Assembly Bill 267
Relating to: including dentists and dental hygienists as health care professionals for the purpose of forming service corporations.
By
Representatives Nass, Starzyk, Kedzie, Walker, Ryba, Wasserman, Shilling, Plouff, Kestell, Lippert, Musser, Urban, Gundrum, Seratti, Krawczyk, Ward, Kreibich, Grothman, Gunderson, Jeskewitz, Albers, Sykora, Townsend, Owens, Vrakas, Ainsworth, McCormick, J. Lehman, La Fave and M. Lehman; cosponsored by Senators Moen, Burke, Welch, Darling, Baumgart, Rosenzweig, Cowles and Roessler.
To committee on Public Health.
Assembly Bill 268
Relating to: increasing a school district's revenue limit by the amount spent for school security measures and granting rule-making authority.
By
Representatives Black, Balow, Berceau, Bock, Boyle, Carpenter, Coggs, La Fave, Lassa, J. Lehman, Miller, Plouff, Pocan, Ryba, Sinicki, Staskunas, Turner, Wasserman and Young; cosponsored by Senators Jauch, Baumgart, Burke, Decker, Erpenbach, Grobschmidt, Plache and Risser.
To committee on Tax and Spending Limitations
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Assembly Bill 269
Relating to: deer hunting back tag number reservation fees.
By
Representatives Gunderson, Johnsrud, Nass, Wade, Kreuser, Musser, Lippert, Olsen, D. Meyer, Berceau, Hoven, Kestell, Townsend, Krawczyk, Gundrum and Powers; cosponsored by Senators A. Lasee and Lazich.
To committee on Natural Resources
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Assembly Bill 270
Relating to: state aid for special education and school age parents programs.
By
Representatives Schooff, Plale, Balow, Bock, Sinicki, Turner, Ryba, Black, Sykora, Riley, Berceau, Pocan, Miller, Plouff, Kreuser, La Fave, Boyle, Staskunas, Colon, Gronemus, Wasserman, Johnsrud, J. Lehman, Lassa, Morris-Tatum, Williams, Richards, Seratti and Ladwig; cosponsored by Senators Grobschmidt, Robson, Burke, Plache, Shibilski, Risser, Breske, George and Hansen.
To committee on Education.
Assembly Bill 271
Relating to: authority of a court to suspend an adult's operating privilege for failing to pay a forfeiture for an ordinance violation unrelated to the operation of a motor vehicle.
By
Representatives Rhoades, Bies, Friske, Jeskewitz, Ladwig, Starzyk, Stone, Urban, Owens, Huebsch, Leibham, Townsend, D. Meyer and Freese; cosponsored by Senators Schultz, Darling and Harsdorf.
To committee on Transportation.
Assembly Bill 272
Relating to: exempting amounts claimed for depreciation for purposes of calculating farm and self-employment income under the medical assistance and badger care health care programs.
By
Representatives Hubler, Riley, Reynolds, Sherman, Black, Ladwig, F. Lasee, Freese, Pocan, Berceau, Plouff, Shilling, Bock, McCormick, Schneider, Ainsworth, Musser, Lassa, Johnsrud, Turner, Staskunas, Gronemus, Colon, J. Lehman, Townsend, Huber, Hahn, Wasserman, Olsen, Powers, Carpenter, Lippert, Richards, Morris-Tatum, Coggs, Kreuser, Young, Skindrud, Balow, Sykora, Meyerhofer, Miller, Boyle, Hebl, Ryba, Seratti, Plale, Krug, Petrowski, Travis and Schooff; cosponsored by Senators Jauch, Decker, Burke, George, Baumgart, Roessler, Schultz and Harsdorf.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 273
Relating to: transporting loads on a highway in vehicles equipped with dump bodies and providing a penalty.
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Representatives Ainsworth, Berceau, Black, Bock, Hoven, Jeskewitz, Kaufert, F. Lasee, Montgomery, Owens, Rhoades, Townsend and Urban; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Darling and Huelsman.
To committee on Transportation.
