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February 20, 2024
Edward A. Blazel
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Blazel:
hist190833Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 418, relating to healthy aging grants and making an appropriation. hist190834Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 423, relating to special motions to strike strategic lawsuits against public participation. hist190835Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 426, relating to eligibility for appointment as a law enforcement or correctional officer. hist190836Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 458, relating to expanding the homestead income tax credit. hist190837Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 471, relating to increasing the earned income tax credit for claimants with fewer than three children. hist190838Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 485, relating to an intern placement program administered by the Department of Workforce Development and making an appropriation. hist190839Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 489, relating to minimum nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, registered nurses' right to refuse a work assignment, prohibiting mandatory overtime for registered nurses, and providing a penalty. hist190840Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 526, relating to pupil discrimination and private school participating in a parental choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program, discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression, and providing a penalty. hist190841Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 527, relating to the reimbursement rate for special education costs and making an appropriation. hist190842Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 528, relating to race-based nicknames, logos, mascots, and team names; providing an exemption from rule-making and emergency rule procedures; and making an appropriation. hist190843Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 529, relating to counting pupils enrolled in four-year-old kindergarten for purposes of state aid and revenue limits. hist190844Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 530, relating to additional positions in the Department of Public Instruction related to licensing school and public library personnel and making an appropriation. hist190845Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 531, relating to a school district revenue limit adjustment for the cost of employing school nurses. hist190846Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 532, relating to payments for pupils who withdraw from a parental choice program, the Special Needs Scholarship Program, or an independent charter school. hist190847Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 533, relating to phasing out the Special Needs Scholarship Program and limiting enrollment in parental choice programs. hist190848Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 534, relating to teacher and administrator licensure in parental choice programs and in the Special Needs Scholarship Program and granting rule-making authority. hist190849Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 565, relating to authorizing certain full-time positions within the Department of Safety and Professional Services and making an appropriation. hist190850Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 615, relating to creating a task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls. hist190851Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 618, relating to expanding graduate medical training grants and making an appropriation. hist190852Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 663, relating to contributions by corporations, cooperative associations, labor organizations, and federally recognized American Indian Tribes. hist190853Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 691, relating to attorney general enforcement authority for civil rights violations and providing a penalty. hist190854Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 710, relating to certain requirements for residential leases. hist190855Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 733, relating to campaign contribution limits. hist190856Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 790, relating to coverage of tests and ancillary procedures for services for which health insurance coverage is mandated. hist190857Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 858, relating to local health officer authority to mandate business closure to control communicable disease. hist190858Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 864, relating to funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program and making an appropriation. hist190859Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 876, relating to a school district revenue limit adjustment for the cost of unfunded state mandates on school districts. hist190860Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 902, relating to prohibitions on postemployment nonsolicitation clauses in employment contracts. hist190861Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 935, relating to funding for education on solid waste reduction, recovery, and recycling and making an appropriation. hist190862Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 942, relating to fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities and hospices, and granting rule-making authority. hist190863Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 943, relating to grants for patient lift devices and making an appropriation. hist190864Please add my name as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 916, relating to a technology and innovation hub grant to BioForward, Inc., and making an appropriation. hist190874Please add my name as a cosponsor of Senate Bill 407, relating to healthy aging grants and making an appropriation. hist190875Please add my name as a cosponsor of Senate Bill 447, relating to ready-to-use glucagon rescue therapies in schools. hist190876Please add my name as a cosponsor of Senate Bill 628, relating to financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. hist190877Please add my name as a cosponsor of Senate Bill 643, relating to expanding graduate medical training grants and making an appropriation. Sincerely,
JODI EMERSON
State Representative
91st Assembly District
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Calendar of Tuesday, February 20
hist190259Representative August asked unanimous consent that Assembly Resolution 22 be withdrawn from today's calendar and taken up at this time. Granted. Assembly Resolution 22
Relating to: recognizing and commending the Wisconsin Operating Engineers Local 139 and its staff at the Coloma Training Center for their role in fighting the Pallet Fire.
