronic communications; Assembly Bill 747 relating to crimes against animals and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 753 relating to providing information to a firearms dealer when purchasing a handgun, authorizing the Department of Justice to prosecute violations of certain laws regulating firearms, receiving a stolen firearm, and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 769 relating to evidentiary recordings of persons under the age of 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct and attempt of certain sex crimes against children and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 780 relating to elimination of surplus retention limitations for residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and child welfare agencies that provide rate-based services for the Department of Children and Families or a county department of human services or social services; determination of the rates charged by those providers; establishment of a performance-based contracting system for those providers; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 783 relating to requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota; Senate Bill 608 relating to requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota; Assembly Bill 797 relating to apprentice contracts, the appointment and composition of the Wisconsin Apprenticeship Council, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 806 relating to the procedure for school district consolidations; Senate Bill 598 relating to the procedure for school district consolidations; Assembly Bill 808 relating to student achievement guarantee in education program contracts; Assembly Bill 809 relating to transportation of private school pupils; Assembly Bill 810 relating to creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors; Assembly Bill 846 relating to allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically; Senate Bill 605 relating to allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically; Assembly Bill 850 relating to defining political subdivision of a state for purposes of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law; Assembly Bill 877 relating to duties of physicians and of the Medical Examining Board and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 883 relating to the duties of the Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership Council; Assembly Bill 929 relating to willful misclassification of an employee as a nonemployee by a person engaged in the painting or drywall finishing of buildings or other structures with intent to evade the laws related to income tax withholding, worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, or employment discrimination and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 940 relating to ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the State Engineering Association for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional engineering collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds; Senate Bill 678 relating to ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the State Engineering Association for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional engineering collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds; Senate Bill 121 relating to requiring the Center on Education and Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to establish a career conversations program; Senate Bill 146 relating to providing benefits and protections to tribal schools and tribal school pupils and staff similar to those provided to private schools and private school pupils and staff and making an appropriation; Senate Bill 148 relating to liability for actions of tribal law enforcement officers when enforcing state laws; Senate Bill 154 relating to school safety plans, pupil records, and school bullying; Senate Bill 163 relating to requiring health insurance coverage of colorectal cancer screening and granting rule-making authority; Senate Bill 250 relating to accepting pupils under the full-time Open Enrollment Program; Senate Bill 325 relating to notification to a parent before chaperoning a sex offender; Senate Bill 383 relating to municipal court elections, judges, and procedure, and providing penalties; Senate Bill 396 relating to fishing and trolling in boats with electric motors; Senate Bill 400 relating to operation of all-terrain vehicles to remove snow; Senate Bill 409 relating to a postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations; Senate Bill 424 relating to regulating certain sport shooting ranges; Senate Bill 465 relating to the safe-ride grant program administered by the Department of Transportation.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on April 13, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following items: Assembly Bill 139 relating to littering and providing a penalty; Assembly Joint Resolution 101 relating to commending Fond du Lac High School on its sesquicentennial; Assembly Joint Resolution 120 relating to the life and public service of Walter J. Ireland; Assembly Joint Resolution 122 relating to declaring April as Forensic Month in Wisconsin; Assembly Bill 343 relating to expanding the secretary of revenue's authority to waive or reduce interest or penalties; Assembly Bill 542 relating to treatment of abandoned employee retirement accounts under a retirement system of a 1st class city; Assembly Bill 561 relating to eliminating the notary requirement for assessor certification renewal (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Revenue); Assembly Bill 563 relating to eliminating obsolete provisions related to the use value assessment of agricultural land (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Revenue); Assembly Bill 564 relating to long-term name reservation by a limited liability company (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Financial Institutions); Assembly Bill 565 relating to changing the registered office or registered agent of a limited partnership or registered limited liability partnership (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Financial Institutions); Assembly Bill 566 relating to certain review, reporting, and out-of-date requirements regarding the Public Service Commission (suggested as remedial legislation by the Public Service Commission); Assembly Bill 580 relating to petitions and management plans for the designation of managed forest land; transferrals of ownership of managed forest land; establishing stumpage values, filing cutting reports, and estimating withdrawal taxes under the managed forest land program; signatures and authentication requirements for orders under the forest croplands program; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 638 relating to the format and fees for obtaining copies of public records; Assembly Bill 690 relating to a sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities; Assembly Bill 699 relating to exempting wellness programs from unfair trade or marketing practices; Assembly Bill 700 relating to authorization for final disposition of a decedent's remains; Assembly Bill 703 relating to correcting errors in the assessment of counties and taxation districts by the Department of Revenue; Assembly Bill 706 relating to various changes to the worker's compensation law; Assembly Bill 711 relating to vehicle towing and storage liens; Assembly Bill 733 relating to the deadlines, for applying for assistance and closing loans under the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; Assembly Bill 746 relating to promoting the use of locally grown food in school meals and snacks and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 749 relating to an income and franchise tax credit for equipment used to harvest or process woody biomass; Assembly Bill 756 relating to the dairy and livestock investment tax credits; Assembly Bill 757 relating to a food processing plant and food warehouse investment tax credit, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 770 relating to assessment on critical access hospitals; payments to critical access hospitals under the Medical Assistance Program; creating a rural physician residency assistance program; the physician, dentist, and health care provider loan assistance programs; and making appropriations; Assembly Bill 768 relating to authorizing the Department of Commerce to designate two additional enterprise zones; Assembly Bill 778 relating to weight limitations for vehicles transporting raw forest products; Assembly Bill 852 relating to general permits for certain wetland restoration activities and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 857 relating to exemption for interstate natural gas companies from certain requirements regarding real estate transactions and court actions, creation and powers of municipal electric companies, and exemption from certificate of public convenience and necessity for certain electric transmission line projects; Assembly Bill 864 relating to authorizing the Department of Commerce to certify for tax benefits a business located in an enterprise zone and having a Wisconsin supply chain; Assembly Bill 335 relating to the consumption of alcohol beverages in public places; Assembly Bill 526 relating to requiring informed consent before administration of psychotropic medication to a nursing home resident who has degenerative brain disorder; Assembly Bill 623 relating to seasonal weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural crops; Senate Bill 17 relating to special distinguishing registration plates for certain vehicles owned by members of the national guard and making an appropriation; Senate Bill 87 relating to increasing the maximum annual loan amount under the property tax deferral loan program of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority; Senate Bill 267 relating to the definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work; Senate Bill 399 relating to authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds; Senate Bill 452 relating to a sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities; Senate Bill 492 relating to restoration to competency of a defendant (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services); Senate Bill 506 relating to vehicle towing and storage liens.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on March 4, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following items: Assembly Joint Resolution 112 relating to declaring March 10, 2010, Tibet Day; Assembly Joint Resolution 110 relating to the life and public service of Robert D. Haase; Assembly Joint Resolution 113 relating to proclaiming; Assembly Joint Resolution 114 relating to the retirement of Don Dyke, Chief of Legal Services, Legislative Council Staff, following a long and distinguished career in nonpartisan service to the Wisconsin legislature; Senate Joint Resolution 60 relating to proclaiming that the ancient Macedonians were Hellenes and that the inhabitants of the northern province of Greece, Macedonia, are their Hellenic descendants; Senate Joint Resolution 63 relating to recognizing Black History Month; Assembly Bill 135 relating to allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent to his or her child's college savings account or college tuition and expenses program and limiting the deduction that may be claimed by a married person who files separately; Assembly Bill 413 relating to crimes against children committed by certain persons and creating a penalty; Assembly Bill 480 relating to creating a civil cause of action for acts of violence motivated by gender; Assembly Bill 481 relating to making crimes based on gender of victim subject to a penalty enhancer and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 529 relating to violations of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 544 relating to prohibiting the installation, sale, and distribution of wheel weights and other wheel balancing products that contain lead; Assembly Bill 586 relating to reimbursement of a governmental unit that provides public assistance to pay medical costs occasioned by an injury for which worker's compensation is claimed and payment of a percentage of that reimbursement to an injured employee's attorney who obtains an award of worker's compensation for that injury; Assembly Bill 594 relating to notifying a law enforcement agency when certain persons are released from the custody of the Department of Corrections; Assembly Bill 616 relating to school nurses and the administration of drugs to pupils; Assembly Bill 621 relating to library boards of public libraries established in a first class city; Assembly Bill 654 relating to requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts; Assembly Bill 656 relating to the local regulation of ticket selling and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 658 relating to qualifications of mortgage loan originators; Assembly Bill 685 relating to using an electronic signature on a criminal complaint; Assembly Bill 693 relating to the practice of athletic trainers and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 698 relating to an addition to the 2009-11 Authorized State Building Program; Assembly Bill 704 relating to uniform power of attorney for finances and property; Assembly Bill 707 relating to self-service storage facility notices and procedures; Assembly Bill 713 relating to mutual assistance between tribal and county or municipal law enforcement agencies; Assembly Bill 716 relating to professional employer organizations; Assembly Bill 766 relating to designating and marking a portion of STH 50 in Kenosha County as the LeRoy and Lynn Copen Memorial Highway; Assembly Bill 767 relating to changes to the membership of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, notification to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board of bills with an economic impact on small businesses, and the role of the Office of the Small Business Advocate in the Department of Commerce; Assembly Bill 599 relating to a speed limit for the operation of snowmobiles during the hours of darkness; Assembly Bill 709 relating to requiring access to toilet facilities in a retail establishment, immunity from civil liability related to use of the toilet facilities, and providing penalties; Senate Bill 168 relating to supervision of barber or cosmetologist apprentices; Senate Bill 190 relating to renewals and extensions of business contracts; Senate Bill 227 relating to interim successors for legislators, meetings of the legislature and legislative committees, and temporary seat of government for the legislature; Senate Bill 365 relating to the Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 467 relating to using an electronic signature on a criminal complaint; Senate Bill 482 relating to the practice of athletic trainers and granting rule-making authority; Senate Bill 504 relating to professional employer organizations; Senate Bill 303 relating to requesting a person who operates a vehicle that is involved in an accident that causes death or injury to submit to a test for intoxication.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on February 25, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following items: Assembly Joint Resolution 14 relating to the life and public service of Frank H. Urban, M.D; Assembly Joint Resolution 79 relating to honoring the life of Terry Wise; Assembly Bill 35 relating to the use of race-based names, nicknames, logos, and mascots by school boards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 247 relating to granting high school diplomas to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities; Assembly Bill 296 relating to children and their families who are involved in two or more systems of care and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 482 relating to the minimum sale price of prescription drugs; Assembly Bill 549 relating to psychological evaluations for law enforcement officers, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 588 relating to changes to the regulation of massage therapy and bodywork, creating the Massage Therapy and Bodywork Therapy Examining Board, and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 600 relating to authority of the Public Service Commission regarding fuel costs of certain electric public utilities and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 614 relating to disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty;
Assembly Bill 633 relating to using county jail funds for costs related to providing educational and medical services to county jail inmates; Assembly Bill 642 relating to an income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 648 relating to adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes; Assembly Bill 683 relating to health care plans operated by cooperative associations; Assembly Bill 552 relating to following snowplows and providing a penalty; Senate Bill 244 relating to specific information signs on certain portions of STH 21; Senate Bill 332 relating to submitting custody study reports to the parties and offering custody study reports in accordance with the rules of evidence; Senate Bill 439 relating to adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes; Senate Bill 116 relating to the method by which the Department of Revenue makes certain calculations regarding tax incremental financing district number 4 in the village of Elmwood.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on February 23, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following items: Assembly Bill 116 relating to school conference and activities leave; Assembly Bill 138 relating to the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board; Assembly Bill 35 relating to the use of race-based names, nicknames, logos, and mascots by school boards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 181 relating to operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 260 relating to extraterritorial plat approval on basis of land's use; Assembly Bill 470 relating to membership of the Natural Resources Board; Assembly Bill 495 relating to membership of the Natural Resources Board; Assembly Bill 514 relating to time limitations for commencing prosecution of crimes; Assembly Bill 531 relating to the exception to the assessment of withdrawal taxes and fees against a landowner who transfers ownership of managed forest land for siting a public safety communications tower; Assembly Bill 592 relating to registration of former military vehicles; Assembly Bill 689 relating to Public Service Commission intervenor grants and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 720 relating to repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending, and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities, and obsolete provisions, reconciling conflicts, and repelling unintended repeals (Correction Bill); Assembly Bill 742 relating to fuel products fees and inspection (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Commerce); Assembly Bill 464 relating to a requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work; Senate Bill 292 relating to the exemption of State Historical Society books from state printing requirements; Senate Bill 293 relating to directing the governor to annually proclaim March 25 as Medal of Honor Day; Senate Bill 410 relating to designating and marking a portion of I 43 in the city of Milwaukee as the Jeannetta Simpson-Robinson Memorial Highway; Senate Bill 308 relating to a requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work.

