{"id":6304,"date":"2014-02-17T19:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T01:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2014-02-18T09:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:49:48","slug":"legislative-committee-to-vote-on-bill-allowing-classified-research-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6304","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Committee to Vote on Bill Allowing Classified Research on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.legis.wi.gov\/raw\/cid\/1020377\">will meet<\/a> at 9 am Tuesday, February 18 in Room 328 Northwest of the of the State Capitol to vote on three bills, including one that would allow classified research on University of Wisconsin System campuses. A UW System <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsa.edu\/fadmin\/gapp\/gapp2.htm\">administrative policy<\/a> currently prohibits such research.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6283\">public hearing<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/proposals\/ab729\">Assembly Bill 729<\/a> was held last week. Committee chair Representative Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/244772741.html\">expressed concern<\/a> over the portion of the bill that would allow exemptions to the state&#8217;s open records law and said he would not schedule a vote on the bill until the provision was removed.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Mike Kuglitsch (R-New Berlin), the bill&#8217;s primary sponsor, agreed to remove the provision (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/related\/amendments\/ab729\/aa1_ab729\">Assembly Amendment 1 to AB 729<\/a>), and the committee will vote on the amended bill tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>PROFS worked with the authors of the legislation and <a href=\"https:\/\/lobbying.wi.gov\/What\/BillInformation\/2013REG\/Information\/11141\">is registered<\/a> in support of the bill. PROFS supports the legislation because it <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6283\">ensures<\/a> faculty will have a say in any decisions regarding classified research. Additionally, some faculty have expressed an interest in doing more classified research.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lobbying.wi.gov\/What\/BillInformation\/2013REG\/Information\/11141\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ETA 2\/18\/14: The amended bill was approved by the committee with little discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee will meet at 9 am Tuesday, February 18 in Room 328 Northwest of the of the State Capitol to vote on three bills, including one that would allow classified research on University of Wisconsin&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6304\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,17],"tags":[107,8,137],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-classified-research","tag-legislation","tag-uw-system","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6313,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}