Confirmation.
Ayes, 7 - Senators Buettner, Rosenzweig, Zien, Welch, Moen, Breske and Moore.
Noes, 0 - None.
Carol Buettner
Chairperson
The committee on Insurance reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 545
Relating to: tax-exempt individual employe medical savings accounts established by employers or self-employed persons with the difference between the cost of catastrophic and comprehensive health care coverage.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Schultz, Huelsman, C. Potter, Shibilski and Jauch.
Noes, 2 - Senators Buettner and Cowles.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Schultz, Huelsman, Buettner and Cowles.
Noes, 3 - Senators C. Potter, Shibilski and Jauch.
Assembly Bill 573
Relating to: insurance coverage of hospital or home care after childbirth and granting rule-making authority.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 6 - Senators Schultz, Huelsman, Cowles, C. Potter, Shibilski and Jauch.
Noes, 1 - Senator Buettner.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 6 - Senators Schultz, Buettner, Cowles, C. Potter, Shibilski and Jauch.
Noes, 1 - Senator Huelsman.
Assembly Bill 705
Relating to: contracting authority of the group insurance board for the administration of group insurance plans.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 7 - Senators Schultz, Huelsman, Buettner, Cowles, C. Potter, Shibilski and Jauch.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 779
Relating to: various changes in the provisions regarding police relief associations.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 7 - Senators Schultz, Huelsman, Buettner, Cowles, C. Potter, Shibilski and Jauch.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 992
Relating to: ratifying the interstate insurance receivership compact, creating the interstate insurance receivership commission, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 7 - Senators Schultz, Huelsman, Buettner, Cowles, C. Potter, Shibilski and Jauch.
Noes, 0 - None.
Dale Schultz
Chairperson
The committee on Senate Organization reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 675
Relating to: repealing, consolidating, renumbering, amending and revising various provisions of the statutes for the purpose of correcting errors, supplying omissions, correcting and clarifying references, eliminating defects, anachronisms, conflicts, ambiguities and obsolete provisions, deleting, replacing or otherwise modifying language which discriminates on the basis of sex, reconciling conflicts and repelling unintended repeals (Revisor's Correction Bill).
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Ellis, Rude, Farrow, Chvala and Risser.
Noes, 0 - None.
Michael Ellis
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
May 7, 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:
HLR Service Corp
Essie, Patrick
Robert W. Baird and Co, Inc
Christianson, Pete
Organization's modification or amendment of records:
The registered organization listed below has indicated the following modification to its records:
Bob Radtke, Inc. (old name) changed its name to:
Radtke Contractors, Inc (new name)
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
Senator Moen, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess until 11:34 A.M..
10:17 A.M.
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11:34 A.M.
The Senate reconvened.
Senator Rude in the chair.
The Chair, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate return to the fourth order of business.
The joint committee on Employment Relations reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 676
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Association of State Prosecutors for the 1995-97 biennium, covering employes in the assistant district attorneys collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Introduction.
Ayes, 7 - Senators Rude, Weeden, Chvala, Prosser, Jensen, Brancel and Kunicki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 676 be withdrawn and taken up at this time.
Senate Bill 676
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the state of Wisconsin and the Association of State Prosecutors for the 1995-97 biennium, covering employes in the assistant district attorneys collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Ellis, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.