Edward A. Blazel
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Blazel:
Please add my name as a cosponsor of Assembly Bill 494, relating to status as an indefinitely confined voter for purposes of automatically receiving absentee ballots and providing a penalty.
Sincerely,
JOAN BALLWEG
State Senator
14th Senate District
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October 17, 2023
Edward A. Blazel
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Blazel:
hist174914Please add my name as a cosponsor of Assembly Bill 494, relating to status as an indefinitely confined voter for purposes of automatically receiving absentee ballots and providing a penalty. Sincerely,
HOWARD MARKLEIN
State Senator
17th Senate District
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October 17, 2023
Edward A. Blazel
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Blazel:
hist175024Please add my name as a cosponsor of Assembly Bill 125, relating to requiring informed consent before performing a pelvic examination on a patient who is under general anesthesia or unconscious. Sincerely,
MELISSA AGARD
State Senator
16th Senate District
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Calendar of Tuesday, October 17
hist174952Representative August asked unanimous consent that Assembly Joint Resolution 79 be withdrawn from today's calendar and taken up at this time. Granted. Assembly Joint Resolution 79
Relating to: recognizing October 17, 2023, as First Responders Appreciation Day in Wisconsin.
hist174953The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 79 be adopted? Motion carried.
hist174954Representative August asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 79 be immediately messaged to the Senate. Granted. _____________
Special Guests
Speaker Vos and the membership of the Assembly honored Wisconsin’s First Responders with a Hometown Hero Award. Chief Clerk Blazel introduced the women and men who were selected as First Responder of the Year in their Assembly District.
AD Recipient
1 Fire Chief Chris Hecht, Sister Bay and Liberty Grove Fire Dept.
2 Captain Jason Maus, Lawrence Fire Dept.
3 Lieutenant Todd Peters, Appleton Police Dept.
5 Angel Van Noie, Hobart-Lawrence Police Dept.
6 Captain Steve Hurkman, City of Seymour Fire Dept.
7 Lieutenant Chad Shepardson, Milwaukee Fire Dept.
8 Chief Brian J. McNulty, Milwaukee Fire Dept.
12 Angelia Sillas, Milwaukee Public School Safety Assistant
14 Detective Eric Sturino, West Allis Police Dept.
15 Lieutenant Christopher K. Pierce, New Berlin Fire Dept.
16 Kaonnie Whitley, Milwaukee Police Dept.
18 EMT Sergey Dobrinin, Bell Ambulance
20 Officer Madeline Ohm, Cudahy Police Force
21 Captain Daniel Fournier, South Milwaukee Police Dept.
22 Deputy Steven Bertschy, Waukesha County Sheriff's Office
23 Dispatcher Troy Kasten, Bayside Communications Center
24 Carol Barthel, Southern Ozaukee Fire and Emergency Medical Services Dept.
25 Lieutenant Travis Aleff, Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office
26 Officer Michael Brungraber, Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office
27 Assistant Chief Rory Beebe, Plymouth Fire and Rescue
28 Nicole and Dan Gullickson, Northern Municipal EMS and Dresser/Osceola/Garfield Fire Dept.
29 Officer Jacob Blum, Dunn County Sheriff's Office
30 Mike Moody, River Falls Fire Dept.
31 Lieutenant Jason Rowland, Walworth County Emergency Management
32 Officer Mark Erickson, Williams Bay Police Dept.
33 Officer Ryan Walters, Fort Atkinson Police Dept.
34 Tanner Perry, EMT/Firefighter Rhinelander Fire Dept.
35 Fire Chief Dawn Herlache, Townsend Volunteer Fire Dept.
36 Volunteer Firefighter Dan Simmer, Town of Silver Cliff
37 Jennifer Foth, Dane County Public Safety Communications
38 Officer Kevin Jansen, Village of Johnson Creek Police Dept.
39 Captain Wesley Jahnke, Beaver Dam Fire Dept.
40 Joshua Luebke, Manawa Rural Ambulance Service
41 Fire Chief Troy W. Haase, Portage Fire Dept.
AD Recipient
42 Deputy Blake Brandner and Lieutenant Mark Smit, Columbia County Sheriff's Dept.
43 Chief Randall Pickering, Lakeside Fire-Rescue District
44 Officer Nicholas Sargeant, Janesville Police Dept.
45 Detective Amber Davies, Beloit Police Dept.
46 Firefighter/EMT Ruth Savard, Madison Fire Dept.
47 Harland Hettrick, McFarland Fire & Rescue
48 Paramedic Jon Frank, Madison Fire Dept.
49 David Shelliam, Hazel Green Area Rescue Squad
