Assembly

Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings

Joint committee on Finance

Assembly Bill 768

Relating to: transferring from the department of workforce development to the department of commerce the administration of the housing design and construction requirements of the fair housing law; a grant for a distance education center; grants for revolving loan funds for economic development; loans for renovation of buildings, purchase of land, buildings, machinery or equipment or construction of buildings; tourism marketing; the rural economic development program; administration of brownfields redevelopment activities; use of penalty revenues under the physician and health care provider loan assistance programs; transferring from the department of health and family services to the department of corrections the responsibility for establishing and collecting fees for juvenile correctional services provided by the department of corrections; parental liability for guardian ad litem fees in juvenile court proceedings; increasing the per diem payments made to temporary reserve judges; litigation by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison; petitions for writs of habeas corpus and limiting access to public records by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison; requirements for promotion from 4th grade to 5th grade and from 8th grade to 9th grade; grants to teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; creating a grant program for peer review and mentoring of teachers; determining the amount appropriated as general school aid; the college tuition prepayment program; leasing technical college facilities to others; the family practice residency program of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.; grants to certain school districts for telecommunications access awarded by the technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin board; revising dispute settlement procedures in local government employment other than law enforcement and fire fighting employment; the dry cleaner environmental response program; hazardous waste disposal facilities; voluntary party liability for cleaning up property that is contaminated with hazardous substances and that was acquired from a local governmental unit; tire waste cleanup; arbitration of appeals under the petroleum storage remedial action program; clean water fund program federal financial hardship assistance; administrative forfeitures for violations of safe drinking water rules; providing community aids funding for Milwaukee County; child welfare, children in out-of-home care, termination of parental rights and adoption; criminal history and abuse record searches of operators, employes and nonclient residents of certain entities that provide care for children or adults; a child's first book initiative; eligibility criteria for kinship care payments; proposed legislation to establish a new long-term care system for services to elderly and adult disabled individuals; a pilot project for management of long-term care programs; authorizing counties to contract for health and social services on a prepaid or postpaid, per capita basis; care required and provided in adult family homes, community-based residential facilities and nursing homes; critical access hospitals; reimbursement of the Marquette University School of Dentistry for providing dental services in Waushara and Monroe counties; inclusion of stepparents in the badger care program; transferring food service operations of the Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled from the department of health and family services to the department of corrections; the submittal date for a report on the future of the state centers for the developmentally disabled; rates by which reimbursement is reduced to the state centers for the developmentally disabled; eliminating the monthly reimbursement limit on community options program services for medical assistance recipients; medical assistance eligibility for working recipients of supplemental security income; eliminating the requirement for an annual report on access to obstetric and pediatric services under the medical assistance program; interim assistance for applicants of supplemental security income; specialized medical vehicles; electronic benefits transfer under the food stamp program; county administration of public assistance records; guaranteed renewability of individual health benefit plans; an exemption from renewability requirements for short-term insurance; the transportation and sale of fish; the Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River commission; fees for snowmobile trail use stickers; benefits payable and contributions permitted under the Wisconsin retirement system; payment and performance assurance requirements for public works projects; state interfund borrowing limitations; transfers from the general fund to the property tax relief fund; grants for recycling of computers and wheelchairs; creating a refundable individual income tax credit for educational expenses paid for dependents who attend public or certain private elementary and secondary schools; creating an individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for elementary and secondary educational costs; creating an individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for certain higher education costs; defining the Internal Revenue Code for state income and franchise tax purposes; a property tax exemption for computers; state aid payments to municipalities; creating a tax amnesty program; increasing the department of revenue's ability to collect delinquent taxes; denying and revoking licenses and similar documents to persons who owe delinquent taxes or fail to reveal their social security numbers or federal employer identification numbers; administration of the adult entertainment tax; weight limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting bulk potatoes; the transportation infrastructure loan program; administration of a national guard youth program; the maximum allowable veterans home loan; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting and decreasing bonding authority; and making and decreasing appropriations.

By Representative Gard; cosponsored by Senator Burke, by request of the Governor Tommy G. Thompson.

February 3, 1998 Referred to committee on Finance.

March 5, 1998 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (16) Senators Burke, Decker, Jauch, Shibilski, Cowles, Panzer, Schultz, Rosenzweig, Representatives Gard, Ourada, Harsdorf, Albers, Porter, Kaufert, Linton and Coggs.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· David B. Yngsdahl, Madison

· Fred Greasby, State Independent Living Council, Dousman

· Mary Ridgely, Employment Resources, Inc. Madison

· Ken Adell, Madison

· Bill Baker, Madison

· Karla Smith, Madison

· Steve Verriden, Madison

· Bruce Borden, Madison

· John Huebscher, Wisconsin Catholic Conference, Madison

· Don Layden, M & I Corporation, Milwaukee

· State Representative John Dobyns, Fond du Lac

· State Senator Carol Roessler, Oshkosh

· V.H. Butch Steinhorst, Sheriff, Sauk County

· Dale Block, Black River Falls

· Joseph Kutil, Madison

· Shelley Peterman Schwary, Wisconsin Council on Physical Disabilities, Madison

· Tom Frazier, Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups, Madison

· Dale Bruhn, Coalition of WI Aging Groups and WI Alzheimers Association, Madison

· Lolli Lozano, Parents Against Lead, Milwaukee

· Dr. Rolf Wegenke, WI Assn of Independent Colleges and Universities, Madison

· Bonnie Perry, Parents Against Lead, Milwaukee

· Lee Nagel, WI Assn of Non-Public Schools, Green Bay

· George Clarke, Madison

· Laurie Casey, Parents Against Lead, Milwaukee

· Juan Carlos Ruis, Parents Against Lead, Milwaukee

· Dick Chier, Conservation Congress, Green Lake County Board, Green Lake

· Ted Lind, WI Conservation Congress, WI Council of Sportfishing Organizations, Milwaukee

· Bob Ellingson, WI Conservation Congress, Madison

· Jenna Caulkins, WTCS Students, Madison

· David Alvarado, Technical College Students, Madison

· Fran Bicknell, Arc - Wis., Autism Society of WI

· Anthony S. Earl, Madison

· Bob Melcher, Prescotts Supermarkets, West Bend

· Janet Campbell

· Major General Blaney, Dept. of Military Affairs

· Col. Andy Schuster, Dept. of Military Affairs

· Tammy Dineen, Lomira School District, Oshkosh School District and self; Cedarburg

· Chris Mason

· Penny Lindner

· Gerry Dierks

· Bill Geist, WI Assn of Convention and Visitor Bureaus

· Tim Size, WI Health and Hospital Assn

· Rick Eckart, New Berlin Chamber of Commerce, Fox Point

· Tim Cullen, Blue Cross, Milwaukee

· Bill Pfaff, Assn. of WI Snowmobile Clubs, New Lisbon

· Paul Mikulak, Governor's Council on Forestry, Montello

· Bill Murphy, WI Conservation Congress, Portage

· James T. Chizek, WI Conservation Warden Assn, Lodi

· Laurine Karstens, Onalaska

· Jack Kean, Associate Dean, UW-Madison School of Education, Madison