Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Moen, Breske, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 365
Relating to: acquisition of a hospital owned by a nonprofit corporation, a city, a county, the state or the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Moen, Breske, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Moen, Breske, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 392
Relating to: exemption from discipline for dentists who send impressions, measurements or patients to dental laboratories for shade verification.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Moen, Breske, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Rodney Moen
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
January 13, 1998
To the Honorable the Senate:
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.
Industrial Energy Group, Wisconsin
Subject(s): Electric and natural gas industry restructuring and deregulation. Reliability of electric and natural gas supply and delivery. Associated changes in the laws governing the Public Service Commission, advance plan, utility construction, etc.
Olson, Richard L
A-C Reorganization Trust
Subject(s): Remediation of environmental contamination.
Liebe, Tom
Family Violence of Milwaukee, Inc., Task Force on
Subject(s): The organization will attempt to influence the state budget process, laws and statutes related to the crimes of domestic violence and sexual abuse; laws and statutes that define violent crimes and penalties for those crimes; administrative rules that regulate law enforcement, probation and parole, and the Judiciary.
Kocol, Kitty
S398
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Cranberry Growers Assn., Wisconsin State
Lamb, Jordan K
Crandon Mining Co
Plautz, Jolene
Fair Competition, Wisconsin Coalition for
Lamb, Jordan K
Insurance Agents of Wisconsin, Independent
Lamb, Jordan K
Medical College of Wisconsin
Leitch, Laura J
Rental Dealers Assn., Wisconsin
Peshek, Peter
Rifle Assn. Institute for Legislative Action, National
Bradfield, Mary Anne
Misiora, Susan
Oswald, Chris
Towns Assn., Wisconsin
Plautz, Jolene
Termination of lobbying authorizations:
The following individuals are no longer authorized to lobby on behalf of the organizations listed below, as of the dates indicated.
Automobile Manufacturers Assn., American
Edmunds, Donald 1/12/98
Madison Metropolitan School District
McCabe, Michael 1/8/98
Rifle Assn. Institute for Legislative Action, National
Myers, Fred 1/12/98
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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executive order #326
Relating to the Approval and Issuance of Model Academic Standards
WHEREAS, the Governor's Council on Model Academic Standards ("Council") was created on January 24, 1997 by Executive Order No. 302 to develop model academic standards in the subject areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, history and geography for grades 4, 8 and for graduation; and
WHEREAS, the Council was also created statutorily by Section
14.017(3) of the Wisconsin Statutes under
1997 Wisconsin Act 27 (the 1997-99 Biennial Budget Act); and
WHEREAS, the Council has completed its work and, in December of 1997, recommended for adoption world-class model academic standards in the subject areas of English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies; and
WHEREAS, Section
14.23(2) of the Wisconsin Statutes requires the Governor to formally approve or disapprove the model academic standards recommended by the Council; and
WHEREAS, Section
14.23(2) of the Wisconsin Statutes authorizes the Governor to issue the model academic standards as an executive order; and
WHEREAS, the model academic standards recommended by the Council may be used as a reference resource to assist school districts in developing their own rigorous standards by the fall of 1998; and
WHEREAS, the model academic standards recommended by the Council meet the expectations established by Executive order No. 302:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, TOMMY G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of this State, and specifically by Section
14.23(2) of the Wisconsin Statutes, do hereby approve, issue and incorporate by reference into this Executive Order the model academic standards recommended by the Council.
IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Madison this thirteenth day of January in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight.
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
