Noes, 0 - None.
Senate amendment 2 adoption.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Adelman, Risser, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate amendment 1 to Senate amendment 3 adoption.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Adelman, Risser, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate amendment 3 adoption.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Adelman, Risser, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Adelman, Risser, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Lynn Adelman
Chairperson
The committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 336
Relating to: authorizing the department of workforce development to promulgate a rule permitting an employer to pay certain employes an opportunity wage, but requiring that rule to prohibit an employer from hiring an employe at the opportunity wage if that hiring would displace a regular employe and granting rule-making authority.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Plache, C. Potter, Moore and Decker.
Noes, 3 - Senators Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Kimberly Plache
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
State Senator Lynn Adelman
December 29, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
I hereby submit my resignation as State Senator from the 28th Senate District, effective at the close of the business day on December 29, 1997.
It has been an honor and a pleasure to represent the people of the 28th Senate District. Serving in the Legislature, representing the 28th Senate District, has been a most rewarding experience and I leave this body after twenty-one years of service with a great sense of fulfillment and satisfaction.
It has been a privilege to serve wit you in the State Senate over the past years. I wish all members of the Legislature well as they work to find solutions to the problems of today.
Sincerely,
Lynn Adelman
State Senator
28th Senate District
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
December 23, 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.
ABC for Health Inc
Subject(s): ABC for Health, Inc. is a public interest law firm interested in health care financing and access to families. Legislative and administrative issues and rules we may attempt to influence include: Medicaid/MA, health insurance, human services, health reform and regulation.
Peterson Jr, Robert
Advantage Capital Management Corporation
Subject(s): Legislation and rules affecting venture capital, small businesses, capital formation for small businesses and specifically subject areas addressed in pending AB579.
Gerrard, M William
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:
Northern States Power Co
Rongstad, Todd
United Health Group
Leitch, Laura J
Kraft General Foods, Inc. by its service company Philip Morris Management Corp.
Lucas, Paul
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.
S382
Northern States Power Co
Hanson, Richard 12/22/97
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 Administration
December 12, 1997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
This report is transmitted as required by sec. 20.002(11)(f) of the Wisconsin Statutes, (for distribution to the appropriate standing committees under sec. 13.172(3) Stats.), and confirms that the Department of Administration has found it necessary to exercise the "temporary reallocation of balances" authority provided by this section in order to meet payment responsibilities and cover resulting negative balances during the month of November, 1997.
On November 19, 1997 the Wisconsin Petroleum Inspection Fund balance was -$1.30 million. This shortfall continued until November 20, 1997 when the balance reached $8.08 million. This shortfall was due to the timing of revenues.
On November 3, 1997 the Wisconsin Health Education Loan Repayment Fund balance was -$2 thousand. This shortfall continued until November 21, 1997 when the balance reached $13 thousand. This shortfall was due to the timing of revenues.
The Wisconsin Petroleum Inspection and Health Education Loan Repayment Fund shortfalls were not in excess of the $400 million ceiling and did not exceed the balances of the Funds available for interfund borrowing.
The distribution of interest to investment pool participants is based on the average daily balance in the pool and each fund's share. Therefore, the monthly calculation by the State Controller's Office will automatically reflect the use of these temporary reallocations of balance authority.
Sincerely,
Mark D. Bugher
Secretary
Referred to the joint committee on Finance.
State of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Department of Tourism
December 29, 1997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
The plan is divided between public relations, advertising and trade show elements and is a component of the Department's strategic marketing plan published in October 1997.
Attached is the Department of Tourism's Canadian Marketing Plan.
Sincerely,
Moose Speros
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Employment Relations
