Senate Bill 297
Relating to: federal mandates and creation of a federal mandate review council.
By
Senators
Rosenzweig, Rude, Panzer, Darling, Petak and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Green, Ward, Klusman, Urban, Schneiders, Lehman, Lazich, Albers, Olsen, Kreibich and F. Lasee
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To special committee on State and Federal Relations.
Senate Bill 298
Relating to: imposing a duty on state agencies and local governmental units to minimize the adverse effect of governmental actions on private property value, creating a cause of action for certain governmental actions affecting private property and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Drzewiecki, Huelsman, A. Lasee, Schultz and Petak; cosponsored by Representatives Albers, Johnsrud, Green, Seratti, Harsdorf, Freese, Ainsworth, Brancel, Brandemuehl, Goetsch, Gronemus, Grothman, Gunderson, Hahn, Huebsch, Jensen, Kreibich, Lehman, Musser, Porter, Ryba, Skindrud, Walker and Zukowski
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To committee on State Government Operations and Corrections.
Senate Bill 299
Relating to: making the establishment of the school calendar a permissive subject of collective bargaining for municipal employers.
By
Senators
Darling, Huelsman, Fitzgerald and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Brandemuehl, Nass, Ott, Kreibich, Ainsworth, Skindrud, Hahn, Grothman and Duff
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To committee on Education and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 300
Relating to: the age of compulsory school attendance.
By
Senators
Darling, Fitzgerald, Weeden, Petak and Huelsman; cosponsored by Representatives Brandemuehl, Seratti, Musser, Silbaugh, Lehman, Ziegelbauer, Foti, Schneiders, F. Lasee, Ladwig, Grothman, Ward, Huebsch and Otte
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To committee on Education and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 301
Relating to: special distinguishing license plates associated with the Olympic Games, payments to the United States Olympic Committee and the Wisconsin Special Olympics, Inc., and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Huelsman, Breske, Fitzgerald, Clausing, Darling, Burke and Rosenzweig; cosponsored by Representatives Goetsch, Krusick, Kelso, Bell, Olsen, Hanson, Lazich, Riley, Handrick, Wirch, Ward, Robson, Huebsch and Foti
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To committee on Transportation, Agriculture and Local Affairs.
Senate Bill 302
Relating to: the appointment committee for Milwaukee Area Technical College district board members.
By
Senators
Rosenzweig and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Duff, Walker, Schneiders and Olsen
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To committee on Education and Financial Institutions.
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Secretary of State
To the Honorable, the Senate:
Sincerely,
Douglas La follette
Secretary of State
Ethics Board
August 15, 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 the licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
Organization recently registered:
Wisconsin Occupational Therapy Association
Subjects: All legislation and administrative rules affecting the practice of occupational therapy.
Anderson, Norman
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyist:
The following organization previously registered with the Ethics Board as an employer of lobbyists has authorized to act on its behalf an additional licensed lobbyist:
Health Insurance Assn of America
Sheedy, Amanda
Also available from the Wisconsin Ethics Board are reports identifying the amount and value of time state agencies have spent to affect legislative action and reports of expenditures for lobbying activities filed by the organizations that employ lobbyists.
Sincerely,
R. Roth Judd
Executive Director
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
June 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10(1), Wis. Stat., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the quarterly Health Care Data Report. This report is based on hospital inpatient discharge data reported to the Office of Health Care Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals in Wisconsin for the first quarter of 1994 (January-March). It also contains selected ambulatory surgery utilization and charge data from general medical-surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin during the same quarter.
This report fulfills the statutory requirement to report "in a manner that permits comparisons among hospitals... the charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups selected by the office."
Sincerely,
josephine musser Trudy A. Karlson, Ph.D.
Commissioner of Insurance Director, Office of Health Care
Information
State of Wisconsin
Department of Corrections
July 14, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
This is the annual report on Prison Industries for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1994, as required by Wisconsin Statutes 303.018. This report includes the cash balance of each industry and the total amounts expended by state agencies for wood furniture and printing. It also shows what portion of the total wood furniture and printing state agencies purchased from prison Industries and includes year-end cash balance.
The cash deficit decreased by $1,159,795 (from $4,087,459 to $2,927,664) in fiscal year 1994. Total assets of plant, equipment and inventories of $5,925,529 exceed the cash deficit by $2,997,865.
