WEDNESDAY, October 23, 1996
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Boad
October 15, 1996
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s.13.685(7), Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board that employ one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules, and notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers. For each recently registered organization I have included the organization's description of the general area of legislative or administrative action that it attempts to influence and the name of each licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
Organization recently registered:
Below is the name of an organization recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Deere & Company
Wisconsin Consumer Act and related consumer credit legislation.
Stitt, Donald K.
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board as employers of lobbyists have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Assn, Inc
Kuehn, Ronald
Crandon Mining Co
Alberts, Dale
Harrill, Rodney A.
Reading Assn, Wisconsin State
Hilbert, Lisa
Termination of lobbying authorizations:
The following individuals are no longer authorized to lobby on behalf of the organizations listed below, as of the dates indicated.
Connaught Laboratories Inc., MultiState Associates Inc. on behalf of
Graven, Mara 9/25/96
Grocers Assn, Wisconsin
Parys, Ronald 10/3/96
Johnson Controls, Inc
Graven, Mara A. 9/25/96
Mercy Health System Corporation
Graven, Mara 10/9/96
Steel Recycling Institute, MultiState Associates on behalf of
Graven, Mara 9/25/96
Organization's modification or amendment of records:
The registered organization listed below has indicated the following modification to its records:
Upjohn Co (old name) changed its name to:
Pharmacia & Upjohn Company (new name)
Also available from the Wisconsin Ethics Board are reports identifying the amount and value of time state agencies have spent to affect legislative action and reports of expenditures for lobbying activities filed by the organizations that employ lobbyists.
Sincerely,
R. Roth Judd
Executive Director
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
October 15, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
S909
1983 Wisconsin Act 27 created s.
46.277(5m) of the statutes, which requires the Department of Health and Social Services to submit an annual report on its federal Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services waiver, the Community Integration Program II (CIP II). The attached report covers calendar year 1995 for the CIP and COP-Waiver (Community Options Program Waiver).
These waivers are designed to relocate or divert elderly and physically disabled persons from nursing homes and finance their care with Medicaid. The level of Medicaid waiver funding must be no greater on average than the Medicaid cost for nursing home care. The annual report examines both cost and quality of care in the waiver programs and compares average costs in the waiver program to average nursing home costs.
A second report detailing other public costs incurred by community-based and institutional recipients of Medicaid long-term care services is prepared in conjunction with the annual waiver report. This detail report of public costs has been provided to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau and additional copies are available upon request.
Sincerely,
Joe Leean
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
October 9, 1996
The Honorable, The Legislature:
