Referred on October 2, 2000
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Relating to standards for insurance marketed to fund prearranged funeral plans.
Submitted by Office of the Commissioner of Insurance.
Report received from Agency, September 26, 2000.
To committee on Insurance.
Referred on October 2, 2000
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Relating to the master settlement agreement between the state of Wisconsin and tobacco product manufacturers.
Submitted by Department of Revenue.
Report received from Agency, September 28, 2000.
To committee on Ways and Means.
Referred on October 2, 2000
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Communications
State of Wisconsin
Revisor of Statutes Bureau
Madison
DATE: October 1, 2000
TO: Charles Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
Donald J. Schneider
Senate Chief Clerk
FROM: Gary L. Poulson
Deputy Revisor of Statutes
SUBJECT: Rules published in the September 30, 2000,
Wisconsin Administrative
Register, No. 537.
The following rules have been published:
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Revenue
Madison
September 19, 2000
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
I am submitting the quarterly report of the Wisconsin Lottery for the quarter ending June 30, 2000. As required by §
565.37(3), Wis. Stats., the attached materials contain unaudited Wisconsin Lottery year to date Sales and Expenditure information.
The summary information reported here is not intended to be a complete financial accounting of the Wisconsin Lottery Fund. It reflects current law, including provisions of
1999 Wisconsin Act 5.
The 1999-01 biennial budget provides for the payment of retailer commissions, vendor fees and administrative expenses from the General Fund, rather than from the Lottery Fund. Administrative expenditures that were encumbered in fiscal year 1998-99, however, are reported as Lottery Fund expenditures. Adjustments made through the course of the year to ensure compliance with provisions of the 1999-01 biennial budget are noted as such.
Year-to-date transfers of $1,744,634 recorded in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year for Farmland Tax Credit Distributions were reversed in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year.
The Lottery Fund Balance customarily becomes negative during the third fiscal quarter due to the Property Tax Credit distribution made in March.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this report, please feel free to contact me at (608) 266-6466.
Sincerely,
Cate Zueske
Secretary
Referred to committee on State Affairs.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
Madison
September 20, 2000
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
Enclosed is a copy of the Child Abuse and Neglect Report, 1997 and 1998 data, pursuant to s.
48.981. The report includes a statistical analysis of suspected child abuse and neglect reports received and investigated by county child protective services (CPS) agencies in 1997 and by the county CPS agencies and the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare 1998. The report also contains information on child fatalities due to child abuse or neglect.
Sincerely,
Joe Leean
Secretary
Referred to committee on Children and Families.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
Madison
September 20, 2000
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Included with this correspondence, I am submitting the report of the Department of Administration, Division of Gaming (Gaming), for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000. As required by s.
562.02(1)(g), Wis. Stats., the attached materials contain pari-mutuel wagering and racing statistical information, as well as the revenues for the program areas of Racing, Charitable Gaming and Indian Gaming. Please note that Bingo revenues are now captured in a new appropriation (836) and therefore are shown on a separate chart from the rest of Charitable Gaming.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this report, please do not hesitate to contact me at (608) 270-2560.
Sincerely,
F. Scott Scepaniak
Administrator
Referred to committee on State Affairs.
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State of Wisconsin
TEACH Wisconsin
Madison
September 25, 2000
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
I am writing to report to you the activities of the TEACH Wisconsin Board as required by Wis. Stats. s.
44.71(2)(a)6.
The current members of the TEACH Board are:
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* Raymond Allen (Chair), Public Member
* Jonathan Barry, University of Wisconsin Board of Regents
* James M. Bowen, Public Member
* Richard Chandler, for Secretary George Lightbourn,
Department of Administration
* Rodney G. Pasch, Public Member
* Calvin Potter, for State Superintendent John Benson, Department of Public Instruction
* L. Anne Reid (Secretary), Wisconsin Technical College System
* Darylann Whitemarsh, Educational Communications Board
* Gus W. Wirth, Jr. (Vice-Chair), Public Member
Since the TEACH Board's biennial report of October 1998, significant progress has been made in the deployment of educational technologies across the state. The data line program has grown by almost 65%, the video link program by 45%, and the Existing Contract Grant program is holding steady. The Board hopes to provide either Internet access or full motion video services to most of the presently eligible institutions by the close of Fiscal Year 2003.
Progress still needs to be made in training teachers to use educational technologies effectively in the classroom to have an impact on student achievement and performance. A comprehensive educational technology training plan developed by TEACH is in place and will be implemented in January 2001. However, a continued commitment to staff development needs to be made by the state.
Finally, new and exciting opportunities are on the horizon with the TEACH Board expanding its efforts to the Governor's Reading Literacy Initiative and his Foreign Language Distance Education Pilot for K-6, as well as continued strengthening of collaborative activities among the state's educational institutions in delivering educational technologies and promoting staff development in those technologies. A detailed explanation of the status of each statutory program, an update on the TEACH Board's collaborative activities, and a description of new TEACH initiatives is attached.
Thank you for your continued support of TEACH Wisconsin. Please contact me if you have questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Doris J. Hanson
Executive Director
Referred to committee on Education.
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State of Wisconsin
Director of State Courts
Madison
September 29, 2000
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
A high priority for the Court System for more than a decade has been to obtain a more equitable per diem for reserve judges who serve on a temporary basis for elected judges who are unavailable. To achieve this, the courts have proposed various initiatives in their biennial budget requests to increase the per diem from 70% of the daily rate for a sitting judge to a more appropriate level.
During the executive session held by the Joint Finance Committee on the Courts' FY 99-01 biennial budget request, the following provision was approved, and later signed by the Governor as part of
1999 Wisconsin Act 9:
