By
Representatives Albers, Hundertmark, Hines, LeMahieu, Owens, Townsend and Van Roy.
To committee on Natural Resources
.
Assembly Bill 304
Relating to: collective bargaining over health care coverage for municipal employees; allowing municipal employers to change health care coverage plan providers; factors considered in rendering a collective bargaining arbitration decision; requiring the Group Insurance Board to prepare a report on offering group health insurance plans at different cost levels to local government employers and employees; requiring the Group Insurance Board to offer for purchase long-term care insurance policies to employees of local governments; convening a task force to conduct a feasibility study on forming a state pool for the bulk purchasing of prescription drugs; disclosure of health insurance claims experience of local governmental units; bids submitted to local governmental units for health insurance; requiring the Commissioner of Insurance to promulgate rules establishing uniform forms for local government health care coverage requests for proposals and health claims experience and summarizing benefits provided under health care benefit plans; and granting rule-making authority.
By
Representatives McCormick, Albers, Gielow, Grothman, Gunderson, Hahn, Hines, Jensen, Kestell, Krawczyk, Ladwig, F. Lasee, Lothian, Musser, Pettis, Seratti, Stone, Van Roy, Vrakas, Vukmir, Weber, Wieckert and J. Wood; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Harsdorf, Kanavas, Stepp and Welch.
To committee on Insurance.
Assembly Bill 305
Relating to: a grant of temporary assistance for needy families moneys to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Wisconsin, Inc., to provide mentors for children and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Underheim, Lassa, Kreibich, Musser, Black, Berceau, Pocan and Petrowski; cosponsored by Senator Wirch
.
To committee on Health.
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The committee on Corrections and the Courts reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 62
Relating to: dispositional orders for truancy or habitual truancy and the disclosure of juvenile records by a juvenile court or a municipal court.
Passage:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Bies, Underheim, Owens, F. Lasee, Suder, Pocan, Staskunas and Wasserman.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Garey Bies
Chairperson
Committee on Corrections and the Courts
The committee on Criminal Justice reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 8
Relating to: possession of methamphetamine and providing a penalty.
Passage:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Suder, Friske, Owens, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Gundrum, Petrowski, Vukmir and Schneider.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Staskunas, Pocan and Young.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 71
Relating to: threats to release or disseminate harmful chemical, biological, or radioactive substances and providing a penalty.
Passage:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Suder, Friske, Owens, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Gundrum, Petrowski, Vukmir, Staskunas, Pocan, Young and Schneider.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 157
Relating to: crimes affecting the U.S. flag and providing a penalty.
Passage:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Suder, Friske, Owens, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Gundrum, Petrowski, Vukmir and Staskunas.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Pocan, Young and Schneider.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 206
Relating to: pointing a firearm at certain persons and throwing or expelling bodily substances and providing penalties.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Suder, Friske, Owens, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Gundrum, Petrowski, Vukmir, Staskunas, Pocan, Young and Schneider.
Noes: 0.
Assembly Amendment 2 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Suder, Friske, Owens, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Gundrum, Petrowski, Vukmir, Staskunas, Pocan, Young and Schneider.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 11 - Representatives Suder, Friske, Owens, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Gundrum, Petrowski, Vukmir, Staskunas, Pocan and Young.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Schneider.
A170
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 4
Relating to: possession of methamphetamine and providing a penalty.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Suder, Friske, Owens, F. Lasee, Jeskewitz, Gundrum, Petrowski, Vukmir and Schneider.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Staskunas, Pocan and Young.
To committee on Rules.
Scott Suder
Chairperson
Committee on Criminal Justice
The committee on Labor reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 67
Relating to: employment discrimination based on creed; exemption from liability and discipline for health care providers and hospital employees who refuse to participate in sterilization, abortion, assisted suicide, and other procedures on moral or religious grounds; and power of attorney for health care instruments and patient declarations regarding the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or feeding tubes.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Nass, Vrakas, Wieckert, Hundertmark, J. Fitzgerald, W. Wood and Van Akkeren.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Grothman and Sinicki.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Nass, Vrakas, Grothman, Wieckert, Hundertmark, J. Fitzgerald, W. Wood and Van Akkeren.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Sinicki.
To committee on Rules.
Stephen Nass
Chairperson
Committee on Labor
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Speaker's Communications
April 29, 2003
Mr. Patrick Fuller
Chief Clerk
Wisconsin State Assembly
Room 208, Risser Justice Center
17 West Main Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53708
Dear Patrick:
Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I am withdrawing
Assembly Bill 45 from the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means and re-referring it to the Assembly Committee on Urban and Local Affairs. I have the consent of Representative Michael Lehman, chairman of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, to take this action.
Please call Ellen Nowak of my office if you have any questions.
