Thursday, March 2, 1995
10:00 A.M.
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Michael Ellis.
The Chair, with unanimous consent, asked that the proper entries be made in the journal.
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Read and referred:
Senate Joint Resolution 14
Relating to: memorializing Congress to establish a temporary independent commission on the health care concerns of Persian Gulf War veterans.
By
Senators
Zien, Rude, Moen, Clausing, Cowles, Schultz, Breske, Darling, Fitzgerald, Rosenzweig, Buettner, Drzewiecki and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Musser, Boyle, Zukowski, Grobschmidt, Albers, Gunderson, Johnsrud, Freese, Dobyns, Goetsch, Hoven, Wirch, Lorge, R. Potter, Kreibich, Nass, Owens, Kreuser, Brandemuehl, Seratti, Hasenohrl, Hahn, Ryba, Skindrud, Ourada, Underheim, Ott, Silbaugh, Grothman, Turner, Vander Loop and Baldus, by request of Wisconsin State Council, Vietnam Veterans of America.
To special committee on State and Federal Relations.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 90
Relating to: permitting certain individuals to make written requests for medication for the purpose of ending their lives, and providing penalties.
By
Senator
Risser
; cosponsored by Representatives Boyle and Baldwin
.
To committee on Judiciary.
Senate Bill 91
Relating to: the age at which a child may be adjudicated delinquent.
By
Senators
Rosenzweig, Huelsman, Andrea, Darling, Rude, Buettner, Schultz and Zien; cosponsored by Representatives Ladwig, Krusick, Dobyns, Duff, Wood, Huber, Lazich, Klusman, La Fave, Freese, Vrakas, Grobschmidt, Ott, Ainsworth, Kaufert, Ziegelbauer, Ward, Musser, Handrick, Hahn, Owens, Seratti, Nass, Grothman, Walker and Hasenohrl
.
To committee on Judiciary.
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The committee on State Government Operations and Corrections reports and recommends:
Assembly Joint Resolution 7
Relating to: requesting appropriate action by the congress, either acting by consent of two-thirds of both houses, or, upon the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, calling a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to the federal constitution to require, with certain exceptions, that the total of all federal appropriations may not exceed the total of all estimated federal revenues in any fiscal year.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 3 - Senators Drzewiecki, A. Lasee and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 2 - Senators Moen and Breske.
Gary Drzewiecki
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
February 28, 1995
The Honorable, The Senate:
At the direction of s.
13.685(7), Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board that employ one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules, and notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers. For each recently registered organization I have included the organization's description of the general area of legislative or administrative action that it attempts to influence and the name of each licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
Organizations recently registered:
Below are the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Aid Assn. for Lutherans
Subjects: Employment/Labor as it relates to discrepancies between state & federal Family Medical Leave Act: Health/Healthcare financing- issues surrounding health insurance reform: Insurance- fraternals by law must offer various insurance to their members: Occupational licensing- relating to insurance agents: Taxation- anything affecting fraternals premium or property tax exemptions.
Leib, Mary Beth
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Badger State Cemetery Assn.
Subjects: Our primary interest is in any and all activity by the state government which may affect cemeteries.
Goyke, Gary
Bally's Health & Tennis Corp.
Subjects: Amendment of Wisconsin's Public Accommodation Law -- s.101.22(9)(c) -- to exempt 'Fitness Centers' as defined under s.134.70(1).
Hass, D. Winthrop
Krings, Jerome
Blind, Wisconsin Council of the
Subjects: Any and all areas of state legislation or administrative rules which could affect WI residents with vision problems.
Goyke, Gary R.
Burlington Northern Railroad
Subjects: Legislation and regulation affecting transportation, rail customers, general business issues such as taxation and liability.
