The Senate remained standing and Senator Rosenzweig led the Senate in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 621
Relating to: regulation of viatical settlement contracts, exempting from the income tax income that is received from the sale of a life insurance policy under a viatical settlement contract and granting rule-making authority.
By
Senators
Rosenzweig, Schultz, Buettner, Rude, Burke, Grobschmidt, Darling, Clausing, Panzer, Risser and Chvala; cosponsored by Representatives Baldwin, Jensen, Albers, Foti, Goetsch, Gard, Underheim, Bock, Meyer, Ainsworth, Brandemuehl, Duff, Murat, Wasserman, Walker, Wood, Gunderson, Hanson, Baldus, Musser, Ourada, Carpenter, Coggs, Cullen, Hasenohrl, Huebsch, Kelso, Klusman, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krug, F. Lasee, Lazich, Notestein, Otte, Owens, Plombon, R. Potter, Riley, Robson, Seratti, Springer, Vrakas, L. Young, R. Young and Ziegelbauer
.
To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions.
Senate Bill 622
Relating to: renumbering and reorganizing the environmental statutes.
By
Joint Legislative Council
.
To committee on Environment and Energy.
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The committee on Environment and Energy reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 740
Relating to: the lake acidification experiment at Little Rock Lake.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Cowles, Farrow, Panzer, Burke and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Joint Resolution 77
Relating to: proclaiming "River Cleanup Week".
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Cowles, Farrow, Panzer, Burke and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Mullally, Robert R.,
of Onalaska, as a member of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Boundary Area Commission, to serve for the interim term ending September 25, 1996 and for the full term ending September 25, 2001.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Cowles, Farrow, Panzer, Burke and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 454
Relating to: zoning of shorelands by counties, zoning of wetlands in shorelands by cities and villages and providing a penalty.
S656
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Cowles, Panzer, Burke and Clausing.
Noes, 1 - Senator Farrow.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Cowles, Panzer, Burke and Clausing.
Noes, 1 - Senator Farrow.
Senate Bill 569
Relating to: drilling beneath the beds of the Great Lakes and other waters to explore for or produce oil or gas.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Cowles, Farrow, Panzer, Burke and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Cowles, Farrow, Panzer, Burke and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 590
Relating to: placing and using boats and boating equipment, and placing boat trailers, with zebra mussels attached in the Lower St. Croix River.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Cowles, Farrow, Panzer, Burke and Clausing.
Noes, 0 - None.
Robert Cowles
Chairperson
The committee on State Government Operations and Corrections reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 736
Relating to: supervision of assessments.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Drzewiecki, A. Lasee, Fitzgerald, Moen and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 602
Relating to: contracts providing for the confinement of prisoners of this state in another state.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Drzewiecki, A. Lasee, Fitzgerald, Moen and Breske.
Noes, 0 - None.
Gary Drzewiecki
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
March 12, 1996
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s.
13.685(7), Wisconsin Statutes, I am notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers.
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:
Funeral Directors Assn., Wisconsin
Moore, Tom
Independent Colleges and Universities, Wisconsin Assn. of
Dies, David
Upper Mississippi Waterway Assn.
Adams, James
Termination of lobbying authorization:
The following individual is no longer authorized to lobby on behalf of the organization listed below, as of the date indicated.
Independent Colleges and Universities, Wisconsin Assn. of
Heck, James 3/6/96
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
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