Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Drzewiecki, A. Lasee, Moen and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 483
Relating to: group insurance board contracts for administrative functions, the effective date for a retirement annuity for persons who are rejected for long-term disability insurance benefits, permitting the group insurance board to offer a life insurance plan to persons who are eligible for the Milwaukee teachers' death benefit, increasing the time after which unclaimed published accounts are transferred to the appropriate employer account and rollovers to other retirement plans of certain lump sum and annuity benefits payable by the Wisconsin retirement system (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of employe trust funds).
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Drzewiecki, A. Lasee, Moen and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Drzewiecki, A. Lasee, Moen and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 502
Relating to: training costs for tribal law enforcement officers and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Drzewiecki, A. Lasee, Moen and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 503
Relating to: authorizing a sheriff and county board to contract with a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band to confine tribal prisoners in the county jail.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Drzewiecki, A. Lasee, Moen and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Gary Drzewiecki
Chairperson
The committee on Transportation, Agriculture and Local Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 151
Relating to: weight and length limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting potatoes.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators A. Lasee, Drzewiecki, Zien, Andrea and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 584
Relating to: the regulation of floodproofed residential basements under floodplain zoning ordinances.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators A. Lasee, Drzewiecki, Zien and Andrea.
Noes, 1 - Senator Clausing.
Senate Bill 433
Relating to: the filing of certain forms related to a tax incremental financing district.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators A. Lasee, Drzewiecki, Zien, Andrea and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 509
Relating to: the method of reviewing and establishing revised operator's license examination standards and granting rule-making authority.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators A. Lasee, Drzewiecki, Zien, Andrea and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Alan Lasee
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
February 13, 1996
To the Honorable the Senate:
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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.
Fertilizer & Chemical Assn, Wisconsin
Our primary interest lies in agriculture, air, land and water quality etc. as they relate to fertilizer and pesticide use. However the majority of our members operate retail businesses and as such are interested in worker and employment related issues even transportation of their products. We work for favorable regulation of their businesses and the agricultural fertilizer and chemical industry.
Ahner, Betsy
Friends of the Brule River and Forest
DNR Master Planning Rule
Any rules or legislation affecting the management of the State Forests
Kuhlmann, Walter
Managed Care Pharmacy Assn, American
Assembly Bill No. 770 (Oppose)
Blume, Edward
St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company
Areas relating to health care liability insurance.
Vaughan, Michael
O'Connor, Alice
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:
Aurora Health Care, Inc
Hauser, Annette
Blue Cross/Blue Shield United of Wisconsin
Jentz, Robert
Pre-Need Coalition, Wisconsin
Hilbert, Lisa
O'Connor, Alice
Rural Development Center, Wisconsin
Wenzel, William
VITAS Healthcare Corp.
Graven, Mara
Waste Management of Wisconsin, Inc
Oakley, Kara
Termination of lobbying authorizations:
The following individual is no longer authorized to lobby on behalf of the organization listed below, as of the date indicated.
Homecare Organization, Wisconsin
Stadler, Mary Jo 6/14/95
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.
