Wednesday, November 26, 1997
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 364
Relating to: creating a professional standards council for teachers.
By
Joint Legislative Council.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 365
Relating to: acquisition of a hospital owned by a nonprofit corporation, a city, a county, the state or the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority.
By
Senators
Rosenzweig, Moen, Rude, Decker, Roessler, Huelsman, Darling and Plache; cosponsored by Representatives Huber, Underheim, Robson, Urban, Hanson, Albers, Springer, Bock, Johnsrud, Meyer, La Fave, Ward, R. Young, Musser, Krug, Dobyns, Notestein, Goetsch, J. Lehman, Gunderson, Hasenohrl, Powers, Plouff, Gronemus and Ziegelbauer, by request of Attorney General James Doyle.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 366
Relating to: nonresident individual income tax reciprocity with the state of Illinois and making appropriations.
By
Senators
Wirch and Schultz; cosponsored by Representatives Freese, Kreuser, Steinbrink, Porter and M. Lehman.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 367
Relating to: notices of changed property tax assessments and board of review training and procedures.
By
Senators
Moen, C. Potter, Schultz, Rude and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Albers and Freese.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 368
Relating to: changes to the probate code.
By
Senators
Huelsman and George; cosponsored by Representatives Green and Cullen.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
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The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 326
Relating to: creating a tuition protection program for students enrolled in proprietary schools, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 7 - Senators C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman and Roessler.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 7 - Senators C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling, Huelsman and Roessler.
Noes, 0 - None.
Calvin Potter
Chairperson
State of Wisconsin
Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions
The joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 29
Relating to: discontinuing the property tax exemption for governmental property that is leased and which the lessee uses as a country club.
This Bill is good public policy if it is amended to delete the underscored material on page 2 and to provide that if a lessee of municipal property uses the property for a country club, the municipality that leased the property is liable to other taxing districts for the amount of taxes those districts would have collected if the property were taxable.
Joseph Wineke
Senate Chairperson
Referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
State of Wisconsin
Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions
The joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 74
Relating to: narrowing the property tax exemption for educational and other institutions to exclude recreational organizations.
S363
This Bill is good public policy if it is amended so that the property tax exemption does not apply to property owned by an organization that is devoted "primarily" to recreational activities, rather than to properties of an organization devoted "solely" to recreational activities.
Joseph Wineke
Senate Chairperson
Referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
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Senate Petition 12
A petition by 34, 272 citizens of the State of Wisconsin asking that President Clinton, Agriculture Secretary Glickman and the United States Congress research the Northeastern Dairy Compact which restricts the import of Wisconsin milk, give the National Cheese Exchange the same level of federal oversight as the Chicago Board of Trade, create a fair pricing system, increase federal marketing assistance to improve U.S. dairy sales abroad, and utilize federal dairy purchases to stabilize prices.
By
Senator
Zien
.
To committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
Senate Petition 13
A petition by 14,524 citizens of the State of Wisconsin demanding that the Wisconsin Legislature pass the Right to Keep and Bear Arms amendment by November 20, 1997 and place the question before the voters on the February 17, 1998 ballot, and that the Legislature hold public hearings on the Personal Protection Act.
By
Senator
Zien
.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
State of Wisconsin
Department of Corrections
November 13, 1997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Attached is the first quarter report on Prison Industries for fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, as required by Section
303.019 of the Wisconsin Statutes. This report includes the year-to-date cash balance of each industry. This report reflects private sector venture balances separately from the traditional prison industries.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Sullivan, Secretary
Department of Corrections
Mark D. Bugher, Secretary
Department of Administration
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
November 14, 1997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Chapter 34, Laws of 1979, requires that when the Department of Administration maintains an office in Washington, DC, for the purpose of promoting federal/state cooperation, it should submit a report detailing the activities of the office and reporting the status of federal legislation of concern to the Legislature and other state agencies (Wis. Stats. 16.548(2)).
The report for the period July 1, 1997, through September 30, 1997, is attached.
Sincerely,