The Assembly held a floor session on February 16, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following items: Senate Joint Resolution 58 relating to honoring the service and safe return of Wisconsin's 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team from its deployment in Iraq; Assembly Bill 447 relating to payday loan providers, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 454 relating to information concerning independent candidates for partisan office that appears on the ballot at elections; Assembly Bill 503 relating to exposure to a minor and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 515 relating to reckless bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 650 relating to person under age 18 playing bingo; Assembly Bill 651 relating to the wholesale distribution of prescription drugs; Assembly Bill 659 relating to HIV testing, disclosure of HIV test results, and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 670 relating to requiring sellers of residential real property to disclose whether the property is subject to a shoreland zoning mitigation plan; Assembly Bill 104 relating to reporting of information by nonresident registrants under the campaign finance law; Senate Bill 271 relating to prohibiting the manufacture and sale at wholesale of certain baby bottles and cups for children that contain bisphenol A, creating labeling requirements, making an appropriation, and providing penalties.

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The State Assembly held a floor session on Tuesday, January 28, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following agenda items: Assembly Joint Resolution 100 relating to congratulating the Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary; Assembly Joint Resolution 102 relating to proclaiming February 7 to 14, 2010, as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week; Assembly Joint Resolution 103 relating to recognizing February 2010 as American Heart Month; Assembly Joint Resolution 106 relating to proclaiming February 5, 2010, as Go Red for Women Day; Senate Joint Resolution 56 relating to proclaiming February 7 to 14, 2010, as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week; Assembly Bill 532 relating to directing the Department of Commerce to award grants to community development corporations to establish capital access programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation; Assembly Bill 643 relating to waiving certain federal bond limitations allocated to cities and counties and requiring the Department of Commerce to develop a system for reallocating the bond limitations to other state and local units of government; Assembly Bill 692 relating to  technical changes to 2009 Wisconsin Act 100; Assembly Bill 116 relating to school conference and activities leave;  Assembly Bill 371 relating to privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements;  Assembly Bill 548 relating to possession of certain animals killed by vehicles; Assembly Bill 574 relating to lightweight utility vehicles and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 575 relating to requiring the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to establish standards for products sold as honey, prohibiting the labeling as Wisconsin certified honey of a product that has not been determined to meet the standards, prohibiting the labeling as honey of a product that does not meet the standards, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 579 relating to special distinguishing registration plates associated with Marquette University; Assembly Bill 607 relating to requiring carbon monoxide detectors in buildings containing one or two dwelling units; Assembly Bill 347 relating to the Internet sale of unclaimed personal property by a sheriff; Senate Bill 284 relating to designating and marking USH 63 as the Gaylord Nelson Highway.

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The Assembly held a floor session on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following agenda items:  Assembly Joint Resolution 98: relating to declaring 2010 as the Year of John Muir: Assembly Joint Resolution 104: relating to the life and military service of Sergeant Nickolas A. Mueller; Assembly Joint Resolution 105: relating to the life and military service of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Amy S. Krueger; Senate Joint Resolution 54: relating to commending Mary and Ted Kellner on the occasion of their receiving the Warren P. Knowles Humanitarian Award; Senate Joint Resolution 55: Relating to declaring 2010 as the Year of John Muir; Assembly Bill 219: relating to requiring that personal flotation devices be worn by certain underage persons in certain boats; Assembly Bill 372: relating to the disposal of solid waste from a household on the property where it is generated; Assembly Bill 395: relating to criteria for determining indigency for purposes of representation by the State Public Defender and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 414: relating to requirements for a certificate of food protection practices and providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; Assembly Bill 490: relating to receivership for abatement of residential nuisances; Assembly Bill 494: relating to the methodology for filing campaign finance reports in electronic format; Assembly Bill 502: relating to requiring the Department of Revenue to certify the tax base of Tax Incremental Financing District Number 18 in the city of Waukesha; Assembly Bill 560: relating to remedial statutory changes affecting the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (suggested as remedial legislation by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission); Senate Joint Resolution 11: relating to veto power of county executive over appropriations (first consideration); Senate Bill 57: relating to composition of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority; Senate Bill 191: relating to podiatrist-patient privilege, immunity exemption for podiatrists providing emergency care at athletic events, allowing podiatrists to determine an illness or injury and complete forms for the purpose of granting assistance to needy veterans, allowing podiatrists to determine disability for the purpose of issuing certain hunting permits, cooperatives organized to provide sickness care, the Podiatrists Affiliated Credentialing Board, allowing podiatrists to certify driver school instructors' physical fitness, allowing Medical Assistance recipients to freely choose among podiatrists, and giving equal weight to certifications of disability by podiatrists for insurance purposes; Senate Bill 262: relating to an exemption from recording for time-share licenses; Senate Bill 413: relating to receivership for abatement of residential nuisances.

