Noes, 0 - None.
Kimberly Plache
Chairperson
The committee on Senate Organization reports and recommends:
Assembly Joint Resolution 114
Relating to: the life and public service of Bernard Mathiowetz.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Chvala, Risser, Moen, Ellis, Rude and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Joint Resolution 115
Relating to: proclaiming April 22 "Environmental Education Works for Wisconsin!" Day.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Chvala, Risser, Moen, Ellis, Rude and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Charles Chvala
Chairperson
The joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 372
Relating to: a sales tax and use tax exemption for property used in the maintenance of railroad tracks and rights-of-way.
Recommendation.
The Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions finds that Senate Bill 372 reflects good public policy, and the Committee recommends passage.
Referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Relating to: permitting the creation of joint local water authorities and granting rule-making authority.
Recommendation.
The Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions finds that Senate Bill 501 reflects good public policy, and the Committee recommends passage.
Joseph Wineke
Senate Chairperson
The committee on Utility Regulation reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 418
Relating to: strategic energy assessments, constraints on electric power transmission, control of certain transmission facilities by an independent system operator, the adequacy of retail electric service supplies, electric generating and transfer capacities, certification requirements applicable to certain projects proposed by public utilities, standards, permits and certificates of public convenience and necessity for certain electric generating facilities and high-voltage transmission lines, certain out-of-state sales of retail electric service, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures and granting rule-making authority.
Passage.
Ayes, 2 - Senators
Moen and Clausing.
Noes, 4 - Senators
Shibilski, Rude, Welch and Farrow.
Rodney Moen
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
March 24, 1998
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.
Organizations recently registered:
Below are the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Consumers Union of United States Inc
Subject(s): Issues relating to the conversion of non-profit health care entities to for-profit status and issues relating to the community benefits provided by non-profit health care entities.
Bianco, Diana
Finishing Group The
Subject(s): Tax policy and areas related to post-production activities.
Boxer, Barbara K
Pickart, Joseph A.
Hydro-Platers Inc
Subject(s): Tax policy and areas related to post-production activities.
Boxer, Barbara K
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Advantage Capital Management Corporation
Tenuta, James
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.
Manufactured Housing Assn, Wisconsin
Slattery, Scott 3/19/98
Time Insurance Company
Dalton, Debbie 3/18/98
Organization's cessation of lobbying activity:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board as employers of lobbyists have indicated a cessation of all lobbying activity effective on the dates shown.
North American Salt Company 3/23/98
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,
Roth Judd
Director
State of Wisconsin
Joint Legislative Council
March 24, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
I am pleased to transmit to you the following reports to the 1997 Legislature on legislation introduced by the Joint Legislative Council:
RL 97-9 Legislation on Programs for Persons With Developmental Disabilities (1997 Senate Bill 513 and Assembly Bill 933)
RL 97-10 Legislation on Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control (1997 Senate Bill 502)
I would appreciate your including this letter in the Journal for the information of the membership. Additional copies of these reports are available at the Legislative Council Staff offices, One East Main, Suite 401, or from our web page at
www.legis.state.wi.us/lc/jlcrecs.html.
Sincerely,
David J. Stute
Director
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
January 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
S553
Pursuant to section 153.10(1), Wis. Stat., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the quarterly Health Care Data Report. This report is based on hospital inpatient discharge data reported to the Office of Health Care Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals in Wisconsin for the second quarter of 1996. It also contains selected ambulatory surgery utilization and charge data from general medical-surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin during the same quarter.
This report fulfills the statutory requirement to report "in a manner that permits comparisons among hospitals ... the charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups selected by the office."
