executive order #321
Relating to a Proclamation that the Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State of Wisconsin be Flown at Half-Staff as a Mark of Respect for the Reverend John P. Raynor, S.J., the Late President of Marguette University
WHEREAS, the Reverend John P. Raynor, S.J. served as President of Marquette University from 1965 to 1990; and
WHEREAS, more than half of Marquette University's 96,000 living alumni graduated from the university during Father Raynor's tenure as president; and
WHEREAS, Father Raynor's commitment to excellence in education and unwavering love for the university were an inspiration to all who knew him; and
WHEREAS, Father Raynor's mark on the university will be felt by students and staff for many decades to come; and
WHEREAS, Father Raynor died today at the age of 74 and will be interred on November 18, 1997;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, TOMMY G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by federal and state law, do hereby authorize the Reverend Robert A. Wild, S.J., President of Marquette University, to fly the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin at half-staff at all buildings on the campus of Marquette University equipped with such flags beginning forthwith until 10:00 PM CST on November 18, 1997.
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 fourteenth day of November in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven.
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
__________________
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that all the appointments be taken up en masse.
Kohlbeck, Marie B.,
of Whitelaw, as a member of the Auctioneer Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2001.
Read.
Nuernberg, Christine,
of Mequon, as a member of the Real Estate Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2001.
Read.
The question was: Confirmation?
The ayes and noes were required and the vote was: ayes, 31; noes, 0; absent or not voting, 2; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Adelman, Breske, Burke, Chvala, Clausing, Cowles, Darling, Decker, Drzewiecki, Ellis, Farrow, Fitzgerald, George, Grobschmidt, Huelsman, A. Lasee, Moore, Panzer, Plache, C. Potter, Risser, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Rude, Schultz, Shibilski, Weeden, Welch, Wineke, Wirch and Zien - 31.
Noes - None.
Absent or not voting - Senators Jauch and Moen - 2.
Confirmed.
__________________
By Charles Sanders, chief clerk.
Mr. President:
I am directed to inform you that the Assembly has passed and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Bill 57
Assembly Bill 150
Assembly Bill 157
Assembly Bill 254
Assembly Bill 329
Assembly Bill 386
Assembly Bill 394
Assembly Bill 478
Assembly Bill 606
Adopted and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Joint Resolution 80
Assembly Joint Resolution 81
Concurred in:
Senate Bill 324
__________________
Assembly Bill
57
Relating to: reporting by principals with respect to certain lobbying activities, voluntary registration by certain persons with the ethics board, compilation and use of certain information provided to the ethics board, making an appropriation and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Green and R. Potter; cosponsored by Senators Plache and Farrow.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
150
Relating to: electronic filing of certain campaign finance reports with the elections board and making an appropriation.
By Representatives Baldwin, Walker, Ainsworth, Albers, Baumgart, Black, Bock, Boyle, Brandemuehl, Carpenter, Coggs, Cullen, Dobyns, Duff, Freese, Green, Hahn, Hanson, Harsdorf, Hasenohrl, Huber, Hutchison, Johnsrud, Kelso, Kreibich, Kreuser, Krug, La Fave, F. Lasee, J. Lehman, Meyer, Morris-Tatum, Murat, Musser, Notestein, Olsen, Otte, Plale, Plouff, Porter, R. Potter, Reynolds, Riley, Robson, Ryba, Schafer, Schneider, Seratti, Skindrud, Springer, Travis, Turner, Underheim, Vander Loop, Wasserman, R. Young and Ziegelbauer; cosponsored by Senators Adelman, Drzewiecki, Breske, Buettner, Chvala, Clausing, Cowles, Darling, Huelsman, Jauch, Moore, Plache, Risser, Rosenzweig, Rude, Schultz, Welch and Wirch.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Relating to: prohibiting insurers from requesting genetic test information from health care providers.
By Representatives Wasserman, Schneider, Urban, Ainsworth, Baldwin, Bock, Carpenter, Cullen, Dobyns, Hahn, Hasenohrl, Huber, Kreuser, Ladwig, La Fave, Murat, Musser, Notestein, Reynolds, Riley, Robson, Ryba, L. Young, Ziegelbauer, Gronemus and Gunderson; cosponsored by Senators Grobschmidt, Buettner and Moen.
Read first time and referred to committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Assembly Bill
254
Relating to: promulgation of emergency rules and the extension of emergency rules by the joint committee for review of administrative rules.
By joint committee for review ofAdministrative Rules.