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The Assembly held a floor session on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at the State Capitol to discuss the following agenda items:

Assembly Bill 354 relating to statute of limitations for intentional torts; Assembly Bill 496 relating to prohibiting electronic text messaging while driving and providing a penalty; Assembly substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Barca; Assembly Bill 509 relating to exempting certain capital expenditures made by a technical college district from the requirement for a referendum; Assembly Bill 519 relating to extending the expenditure period of Tax Incremental District Number 6 in the city of Sheboygan; Assembly Bill 562 relating to the master logger certification scholarship grant program (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Natural Resources); Assembly Bill 567 relating to amending and revising under s. 10.53 various provisions of ss. 10.62 to 10.82 of the statutes for the purpose of correcting conflicts between the listings in ss. 10.62 to 10.82 and the substantive statutes to which those sections refer. (Correction Bill); Assembly Bill 568 relating to revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, and eliminating defects (Correction Bill);

Assembly Bill 569 relating to revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of supplying omissions and eliminating defects (Correction Bill); Assembly Bill 570 relating to amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors and eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, and ambiguities (Correction Bill); Assembly Bill 571 relating to renumbering, amending, and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting and clarifying references and reconciling conflicts (Correction Bill); Assembly Bill 572 relating to repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending, and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities, and obsolete provisions, reconciling conflicts, and repelling unintended repeals (Correction Bill); Assembly Bill 573 relating to repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending, and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities, and obsolete provisions, reconciling conflicts, and repelling unintended repeals (Correction Bill); Assembly Bill 591 relating to authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent; Assembly Bill 32 relating to extending the employer notification program administered by the Department of Transportation to noncommercial motor vehicle drivers; Senate Bill 137 relating to the definitions of motor bicycle and moped; Senate Bill 182 relating to statute of limitations for intentional torts; Senate Bill 184 relating to licenses and limited X-ray machine operator permits to engage in the practice of radiography, creating a radiography examining board, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; Senate Bill 242 relating to creating separate regulatory requirements for certain future service contracts; Senate Bill 290 relating to changes in the regulation of boxing contests, regulating mixed martial arts fighting contests, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly floor session from December 16, 2009 at the State Capitol, during which the Assembly announced the hometown hero and recessed for partisan caucus.

Continued coverage of the Wisconsin State Assembly floor session from December 16, 2009 at the State Capitol, during which, they discussed and voted on Senate Bill 66 relating to the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty.

The Wisconsin State Assembly floor session from November 5, 2009 at the State Capitol, during which the following items were addressed: Assembly Joint Resolution 86 relating to the life and public service of Rudy John Kuzel; Assembly Joint Resolution 87 relating to the life and public service of Reuben K. Harpole, Jr.; Assembly Joint Resolution 93 relating to recognizing November as National Adoption Month; Assembly Joint Resolution 95 relating to commemorating the City of Racine's Demisemiseptcentennial (175th Anniversary); Assembly Bill 110 relating to access to employment records of candidates for law enforcement positions; Assembly Bill 241 relating to retail theft, proof of ownership for flea market sales, and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 458 relating to providing instruction in human growth and development Assembly Bill 65 relating to public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 276 relating to composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System; Assembly Bill 358/ Senate Bill 41 relating to indoor environmental quality in public and private schools; Assembly Bill 403 relating to local government property insurance fund premiums; Assembly Bill 462 relating to prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing certain serious crimes or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a serious crime from being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, from being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or from being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided; Assembly Bill 533 relating to using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers and requiring the development of a teacher evaluation plan to be a mandatory subject of collective bargaining; Assembly Bill 535 relating to establishing or contracting for the establishment of a charter school; Assembly Bill 536 relating to authorizing the Department of Public Instruction, the University of Wisconsin System, the Technical College System, and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities to study each other's education programs, requiring a written agreement concerning such studies, and requiring the establishment of a longitudinal data system of student data; and Assembly Bill 537 relating to grants for improving academic achievement.

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Continuing coverage of the Wisconsin State Assembly Floor Session from November 5, 2009.

The Wisconsin State Assembly floor session from November 3, 2009 at the State Capitol, during which the following items were addressed: Assembly Joint Resolution 83 relating to the life and public service of Tommy T. Tradewell; Assembly Joint Resolution 84 relating to the life and public service of Velma Hamilton; Assembly Joint Resolution 92 relating to recognizing the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the symbolic end of the cold War; Assembly Resolution 15 relating to requesting the participation of the attorney general as amicus curiae in certain cases before the US Supreme Court; Assembly Bill 110 relating to access to employment records of candidates for law enforcement positions; Assembly Bill 159 relating to the charge-back of refunded or rescinded taxes and of personal property taxes and sharing certain collected taxes; Assembly Bill 198 relating to highway maps published by the DOT; Assembly Bill 230 relating to electronic access by law enforcement agencies to photographs on motor vehicle operators licenses and identification cards; Assembly Bill 241 relating to theft, proof of ownership for flea market sales, and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 266 relating to the provision of support services information to employees who are affected by a business closing or mass layoff; Assembly Bill 267 relating to licenses and limited X-ray machine operator permits to engage in the practice of radiography, creating a radiography examining board; Assembly Bill 269 relating to causing injury to a law enforcement officer while resisting or obstructing an officer or while attempting to flee and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 280 relating to seizure of a computer used to commit a crime; Assembly Bill 344/Senate Bill 251 relating to costs of transporting by ferry an arrested person; Assembly Bill 348 relating to the applicability of rules of the road to private roads located in manufactured and mobile home communities; Assembly Bill 378/Senate Bill 253 relating to traffic control devices used by school safety patrols; Assembly Bill 382 relating to fishing licenses issued to disabled veterans; Assembly Bill 455 relating to the testing of portable scales used of the enforcement of vehicle weight limitations; Assembly Bill 456 relating to self-authentication by electronic certification of certain Department of Transportation records; Assembly Bill 458 relating to providing instruction in human growth and development; Assembly Bill 485 relating to required judicial findings and orders when a child is placed outside the home, termination of parental rights warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters and the confidentiality of social services records, change from day care to child care and the term used to describe care and supervision of children for less than 24 hours a day; Assembly Bill 486/Senate Bill 347 relating to requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; Assembly Bill 510/Senate Bill 361 relating to the monthly rates that are paid for foster care, the levels of care that a foster home may provide, licensing of kinship care relatives to operate foster homes; and Senate Bill 80 relating to the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly floor session from October 29, 2009 at the State Capitol, during which the following items were addressed: Assembly Joint Resolution 88 relating to the life and public service of Jay W. Johnson; Assembly Joint Resolution 90 relating to the life and public service of Rev. P. Harvey Stower; Assembly Joint Resolution 67 relating to commending MAG Giddings and Lewis on its sesquicentennial; Assembly Joint Resolution 82 relating to proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month; Assembly Joint Resolution 85 relating to recognizing the work of Wisconsin's coroners and medical examiners; Assembly Joint Resolution 89 relating to declaring October as Co-op month; Assembly Joint Resolution 91 relating to declaring October to be Adopt a Shelter Pet Month; and Assembly Resolution 13 Relating to proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The Wisconsin State Assembly floor session from October 29, 2009 at the State Capitol, during which the following items were addressed: Assembly Bill 21 relating to discharge from employment of a passenger-for-hire vehicle operator solely on the basis of having been involved in a single motor vehicle accident; Assembly Bill 174 relating to authorizing sharing of tax increments by certain environmental remediation tax incremental districts; Assembly Bill 175/Senate Bill 132 relating to expanding the life of a tax incremental district in the city of Racine; Assembly Bill 277 prohibiting discrimination in housing because of domestic abuse victim status and providing a penalty; Assembly bill 288 relating to education and work experience requirements for registration as a professional engineer and examinations for professional engineering credentials; Assembly Bill 323 relating to information provided by a person required to register as a sex offender; Assembly Bill 376 relating to restitution for misappropriation form a cemetery of certain objects that relate to a veteran; Assembly Bill 400 relating to requiring landlords to change locks; Assembly 409/Senate Bill 278 relating to U-turns on highways; Assembly Bill 410 relating to violation of the 72-hour no contact provision in domestic violence cases; Assembly Bill 411 relating to prohibition against making, reproducing, or possessing a nude depiction of a person without the person's consent and the sex offender registry; Assembly Bill 415 relating to designating and marking a portion of USH 12 in the city of Whitewater as the Stephen Ambrose Memorial Highway; Assembly Bill 418 relating to a county fair coordinator; Assembly Bill 419 relating to rape shield provisions in civil proceedings, discovery and inspection of victims and witnesses and victims rights; Assembly 483 relating to the employment of minors 12 years of age or older by nonprofit organizations in and around the homes of elderly persons and persons with disabilities to perform snow shoveling, lawn mowing, leaf raking and other similar work usual to those homes; Assembly Bill 487 relating to various changes in the unemployment insurance law and providing a penalty; and Senate Bill 252 relating to the duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident.

The Wisconsin State Assembly floor session from October 27, 2009 at the State Capitol, during which the following items were addressed: Assembly Joint Resolution 74 relating to designating each October as hydrocephalus awareness month; Assembly Joint Resolution 77 relating to Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month; Assembly Bill 250 relating to regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities; Assembly Bill 261 relating to soliciting purchases of goods or services using unsolicited checks or money orders; Assembly Bill 271 relating to professional land surveyors and the practice of professional land surveying, surveying land abutting navigable waters; Assembly Bill 275 relating to Physical Therapists Affiliated Credentialing Board; Assembly Bill 375 relating to a property tax exemption for certain nonprofit community theaters; Assembly Bill 397 relating to the definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work; Assembly Bill 417 relating to requirements for initial licensure as a veterinarian; Assembly Bill 430 relating to making October 10, William D. Hoard Day, a legal holiday; Assembly Bill 459 relating to the model academic standards for personal financial literacy; Assembly Bill 471 relating to mortgage broker duties and agency relationships; Assembly Bill 472 relating to certification and licensure of real estate appraisers and requirements for appraisal reports; Senate Bill 241 relating to modifying the definition of all-terrain vehicle; and Senate Bill 38 relating to issuing annual vehicle admission receipts for motor buses for entry to state parks and other vehicle admission areas under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly convened a floor session on October 20, 2009 at the State Capitol. The Assembly took up the following agenda items: Assembly Joint Resolution 75 regarding the life and public service of John Stanley; Assembly Joint Resolution 76 regarding the second anniversary or WisconsinEye's commencement of broadcast operations; Assembly Joint Resolution 78 relating to the recall of enrolled 2009 Assembly Bill 8; Assembly Joint Resolution 80 relating to commemorating the achievements and contributions of the UW-La Crosse on the occasion of its centennial; Assembly Bill 213 regarding establishing and changing compensation for city and village elective offices; Assembly Bill 229; relating to the sale of home-canned food; Assembly Bill 332 relating to authorizing the use of airguns and crossbows under certain hunting licenses; Assembly Bill 35 relating to hunting of deer during open bow hunting season; Assembly Bill 364 relating to Council on Offender Reentry; Assembly Bill 412 relating to personal liability of officers, directors, and employees of child care providers; Assembly Bill 421 relating to Indian child welfare; Assembly Bill 426 regarding authorizing the designation of a tax incremental district as distressed and expanding the use of donor tax incremental districts; Assembly Bill 428 relating to public disclosure of certain information when child abuse or neglect results in death or injury or when a child in out-of-home placement commits suicide or is sexually abused by a caregiver; Assembly Bill 442 regarding ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Association of State Prosecutors for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the assistant district attorneys collective bargaining unit; Assembly Bill 443 relating to ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Teaching Assistants'' association for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in teh program, project, and teaching assistants of the UW-Madison and UW-Extension collective bargaining unit; Assembly Bill 444 relating to ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Professional Employees in Research, Statistics, and Analysis, for the 2007-09 biennium, covering employees in the professional research statistics, and analysis collective bargaining unit.

