Chairperson
Committee on Financial Institutions
The committee on Health reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 615
Relating to: licensing of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants and granting rule-making authority.
Assembly amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Underheim, Johnsrud, Krawczyk, Olsen, Walker, Wieckert, Wasserman, La Fave, Miller, Schooff, Colon and Shilling.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Seratti and Carpenter.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 11 - Representatives Underheim, Johnsrud, Krawczyk, Walker, Wieckert, Wasserman, La Fave, Miller, Schooff, Colon and Shilling.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Olsen, Seratti and Carpenter.
To calendar.
Gregg Underheim
Chairperson
Committee on Health
The committee on Urban and Local Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 825
Relating to: defining emergency medical technician for purposes of the volunteer fire fighter and emergency medical technician service award program.
Assembly amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Gunderson, Starzyk, D. Meyer, Musser, Wasserman and Berceau.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Gunderson, Starzyk, D. Meyer, Musser, Wasserman and Berceau.
Noes: 0.
To calendar.
Scott Gunderson
Chairperson
Committee on Urban and Local Affairs
The committee on Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 583
Relating to: creating an individual income tax exemption for pay received from the federal government by members of a reserve component of the armed forces participating in Operation Enduring Freedom.
Passage:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Musser, Hundertmark, Krawczyk, Petrowski, Sykora, Townsend, Ryba, Hubler and Schneider.
Noes: 0.
Terry Musser
Chairperson
Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
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Reference Bureau Corrections
Assembly Bill 876
1. Page 12, line 2: after "63" insert "days".
2. Page 12, line 3: delete "(b)," and substitute "(b)".
3. Page 13, line 10: delete "it" and substitute "its".
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Speaker's Communications
March 5, 2002
John Scocos
Assembly Chief Clerk
1 East Main, Room 402
Dear Mr. Scocos:
On June 21, 2001, Assembly Bill 449, relating to calculating child support and creating committees to review the method of calculating child support was referred to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary. Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I hereby withdraw Assembly Bill 449 from the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and re-refer that bill to the calendar.
Representative Gundrum has been notified of this re-referral and approves.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
Assembly Speaker
Communications
State of Wisconsin
Revisor of Statutes Bureau
Madison
DATE: March 1, 2002
TO: John A. Scocos
Assembly Chief Clerk
Donald J. Schneider
Senate Chief Clerk
FROM: Gary L. Poulson
Deputy Revisor of Statutes
SUBJECT: Rules published in the February 28, 2002,
Wisconsin Administrative
Register, No. 554.
The following rules have been published:
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
Madison
February 25, 2002
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
In
1997 Act 27, the 97-99 Biennial Budget, the Legislature established requirements in state law intended to strengthen protections for children and vulnerable adults in organized care settings. The provisions require, among other things, that designated caregivers conduct background checks on all new and existing staff and bar them from employing anyone who has committed certain crimes or acts. DHFS and (for certain child care providers) counties and local school boards must perform checks on a provider before issuing a license or other credential. Individuals who have committed prohibited crimes or acts may apply to the Department, counties, or school boards for a waiver of the employment or licensing bans upon evidence of rehabilitation.
Sections
48.685(5g) and
50.065(5g) of the Wisconsin Statutes direct the Department to submit a report to the legislature that specifies the number of persons who have sought waivers of employment or licensing bans by requesting to demonstrate that they have been rehabilitated. The report must also specify the number of requests that were approved and the reasons for the success or failure of the requests. Attached is the report for 2000.
Questions about this report should be referred to Linda Dawson, Deputy Chief Legal Counsel, at 608-266-0355.
Thank you for distributing this report to members of the Assembly.
Sincerely,
Phyllis J. Dube
Secretary
Referred to committee on Health.
