The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 462
Relating to: requirements for driver education courses.
By
Senator
Rude
; cosponsored by Representative Hahn
.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 463
Relating to: designations for the Wisconsin election campaign fund by individuals filing state income tax returns, eligibility requirements for and the amounts of grants from the Wisconsin election campaign fund, regulation of certain telephone activities pertaining to elections, disbursement levels applicable to candidates for certain state offices, contributions by lobbyists, treatment of contributions of money made by conduits, treatment of legislative campaign committees, information provided on campaign finance registration statements, filing of campaign finance reports, use of information copied from campaign finance reports, communications by certain individuals and organizations Relating to candidates, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations and providing a penalty.
By
Senator
Burke
; cosponsored by Representative Bock
.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 464
Relating to: authorizing local parole watch committees.
By
Senators
Darling and Fitzgerald; cosponsored by Representatives Green, Riley, Seratti, Porter, Musser, Plale, Kelso, Ladwig, Powers, Albers and F. Lasee.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 465
Relating to: weight limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting bulk potatoes.
By
Senators
Shibilski, Welch, Breske, Schultz, A. Lasee, Drzewiecki, Farrow and Fitzgerald; cosponsored by Representatives Klusman, Ourada, Murat, Ott, Seratti, Spillner and Springer.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 466
Relating to: requiring payment from a ward's estate of reasonable attorney fees and costs for successful petitioners in incompetency and guardianship proceedings.
By
Senators
Darling and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Sykora, Musser and F. Lasee.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 467
Relating to: experience and continuing education requirements for certified general and residential appraisers and licensed appraisers and granting rule-making authority.
By
Senators
Moore, Burke and Weeden; cosponsored by Representatives Turner, Hanson, Riley, L. Young and Albers.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
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The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 609
Relating to: eliminating some of the school district and cooperative educational service agency reporting requirements and granting rule-making authority.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 376
Relating to: technical college for certain Wisconsin works participants.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling and Huelsman.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Senate Bill 406
Relating to: the Wisconsin Humanities Council and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Relating to: the delegation of authority by 1st class city school districts over funds held in trust for certain pension plans.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 8 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman, Roessler and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Calvin Potter
Chairperson
The committee on Utility Regulation reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 374
Relating to: indexing the factors of the formula that is used to calculate the utility component of the shared revenue payments.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Clausing, Shibilski, Rude, Welch and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Rodney Moen
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
October, 1997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10(1), Wis. Stats., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the seventh annual Health Care Data Report. This report is based on hospital inpatient discharge data reported to the Office of health Care Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals in Wisconsin from January through December 1995. It also contains selected ambulatory surgery utilization and charge data from general medical-surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin during the same period.
This report fulfills the statutory requirement to report "in a manner that permits comparisons among hospitals ... the charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups selected by the office."
Sincerely,
Josephine W. Musser
Commissioner of Insurance
Barbara A. Rudolph, Ph.D.,
Deputy Director
Office of Health Care Information
State of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Technical College System Board
February 11, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
This letter is to inform you of the Technical College System (WTCS) Board's need for additional time to comply with a new reporting requirement. The 1997-99 state budget (
1997 Wisconsin Act 27) included a provision which requires the WTCS Board to submit a report regarding high school pupils attending technical colleges. The report is to be submitted annually to the Legislature and three state agencies (the Departments of Administration, Public Instruction, and Workforce Development) by the third Monday in February. The new statutory provision (s.38.04(21)) is attached.
Another provision in the budget bill (Section 9340(5x)) which relates to the initial applicability of s.
38.04(21) has created some ambiguity as to whether or not the Legislature intended the first report to be submitted by the WTCS Board by February 16, 1998. Nevertheless, the WTCS Board will provide the report this year. However, our agency will need additional time to obtain the necessary data from the 16 technical college districts. We will submit the first report to the Legislature by June 1, 1998.