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The Wisconsin State Assembly convened a floor session on September 22, 2009 at the State Capitol. The Assembly took up the following agenda items: Assembly Joint Resolution 66 relating to the life and military service of Private First Class Steven Drees; Assembly Joint Resolution 69 relating to the life and military service of Wisconsin Army National Guard Master Sergeant Brian K. Naseman of Racine; Assembly Joint Resolution 72 relating to the life and public service of Edward Moore Kennedy; Assembly Resolution 10 relating to proclaiming October as Italian-American month; Assembly Bill 57 relating to permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be; Assembly Bill 131 relating to pleading requirements for assignees of creditors under the Wisconsin Consumer Act; Assembly Bill 138 relating to the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board; Assembly Bill 164 relating to notice of intent to remove a child from the home of a relative and review of decisions or orders involving the placement and care of a child placed in the home of a relative; Assembly Bill 209 relating to authorizing a county to provide assistance to a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to certain individuals; Assembly Bill 297 relating to child abuse and neglect prevention grants; Assembly Bill 298 relating to requiring notice to relatives when a child is taken into custody and disclosure of information to relatives for the purpose of facilitating a relationship or placement; Assembly Bill 299 relating to products containing mercury; Assembly Bill 314 relating to pesticide use by railroads; Assembly Bill 317 relating to interim successors for legislators, meetings of the legislature and legislative committees, and temporary seat of government for the legislature; Assembly Bill 333 relating to limiting disclosure of information gathered by news persons; Assembly Bill 374 relating to emergency assistance grants; Assembly Bill 387 relating to the homestead exemption; Assembly Bill 214 relating to posttermination of parental rights contact between a child and a birth relative of the child and disclosure of the report of an investigation of the home of a proposed adoptive parent on the request of the proposed adoptive parent; Senate Bill 107 relating to the sale, disposal, collection and recycling of electronic devices; and Senate Bill 123 relating to regulating the transportation of aquatic plants and aquatic animals, the administration of federal funds for the control and eradication of noxious weeds, the placement of vehicles, seaplanes, watercraft, and other objects in navigable waters, the regulation of noxious weeds by municipalities, and the disposal of invasive species.

Continued coverage of the Wisconsin State Assembly floor session, convened on September 22, 2009 at the State Capitol.

The Wisconsin State Assembly convened a floor session on September 17, 2009 at the State Capitol. The Assembly took up the following agenda items: Assembly Joint Resolution 64 and Senate Joint Resolution 43 relating to the life and public service of Linda Farley; Assembly Joint Resolution 68 relating to the life and public service of Edwin C. Stephan; Assembly Joint Resolution 70 relating to proclaiming September 18, 19, and 20, 2009, as Gemuetlichkeit Days; Assembly Joint Resolution 71 relating to the H1N1 virus and its impact on Wisconsin; Assembly Joint Resolution 59 relating to continuity of government; Assembly Bill 153 relating to membership of the State Fair Park Board; Assembly Bill 186 relating to salvinorin A; Assembly Bill 211 relating to administration of grant funds under the county-tribal cooperative law enforcement program; Assembly Bill 273 relating to podiatrists; Assembly Bill 280 relating to seizure of a computer used to commit a crime; Assembly Bill 283 relating to operating a vehicle while intoxicated; Assembly Bill 316 relating to emergency management, succession of public offices, liability and licensure of emergency volunteers, disaster relief, ratification of the pest control compact, transportation and disposal of animal carcasses, the plant industry, computation of school days, variance for hospital requirements, public works mutual assistance, emergencies related to computer or telecommunication systems, and providing penalties; Assembly Bill 317 relating to interim successors for legislators, meetings of the legislature and legislative committees, and temporary seat of government for the legislature; Assembly Bill 319 relating to regional structural collapse teams and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 325 relating to notice of proposed vacation of certain highways; Assembly Bill 130 relating to cost of administering tests for intoxication; Senate Bill 157 relating to driver education instruction; and Senate Bill 158 relating to vehicle stops at railroad crossings.

Continued coverage of the Wisconsin State Assembly floor session held on September 17, 2009 at the State Capitol.

The Wisconsin State Assembly convened a floor session on September 16, 2009 at the State Capitol. The Assembly took up the following agenda items: Assembly Joint Resolution 19 relating to the life of public service of Carroll E. Metzner; Assembly Bill 119 relating to requirements for pupils enrolled in five-year-old kindergarten; Assembly Bill 136 relating to partially exempting an assessor and an assessor's staff from liability for trespassing, creating immunity from civil liability, and changing the notice requirements related to the revaluation of property by an assessor; Assembly Bill 166 relating to the use of pesticides by veterinarians and veterinary technicians; Assembly Bill 227 relating to directing the Pharmacy Examining Board to create a program to monitor the dispensing of prescription drugs; Assembly Bill 228 relating to awarding state procurements to certified disabled veteran-owned businesses; Assembly Bill 236 relating to requiring that certain high school agriculture courses be counted as science credits; Assembly Bill 240 relating to making June 19, Juneteenth Day, a legal holiday; Assembly Bill 251 relating to adding a member to the council on veterans programs; Assembly Bill 256 relating to regulation of wind energy systems; Assembly Bill 292 relating to recording and filing documents with the register of deeds; Assembly Bill 11 relating to eliminating the World Dairy Center Authority; and Assembly Bill 128 relating to authorizing a sheriff to depute certain security officers who are employed by the Department of Military Affairs.

Continued coverage of the Wisconsin State Assembly floor session convened on September 16, 2009 at the State Capitol.

The Wisconsin State Assembly considered a number of pieces of legislation including Assembly 75, relating to the state budget, during a floor session on June 26, 2009.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met briefly to convene and adjourn a special session called for by Gov. Jim Doyle to consider the hospital assessment. Majority Leader Thomas Nelson, D-Kaukauna, also appointed members to a committee of conference on Assembly Bill 75, relating to the state budget.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on June 23, 2009. After roll call the body considered Assembly Joint Resolution 56, relating to the 100 year anniversary of Peninsula State Park. Members then went into recess for partisan caucus.

