A533
Relating to: transferring from the department of workforce development to the department of commerce the administration of the housing design and construction requirements of the fair housing law; a grant for a distance education center; grants for revolving loan funds for economic development; loans for renovation of buildings, purchase of land, buildings, machinery or equipment or construction of buildings; tourism marketing; the rural economic development program; administration of brownfields redevelopment activities; use of penalty revenues under the physician and health care provider loan assistance programs; transferring from the department of health and family services to the department of corrections the responsibility for establishing and collecting fees for juvenile correctional services provided by the department of corrections; parental liability for guardian ad litem fees in juvenile court proceedings; increasing the per diem payments made to temporary reserve judges; litigation by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison; petitions for writs of habeas corpus and limiting access to public records by persons incarcerated, imprisoned, confined or detained in a jail or prison; requirements for promotion from 4th grade to 5th grade and from 8th grade to 9th grade; grants to teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; creating a grant program for peer review and mentoring of teachers; determining the amount appropriated as general school aid; the college tuition prepayment program; leasing technical college facilities to others; the family practice residency program of the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.; grants to certain school districts for telecommunications access awarded by the technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin board; revising dispute settlement procedures in local government employment other than law enforcement and fire fighting employment; the dry cleaner environmental response program; hazardous waste disposal facilities; voluntary party liability for cleaning up property that is contaminated with hazardous substances and that was acquired from a local governmental unit; tire waste cleanup; arbitration of appeals under the petroleum storage remedial action program; clean water fund program federal financial hardship assistance; administrative forfeitures for violations of safe drinking water rules; providing community aids funding for Milwaukee County; child welfare, children in out-of-home care, termination of parental rights and adoption; criminal history and abuse record searches of operators, employes and nonclient residents of certain entities that provide care for children or adults; a child's first book initiative; eligibility criteria for kinship care payments; proposed legislation to establish a new long-term care system for services to elderly and adult disabled individuals; a pilot project for management of long-term care programs; authorizing counties to contract for health and social services on a prepaid or postpaid, per capita basis; care required and provided in adult family homes, community-based residential facilities and nursing homes; critical access hospitals; reimbursement of the Marquette University School of Dentistry for providing dental services in Waushara and Monroe counties; inclusion of stepparents in the badger care program; transferring food service operations of the Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled from the department of health and family services to the department of corrections; the submittal date for a report on the future of the state centers for the developmentally disabled; rates by which reimbursement is reduced to the state centers for the developmentally disabled; eliminating the monthly reimbursement limit on community options program services for medical assistance recipients; medical assistance eligibility for working recipients of supplemental security income; eliminating the requirement for an annual report on access to obstetric and pediatric services under the medical assistance program; interim assistance for applicants of supplemental security income; specialized medical vehicles; electronic benefits transfer under the food stamp program; county administration of public assistance records; guaranteed renewability of individual health benefit plans; an exemption from renewability requirements for short-term insurance; the transportation and sale of fish; the Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River commission; fees for snowmobile trail use stickers; benefits payable and contributions permitted under the Wisconsin retirement system; payment and performance assurance requirements for public works projects; state interfund borrowing limitations; transfers from the general fund to the property tax relief fund; grants for recycling of computers and wheelchairs; creating a refundable individual income tax credit for educational expenses paid for dependents who attend public or certain private elementary and secondary schools; creating an individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for elementary and secondary educational costs; creating an individual income tax deduction for amounts paid for certain higher education costs; defining the Internal Revenue Code for state income and franchise tax purposes; a property tax exemption for computers; state aid payments to municipalities; creating a tax amnesty program; increasing the department of revenue's ability to collect delinquent taxes; denying and revoking licenses and similar documents to persons who owe delinquent taxes or fail to reveal their social security numbers or federal employer identification numbers; administration of the adult entertainment tax; weight limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting bulk potatoes; the transportation infrastructure loan program; administration of a national guard youth program; the maximum allowable veterans home loan; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting and decreasing bonding authority; and making and decreasing appropriations.
By
Representative
Gard
; cosponsored by Senator Burke
, by request of Governor Tommy G. Thompson.
To joint committee on Finance.
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The committee on Children and Families reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 601
Relating to: adoption assistance, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations.
Assembly amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Huebsch, Dobyns, Ainsworth, Ladwig, R. Young, Notestein and Hebl.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Goetsch.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Huebsch, Dobyns, Goetsch, Ainsworth, Ladwig, R. Young, Notestein and Hebl.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Michael Huebsch
Chairperson
Committee on Children and Families
The committee on Consumer Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 389
Relating to: permissible fees on open-end consumer credit plans.
Passage:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Otte, Ott, Urban, Williams, Hasenohrl and Black.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Johnsrud and M. Lehman.
To committee on Financial Institutions.
Assembly Bill 404
Relating to: requiring physicians to report injuries to, and deaths of, minors that they suspect are caused by articles intended for use by minors and requiring the secretary of agriculture, trade and consumer protection to publicize dangers created by such articles.
Assembly amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Otte, Johnsrud, Ott, M. Lehman, Urban, Williams, Hasenohrl and Black.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Otte, Johnsrud, Ott, M. Lehman, Urban, Williams, Hasenohrl and Black.
Noes: 0.
To joint committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 322
Relating to: certification requirements for dietitians.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Otte, Johnsrud, Ott, M. Lehman, Urban, Williams, Hasenohrl and Black.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Clifford Otte
Chairperson
Committee on Consumer Affairs
The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 631
Relating to: charter schools.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Olsen, Nass, Brandemuehl, Duff, Ainsworth, Hahn, Otte, Ward, Schneider, R. Young, Reynolds, Ziegelbauer, Dueholm and J. Lehman.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Olsen, Nass, Brandemuehl, Duff, Ainsworth, Hahn, Otte, Ward and R. Young.
Noes: 5 - Representatives Schneider, Reynolds, Ziegelbauer, Dueholm and J. Lehman.
To committee on Rules.
Luther Olsen
Chairperson
Committee on Education
The committee on Health reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 756
Relating to: the creation of an additional unclassified division administrator position in the department of health and family services.
Passage:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Underheim, Urban, Johnsrud, Walker, Lazich, F. Lasee, Olsen, Wieckert, Robson, Carpenter, Bock, Springer, Meyer, La Fave and Wasserman.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Gregg Underheim
Chairperson
Committee on Health
The committee on Highways and Transportation reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 405
Relating to: permitting persons who have their operating privilege suspended or revoked to operate a motor vehicle and providing penalties.
Passage:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Brandemuehl, Otte, Hahn, Hasenohrl, Turner, Ryba, Riley and Steinbrink.
Noes: 6 - Representatives Musser, Lorge, Zukowski, Sykora, Gronemus and L. Young.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 656
Relating to: interdepartmental coordination of certain environmental protection measures applicable to transportation projects.
Passage:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Brandemuehl, Otte, Musser, Hahn, Zukowski, Sykora, Hasenohrl, Turner, L. Young, Ryba, Riley and Steinbrink.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Lorge and Gronemus.
To committee on Rules.
David Brandemuehl
Chairperson
Committee on Highways and Transportation
The committee on Labor and Employment reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 353
