Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Ainsworth, Ott, Hahn, Friske, McCormick, Gottlieb, Hebl and Zepnick.
Noes: 4 - Representatives Petrowski, Suder, Steinbrink and Vruwink.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 88
Relating to: prohibited alcohol concentration.
Passage:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Ainsworth, Ott, Hahn, McCormick, Gottlieb, Steinbrink, Hebl and Zepnick.
Noes: 4 - Representatives Petrowski, Suder, Friske and Vruwink.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 90
Relating to: enforcement of motor vehicle safety belt violations and providing a penalty.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Ainsworth, Petrowski, Ott, Hahn, Suder, Friske, McCormick, Gottlieb, Steinbrink, Vruwink, Hebl and Zepnick.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Ainsworth, Ott, Hahn, McCormick, Gottlieb, Steinbrink, Hebl and Zepnick.
Noes: 4 - Representatives Petrowski, Suder, Friske and Vruwink.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 268
Relating to: designating and marking a portion of STH 19 as the Georgia O'Keefe Memorial Highway.
Passage:
Ayes: 11 - Representatives Ainsworth, Petrowski, Ott, Hahn, Friske, McCormick, Gottlieb, Steinbrink, Vruwink, Hebl and Zepnick.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Suder.
To committee on Rules.
John Ainsworth
Chairperson
Committee on Transportation
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April 29, 2003
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
208 RJC
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
I am writing to you to be added as a co-sponsor to two Assembly Bills. I would like to be added to:
Assembly Bill 96 - relating to: actions against sport shooting range owners or operators, against gun or sportsman's clubs, and against manufacturers, importers, trade associations, or dealers of firearms, firearm components, or firearm ammunition.
Assembly Bill 63 - relating to: employment discrimination based on creed and exemption from liability and discipline for pharmacists who refuse to dispense for abortions, assisted suicides, and euthanasia.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Rob Kreibich
State Representative
93rd Assembly
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April 29, 2003
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
Room 208, Risser Justice Center
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
I wanted to let you know that Representative-Elect Lena Taylor will be officially sworn in on Tuesday, May 6, 2003, and will be voting on Tuesday's calendar. Representative Taylor will be occupying seat number 67. Please update the seating chart to reflect this addition. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Robert L. Turner
State Representative
61st Assembly District
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
Madison
April 25, 2003
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
The Bureau of Health Information, Department of Health and Family Services, is pleased to submit to the Governor and the Legislature the Health Care Data Report, 2001. The data for this report were collected under section 153.05, Wisconsin Statutes, and are published as authorized by the requirements of section 120.20, Wisconsin Administrative Code.
This report is based on data reported quarterly to the Bureau of Health Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals and Medicare-certified, freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin. It presents a summary of data on utilization and charges at those facilities in 2001.
Sincerely,
Helene Nelson
Secretary
Referred to committee on Health.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
Madison
April 29, 2003
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
As required by s.
16.045 (5) Wis. Stats., I am submitting the twelfth
Wisconsin Gasohol and Alternative Fuel Use Report for distribution to the appropriate standing committees.
Should you or Legislative members have questions, please contact Peter Bock, Administrator, Division of Energy, at 608 266-7257.
Sincerely,
Marc Marotta
Secretary
Referred to committee on Rural Affairs.
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Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
April 29, 2003
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
As required by
1999 Wisconsin Act 9, we have completed an evaluation of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, which is a statewide educational resource for students with visual impairments and for their parents and teachers. Act 9 created the Center and directed it to continue to operate the Wisconsin School for the Visually Handicapped, which is a residential school in Janesville; to offer youth and adult summer programs; and to provide outreach services to school districts statewide. In fiscal year (FY) 2001-02, the Center spent $7.1 million and had 95.1 authorized full-time equivalent staff positions. Outreach activities accounted for $1.4 million, or 19.7 percent, of expenditures in FY 2001-02.
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Enrollment in the residential school increased from 62 students in the 1997-98 school year to 84 students in the 2001-02 school year; however, most students with visual impairments attend local school districts. Increasing short-term residential school enrollments is one of the Center's goals, but only 3.6 percent of students attended the residential school for 36 days or less in 2001-02.
The Center has made a number of the programmatic changes that were included in a May 2000 transition plan for implementing the provisions of Act 9, and it plans to make more. However, it does not expect to implement all of the plan's objectives, because the needs of students and educators have changed since the plan was developed. We include recommendations to assist the residential school in meeting its goal of providing more short-term enrollments and to make the Center's oversight of summer programs more effective. We also include a recommendation for the Center to provide the Joint Legislative Audit Committee with a strategic plan that sets program priorities and establishes quantitative measures by which progress can be assessed.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by the Department of Public Instruction. Its response follows the appendix.
Respectfully submitted,
Janice Mueller
State Auditor
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