After returning from partisan caucus on June 23, 2009 to continue their scheduled floor session the Wisconsin State Assembly considered a number of pieces of legislation. The legislation included: Assembly Bill 8, relating to municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses; Assembly Bill 139, relating to littering and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 177, relating to operating a motor vehicle while suspended, revoked, or disqualified; Assembly Bill 178, relating to motor vehicle operating privileges, seizures by courts or law enforcement officers of operator's licenses, and reinstatement of canceled identification cards; Assembly Bill 202, relating to bulk transfers of inventory; Assembly Bill 258, relating to the disposal of used automotive engine oil filters and oil absorbent materials and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 281, relating to the restriction on the amount of phosphorus in certain cleaning agents; Assembly Bill 308, relating to police escorts and vehicle rights-of-way related to escorted vehicles and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 83, relating to issuing annual fishing licenses to certain resident disabled veterans; Senate Bill 39, relating to cash value of life insurance regarding eligibility for the veterans assistance program; Senate Bill 75, relating to the designation of Korean War Armistice Day; and Senate Bill 76, relating to the designation of Vietnam Veterans Day.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on June 18, 2009. After roll call, the Assembly took up the following agenda items: Assembly Joint Resolution 57, relating to the public service of Anthony D. Hardie; Assembly Joint Resolution 54, relating to proclaiming Cesky Den; Senate Joint Resolution 34, relating to the life and public service of Dr. Akbar Ally; Senate Joint Resolution 35, relating to encouraging the purchase and use of American goods and services with federal economic renewal grants; Senate Joint Resolution 38, relating to the life and public service of John D. "Jack" Steinhilber.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on June 18, 2009. Following a recess, the Assembly took up the following agenda items: Assembly Bill 86, relating to authorizing hunting of certain game with a crossbow by nonresidents who have attained the age of 65 years; Assembly Bill 222, relating to the minimum age for hunting and for possessing a firearm, restrictions on hunting and on possessing a firearm while hunting, establishing a hunting mentorship program, and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 248, relating to the possession and consumption of alcohol beverages on retail licensed premises in a park in a 1st class city; Assembly Bill 129, relating to battery or threat to witnesses and providing penalties; Senate Bill 31, relating to the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, as approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Senate Bill 112, relating to the possession of green skins of fur-bearing animals, the tagging of traps, and the sale, purchase, bartering, and trade of wild animals and their carcasses; Senate Bill 126, relating to changes to and extension of the Environmental Results Program, extension of the Environmental Improvement Program and the length of a compliance schedule under that program, and reporting requirements for certain environmental programs; Senate Bill 167, relating to the minimum age for hunting and for possessing a firearm, restrictions on hunting and on possessing a firearm while hunting, establishing a hunting mentorship program, and granting rule-making authority; Senate Bill 216, relating to professional employer organizations and professional employer groups.

The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on June 12, 2009 to vote on Assembly Bill 75, the state budget. The debate continued late into the night and the next morning.

The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on June 12, 2009 to vote on Assembly Bill 75, the state budget. The debate continued late into the night and the next morning.

The Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on June 12, 2009 to vote on Assembly Bill 75, the state budget. The debate continued late into the night and the next morning.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on June 11, 2009.

The Wisconsin State Assembly continued their floor session on Thursday, June 11, 2009. After roll call, the Assembly voted on Senate Bill 232, the school funding bill. The Assembly then went into recess for partisan caucus. The session was later delayed until June 12, 2009.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Wednesday, May 13, 2009. After considering appointments, the Assembly met on the following: Assembly Joint Resolution 27; relating to proclaiming June 6, 2009, as Proper Drug Disposal Day; Assembly Joint Resolution 37, relating to proclaiming the Wisconsin Centennial of Flight; Assembly Joint Resolution 52, relating to commending the public service of Elizabeth Burmaster; Assembly Bill 253, relating to prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 33, relating to technical changes that affect the public debt amortization fund of a first class city; Assembly Bill 47, relating to prohibiting persons convicted of certain felonies from providing martial arts instruction to minors; Assembly Bill 111, relating to the lifetime limit under the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan; Assembly Bill 112, relating to health insurance coverage denials for eligibility under the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan; Assembly Bill 165, relating to expanding the types of property that may be specially assessed by a neighborhood improvement district; Assembly Bill 132, relating to a requirement that an employer grant an unpaid leave of absence to allow an employee to participate in an emergency service operation of the Civil Air Patrol and prohibiting discrimination in employment based on Civil Air Patrol membership.

The Assembly also met for an extraordinary session on Assembly Bill 255, relating to eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and payment of extended benefits; excluding recovery and reinvestment act moneys from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments; eligibility for participation in the programs of a community action agency; financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; the confidentiality of pupil records provided to the Department of Public Instruction; financial assistance for criminal justice programs; authorizing political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; definition of low-income household under energy and weatherization assistance programs; eligibility and notice changes for state continuation of coverage for health insurance; changes to enterprise zone jobs credits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation.

