Thursday, March 20, 1997
10:00 A.M.
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Fred Risser.
The Chair, with unanimous consent, asked that the proper entries be made in the journal.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 129
Relating to: the playing of bingo by persons under the age of 18.
By
Senators
Buettner and Zien; cosponsored by Representatives Owens, Kreibich, Ryba, Musser, Handrick, Skindrud, Lazich, Grothman, Gronemus, Goetsch and Plale.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 130
Relating to: sale of rabies vaccine and rabies vaccination of dogs.
By
Senators
Clausing, Fitzgerald, Moen, Wirch, Rude, Jauch, Buettner, Weeden, Wineke, Schultz, Risser, Grobschmidt, Welch, Huelsman and George; cosponsored by Representatives Ward, Gronemus, Hanson, Baumgart, M. Lehman, Ott, Freese, Skindrud, Hahn, Kreuser, Robson, Wasserman, Goetsch, Zukowski, Vrakas, J. Lehman, La Fave, Baldwin, Notestein, Powers, Kreibich, Brandemuehl and Gunderson.
To committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
Senate Bill 131
Relating to: prohibiting performance of certain partial-birth abortions and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Fitzgerald, Grobschmidt, Zien, Huelsman, Farrow, Cowles, Welch, A. Lasee, Darling, Schultz, Buettner, Weeden and Breske; cosponsored by Representatives Goetsch, Wood, Ladwig, Seratti, Freese, Green, Walker, Ryba, Lazich, F. Lasee, Ward, Kreibich, Zukowski, Ziegelbauer, Huebsch, Ainsworth, Hoven, Dobyns, Nass, Handrick, Vrakas, Urban, Lorge, Otte, Duff, Hutchison, Staskunas, Owens, Harsdorf, Powers, Kelso, Hahn, Gard, Sykora, Jeskewitz, Schafer, Ott, Brandemuehl, Gunderson, Porter, Vander Loop, Olsen and Plale.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 132
Relating to: deductions from the sales price of property that is sold because of delinquent property taxes.
By
Senators
Grobschmidt, Plache, Farrow and Burke; cosponsored by Representatives Plale, Bock, Riley, La Fave, Notestein, Boyle, Hahn, Kelso, Huber, Nass, Olsen and Turner.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 133
Relating to: records maintained by the department of transportation of security interests in certain vehicles.
By
Senators
Drzewiecki and Cowles; cosponsored by Representatives Hahn, Gard, Albers, Otte, Freese, Goetsch, Porter, Kaufert, Kelso, Gronemus and Grothman.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 134
Relating to: segregated fees at the University of Wisconsin System.
By
Senators
Welch, Farrow, Weeden, Fitzgerald, Schultz and Buettner; cosponsored by Representatives Handrick, Grothman, Walker, Jensen, Ladwig, Hahn, Goetsch, Duff, Owens, Albers, Otte, Ott, Nass, Kelso, Seratti, Gard and Gunderson.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 135
Relating to: dividing land within an assessor's plat by subdivision plat or certified survey map.
By
Senators
Welch, Risser, Rude, Farrow and Drzewiecki; cosponsored by Representatives Powers, Hanson, Goetsch, Meyer, Albers, Grothman, Musser, Hahn, Olsen, Urban, Hasenohrl, Travis and Baumgart.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
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The committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 34
Relating to: disposal facilities on outlying waters for toilet wastes from boats and granting rule-making authority.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators Clausing, Shibilski, Wirch, A. Lasee and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Alice Clausing
Chairperson
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
February 1997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10 (1), Wis. Stat., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the quarterly 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 for the first quarter of 1996. 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 quarter.
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
Clean Water Fund
March 19, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
The attached information regarding the Wisconsin Clean Water Fund Biennial Finance Plan is submitted in accordance with subsection 281.59 (3) (bm) of the Wisconsin statutes. That subsection requires the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Administration to submit to the legislature and the Building Commission any amendments to the Biennial Finance Plan which are necessary to reflect material approved by the Governor for inclusion in the biennial budget.