Relating to: residency qualifications for certain election officials.
By Senator Wirch ; cosponsored by Representatives Porter, Springer, Walker, Plouff and Coggs.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 435
Relating to: the discharge of wastewater from a sulfide mine.
By Senators Schultz, Rude, Decker and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Hahn, Freese, Albers, Zukowski, Hasenohrl, Vander Loop, Lorge, Huber, Robson, Boyle, Black, Springer, Baumgart, Linton, Ryba, Bock, Baldwin and Lazich.
To committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
Senate Bill 436
S426 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 Senator Burke ; cosponsored by Representative Gard , by request of Governor Tommy G. Thompson .
To joint committee on Finance.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 36(2)(c) and section 13.50(6)(a), Wisconsin Statutes, the Co-Chairs of the Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems shall prepare and submit a report in writing setting forth an opinion on the desirability of Senate Bill 436, relating to the budget adjustment bill, as a matter of public policy.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 36(2)(c) and section 13.50(6)(a), Wisconsin Statutes, the Co-Chairs of the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions shall prepare and submit a report in writing setting forth an opinion on the desirability of Senate Bill 436, relating to the budget adjustment bill, as a matter of public policy.
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report of committees
The committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources reports and recommends:
Earl , Anthony S., of Madison, as a member of the Great Lakes Protection Fund, to serve for the term ending October 11, 1998.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
OBrien , Patrick, of Menasha, as a member of the Waste Facility Siting Board, to serve for the interim term ending May 1, 1999.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Russell, Marcella L., of Shullsburg, as a member of the State Fair Park Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2002.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
White , Donna Jean, of Cambria, as a member of the Snowmobile Recreation Council, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2000.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Zielke , Patrick T., of La Crosse, as a member of the Wisconsin Waterways Commission, to serve for the interim term ending March 1, 1999.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 373
Relating to: creating a bluff protection program, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 3 - Senators Clausing, Wirch and Zien.
Noes, 1 - Senator A. Lasee.
Alice Clausing
Chairperson
The committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 150
Relating to: electronic filing of certain campaign finance reports with the elections board and making an appropriation.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 284
Relating to: testing for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted diseases in criminal defendants and juveniles alleged to be delinquent or in need of protection or services who are found not competent to proceed or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 300
Relating to: the performance of services for the victim by a juvenile as restitution for the juvenile's act.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 396
Relating to: the filing officer for candidates for the office of municipal judge in municipal courts serving 2 or more municipalities.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 410
S427 Relating to: original adult court jurisdiction over a juvenile who is alleged to have attempted or committed a violation of any state criminal law if that violation may be joined with an alleged assault, battery, homicide or attempted homicide over which the adult court has original jurisdiction, the elimination of reverse waiver for a juvenile who is once waived always waived, the imposition of a juvenile adjudication and disposition by an adult court on a juvenile who has been found to have committed a lesser offense, the financial ability of a juvenile, either alone or with the assistance of a parent with custody of the juvenile, to make restitution for any damage or injury resulting from the juvenile's act or to pay a forfeiture imposed on the juvenile, sanctions for a juvenile in need of protection or services based on habitual truancy or being a school dropout who violates a condition of his or her dispositional order and sanctions for contempt of court by a juvenile who violates a condition of his or her dispositional order, the rules of evidence at postdispositional hearings under the juvenile justice code and the disclosure of juvenile court records to other juvenile courts for the purposes of preparing a presentence investigation, determining custody of a juvenile, setting bail, impeaching a witness and determining whether a juvenile who would otherwise be an heir has intentionally killed the decedent.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 487
Relating to: the sale of a motor vehicle subject to a seizure for a crime related to driving while under the influence of an intoxicant or other drug and providing a penalty.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 564
Relating to: sexual assault, the controlled substance flunitrazepam and providing penalties.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 254
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