Monday, June 28, 2006
Ninety-Seventh Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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The Chief Clerk makes the following entries dated Thursday
, June
22, 2006.
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Relating to collection agencies.
Submitted by Department of Financial Institutions.
Report received from Agency, June 22, 2006.
Referred to committee on Housing and Financial Institutions, June 22, 2006
.
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The Chief Clerk makes the following entries dated Tuesday
, June 27, 2006.
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
June 15, 2006
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Palmer
, Dian,
of Brookfield, as a member of the UW Hospitals and Clinics Authority and Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2009.
Sincerely,
JIM DOYLE
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Health, Children, Families, Aging and Long Term Care.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
June 15, 2006
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Mistele, Enid,
of Sparta, as a member of the Physical Therapists Affiliated Credentialing Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2010.
Sincerely,
JIM DOYLE
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Health, Children, Families, Aging and Long Term Care.
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Relating to allowing the operation of double bottoms and certain other vehicles on certain specified highways.
Submitted by Department of Transportation.
Report received from Agency, June 23, 2006.
Referred to committee on Natural Resources and Transportation, June 27, 2006
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State of Wisconsin
June 27, 2006
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am writing to inform you that Senator Stepp is unable to attend the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules meeting on Wednesday, June 28, 2006. Therefore, I am appointing Senator Leibham as a temporary replacement for this meeting.
Please contact me if you have any questions pertaining to this matter.
Sincerely,
DALE W. SCHULTZ
Senate Majority Leader
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
June 22, 2006
The Honorable, The Legislature:
At your request, we have completed a review of the number of Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) employees convicted of felonies. It is part of a comprehensive evaluation of WTCS personnel policies and practices approved by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, which will be completed later this year.
Using Department of Corrections felony data and WTCS payroll data from March 2006, we identified 15 WTCS employees who were felons under state supervision.
Section
111.321, Wis. Stats., generally prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of arrest or conviction record, but under s.
111.335(1)(c), Wis. Stats., employment can be terminated when a conviction is substantially related to the circumstance of an individual's job. The decision to terminate is typically determined by an internal investigation. Because technical colleges were unaware of some of the felons, we have recommended that they conduct internal investigations to determine whether any of the convictions we identified are substantially job-related and whether any job action is appropriate.
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We found that 8 of the 16 technical colleges had not developed policies or procedures for dealing with such situations, including policies related to terminating the employment of individuals when appropriate. We include a recommendation that technical college district boards establish policies and procedures for employee discipline and termination.
Finally, we found variation in how technical colleges conduct background checks of candidates for employment. We have recommended that the WTCS Board identify the types of jobs for which background checks should be conducted and require the technical college district boards to promulgate applicable policies.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation of the 16 technical colleges and WTCS Board staff in completing this review.