hist190270The question was: Shall Assembly Resolution 22 be adopted? Motion carried.
hist190271Representative August asked unanimous consent that Assembly Joint Resolution 114 be withdrawn from today's calendar and taken up at this time. Granted. Assembly Joint Resolution 114
Relating to: honoring the success of Ben Chan on Jeopardy!
hist190272The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 114 be adopted? Motion carried.
hist190274Representative August asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 114 be immediately messaged to the Senate. Granted. Relating to: prohibiting the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee (first consideration).
hist190276The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 112 be ordered engrossed and read a third time? Motion carried.
hist190277Representative August asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 112 be given a third reading. Granted. Speaker Pro Tempore Petersen in the chair.
hist191295The question was: Shall Assembly Joint Resolution 112 be adopted? The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Allen, Armstrong, August, Behnke, Binsfeld, Bodden, Born, Brandtjen, Brooks, Callahan, Dallman, Dittrich, Donovan, Duchow, Edming, Goeben, Green, Gundrum, Gustafson, Hurd, S. Johnson, Katsma, Kitchens, Krug, Kurtz, Macco, Magnafici, Maxey, Melotik, Michalski, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, Neylon, Novak, O'Connor, Oldenburg, Penterman, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pronschinske, Rettinger, Rodriguez, Rozar, Sapik, Schmidt, Schraa, Schutt, Snyder, Sortwell, Spiros, Steffen, Summerfield, Swearingen, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer, Wichgers, Wittke, Zimmerman and Speaker Vos - 64.
Noes - Representatives C. Anderson, J. Anderson, Andraca, Baldeh, Bare, Billings, Cabrera, Clancy, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Drake, Emerson, Goyke, Haywood, Hong, Jacobson, Joers, Madison, McGuire, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Ratcliff, Riemer, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck and Vining - 34.
Absent or not voting - Representative Myers - 1.
Motion carried.
hist190280Representative August asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Joint Resolution 112 be immediately messaged to the Senate. Granted. Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for precious metal bullion.
hist190284The question was: Shall Assembly Bill 29 be ordered engrossed and read a third time? Motion carried.
hist190285Representative August asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill 29 be given a third reading. Granted. hist190286The question was: Assembly Bill 29 having been read three times, shall the bill be passed? The roll was taken.
The result follows:
Ayes - Representatives Allen, C. Anderson, Armstrong, August, Baldeh, Bare, Behnke, Billings, Binsfeld, Bodden, Born, Brandtjen, Brooks, Cabrera, Callahan, Clancy, Dallman, Dittrich, Donovan, Doyle, Duchow, Edming, Emerson, Goeben, Goyke, Green, Gundrum, Gustafson, Hurd, Jacobson, Joers, S. Johnson, Katsma, Kitchens, Krug, Kurtz, Macco, Madison, Magnafici, Maxey, McGuire, Melotik, Michalski, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, Neubauer, Neylon, Novak, O'Connor, Oldenburg, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Penterman, Petersen, Petryk, Plumer, Pronschinske, Ratcliff, Rettinger, Rodriguez, Rozar, Sapik, Schmidt, Schraa, Schutt, Shankland, Shelton, Snodgrass, Snyder, Sortwell, Spiros, Steffen, Stubbs, Subeck, Summerfield, Swearingen, Tittl, Tranel, Tusler, VanderMeer, Wichgers, Wittke, Zimmerman and Speaker Vos - 86.
Noes - Representatives J. Anderson, Andraca, Conley, Considine, Drake, Haywood, Hong, Moore Omokunde, Ohnstad, Riemer, Sinicki and Vining - 12.
Absent or not voting - Representative Myers - 1.
Motion carried.
Representatives Shelton and Snodgrass asked unanimous consent to be recorded as voting “No” on the previous question. Granted.
hist190287Representative August asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Bill 29 be immediately messaged to the Senate. Granted.
