1.
Direct the Department of Administration (hereinafter the "Department") to coordinate and oversee the activities of executive branch agencies related to the implementation of the Federal Communications Commission's universal service fund program for schools and libraries in Wisconsin.
2.
Require the Department to provide for the efficient and timely certification of technology plans for eligible schools and libraries in order to support applications for federal discounts and to maximize the benefits to schools and libraries under the federal universal service fund program.
3.
Instruct the Department to take such other actions as the Department deems appropriate in the coordination and implementation of the Federal Communication Commission's universal service fund program. Other state agencies shall cooperate with the Department in the coordination and implementation of this program as provided under section 20.901(1) of the Wisconsin Statutes.
4.
Direct the Department to provide for the certification of technology plans approved by the Department of Public Instruction under the federal Technology Literacy Challenge Fund.
5.
Instruct the Department to perform the above listed duties in accordance with all applicable federal and state laws, rules and regulations.
IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Madison this sixteenth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven.
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
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Relating to food and dairy license fees.
Submitted by Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Report received from Agency, September 17, 1997.
Referred to committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources, September 18, 1997.
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By Charles Sanders, chief clerk.
Mr. President:
I am directed to inform you that the Assembly has passed and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Bill 34
Assembly Bill 74
Assembly Bill 103
Assembly Bill 131
Assembly Bill 136
Assembly Bill 179
Assembly Bill 198
Assembly Bill 253
Assembly Bill 256
Assembly Bill 261
Assembly Bill 274
Assembly Bill 276
Assembly Bill 278
Assembly Bill 280
Assembly Bill 327
Assembly Bill 343
Assembly Bill 378
Assembly Bill 379
Assembly Bill 380
Assembly Bill 385
Assembly Bill 396
Assembly Bill 397
Assembly Bill 520
Assembly Bill 521
Assembly Bill 522
Assembly Bill 523
Assembly Bill 524
Assembly Bill 525
Assembly Bill 526
Assembly Bill 527
Assembly Bill 528
Assembly Bill 529
Assembly Bill 530
Assembly Bill 531
Adopted and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Joint Resolution 62
Assembly Joint Resolution 63
Assembly Joint Resolution 68
Assembly Joint Resolution 69
Concurred in:
Senate amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 187
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Assembly Bill
34
Relating to: privileged communications between spouses.
By Representatives Dobyns, Hahn, Porter, Musser, Ladwig, Huber, La Fave, Handrick, Kelso, Skindrud, Nass, Freese, Grothman, Gard, Otte, Seratti, Goetsch, Brandemuehl, Ainsworth, Olsen, M. Lehman, Powers, Ott, Vrakas, Gunderson and Kaufert; cosponsored by Senators Farrow, Buettner, Welch, Plache and Rosenzweig.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
74
Relating to: forfeiture of property used to commit certain crimes and court fees in property forfeiture proceedings.
By Representatives Dobyns, Porter, Murat, Freese, Musser, Ladwig, Hahn, Wasserman, Schafer, Gunderson, Kelso, Lazich, Plale, Vander Loop and Huber; cosponsored by Senators Buettner, Clausing, Huelsman, Wirch, Schultz, Rosenzweig and Cowles.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
100
Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 1997 legislature, and making appropriations.
By joint committee on Finance, by request of Governor Tommy G. Thompson.
Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization.
Assembly Bill
103
Relating to: expungement of the juvenile court's record of a person's delinquency adjudication.
By Representatives Goetsch, Wood, Ladwig, M. Lehman, Porter, F. Lasee, Seratti, Owens, Grothman, Hahn, Ziegelbauer, Musser, Brandemuehl, Ainsworth, Nass, Olsen and Ott; cosponsored by Senators Welch, Fitzgerald, Weeden and Rosenzweig.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
131
Relating to: load weight limits on trucks registered with the department of transportation as special interest, reconstructed, replica, street modified or homemade vehicles.
By Representatives Schneider, Ryba, Zukowski, Goetsch, Gard and Hahn.
Read first time and referred to committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Assembly Bill
136
Relating to: the use of studded tires on school buses.