The Senate will is not scheduled be in session on Tuesday, November 1, but will be in on Wednesday, November 2. As of this writing, the Senate has not released its Floor Schedule for next week.
The Assembly will be in session on Tuesday, November 1, and will consider the following bills:
Resolutions
AJR-55. Memorial (Thiesfeldt) Life and public service of Craig Allen Birkholz.
AJR-59. Diabetes (Toles) Diabetes Awareness Month.
AJR-70. German-American (Kessler) Recognizes October 6 as German-American day.
SJR-46. Breast Cancer (Darling) Proclaims the month of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Legislative Proposals
AB-39. UW Regents (Severson) Requires appointment of at least one regent from each congressional district.
AB-55. Failure-to-Yield (Pridemore) Change affecting failure-to-yield violations.
AB-62. Student Meds (Kestell) Changes affecting administration of medication to pupils.
AB-69. Self Defense (Kaufert) Privilege of self defense.
AB-71. DPI (Kestell) Expands definition of "immoral conduct" under licensing provisions at DPI.
AB-75. Special Olympics (Nygren) Individual income tax checkoff for Special Olympics Wisconsin, Inc.
AB-122. Unpardoned Felons (Thiesfeldt) Permits an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon.
AB-142. Talent Incentive Grants (Legislative Council) Enrollment requirements for recipients of talent incentive grants.
AB-144.. Financial Aid (Legislative Council) Creating a commission on financial aid consolidation and modernization.
AB-152. Airports (Steineke) Allows state aid for an airport improvement project involving federal aid to include cost of hangars and up to $2,000,000 for the cost of a building project or building improvement project.
AB-224. School Boards/Libraries (Kaufert) Authorizes school boards and libraries to transfer a gift or grant to certain charitable organizations.
AB-246. Resisting Arrest (Krug) Resisting an officer while armed with or threatening to use a dangerous weapon.
AB-274. Railroads (Petrowski) Requires motorists to yield to railroad track equipment trains at crossings; requiring a railroad to maintain its right of way.
AB-293.. Child Restraint Systems (Endsley) Clarifies 2005 Act 106 to expressly allow a driver to transport a child in a more protective restraint system than the minimum required by law.
AB-311. Sporting Recruitment (Steineke) Creates sporting recruitment and retention program.
AB-319. Municipal Employee Benefits (Wynn) Allows a municipal employer to enter into a memorandum of understanding to reduce the cost of compensation or fringe benefits; provides the MOU is not a modification of the collective bargaining agreement for purposes of Act 10.
AB-328. Time-Share (Rivard) Non-judicial foreclosure of time-share estates and licenses.
SB-28. UW Regents (Harsdorf) Requires appointment of at least one citizen member from each congressional district to the UW Board of Regents.
SB-42. Child Abuse Reporting (Wanggaard) Mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect by school district employees; training in child abuse and neglect identification; laws, and procedures for those employees; retaliation against a person who reports child abuse or neglect in good faith.
SB-48. Special Olympics (Galloway) Creates an individual income tax checkoff for the Special Olympics in WI.
SB-49. DPI (Olsen) Expands definition of "immoral conduct" under licensing provisions at DPI.
SB-77. Trails Council (Leibham) Membership on State Trails Council.
SB-85. Theft (Zipperer) Makes theft of services a crime.
SB-95. School Flexibility (Olsen) Granting high school credit for extracurricular sports; services provided by a special education program; transportation aid paid to school districts; the use of moneys received by a school district from the common school fund; using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate, discharge, suspend, or discipline a teacher or for the nonrenewal of a teacher's contract; the number of teaching days scheduled in the Milwaukee Public Schools; permitting a school district to limit the grades in which to reduce class size under the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education Program; permitting a school board to deny enrollment to a pupil who has been expelled from an out-of-state school or from an independent charter school in this state and permitting an independent charter school to expel a pupil; use of law enforcement records to take disciplinary action against a pupil under a school district's athletic code; and changing the date by which a school district must certify the amount of its property tax levy.
SB-151. Employee Compensation (Cowles) Modifies Act 354 (SB-552) of the last session to remove language related to make certain employee referrals of customers do not constitute "consideration", allowing employees in Wisconsin to participate in prize drawings conducted as part of employer-sponsored customer referral contests.
SB-212. Nursing Homes (Galloway) Makes various changes in regulation of nursing homes.
SB-224. Shorewood (Darling) Exception to local levy limits for the Village of Shorewood.
SB-228. Transporting Hunting Equipment (Moulton) Placing, possessing or transporting a firearm, bow or crossbow in or on a vehicle or in or on a motorboat.
SB-234. Parental Choice (Vukmir) Pre-accreditation and accreditation of private schools participating in the MPCP and the choice program for eligible school districts, certificates of occupancy for participating private school buildings, verification of income eligibility for pupils to participate in the programs, fees and tuitions charged to pupils attending participating private schools, standards of conduct for administrators of participating private schools.
Note: The Assembly intends to take up SB-2, which is on the Senate Message. The Assembly will take up AB-125 and AB-302 from the Tuesday, Oct. 25, Calendar, and the following bills, which are special ordered: AB-69, AB-147, AB-301, SB-107, SB-116.
