Wednesday, November 13, 1996
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
November 4, 1996
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Chapter 34, Laws of 1979, requires that when the Department of Administration maintains an office in Washington, D.C., for the purpose of promoting federal/state cooperation, it should submit a report detailing the activities of the office and reporting the status of federal legislation of concern to the Legislature and other state agencies (Wis. Stats. 16.548 (2)).
The report for the period July 1, 1996, through September 30, 1996, is attached.
Sincerely,
James R. Klauser
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
November 11, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
1993 Wisconsin Act 168 (s.46.74) created an outreach program for food stamps, as well as additional statutory language directed at alleviating hunger in Wisconsin. The legislation was developed as a result of the work of the Legislative Council's 1992-93 Special Committee on Issues Relating to Hunger Prevention. Four non-profit organizations were awarded funding to inform individuals with low incomes about the availability, application procedures and benefits of the federal Food Stamp Program. While money for the Food Stamp Outreach Program was originally intended to be an ongoing appropriation, the funding was subsequently deleted, so the program and funding ended at the end of the 1995 calendar year.
Act 168 also directed the Department to evaluate the Food Stamp Outreach projects and submit a report containing its findings to the Legislature by January 1, 1997. The attached report fulfills that directive.
Sincerely,
Joe Leean
Secretary
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The committee on Agriculture, Transportation, Utilities and Financial Institutions reports and recommends:
Relating to a traffic violation and registration program.
No action taken.
Relating to animal health.
No action taken.
Relating to allowing the operation of double bottoms and certain other vehicles on certain specified highways.
No action taken.
Relating to designating alternative accounting guidelines for the preparation of financial statements for certain governmental issuers of securities.
No action taken.
Alice Clausing
Chairperson
The committee on Economic Development, Housing, Government Operations and Cultural Affairs reports and recommends:
Relating to signatures on Wisconsin retirement system documents by an agent holding the person's power of attorney.
No action taken.
Relating to automatic distributions of Wisconsin retirement system benefits to participants and alternate payees who have attained age 69.5 and to beneficiaries of deceased annuitants.
No action taken.
Relating to purchases of service under the Wisconsin retirement system, including forfeited, qualifying and other governmental service.
No action taken.
Gwendolynne Moore
Chairperson
The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Relating to conduct on university lands.
No action taken.
Relating to education for school age parents.