Continued.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a special session on Wednesday, April, 29, 2009. The took up the following: Senate Bill 20, relating to authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment to pay compensatory and punitive damages and a surcharge and making an appropriation.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. In part one, the Assembly met on the following: Assembly Joint Resolution 38, relating to the life and military service of Sergeant Daniel James Thompson; Assembly Joint Resolution 45, relating to the life and military service of Sergeant Clint A. Sikorski; Assembly Resolution 5, relating to the life and public service of Debbie Loiselle and Stuart Seffern.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. In part two, the Assembly met on the following: Assembly Bill 100, Senate Joint Resolution 23 and 25; Assembly Joint Resolution 41, relating to declaring June as Scoliosis Awareness Month; Assembly Joint Resolution 23, relating to declaring May as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month; Assembly Joint Resolution 48, relating to Proclaiming May 2, 2009, as Pediatric Stroke Awareness Day; Assembly Joint Resolution 50; Assembly Joint Resolution 9; Senate Joint Resolution 24 & 28.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Tuesday, April 28, 2009. In part three, the Assembly met on the following: Senate Bill 49, relating to changing the procedures for filling vacant civil service positions in the city of Milwaukee; Senate Bill 51, relating to judicial discretion in certain John Doe proceedings and the provision of attorney representation of state employees at John Doe proceedings; Senate Bill 94, relating to the licensing and regulation of thermal system insulation mechanics; creating a thermal system insulation council; requiring the employment of a state inspector; establishing standards for installing and maintaining thermal system insulation; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 59, relating to passing parked motor vehicles and opening motor vehicle doors on highways and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 68, relating to the distribution of the first dollar property tax credit; Assembly Bill 95, relating to preparation time as a mandatory subject of collective bargaining; Senate Bill 46; Assembly Bill 122, relating to appellate time limits and procedure; Assembly Bill 123, relating to appellate procedure regarding commitments of persons found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect and commitments of sexually violent persons; Assembly Bill 124, relating to appellate procedure; Assembly Bill 142, relating to requiring a license to engage in the practice of landscape architecture; Assembly Bill 172, relating to requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process; Senate Bill 161, Senate Bill 49, Senate Bill 51, Senate Bill 94.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Thursday, April 23, 2009. In part one, the Assembly took up the following: Assembly Joint Resolution 47, relating to the life and public service of John L. Merkt; Assembly Joint Resolution 42, relating to recognizing April 8 as Wellness Day in Wisconsin; Assembly Joint Resolution 43, relating to proclaiming April 22, 2009, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff; Assembly Joint Resolution 44, relating to declaring May 3 to May 9, 2009, to be Vasculitis Awareness Week; Assembly Joint Resolution 46, relating to declaring May 2009 as Drug Court Month; Assembly Bill 16, relating to requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age; Assembly Bill 18, relating to the income and franchise tax credit that supplements the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit; Assembly Bill 27, relating to the definition of sexual intercourse for the crime of incest; Assembly Bill 100, relating to preexisting condition exclusions, modifications at renewal, and establishing a standard application for individual health benefit plans and granting rule-making authority; Assembly Bill 103, relating to authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation; Senate Bill 27, relating to requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Thursday, April 23, 2009. In part two, the Assembly returned from partisan caucus, debated several issues, and met on Assembly Bill 27, relating to the definition of sexual intercourse for the crime of incest.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Thursday, March 26, 2009. In part one, the Assembly took up the following agenda items: Assembly Joint Resolution 28, relating to commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway; Assembly Joint Resolution 35, relating to commending the Gundersen Lutheran Health System on being recognized as the first medical facility in the nation to achieve a top rating from the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers; Senate Joint Resolution 17, relating to proclaiming March of every year as Irish-American Heritage Month; Senate Joint Resolution 19, relating to declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month; Senate Joint Resolution 20, relating to proclaiming the Week of the Young Child; Senate Joint Resolution 21, relating to celebrating March 25, 2009, as the 188th anniversary of Greek independence; Assembly Bill 43, relating to designating portions of the Totogatic River as a wild river; Senate Bill 9, relating to a tort action for intentional misrepresentation in a residential real estate transaction; Senate Bill 12, relating to the operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake.

The State Assembly met for a floor session on Tuesday, March 24, 2009. In part one, the Assembly met on the following agenda items: Assembly Joint Resolution 10, relating to Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week; Assembly Joint Resolution 33, relating to proclaiming April as Autism Awareness Month; Senate Joint Resolution 3, relating to proclaiming Data Privacy Day; Senate Joint Resolution 12, relating to recognizing and supporting national Minority Cancer Awareness Week.

The State Assembly met for a floor session on Tuesday, March 24, 2009. In part two, the Assembly met on the following agenda items: Senate Joint Resolution 6, relating to opposing a federal mandate requiring the suspension or revocation of driver's licenses in all circumstances in which 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; Assembly Bill 14 (Senate Bill 4), relating to the regulation of traveling sales crews, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties; Senate Bill 36, relating to motor vehicle operating privilege suspensions for controlled substance violations; Senate Bill 37, relating to payment of judgments in traffic courts and municipal courts by installments and the suspension of operating privileges.

Following the State of the Tribes Address, the Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. In part one, the Assembly met on the following: Assembly Joint Resolution 7, relating to the life and public service of Judge Ted E. Wedemeyer, Jr.; Assembly Joint Resolution 17, relating to declaring March 10, 2009, Tibet Day; Assembly Joint Resolution 1, relating to proclaiming Niagara Escarpment year and month; Senate Joint Resolution 4, relating to recognizing February 2009 as American Heart Month and February 6, 2009, as Wear Red for Women Day. Running time: 42min.

Following the State of the Tribes Address, the Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. In part two, the Assembly met on the following: Assembly Bill 3, relating to restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty; Assembly Bill 4, relating to catch and release bass and muskellunge fishing; Assembly Bill 7, relating to designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river; and Senate Bill 7, relating to the filing of certain forms related to tax incremental financing district number then in the city of Chippewa Falls. Running time: 1hr 6min.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for an extraordinary session on Wednesday, February 18 at the State Capitol on the following: Senate Bill 62 and 50 Assembly amendments to the bill, relating to state finances and appropriations and making diverse other changes in the statutes. Running time 5hr 22min.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, on the following: Assembly Bill 5, relating to payment of Wisconsin supplemental and extended unemployment insurance benefits in this state.

The Wisconsin State Assembly met for a floor session on January 27, 2009 on the following: Assembly Bill 1, relating to state procurement of products and services from businesses located in this state and setting a goal for local government to purchase a certain percentage of products and services from businesses located in this state; and Assembly Bill 2, relating to state procurement of contractual services.

Continued.

The inauguration of the 2009 State Assembly took place on January 5, 2009 from the Assembly Chambers at the State Capitol in Madison.