Ninety-Third Regular Session
Wednesday, October 21, 1998
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
October 20, 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.
Kwik Trip, Inc
Subject(s): Seek to amend Wisconsin Minimum Markup Law and Rules interpreting same. Review any possible changes to reimbursement for petroleum cleanups.
Buchen, Elizabeth
Plautz, Jolene
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:
Realtors Assn, Wisconsin
Larson, Thomas
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.
New Hope Project Inc
Campbell, Karen 10/16/98
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
Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District
October 22, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Attached please find the Miller Park monthly progress report for the month of September 1998 for your review and consideration.
Please feel free to contact me if you should have any questions or comments regarding the enclosed report.
Sincerely,
Michael R. Duckett, P.E.,R.L.S.
Executive Director
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
July 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10(1), Wis. Stat., we are please 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 first quarter of 1997. 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."
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Rudolph, Ph.D., Director
Office of Health Care Information
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
July 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10(1), Wis. Stat., we are please 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 1997. 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.
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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."
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Rudolph, Ph.D., Director
Office of Health Care Information
State of Wisconsin
Department of Commerce
September 29, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate:
The enclosed report has been sent to you pursuant to sec. 1.11, Stats. This section requires agencies to submit a report to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, including the number of proposed actions for which the agency conducted an assessment of whether an impact statement was required and the number of impact statements prepared.
This report encompasses the activities of the Department of Commerce for the period from July 1, 1997, to July 1, 1998.
Any questions concerning this report may be directed to Richard Meyer, WEPA Coordinator, at 608-266-3080.
Sincerely,
Philip Edw. Albert
Acting Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Financial Institutions
October 15, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate:
Pursuant to Wisconsin State Statutes 15.04(d) I am transmitting to you a copy of the Department of Financial Institutions Annual Report for 1997. While I am providing a printed copy of this report, it is accessible to all members of the Legislature and the public through our internet site. It is located at:
DFI is committed to firm and fair regulation and to protecting the consumers who use the services of our state's financial institutions. Outlined in this year's report are details of the final consolidation of the Department, a successful legislative agenda and a financial industry that is healthy, growing and helping Wisconsin get ready for the next millennium.
I hope you will find this report useful. If I can provide any further information concerning our financial institutions and regulation, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Richard l. Dean
Secretary of Department of Financial Institutions
State of Wisconsin
Department of Revenue
October 9, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
I am submitting the quarterly report of the Wisconsin Lottery for the quarter ending September 30, 1998. As required by s.
565.37(3), Wis. Stats., the attached materials contain Wisconsin Lottery year to date sales and financial information.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this report, please feel free to contact me at (608)266-6466.
