State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
July 1, 1997
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.
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.
Lake Schooner Education Assn Wisconsin
Subject(s): Wisconsin Lake Schooner Education Assn is building a three-masted Great Lakes Schooner to be used as a floating classroom and our state's goodwill ambassador. Its primary purpose will be to teach Wisconsin's youth about our most valuable natural resource, The Great Lakes - while at the same time having an immense benefit to Wisconsin's tourism industry.
Haines, Kimberly
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Madison Area Builders Assn
Subject(s): May attempt to influence legislation and administrative rules that involve all aspects of the home-building industry.
Semmann, Michael
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:
USA Waste Services of Wisconsin
Moore, Thomas E
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.
AFSCME District Council 48
Bau, Fred 6/27/97
Children's Health System, Inc.
Gazzana, Thomas 6/30/97
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
June 27, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
As required by Section
252.04 (11), stats,, we are pleased to provide the annual report on the statewide immunization program. Please distribute this report to the appropriate standing committees.
Sincerely,
Richard W. Lorang
Deputy Secretary
Referred to committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
State of Wisconsin
Department of Commerce
June 23, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
As specified in 101.122, we are submitting last year's annual report for the Rental Weatherization Program. This program began on January 1, 1985. This is the 12th report of the program's operation. Additional copies of the report are available by contacting the program staff at: Department of Commerce, Safety and Buildings Division, Rental Weatherization, GEF 1, Room 103, Telephone: (608) 266-0671.
Sincerely,
William J. McCoshen
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Medical College of Wisconsin
June 23, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
On behalf of the Medical College of Wisconsin, it is my pleasure to submit the annual report on the activities of our Department of Family and Community Medicine.
This report has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of
1995 Wisconsin Act 54 and provides information about the items specified in the Act.
Please feel free to contact me if you or your staff have any questions or would like more information about our family medicine program or other activities of the College. I apologize for the delay in submitting the report.
Sincerely,
Donna K. Gissen
Vice President
Planning and Government Affairs
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
June 26, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Mercer
, Gary,
of Portage, as a member of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2000.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
June 26, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Kell
, Thomas P.,
of Spooner, as a member of the Wisconsin Waterway Commission, to serve for the interim term ending March 1, 2001.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
June 26, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Parrino, Cheryl L.,
of Madison, as a member of the Public Service Commission, to serve for the term ending March 1, 2003 and to serve as Chair for the term ending March 1, 1999.
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Utility Regulation.
The committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Relating to operation of the uniform fee system including determination of parental liability for the cost of court-ordered substitute care of a child.