Assembly Bill 274
Relating to: supplemental medical assistance payments to reduce operating deficits of county, city, village, or town nursing homes and creating a medical assistance trust fund.
By
Representatives Rhoades and Shilling; cosponsored by Senators Moen and Welch.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 275
Relating to: increasing the recycling fee imposed on the disposal of solid waste, financial assistance for local recycling programs, and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Balow, Black, Ryba, Musser, Gronemus, Pocan, Berceau, Plouff, Richards, Miller, La Fave and Colon; cosponsored by Senators Robson and Baumgart.
To committee on Environment.
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The committee on Agriculture reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 44
Relating to: authorizing the payment of different prices to producers for milk based on specified criteria.
Passage:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Ott, Hahn, Ainsworth, Wade, Petrowski, Suder, Kestell, Loeffelholz, Bies, Reynolds, Steinbrink, Gronemus and Lassa.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Plouff, Schneider and Hubler.
To committee on Rules.
Alvin Ott
Chairperson
Committee on Agriculture
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Speaker's Communications
March 29, 2001
John A. Scocos
Assembly Chief Clerk
1 East Main Street, Suite 402
Dear Mr. Scocos:
On March 13, 2001,
Assembly Bill 196 relating to the disclosure of public library records, was referred to the Assembly Committee on Personal Privacy. Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I hereby withdraw
Assembly Bill 196 from the Assembly Committee on Personal Privacy and re-refer that bill to the Assembly Committee on Children and Families.
Representative Powers has been notified of this re-referral and approves.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
Assembly Speaker
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Reference Bureau Corrections
Assembly Amendment 4 to Assembly Bill 111
1. Page 1, line 4: delete "and 8" and substitute "to 9".
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Assembly Joint Resolution 25
1. Page 2, line 8: delete "assembly assembly senate" and substitute "assembly, the senate".
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction
Madison
March 22, 2001
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
As required under §
115.361, Wis. Stats., the Department of Public Instruction must evaluate the effectiveness of alcohol and other drug prevention strategies most commonly used in Wisconsin schools and funded through grants appropriated by the legislature.
The department has completed an annual report of these activities conducted by the state's public schools. A copy of the final report of the study is enclosed. The report, which covers the 1999-2000 school year, focuses on whether or not programs that began with categorical funds were sustainable as well as how programs were modified from their originally proposed objectives. A summary of the number of individuals served through each unique strategy used by schools is included.
If you have questions regarding the findings, please call Steve Fernan at (609) 266-3889.
Sincerely,
John T. Benson
State Superintendent
Referred to committee on Education.
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State of Wisconsin
Investment Board
Madison
March 29, 2001
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Pursuant to ss.
25.17(14g) and
(14m), Stats., I have attached a copy of the annual report to the Legislature regarding goals, long-term strategies and performance. As we did last year, we have combined the two reports to make it easier to understand the relationship between our strategies and performance.
Reflecting a downturn in both national and global markets, total assets under management fell from $69.2 billion at the end of 1999 to $67.0 billion as of December 31, 2000.
The -0.8% annual investment return for the Fixed Trust Fund exceeded the -1.4% for the investment benchmark, but trailed the 8.0% actuarial target to finance retirement benefits over the long term. The Fixed Fund, however, surpassed the 8% target and its performance benchmark on a five- and ten-year basis.
The -7.2% return for the Variable Fund surpassed a -8.8% return for its benchmark and a -9.1% return for the S&P 500. The Variable Fund also beat its five- and ten-year benchmarks.
The State Investment Fund gained 6.3%, exceeding the 6.0% benchmark return. It also exceeded its benchmark for the five- and ten-year periods as well. For the year ending December 31, 2000, SIF's 6.29% return ranked 2nd out of 222 government funds in the iMoneyNet Government Fund (formerly IBC/Donoghue Government Index) and 97th out of 1,023 money market funds in the iMoneyNet All Taxable Money Market Index (top 10%). Without the 1995 derivatives loss, SIF's return of 6.42% would have ranked 1st out of the 222 Government Funds and 36th out of the 1,023 Money Market Funds (top 4%).