Read first time and referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Assembly Bill
329
Relating to: excluding agricultural transactions from the Wisconsin Consumer Act.
By Representatives Hoven, Kaufert, Meyer, Plale, Vrakas, Skindrud, La Fave and Ward; cosponsored by Senators Shibilski, Wineke, Zien, Fitzgerald, C. Potter, Rude and Welch.
Read first time and referred to committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
Assembly Bill
386
Relating to: law enforcement agency access to photographs of applicants for operators' licenses and identification cards and providing a penalty.
By Representatives La Fave, Schneider, Dobyns, Goetsch, Hanson, Musser, J. Lehman, Brandemuehl, Bock, Ladwig, Ziegelbauer, Walker, Gronemus, Underheim, Ryba, Grothman, Murat, F. Lasee, Hahn, Sykora, Kreuser and Olsen; cosponsored by Senators Wirch, Huelsman, Farrow and Drzewiecki.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
394
Relating to: the composition of county boards of canvassers.
By Representatives M. Lehman, Olsen, Grothman, Ladwig, Musser, Plouff, Albers, Huebsch, Sykora and Vrakas; cosponsored by Senators Roessler and Moen.
Read first time and referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Assembly Bill
478
Relating to: publication of foreclosure notices; notices to former owners of tax-deeded property; and recovery of the costs of foreclosure of tax-deeded land.
By Representatives Krusick, Albers, Huber, Musser, Olsen, Seratti, Staskunas, Urban and Ziegelbauer; cosponsored by Senators Burke, Farrow and Roessler.
Read first time and referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Assembly Bill
606
Relating to: the application of the business combination and the control share voting restriction provisions of the business corporation law; dry cleaning fees; the regulation of providers of domestic public commercial mobile radio service; nontarget population members; pregnancy as a preexisting condition; the date by which certain school board resolutions pertaining to the open enrollment programs must be adopted; loans made to school districts by the technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin board; the method for calculating contributions to the universal service fund; use of the universal service fund to make grants to certain school districts for telecommunications access; financial assistance for local recycling programs; funding for a boat landing located on the Wisconsin River in the town of Buena Vista; grants awarded by the environmental education board that are related to forestry; the transportation and sale of fish; reports concerning the environmental cooperation pilot program; funding for air and solid and hazardous waste programs; studies of fish in the Great Lakes; restrictions on the placement of sexually violent persons who are granted supervised release; provision of information necessary for the administration of child support and economic support programs; copayments under the medical assistance program for specialized medical vehicle services; eligibility for child care subsidies under the Wisconsin works program; increased funding for the benefit specialist program for older individuals; the amount that a county having a population of 500,000 or more must contribute for the provision of child welfare services in that county by the department of health and family services; the photographing of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments, of employes and prospective employes of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments and of adult residents and prospective adult residents of the home of a person applying for or receiving kinship care payments; criminal history and abuse record searches of persons applying to the department of health and family services for a license, certification or registration to operate certain entities that care for children or adults and of employes, prospective employes, adult residents and prospective adult residents of those entities; eliminating cross-references to the Wisconsin works health plan; the indexing of the mining tax; computing the aviation fuel tax; a sales tax and use tax exemption for samples of medicine and registration for use tax purposes; tax increment sharing for tax incremental financing districts in Oshkosh that contain polluted soil; changing conflict of interest provisions and lottery participation restrictions that affect certain employes of the department of revenue; the department of revenue's expenses to administer the fee on vehicle rentals; the international fuel tax agreement; directing the department of revenue to not adjust individual income tax withholding tables and making a technical adjustment in the calculation of income tax liability by individual nonresidents and part-year residents of this state; weight limitations for vehicles and combinations of vehicles transporting bulk potatoes; specific information signs along STH 172; salary-setting authority of certain state bodies; reserve "Class B" intoxicating liquor licenses; the abolishment of the emergency response board; revocation of probation for failure to pay supervision fees owed to the department of corrections; and making an appropriation.
By committee onRules.
Read first time and referred to joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Joint Resolution 80
Relating to: the distribution of the net proceeds of the state lottery and certain moneys received by the state that are attributable to pari-mutuel on-track betting and bingo (first consideration).
S353
By Representatives M. Lehman, Walker, Goetsch, Wood, Harsdorf, Travis, Kaufert, Black, Ladwig, Huebsch, Hasenohrl, Schafer, Ainsworth, Ryba, Dobyns, Musser, Albers, Sykora, Skindrud and Hahn; cosponsored by Senators Ellis and Panzer.
