Relating to: requiring headlights and other required lamps on vehicles to be lighted while windshield wipers are being used.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 349
Relating to: notice to employes, retirees and dependents of cessation of health care benefits, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Passage and without recommendation.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Plache, Moore and Decker.
Noes, 3 - Senators
Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Senate Bill 407
Relating to: "good funds" requirements for loan closings and the powers and duties of credit unions and their directors, officers, employes and members.
Senate substitute amendment 1 adoption.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Kimberly Plache
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
March 3, 1998
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.
Employers Health Cooperative
Subject(s): Lobbying is NOT a primary focus of our organization, nor do we expect it to become so. We expect to monitor and very selectively engage in activities directly affecting employer health insurance/benefits, health care issues directly affecting employer health care costs or the availability of health care information, or health care coalitions.
Ebersberger, Diane
Employers Purchasing Healthcare, Inc Wis Alliance of
Subject(s): Our emphasis will be on legislation and administrative rules relative to health, healthcare, healthcare financing, healthcare information, and issues relating to information technology impacting healthcare delivery.
Wrocklage, Jim
Medical Foundation Inc, University of Wisconsin
Subject(s): Health care policy, tax policy and areas related to the operation of the Foundation.
Boxer, Barbara K
Petersen, Eric
Pickart, Joseph A.
Wimmer, Jr, James
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:
Dental Associates, Ltd
Boyce, Catherine
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin Inc
Broydrick, William
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Alleman, Jennifer
Milwaukee Public Museum, Inc
Fitzgerald, Moira
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co
Liebe, Thomas
Oakley, Kara
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Moore, Thomas E
S476
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.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Tries, John 3/2/98
Telecommunications Assn, Wisconsin State
Hegna, Harry 3/2/98
Waste Management of Wisconsin, Inc
Katzman, William 2/24/98
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,
Roth Judd
Director
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
February 23, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate:
The Department of Administration is required by s.
16.705(8), Wisc. Stats., to submit a report to the Governor, the Joint Committee on Finance, the Joint Committee on Audit and the Chief Clerk of each house concerning the number, value and nature of contractual service procurements authorized for each agency during the preceding fiscal year. Enclosed is that report for fiscal year 1996-1997.
The report follows the format of the fiscal year 1995-96 report. Additional information about state contractual services and additional copies of this report are available for committee members by contacting our Bureau of Procurement at (608) 266-2755.
Sincerely,
Mark D. Bugher
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
February 13, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate:
The Wisconsin board of Hunger, in their meeting on January 23, 1998, determined that it would be advantageous to delay the preparation of the annual plan required under provision in
1993 Wisconsin Act 168 until April 1, 1998. The reason for this delay is to allow for the Board to review and examine several key reports that recommend strategies and policy changes to address hunger. The reports to be reviewed include:
•A national report from Second Harvest (which will include extensive data from Southeast Wisconsin).
•A food security indicators report from the Wisconsin Nutrition Project.
•A summary of efforts in sixteen Wisconsin communities participating in the Transforming Anti-Hunger Leadership Project (TAHL), directed by the Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee.
•A demographic analysis by county of indicators suggesting risk of food insecurity prepared by UW-Extension.
•A report regarding emergency food provision in Wisconsin prepared by Wood Communications with support from Miller Brewing.
