Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 499
Relating to: funding for the statewide immunization program and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Rodney Moen
Chairperson
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The joint committee on
Information Policy reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 351
Relating to: enforcement of interconnection agreements by the public service commission, protections for users of certain telecommunications services, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Introduction of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 10 - Senators
Jauch, Moore, Shibilski, Panzer and Rosenzweig. Representatives Hutchison, Kaufert, Vrakas, Schneider and Hanson.
Noes, 0 - None.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 10 - Senators
Jauch, Moore, Shibilski, Panzer and Rosenzweig. Representatives Hutchison, Kaufert, Vrakas, Schneider and Hanson.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate substitute amendment 1 adoption.
Ayes, 10 - Senators
Jauch, Moore, Shibilski, Panzer and Rosenzweig. Representatives Hutchison, Kaufert, Vrakas, Schneider and Hanson.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 9 - Senators
Jauch, Moore, Shibilski, Panzer and Rosenzweig. Representatives Hutchison, Vrakas, Schneider and Hanson.
Noes, 1 - Representative
Kaufert.
Robert Jauch
Senate Chairperson
The committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 285
Relating to: the method of determining reductions in general transportation aids for late filing of applications for such aid.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 760
Relating to: issuing regular operator's licenses to drivers licensed to operate certain noncommercial vehicles in another country.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Cockson, Carol J.,
of Altoona, as a member of the Credit Union Review Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2003.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Curran
, James M.,
of Green Bay, as a member of the Banking Review Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2003.
Confirmation.
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 17, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate/Legislature:
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.
Bass plc, c/oWmJ MacKnight,Jr,Esq, Wormser Kiely Galef & Jacobs LLP
Subject(s): Seek to amend Section
125.33 of Wisconsin State to clarify that (1) a person which owns or has a financial interest in a brewer may own or have a financial interest in the holder of a Class "B" retail license which is operated as part of a hotel provided certain conditions are met and, (2) an affiliate of a brewer may make loans, lease and/or sell certain types of personal property to the holder of Class "B" retail license which is operated as part of a hotel provided certain conditions are met.
Stenger, Scott
Cigar Association of America Inc
Subject(s): All tobacco legislation.
Moore, Thomas E
Commonweal Mortgage Company
Subject(s): We are interested in A.B. 830, this bill could legislate our company out of business. Many items in the bill are unnecessary and unreasonable. It will effect smaller mortgage brokers and insurance, accounting and financial planning professionals throughout the state.
Hanson, Richard
Concord Communications
Subject(s): Provide telecommunication services for all state agencies.
Essie, Patrick
Pawnbrokers Association Wisconsin
Subject(s): All areas relating to ss 138.09 and 138.10, the pawnbroker profession.
Essie, Patrick
Recording Industry Assn of America Inc
Subject(s): The RIAA takes an interest in all areas of state legislation and administrative rules dealing with censorship/1st Amendment issues. Moreover, such legislation may take the form of "harmful to minors," "divestiture," "community standards," "obscenity," and all other pieces of legislation related to sound recordings.
Chrnelich, Joseph
Essie, Patrick
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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:
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Kass, Mark
Municipal Electric Utilities of Wisconsin
May, Michael
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 Health and Family Services
March 13, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate: