Tuesday, March 23, 1999
10:00 A.M.
Ninety-Fourth 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 92
Relating to: proceeds from the sale of forest products at Fort McCoy and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Moen and Rude; cosponsored by Representatives Musser and Huebsch.
To committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 93
Relating to: disclosure of certain activity for the purpose of influencing elections and providing penalties.
By
Senators
Plache, Clausing, Wirch, Baumgart and Moen; cosponsored by Representatives Travis, Miller, Bock, J. Lehman, Pocan and Wasserman.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 94
Relating to: causing injury, death or property damage while under the influence of alcohol and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Drzewiecki, Darling, Huelsman, Rude, Roessler and Farrow; cosponsored by Representatives Johnsrud, Huebsch, M. Lehman, Black, Klusman, Staskunas, Ladwig, Petrowski, Ryba, Brandemuehl and Hutchison.
To committee on Judiciary and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 95
Relating to: driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing penalties.
By
Senators
Drzewiecki, Rosenzweig, Roessler, Schultz, Farrow, Darling, Clausing, Huelsman, Zien, Grobschmidt and Panzer; cosponsored by Representatives Ladwig, Staskunas, Albers, Hutchison, Ainsworth, Bock, La Fave, Pettis, Gundrum, Hundertmark and Montgomery.
To committee on Judiciary and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 96
Relating to: maximum interest rates.
By
Senators
Robson, Burke, Welch, Drzewiecki, Decker, Moore, Rosenzweig, Grobschmidt, Wirch and Baumgart; cosponsored by Representatives Grothman, Ladwig, Musser, Seratti, Schooff, Pocan, Bock, Coggs, Riley, Cullen, Colon, Travis, Young, La Fave, Sinicki, Wasserman, Black, J. Lehman, Berceau, Miller, Lassa, Williams, Gronemus and Boyle.
To committee on Privacy, Electronic Commerce and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 97
Relating to: increasing the membership of the employe trust funds board.
By
Senators
Wirch and Erpenbach; cosponsored by Representatives Musser, Ryba, Meyer, Schneider, Boyle and Pocan.
To committee on Privacy, Electronic Commerce and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 98
Relating to: promoting a pupil from the 4th grade to the 5th grade and from the 8th grade to the 9th grade and to granting a high school diploma.
By
Senators
Grobschmidt, Darling, Shibilski, Jauch, Farrow, Baumgart, Lazich, Robson, Huelsman, Erpenbach, Roessler, Chvala, Risser, Rude, Burke, Panzer, Decker, Rosenzweig, George, Plache, Breske, Clausing, Moore, Moen and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Sinicki, Wasserman, Hahn, J. Lehman, Urban, Schooff, La Fave, Musser, Pocan, Miller, Plale, Bock, Staskunas, Plouff and Boyle.
To committee on Education.
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State of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Legislative Council Staff
March 19, 1999
The Honorable, The Senate:
Enclosed is a copy of the
1998 Annual Report on the Legislative Council Rules Clearinghouse, submitted to the Legislature pursuant to s.
227.15 (5), Stats. Copies have been distributed to the offices of each member of the Legislature.
The report covers the 19th full calendar year of operation of the Rules Clearinghouse. I trust that it will be found to be informative.
Sincerely,
David J. Stute
Director
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
March 18, 1999
The Honorable, The Senate:
S106
1995 Wisconsin Act 27 created s.
46.27 (11g) of the statutes, which requires the Department of Health and Family Services to submit an annual report on its Community Options Program. The attached report describes the persons served, program expenditures and services delivered through the Community Options Program in calendar year 1997.
Community Options is designed to relocate or divert people who need long term care from nursing homes. This is accomplished by offering an alternative package of community services to elderly and disabled persons who are otherwise eligible for Medicaid-funded nursing home care.
The Department allocates funds to county human service agencies to deliver these community services. In providing services, the county agency may not expend more, on average, than the state portion (about 40%) of the Medicaid cost for nursing home care. The county agency must also maximize funds by accessing any federal funds (Waiver and other Medicaid) available for an individual before using Regular Community Options funds. These are two of the mechanisms that the counties, with Department oversight, utilize to ensure the prudent, cost effective use of the Community Options funds while maintaining program flexibility and integrity.
The annual report examines program activity for the Community Options Program and the Community Options Program-Waiver in calendar year 1997.
Sincerely,
Joe Leean
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Revenue
March 18, 1999
The Honorable, The Legislature:
As you know,
1997 Act 27 created a Shared Revenue Task Force. As chairman of the Shared Revenue Task Force, I am hereby submitting the report of the Task Force to you.
The Shared Revenue Task Force was charged with recommending legislation that would replace the formulas for the Shared Revenue program, the Expenditure Restraint program, and the Small Municipalities Shared Revenue program. After study and discussion, we are recommending changes to the existing formulae, and to request increased funding for shared revenue programs. We took this path for several reasons.
