April 13, 2020
The following motions were approved by the Committee on Senate Organization:
Motion 1:
Pursuant to the power granted under Section 13.42 (2) of the Wisconsin Statutes, it is moved that the committee on Senate Organization hereby issues notice that the Senate is prevented from physically meeting at the seat of government due to an emergency resulting from a disaster or the imminent threat of a disaster. The Senate and its committees shall take all necessary steps to convene and meet in virtual session. Ayes: 5 − Senators Fitzgerald, Roth, Feyen, Shilling and Bewley.
Noes: 0
Motion 2:
In accordance with § 13.42 of the Wisconsin Statutes, Joint Rule 81 (2) and Senate Rule 93, it is moved that the Committee on Senate Organization authorize the Legislature to meet in virtual Extraordinary Session beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, solely to consider LRB 19-6132 and LRB 19-6089, relating to state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ayes: 5 − Senators Fitzgerald, Roth, Feyen, Shilling and Bewley.
Noes: 0
Motion 3:
It is moved that the Committee on Senate Organization introduce LRB 19-6132, relating to relating to state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ayes: 3 − Senators Fitzgerald, Roth and Feyen.
Noes: 2 – Senators Shilling and Bewley.
Motion 4:
Pursuant to Senate Rule 93, it is moved that the committee on Senate Organization adopt the following procedures for the purpose of conducting Senate business during the extraordinary session that will convene in virtual session under s. 13.42 of the Wisconsin Statutes for the purpose of addressing and containing the COVID-19 coronavirus: 1. Members shall cast votes and answer roll calls through electronic means, in the manner determined by the presiding officer.
2. Except as provided in 3., all amendments to bills on a daily calendar must be introduced before 9:00 am on the day of the session to which the calendar applies.
3. Upon request of the presiding officer, the presiding officer may permit the LRB to draft and a member to introduce, while the senate is in session, an amendment that addresses technical issues in a proposal.
4. Upon completion of the Second Reading of a proposal, a member may offer one motion that both orders a proposal to its Third Reading and gives a proposal its Third Reading.
5. The president shall determine which members may be physically present in the room from which the virtual session of the senate is conducted.
6. Privileged resolutions may not be offered during the session.
7. Any proposal contained in a message from the assembly shall be taken up immediately, unless otherwise referred by the presiding officer.
Ayes: 3 − Senators Fitzgerald, Roth and Feyen.
Noes: 2 – Senators Shilling and Bewley.
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Introduction and Reference of Proposals
Read first time and referred on Monday, April 13:
Relating to: state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By committee on Assembly Organization, Representatives Vos and Steineke; and cosponsored by Senator Fitzgerald.
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Calendar of Tuesday, April 14
Relating to: state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
hist124812Representative Stafsholt asked unanimous consent that his leave of absence be lifted. Granted. Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 1038 offered by Representatives Hintz, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Doyle, Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Crowley, Considine, Emerson, Haywood, Hebl, Goyke, Kolste, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, L. Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Fields, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, C. Taylor, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, Vining, Vruwink and Zamarripa.
hist124835Representative Steineke moved that Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 1038 be laid on the table. The question was: Shall Assembly Amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 1038 be laid on the table?
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Allen, August, Ballweg, Born, Brandtjen, Brooks, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Felzkowski, Gundrum, Horlacher, Hutton, Jagler, James, Katsma, Kerkman, Kitchens, Knodl, Krug, Kuglitsch, Kulp, Kurtz, Loudenbeck, Macco, Magnafici, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon, Novak, Nygren, Oldenburg, Ott, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pronschinske, Quinn, Ramthun, Rodriguez, Rohrkaste, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Skowronski, Snyder, Sortwell, Spiros, Stafsholt, Steffen, Steineke, Summerfield, Swearingen, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer, Vorpagel, Wichgers, Wittke, Zimmerman and Speaker Vos - 63.
Noes - Representatives Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Considine, Crowley, Doyle, Emerson, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Kolste, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, L. Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining, Vruwink and Zamarripa - 36.
Absent or not voting - None.
Motion carried.
hist124813Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 1038 offered by Representatives Hintz, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Doyle, Shankland, Brostoff, Emerson, Hebl, Stubbs, Cabrera, Zamarripa, Milroy, Anderson, Neubauer, Crowley, Riemer, Ohnstad, Goyke, Subeck, Pope, Kolste, Sargent, Considine, B. Meyers, Stuck, Fields, Vining, Billings, L. Myers and Sinicki. hist124836Representative Steineke moved that Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 1038 be laid on the table. The question was: Shall Assembly Amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 1038 be laid on the table?
