Relating to: expanding requirements for a woman's informed consent for performance or inducement of an abortion and for consent to a minor's obtaining an abortion and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Drzewiecki, Petak, Buettner, Andrea, Cowles, Rude, Fitzgerald, Breske, A. Lasee, Zien, Farrow, Schultz and Weeden; cosponsored by Representatives Grothman, Grobschmidt, Ladwig, Walker, Albers, Ryba, Duff, Vander Loop, Ourada, Hoven, Schneiders, Musser, Silbaugh, Lehman, Nass, Huebsch, Green, Hutchison, Dobyns, Gard, Lazich, Urban, Ward, Zukowski, Owens, Kreibich, F. Lasee, Seratti, Johnsrud, Goetsch, Ainsworth, Lorge, Gunderson, Coleman, Hahn, Olsen, Wood, Otte, Freese, Brandemuehl, Ott, Porter, Handrick, Kelso and Powers
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To committee on Health, Human Services and Aging.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resourses
June 28, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
The Report, Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia spp., Occurrence, Distribution and Levels in Wisconsin Waters, is being peer reviewed at this time. I will forward a final copy to you by August 31, 1995.
I appreciate your patience in this matter.
Sincerely,
George E. meyer
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
July 6, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
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The Task Force has completed its work and has prepared the attached document for your review. The Task Force was active, creative and productive-resulting in a set of recommendations for resolving the problems identified in the
1993 Wisconsin Act 447. The first part of the document is a policy brief, the second part is a more detailed Technical Report.
The Office is available to clarify the information in the report and to provide support as needed.
Sincerely,
Josephine musser
Commissioner of Insurance
State of Wisconsin
Commissioner of Insurance
June 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to s.
153.25, Wis. Stat., the Office of Health Care Information (OHCI) is pleased to submit to the Governor and the Legislature its fifth hospital report on mortality and morbidity. As stipulated in s.
153.40 (6), Wis. Stat., OHCI provided hospitals the opportunity to review and comment on their data. Written hospital comments have been included in the report.
OHCI wishes to express its appreciation and thanks to the members of the Mortality and Morbidity Technical Advisory Committee for their valued assistance in the planning and organization of this report, a s well as to all Wisconsin hospitals that were part of the reporting process.
Please contact OHCI if you or your staff would like additional copies of this report, or have any questions.
Sincerely,
Josephine musser
Commissioner of Insurance
Trudy A. Karlson, Ph.D.
Director,
Office of Health Care Information
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
June 30, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
As required by
1993 Wisconsin Act 351, I am submitting to you for distribution to the appropriate standing committee under s. 13. 172 (3) of Wisconsin law the second semiannual Wisconsin Gasohol and Alternative Fuel Use Report. If you or any committee members have questions, please contact Nathaniel E. Robinson, Administrator, Division of Energy and Intergovernmental Relations, at 608/266-7257.
Sincerely,
james a. klauser
Secretary
Referred to committee on Transportation, Agriculture and Local Affairs.
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Social Services
June 30, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
1989 Wisconsin Act 31, Section
1118i, requires the Department of Health and Social Services to submit to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature a report on June 30 annually on the allocation and expenditure of funds for services for homeless individuals. Attached is the Department's fourth annual report.
Departmental staff are available if you have any questions or require any additional information.
Sincerely,
richard Lorang
Acting Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction
July 5, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Attached is a report on the After School and Summer School grant program as required by State Statute, Sec. 115.361(5)(c)3.
Please contact me or my staff should you have any questions.
Sincerely,
john t. benson
State Superintendent
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
July 10, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
We have completed an evaluation of the investment practices of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, as requested by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. A second report, to be released later this summer, will examine the structure of the Investment Board's employe salary bonus plan and the process used to select investments for the Board's private placement portfolio.
On March 17, 1995, the Investment Board publicly disclosed that the State Investment Fund, which at the time had assets of approximately $6.8 billion, had incurred a $95 million loss. The loss resulted from the Investment Board's efforts to enhance earnings through the use of derivatives without an adequate understanding of the risk some investments presented. Staff contend they were misled in the purchase of a Mexican interest rate swap by an investment dealer, but a careful analysis of documents presented and a few simple calculations would have identified the risk in this transaction. Further, when this and another derivative investment experienced substantial losses, investment staff restructured the investment agreements in an effort to minimize loss, but in doing so put even more funds at risk.
Effective management oversight mechanisms might have prevented the loss, but the Investment Board's decentralized organizational structure and existing oversight mechanisms were inadequate to detect potential problem investments. We make recommendations for the Executive Director and the Board of Trustees to improve investments reporting and oversight.
Since the $95 million loss was disclosed, $1.4 billion has been withdrawn from the State Investment Fund's Local Government Investment Pool. The loss, together with local officials' concerns about the Fund's management and state officials' concerns about local governments' ability to leave the Fund without penalty, suggest that changes in the State Investment Funds are needed.
The loss in the State Investment Fund also raised questions about derivative holdings in the Wisconsin Retirement Funds. On May 30, the Investment Board disclosed a net unrealized loss of $93 million from approximately 200 derivatives in the Retirement Funds. However, this is not as significant as the loss in the State Investment Fund because it is a loss based on market prices, which regularly change, and because of the size of the Retirement Funds and the long-term nature of their investments.
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We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by the State of Wisconsin Investment Board's trustees and staff. A response from the Board's Executive Director is Appendix VI.
Sincerely,
dale cattanach
State Auditor
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
July 5, 1995
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s.
13.685(7), Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the name of an organization recently registered with the Ethics Board that employs 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 the 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.
Organization recently registered:
Below is the name of an organization recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Midway Hotel - Highway 100
Subjects: Any matter affecting the company in any way by any agency or the legislature.
Broydrick, Bill
Broydrick, Cindi
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board as employers of lobbyists have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Consulting Engineers, Wisconsin Assn of
Stitt, Donald