See Appendix A for a summary of the cash balance for each industry and the overall financial condition of Prison Industries.
The net income on the accrual accounting basis was $1,089,234 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1994.
State agencies spent $3,892,458 on wood furniture in FY 94. of that amount, $729,975 or 19% was purchased from Prison Industries. During the same period, state agencies purchased $38,088,655 in printing from all sources. Of that amount, $1,096,415 or 3% was purchased from Prison Industries. State printing bulletins now require that all forms for which Prison Industries has negotiated a contract be purchased from Prison Industries. Appendix B provides comparisons with FY 93.
Sincerely,
michael sullivan
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Corrections
August 9, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Please replace the attachments for Secretaries Sullivan and Klauser's July 13, 1995 letter with these. The Prison Industries second quarter report ending date is December 31, 1994.
Sincerely,
Michael sullivan
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Employment Relations Commission
August 8, 1995
The Honorable, The Legislature:
As you are aware, the new duties of the Council on Municipal Collective Bargaining which were mandated by
1993 Act 16 have been eliminated by virtue of a provision of the recently enacted State Budget for 1995-97.
These are the minutes of the last Council meeting which took place under the aegis of Act 16.
The Council was originally created in 1985 as principally an advisory body to the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, It was reconstituted by (nonstatutory) Section
9120(2y) and (2z) of
1993 Act 16. Its augmented mission included analysis and assessment of each of the changes proposed by the Governor to Sec. 111.70(4)(cm) of the statutes in 1993 Senate Bill 44 and submission of recommendations for changes to Sec. 111.70(4)(cm) and 7(m).
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Beginning in December, 1993, the Council met on a regular, monthly basis. To date, it has met a total of 16 times and, in addition, conducted 8 public hearings in various parts of the state.(4 of the hearings were conducted in 1994 in Pewaukee, Rhinelander, LaCrosse and Milwaukee; the remaining 4 were conducted in 1995 in Milwaukee, Green Bay, Eau Claire and Madison.)
In January, 1995, it submitted its Analysis and Assessment of Each of the Changes Proposed by the Governor for Changes to Sec. 111.70(4)(cm) in 1993 Senate Bill 44.
In late January, 1995, the Council also produced its Pre-final Recommendation for a Successor Law (to Ch. 111.70 municipal labor dispute resolution procedures.) Although this product could have been submitted to the Legislature by early February, 1995, the Council deemed it advisable to submit it instead to public scrutiny by conducting 4 more public hearings in various locations within the state. As a result of those hearings, some modifications to the Pre-final Recommendations were made.
The enclosed minutes of the Council's meeting on June 13, 1995, explain those changes. The minutes were approved by 8-0 vote of the Council at a meeting conducted by telephone on July 28, 1995. By the same vote, the Council authorized the two members who were missing from the telephone conference call to indicate their approval of the June 13, 1995 minutes at a later time. Both did so. The Council also directed that a copy of an outline of the Council's "Amended Pre-final Recommendations" (which reflects it final work product as modified at its last meeting on June 13, 1995) be included as a clarifying exhibit to the minutes, along with its original Pre-final Recommendations.
On behalf of the Council, I want to express its appreciation for the opportunity for representatives of organized labor and municipal employers to convene and work towards a common goal. It succeeded in shaping the format of its subsequent discussions and debates by unanimously (10-0) establishing a set of "Guiding Principles"; by another unanimous (10-0) vote it adopted an Analysis and Assessment of Each of the Changes Proposed by the Governor Section
111.70(4)(cm) in 1993 Senate Bill 44; by a 7-3 vote it adopted its Pre-final Recommendations for a Successor Law; finally, by an 8-2 vote it produced an Amended Pre-final Report (Outline).
The Council is pleased to observe a few of its recommendations have been enacted into law as a part of the adopted Budget, While it would have preferred to have completed its work prior to legislative action, it recognizes and respects the fact that the state political process as reflected by the Governor and the members of the Legislature is the alpha and omega of municipal labor relations, and that end-products of that process cannot always be perfectly coordinated with other events.
On behalf of each individual member of the Council I extend best wishes to the Governor and each member of the Legislature. Each Council member--and I--share with all of you the hope that municipal labor relations in the State of Wisconsin will continue to reflect the proud tradition of peaceful, productive municipal collective bargaining which has been established in this state by the energies and examples of numerous representatives of each side working together toward that end.
