Tuesday, March 10, 1998
10:00 A.M.
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Fred Risser.
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Read and referred:
Senate Joint Resolution 44
Relating to: proclaiming Arts Day.
By
Senators
Grobschmidt and Rude; cosponsored by Representatives Murat and Underheim.
To committee on Senate Organization.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 490
Relating to: Downer Woods on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
By
Senators
Grobschmidt and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Wasserman and Walker, by request of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 491
Relating to: a Wisconsin promise challenge grant program and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Panzer, Wirch, Rosenzweig, Drzewiecki and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Plale, M. Lehman and L. Young.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 492
Relating to: the powers of full-time court commissioners.
By
Senator
Burke
; cosponsored by Representative Walker
.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 493
Relating to: grants to teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Rosenzweig, C. Potter, Rude, Jauch, Darling, Grobschmidt, Panzer, Shibilski, Zien and Farrow; cosponsored by Representatives Olsen, J. Lehman, Green, Baumgart, Musser, Gronemus and Robson.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 494
Relating to: suspension of licenses, permits and other credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and other credential applications and on certain documents concerning marriage and children; creating a record matching program to match information about delinquent child support obligors with financial account information of financial institutions; creating a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability support program and cooperation with child support efforts under Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance, adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other technical changes related to child support enforcement; access to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health care coverage for a child; hospital-based voluntary establishment of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; access by county child support employes to tax information; acknowledgment of paternity; procedure, temporary orders and probable cause in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement; intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from court judgments and settlements; granting rule±making authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Wirch, Darling and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Huebsch, R. Young and La Fave.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 495
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Relating to: mental health crisis intervention services; requirements for a Level I local health officer; coordination by a local board of health of activities of a sanitarian; fetal death reports; access by a coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner or medical examiner's assistant to patient health care records; confidentiality restrictions on cancer reports; service contracts under community integration programs; eliminating outdated requirements for bed assessments for nursing homes and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded; designation by a nursing home of a person to accept service of notice or mail; required information for licenses for nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating a date for posting notice about the long-term care ombudsman program; eliminating dates for determinations that nursing homes are institutions for mental diseases; resident rights and responsibilities for residents of nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating dates for requesting and providing information about nursing homes; evaluations of integrated services projects; matching funds requirements for participants in integrated services projects; eliminating a requirement for a plan and report on school-community alcohol and drug abuse prevention and other services; eliminating a requirement that a person investigating a report of suspected or threatened emotional abuse of a child determine that the person responsible for the emotional damage is neglecting, refusing or unable for reasons other than poverty to remedy the harm; and prohibiting an adoptive parent from moving for relief from an order granting adoption or petitioning for a rehearing of such an order (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of health and family services).
By
Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 496
Relating to: ozone-depleting refrigerant and mobile air conditioners.
By
Senators
Cowles, Shibilski, Huelsman, Farrow, Darling and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives Schafer, Ainsworth, Otte, Goetsch, Ryba, Foti, Musser, Owens, Albers, Hasenohrl, Olsen, Vander Loop, Lorge, Grothman and Plouff, by request of Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
To committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
Senate Bill 497
Relating to: causing injury, death or property damage while under the influence of alcohol and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Drzewiecki, Farrow, Huelsman and Jauch; cosponsored by Representatives Johnsrud, Porter, Dobyns and Walker.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
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The committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 232
Relating to: sale of rabies vaccine and rabies vaccination of dogs.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Concurrence as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Clausing, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
