Relating to: publicizing the names of persons who illegally dump trash.
By
Representatives Seratti, Ainsworth, Ryba, Baumgart, Albers, Ladwig, Freese, Musser, Dobyns, F. Lasee, Hahn, Vrakas, Goetsch, Hasenohrl, Ott and Harsdorf; cosponsored by Senator Buettner
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To committee on Rural Affairs.
Assembly Bill 275
Relating to: access by a child's substitute care provider to medical information concerning the child, the child's religious affiliation or belief and information Relating to any involvement of the child in any sexual abuse, in any cult or group that promotes criminal activity or in any activities that are harmful to the child.
By
Representatives Seratti, Ainsworth, M. Lehman, Ryba, Lorge, Ladwig, Wasserman, Freese, Musser, Lazich, Owens, Grothman, Goetsch, Gunderson and Brandemuehl; cosponsored by Senators Buettner, Weeden and Zien.
To committee on Children and Families
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Assembly Bill 276
Relating to: criminal invasion of privacy and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Seratti, Hoven, Wasserman, Green, Freese, Albers, Ainsworth, Musser, Otte, Kreibich, Lazich, Hasenohrl, Walker, Gunderson, Powers, Ryba and Sykora; cosponsored by Senator A. Lasee
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To committee on Criminal Justice and Corrections
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Assembly Bill 277
Relating to: false reporting of certain disbursements and obligations under the campaign finance law and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Seratti, Ladwig, Brandemuehl, Freese, Zukowski, Ainsworth, Musser, Porter, Owens, Goetsch, Kreibich, Grothman, Lazich, Gunderson, F. Lasee and Ryba.
To committee on Campaign Finance Reform
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Assembly Bill 278
Relating to: committing certain violent crimes against an elder person and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Seratti, Hoven, Green, Ladwig, Freese, Albers, Ott, Urban, Porter, Owens, Ward, Kreibich, Cullen, Lazich, Hasenohrl, Walker, Gunderson and Ryba; cosponsored by Senators Wirch, Drzewiecki, Breske, Buettner, Zien and Rosenzweig.
To committee on Aging and Long-Term Care
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Assembly Bill 279
Relating to: authorizing the child abuse and neglect prevention board to form a nonstock, nonprofit corporation.
By
Representatives La Fave, Huebsch, Ainsworth, Albers, Baldwin, Bock, Dobyns, Freese, Goetsch, Green, Hahn, Huber, Kelso, Krug, J. Lehman, Musser, Notestein, Plale, Plouff, Porter, Robson, Schafer and Springer; cosponsored by Senators Huelsman, Clausing, Rude and Buettner.
To committee on Children and Families
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Assembly Bill 280
Relating to: disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus test results by attending physicians.
By
Representatives Wasserman, Walker, Freese, Krug, La Fave, Albers, Brandemuehl, Duff, Goetsch, Gunderson, Handrick, Hahn, Hasenohrl, Kedzie, Ladwig, Lazich, F. Lasee, Meyer, Musser, Ryba, Seratti, Skindrud, Springer and Vrakas; cosponsored by Senators Rosenzweig, Rude, Panzer, Huelsman, Weeden, Farrow, Welch, Schultz and Fitzgerald.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 281
Relating to: rules of conduct for a business receiving business assistance from the department of commerce and a business entering into an industrial development revenue bonding agreement with a municipality, the employment impact estimates required to be submitted by such a business and providing penalties.
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Representatives Baldwin, R. Young and Black; cosponsored by Senators Chvala, Burke, Risser, C. Potter and Clausing.
To committee on Labor and Employment
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Assembly Bill 282
Relating to: steel jaw traps and snares, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives R. Young, Baldwin, Boyle, Carpenter, Hanson, Riley and Ryba; cosponsored by Senator Moore
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To committee on Natural Resources
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Assembly Bill 283
Relating to: the regulation of the sale of merchandise below cost and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives M. Lehman, Huber, Ainsworth, Albers, Brandemuehl, Coggs, Dobyns, Freese, Gard, Goetsch, Grothman, Gunderson, Hahn, Harsdorf, Hasenohrl, Huebsch, Johnsrud, Kaufert, F. Lasee, Meyer, Musser, Olsen, Ott, Otte, Ourada, Porter, Reynolds, Seratti, Springer, Staskunas and Ziegelbauer; cosponsored by Senators C. Potter, Welch, Buettner, Clausing, Drzewiecki, Fitzgerald, Jauch, Plache, Rude, Schultz and Wineke.
To committee on Consumer Affairs
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Assembly Bill 284
Relating to: testing for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted diseases in criminal defendants and juveniles alleged to be delinquent or in need of protection or services who are found not competent to proceed or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
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Representatives Green, Otte, Duff, Dobyns, Lazich, Brandemuehl, Goetsch, Kedzie, Gunderson, Ladwig, Ward, F. Lasee, Ziegelbauer, Hoven, Underheim, Handrick, Owens, Grothman, Seratti, Musser, Albers, Ainsworth, Olsen, Wasserman and Kelso; cosponsored by Senators Buettner, Drzewiecki, Cowles, Darling, Schultz, Rosenzweig, Farrow, A. Lasee, Welch, Huelsman, Fitzgerald and Zien.
To committee on Judiciary.
Assembly Bill 285
Relating to: the method of determining reductions in general transportation aids for late filing of applications for such aid.
By
Representatives Ourada, Brandemuehl, Sykora, Musser, Gard, Huber, Albers, Zukowski, J. Lehman, Freese, F. Lasee, Ainsworth, Hutchison, Grothman, Harsdorf, Reynolds, Kelso, Powers, Hahn, Huebsch, Seratti, M. Lehman, Olsen, Springer and Goetsch; cosponsored by Senators Breske, Plache and Clausing.
To committee on Highways and Transportation
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Assembly Bill 286
Relating to: insurance coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
By
Representatives Wasserman, Vrakas, Baldwin, Black, Bock, Musser, Olsen, Reynolds and Ward; cosponsored by Senator Grobschmidt
.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 287
Relating to: voting on legislation that increases certain tax rates.
By
Representatives Sykora, Ladwig, Grothman, F. Lasee, Ainsworth, Albers, Foti, Green, Gunderson, Hahn, Kedzie, Kreibich, Lazich, Musser, Owens, Porter, Ryba, Schafer, Ward, Ziegelbauer, Duff and Jensen; cosponsored by Senators Welch, Zien and Schultz.
To committee on Ways and Means.
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Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
March 24, 1997
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
During the course of financial audits we perform, we identified four fiscal control and budgetary issues that we would like to bring to your attention. One concern is the determination by the Department of Administration that it had legal authority to disburse $2.15 million from a sum sufficient appropriation in the Capital Improvement Fund to redeem revenue bonds for a student loan program. We have concluded that the Department acted beyond its authority in making this disbursement.
A second concern revolves around the treatment of agency requests to transfer funds budgeted for fringe benefits to other expenditure categories. Although Department of Administration budget and allotment instructions explicitly prohibit such transfers, approvals were given. Most significantly, one agency was allowed to use $480,000 in funds set aside for fringe benefits for the purchase of computers.
Our third issue relates to the statutory exemption on sales tax for food that is provided under contracts by public and private colleges. The exemption benefit was created for students who rely on meal contracts while attending college. We found the University of Wisconsin-Madison also applies the exemption to faculty and staff, as well as the catering business run by the student union. Other University of Wisconsin campuses similarly use the sales tax exemption benefit, which we learned is applied to food contracts with the three National Football League teams that use campus facilities for training. For example, the Chicago Bears football team does not pay sales tax on the $181,000 annual food contract it has with the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
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Our final topic may affect budget calculations. Due to problems in implementing the State's current accounting system, the General Fund made disbursements on behalf of the segregated funds for certain payroll taxes. The General Fund was reimbursed for these disbursements, but not for the interest earnings it had lost. In October 1995, we asked the Department of Administration to calculate the lost interest and make appropriate adjustments to benefit the General Fund. The needed calculations were made in January 1997 but have not yet been factored into budget considerations. When all the repayments are made, the General Fund will receive $2.757 million in additional revenue, while the Transportation Fund will lose $1.564 million, the Conservation Fund will lose $626,275, and other segregated funds will lose $566,654.
We hope that you find this information useful. Please advise me if you desire further information on any of these issues.
Sincerely,
Dale Cattanach
State Auditor
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State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
April 8, 1997
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
We have completed an evaluation of the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Extension, as directed by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. UW-Extension provides continuing education and public service programs through its Division of Continuing Education, and programs to serve children and families, farmers, urban and rural communities, business, and industry through its Division of Cooperative Extension. A third division, the Division of Extension Communications and Information Technology, was not the subject of this evaluation. In fiscal year (FY) 1995-96, UW-Extension's expenditures from all funding sources were $135.3 million, which represents the third-highest total among all UW System institutions. These expenditures supported 1,655 full-time equivalent positions.
Over time, the emphasis of the University's extension programs has expanded from practical skills in agriculture, home economics, and industrial work to include all areas of human knowledge, presented through an array of seminars, workshops, televised distance education, and other means. This growth in both the volume and diversity of program offerings is reflected in an 79.4 percent increase in expenditures since FY 1986-87.
UW-Extension's programs have a long tradition in Wisconsin and generally are popular. However, both the breadth and the increasing cost of current programming raise questions about whether UW-Extension should redefine its core mission. Over 8,400 credit and non-credit continuing education program sections were offered in FY 1995-96, and in the most recent data available, cooperative extension agents reported over 1.15 million contacts in programs serving children and families, farmers, urban communities, and business. However, program priorities are defined so broadly that they can include virtually any educational area. In addition, the current organization structure of UW-Extension may limit the efficiency of its service delivery. Therefore, this may be an appropriate time to address the future funding, direction, and organizational structure of UW-Extension.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by the University, including UW-Extension, UW System, and the campuses, and by the counties. A response from the UW System President is Appendix IV.
Respectfully submitted,
Dale Cattanach
State Auditor
