Senate

Senate
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions

Senate Bill 163

Relating to: the child care worker loan repayment assistance program; early childhood councils; requiring recipients of child care funding to have received training in child development and safety; training and network development for special needs child care providers; eligibility for low-income child care funding recipients; a tax credit for employers who provide child care; funding for child care resource and referral services; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.

By Senators Risser, Clausing, Burke, George, Plache and Moore; cosponsored by Representatives R. Potter, Robson, Black, Boyle, L. Young, Turner, Morris-Tatum, Notestein, La Fave, Cullen, Ryba, Baldwin, Plouff, Hanson, Riley, Springer, Wasserman, Bock and Baumgart.

April 9, 1997 Referred to committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.

May 27, 1997 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (7) Senators Plache, C. Potter, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· Senator Fred Risser, Senate Author of SB 163

· Representative Rosemary Potter, Assembly Co-Sponsor of SB 163

· Midge Miller, Madison

· Jean Verber, Women and Poverty, Milwaukee

· Loretta Williams, Women and Poverty, Milwaukee

· Jodi Driver, Madison

· Mickey Beil, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee

· Debi Schwid, Milwaukee Early Childhood Mentor Teacher Program, Wauwatosa

· Jill Jacklitz, WI Council on Children and Families, Madison

· Shag Norman, WI Early Childhood Association, Milwaukee

· Victoria McMurray, Childcare workers and children, Madison

· Jane Whitacre, WI Childcare Improvement Project and YMCA, Madison

· Inger Kay, Child Development, Inc, Verona, WI

· Mary Babula, Wisconsin Women's Network Child Care Task Force and Early Childhood Association

· Kathe Johnson, Premier Care, Beloit

Appearances against

· None.

Appearances for Information Only

· Jean Rogers, Department of Workforce Development

Registrations for

· Debb Schaubs, Madison

· Pam Ponto, Wis. Early Childhood Assn., Neenah

· Debi Lisowe, Wis. Early Childhood Assoc., Plymouth, WI

· Dianna Smith, Wis. Early Childhood Assoc., River Falls, WI

· Joan Klinkner, Wis. Early Childhood Assoc., Appleton, WI

· Annette Wilburn, Wis. Early Childhood Assoc., Milwaukee

· Mary Steinhardt, Wis. Early Childhood Assoc., Plymouth, WI

· Pat Mapp, Wis. Women's Network Child Care Task Force, Madison

· Dawn Abel, Wis. Family Child Care Association, Brussels, WI

· Helen Woller, Wis. Early Childhood Assoc., Delevan, WI

· Joe Baker, Child Development Inc, Madison

· Carol Kiemel, League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, Madison

· Linda Barth, Madison

· Sen. Brian Burke, 3rd District

· Karen Gorbel, WI Assoc of Family and Consumer Sciences, Madison

· Cordelia W. Mayberry, Church Women United in Wisconsin

· Representative Peter Bock, 7th Assembly District

· Jessica Mills, Madison

· Bonnie Hutchins, Wis Committee to Prevent Child Abuse, Madison

· Judy Berby, Wis. Early Childhodd Assoc., Rhinelander, WI

· Patricia Herman, Madison

· Helen De Bardeleben, Madison

· Joanne Ricca, WI State AFL-CIO, Milwaukee

· Maxine Austin, Zonta Club of Madison Area, Madison

· Audrey Martino, 4-C Commuity Coordinated Child Care, Madison

· Betty Ann Fischer, MUM, AARP, Madison

· Pam Sullivan, Madison

Registrations against

· Marc Weinberger, Wisconsin Department of Revenue

May 27, 1997 EXECUTIVE SESSION

Present: (7) Senators Plache, C. Potter, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.