Wednesday, January 21, 1998
10:00 A.M.
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Fred Risser.
The roll was called and the following Senators answered to their names:
Senators Breske, Burke, Chvala, Clausing, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Drzewiecki, Ellis, Farrow, Fitzgerald, George, Grobschmidt, Huelsman, A. Lasee, Moen, Moore, Panzer, Plache, C. Potter, Risser, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Rude, Schultz, Shibilski, Weeden, Welch, Wineke, Wirch and Zien - 31.
Absent - Senators Jauch - 1.
The Senate stood for a moment of silent meditation.
The Senate remained standing and Senator Fitzgerald 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 412
Relating to: registration requirements for landscape architects.
By
Senator
Breske
; cosponsored by Representatives Musser, Ryba, Grothman and Gronemus.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
January 21, 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.
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital
Subject(s): All matters affecting health care.
Hottenroth, Theresa
Leitch, Laura J
Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co (VALIC)
Subject(s): Issues related to variable annuities including defined contribution plans.
Hough, James E
Osborne, Patrick
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:
Liquid Waste Carriers Assn, Wisconsin
Swandby, Janet
Surgery Center Assn Wisconsin
Leitch, Laura J
UW Students, Inc, United Council of
Grabel, John
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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Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the Senate recess until 11:32 A. M.
10:08 A.M.
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11:32 A. M.
The Senate reconvened.
Senator Risser in the chair.
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Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that all the appointments be taken up en masse.
Curran
, Dr. Mark J.,
of Portage, as a member of the Dentistry Examining Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2001.
Read.
S403
Feith
, Susan,
of Wisconsin Rapids, as a member of the Chiropractic Examining Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2001.
