Friday, May 13, 2011
One-Hundredth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date:
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Assembly amendment 5 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 96 offered by Representative Milroy.
Assembly amendment 6 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 96 offered by Representative Milroy.
Assembly amendment 7 to Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 96 offered by Representative Milroy.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 129
Relating to: creation of the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, creation of the badger jobs fund and the jobs now fund certification program, both of which are to be administered by the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Tauchen, Klenke, Kuglitsch, Fields, Williams, Kestell, Nygren, Spanbauer, A. Ott, Van Roy, LeMahieu, Petrowski, Endsley, Bies and Ballweg; cosponsored by Senators Hopper, Darling, Galloway, Leibham, Schultz, Lazich and Olsen.
To committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business
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Communications
May 13, 2011
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
Please add my name as a co-author of Assembly Bill 129, relating to creation of the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, creation of the badger jobs fund and the jobs now fund certification program, both of which are to be administered by the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Mursau
State Representative
36th Assembly District
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee
May 3, 2011
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
According to Wisconsin School Law 121.87 in accordance with 13.172, the Board is required by law to submit the enclosed reports. School Law 121.87 states "...annually by May 1 the board of school directors of the school district operating under ch.
119 shall submit a report to the legislature under s.
13.172 (2) that specifies the number, percentage, race, sex, grade and attendance area of pupils transferred outside their attendance area without written consent under s.
121.85 (6)(am)."
Enclosed you will find a report that meet the requirements stated above. The total number of intra-district students bused under the Chapter
220 designation for the school year 2010-2011 equals 15,167. Of that number 662 either did not return a consent form or checked box indicating no consent. Students who have moved during the school year and no longer require parental consent were subtracted from the non-returned figure. The district did meet the requirement of ninety-five percent (95%) parents providing consent.
Sincerely,
Michael Turza, Director
Division of Business Services
Referred to committee on Education.
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State of Wisconsin
WHA Information Center
Madison
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Please find enclosed a hard copy of the Guide to Wisconsin Hospitals, FY 2009 produced by WHA Information Center pursuant to s.
153.22, Wis. Stats. The report was posted on our Web site in March 2011. Please feel free to download and print additional copies.
If you have any questions regarding the report you may contact me at 609-274-1820, 800-231-8340 or
drickelman@wha.org.
Sincerely,
Debbie Rickelman, Senior Director
WHA Information Center
Referred to committee on Health.
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Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
May 9, 2011
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
As required by
2009 Wisconsin Act 219, we have completed an evaluation of the BadgerCare Plus Basic Plan administered by the Department of Health Services (DHS). The Basic Plan was established to provide temporary, unsubsidized health insurance for childless adults on a waiting list for the BadgerCare Plus Core Plan, a Medical Assistance program that imposed enrollment caps in October 2009. A total of 5,143 individuals were enrolled in the Basic Plan at some point during the six-month period we reviewed.
Statutes require the Basic Plan's insured benefits and administrative costs to be funded by premiums, although program costs may be subsidized by federal grant funding if it is available. Through December 2010, expenditures exceeded revenues by $140,300, and the deficit would have been larger without $1.1 million in federal State Health Access Program grant funding that may not be available in the future.
We identified numerous concerns that are affecting the Basic Plan's sustainability. Most notably, monthly premiums have been insufficient to cover services and administrative costs, services have been provided to individuals who were not enrolled in the plan, and enrollees have received services that are not covered under the plan. In addition, until recently DHS did little to verify the eligibility of applicants and enrollees. We also found that DHS had charged a total of $878,800 in plan expenditures to two general purpose revenue appropriations, contrary to state law. DHS reversed these transactions when we raised concerns about them during our fieldwork.
