Tuesday, August 14, 2007
12:15 P.M.
Ninety‐Eighth Regular Session
The Assembly met in the Assembly Chamber located in the State Capitol.
Representative Townsend in the chair.
The Assembly dispensed with the call of the roll.
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Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 381 offered by Representative Wieckert.
Assembly amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 445 offered by Representative F. Lasee.
Assembly amendment 2 to Assembly Bill 445 offered by Representative F. Lasee.
Assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 20 offered by Representative Petrowski.
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Relating to child care rates and affecting small businesses.
Submitted by Department of Workforce Development.
Report received from Agency, July 31, 2007.
To committee on Children and Family Law
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Referred on August 14, 2007
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Joint Resolution 62
Relating to: recognizing Kikkoman and its contribution to the cultural and economic vitality of Wisconsin.
By
Representative
Lothian
; cosponsored by Senator Kedzie
.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 485
Relating to: distribution of accumulated additional contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
By
Representatives Van Roy, Montgomery, Albers, Vos, Bies and Townsend.
To joint survey committee on Retirement Systems
.
Assembly Bill 486
Relating to: expenditure of $10,317.93 from moneys appropriated to the Department of Natural Resources in payment of a claim against the state made by the Klemme Brothers Well Drilling, Inc.
By
Representatives Stone, LeMahieu, Albers, Hahn, Townsend and Petrowski; cosponsored by Senators Decker and Grothman, by request of State of Wisconsin Claims Board.
To joint committee on Finance
.
Assembly Bill 487
Relating to: the prohibition against making, reproducing, or possessing a nude depiction of a person without the person's consent and the sex offender registry.
By
Representatives Parisi, Hraychuck, Sheridan, Albers, Berceau, Townsend, Pope-Roberts, Fields and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senator Darling
.
To committee on Criminal Justice
.
Assembly Bill 488
Relating to: the sale of consumer goods containing radio frequency identification tags.
By
Representatives Schneider, Hixson and Vruwink; cosponsored by Senator Lassa
.
To committee on Consumer Protection and Personal Privacy.
Assembly Bill 489
Relating to: the disclosure to a birth parent whose parental rights to his or her birth child were terminated of identifying information about the birth child and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Townsend, Albers and Hahn; cosponsored by Senator Lazich
.
To committee on Children and Family Law
.
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The committee on Rural Economic Development reports and recommends:
Relating to: the use of golf carts in Governor Tommy G. Thompson Centennial State Park and Peshtigo River State Forest and granting rule-making authority.
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Mursau, A. Ott, M. Williams, Murtha, Garthwaite and Hixson.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Mursau, A. Ott, M. Williams, Murtha, Garthwaite and Hixson.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Jeffrey Mursau
Chairperson
Committee on Rural Economic Development
Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
Madison
August 13, 2007
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
The Department of Health and Family Services is pleased to submit to you, as required by s.
253.115 of the Wisconsin Statutes, the annual report on the status of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) in Wisconsin. Once again I am pleased to note that in 2006 Wisconsin hospitals have exceeded the legislative directive that at least 88% of all deliveries be performed in hospitals with a UNHS program. In 2006, 99.9% of Wisconsin babies born in birthing hospitals were born in hospitals with a universal newborn hearing screening program. Including children born at home, 96% of all Wisconsin newborns were screened for hearing disorders in 2006.
Hearing loss is the most common congenital birth defect affecting Wisconsin infants. If hearing loss is left undetected, it will impede speech, language, cognitive and social development. Working in collaboration with other public and private agencies, the Department has developed an exemplary program of early hearing detection and intervention. The Department looks forward to continuing to provide a sound beginning for Wisconsin babies.