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Allen, August, Ballweg, Born, Brandtjen, Brooks, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Felzkowski, Gundrum, Horlacher, Hutton, Jagler, James, Katsma, Kerkman, Kitchens, Knodl, Krug, Kuglitsch, Kulp, Kurtz, Loudenbeck, Macco, Magnafici, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon, Novak, Nygren, Oldenburg, Ott, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pronschinske, Quinn, Ramthun, Rodriguez, Rohrkaste, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Skowronski, Snyder, Sortwell, Spiros, Stafsholt, Steffen, Steineke, Summerfield, Swearingen, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer, Vorpagel, Wichgers, Wittke, Zimmerman and Speaker Vos - 63.
Noes - Representatives Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Considine, Crowley, Doyle, Emerson, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Kolste, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, L. Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining, Vruwink and Zamarripa - 36.
Absent or not voting - None.
Motion carried.
hist124814Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Bill 1038 offered by Representatives Hintz, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Doyle, B. Meyers, Zamarripa, Milroy, Cabrera, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining, Goyke, Billings, Fields, Riemer, Sargent, Pope, Ohnstad, Considine, Anderson, Hebl, Kolste, Vruwink, Emerson, Stubbs, Crowley, Stuck, Bowen, Neubauer and Sinicki. hist124837Representative Steineke moved that Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Bill 1038 be laid on the table. The question was: Shall Assembly Amendment 3 to Assembly Bill 1038 be laid on the table?
The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Allen, August, Ballweg, Born, Brandtjen, Brooks, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Felzkowski, Gundrum, Horlacher, Hutton, Jagler, James, Katsma, Kerkman, Kitchens, Knodl, Krug, Kuglitsch, Kulp, Kurtz, Loudenbeck, Macco, Magnafici, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon, Novak, Nygren, Oldenburg, Ott, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pronschinske, Quinn, Ramthun, Rodriguez, Rohrkaste, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Skowronski, Snyder, Sortwell, Spiros, Stafsholt, Steffen, Steineke, Summerfield, Swearingen, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer, Vorpagel, Wichgers, Wittke, Zimmerman and Speaker Vos - 63.
Noes - Representatives Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Considine, Crowley, Doyle, Emerson, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Kolste, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, L. Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining, Vruwink and Zamarripa - 36.
Absent or not voting - None.
Motion carried.
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Speaker Pro Tempore August asked unanimous consent that the Assembly stand informal. Granted.
The Assembly stood informal.
2:18 P.M.
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Informal
2:39 P.M.
The Assembly reconvened.
Speaker Pro Tempore August in the chair.
hist124833Assembly Amendment 4 to Assembly Bill 1038 offered by Representative Vos. hist124838The question was: Shall Assembly Amendment 4 to Assembly Bill 1038 be adopted? The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Allen, August, Ballweg, Born, Brandtjen, Brooks, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Felzkowski, Gundrum, Horlacher, Hutton, Jagler, James, Katsma, Kerkman, Kitchens, Knodl, Krug, Kuglitsch, Kulp, Kurtz, Loudenbeck, Macco, Magnafici, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon, Novak, Nygren, Oldenburg, Ott, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pronschinske, Quinn, Ramthun, Rodriguez, Rohrkaste, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Skowronski, Snyder, Sortwell, Spiros, Stafsholt, Steffen, Steineke, Summerfield, Swearingen, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer, Vorpagel, Wichgers, Wittke, Zimmerman and Speaker Vos - 63.
Noes - Representatives Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Considine, Crowley, Doyle, Emerson, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Kolste, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, L. Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Riemer, Sargent, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vining, Vruwink and Zamarripa - 36.
Absent or not voting - None.
Motion carried.
hist124839The question was: Shall Assembly Bill 1038 be ordered engrossed and read a third time? Motion carried.
hist124840Representative Steineke asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill 1038 be given a third reading. Granted. hist124841The question was: Assembly Bill 1038 having been read three times, shall the bill be passed? The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Allen, Anderson, August, Ballweg, Billings, Born, Bowen, Brandtjen, Brooks, Considine, Crowley, Dittrich, Doyle, Duchow, Edming, Emerson, Felzkowski, Fields, Goyke, Gruszynski, Gundrum, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Horlacher, Hutton, Jagler, James, Katsma, Kerkman, Kitchens, Knodl, Kolste, Krug, Kuglitsch, Kulp, Kurtz, Loudenbeck, Macco, Magnafici, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, Murphy, Mursau, L. Myers, Neubauer, Neylon, Novak, Nygren, Ohnstad, Oldenburg, Ott, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pope, Pronschinske, Quinn, Ramthun, Riemer, Rodriguez, Rohrkaste, Sanfelippo, Sargent, Schraa, Shankland, Sinicki, Skowronski, Snyder, Sortwell, Spiros, Spreitzer, Stafsholt, Steffen, Steineke, Stubbs, Stuck, Subeck, Summerfield, Swearingen, Tauchen, C. Taylor, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer, Vining, Vorpagel, Vruwink, Wichgers, Wittke, Zamarripa, Zimmerman and Speaker Vos - 97.
Noes - Representatives Brostoff and Cabrera - 2.
