Assembly Bill 254 43 January 18, 2008
Assembly Bill 341 44 January 18, 2008
Assembly Bill 279 45 January 18, 2008
Sincerely,
Douglas La Follette
Secretary of State
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January 4, 2008
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53708
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
Please add my name as a co‐author of Assembly Bill 647. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Steve Hilgenberg
State Representative
51st Assembly District
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January 7, 2008
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53708
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
Please add my name as a co‐author of Assembly Bill 566. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Bob Ziegelbauer
State Representative
25th Assembly District
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Parkside
Kenosha
December 20, 2007
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Attached please find the report pursuant to Chapter 118.40(2r)(f). This report has been prepared by the Charter School office on behalf of Chancellor Keating and is submitted to your office pursuant to s.
13.172(2).
Should you have questions or need additional information you can contact me at UW‐Parkside, my email address is
Haubruch@uwp.edu. Note that I am only part‐time and email works best for contacting me.
Respectfully yours,
Paul A. Haubrich, Ph.D.
Charter School Consultant
Referred to committee on Education Reform.
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State of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Technical College System
Madison
January 3, 2008
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
This letter certifies that all sixteen Wisconsin Technical Colleges have provided sexual assault and harassment orientation, materials and information to students as required under state statute 38.12(11) for the 2007‐2008 school year.
Individual college letters assuring compliance are on file in our office at this time. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Linda Fahey, System Equal Opportunity Officer at 267‐2479.
Sincerely,
Daniel Clancy, President
Wisconsin Technical College System
Referred to committee on Colleges and Universities.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
Madison
January 7, 2008
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
The Department of Health and Family Services operates BadgerCare under Wis. Stats. s.
49.665. This statute also requires the Department to submit an annual report summarizing the BadgerCare program and its progress. This submission fulfills that legislative requirement.
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BadgerCare was established under the terms of the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) which was enacted through the federal budget of 1997. The SCHIP program provided states with the option of creating a new independent program to insure children or expanding the state's existing Medicaid program. Under
1997 Act 27, the Wisconsin Legislature created BadgerCare as an SCHIP Medicaid expansion program. Following recent federal requirements the State added a separate SCHIP program under BadgerCare to cover the unborn children of immigrants.
Attached is a chart showing enrollment and expenditures in BadgerCare by state fiscal year. BadgerCare began enrolling residents in July 1999. BadgerCare leverages significant amounts of federal funding for health care coverage of eligible Wisconsin residents.
In his 2007 State of the State Address, Governor Doyle emphasized access to health care coverage and committed to ensuring that all of Wisconsin's children and more adults have access to health care. This commitment resulted in the creation of a single health care safety net-BadgerCare Plus. The Department will implement BadgerCare Plus in February 2008.
BadgerCare Plus will cover eligible children and help ensure that 98 percent of Wisconsin's citizens have access to health care. The program will provide coverage and enhanced benefits for more pregnant women while simplifying the program and promoting prevention and healthy behaviors.
BadgerCare Plus will merge Family Medicaid, BadgerCare, and Healthy Start to form a comprehensive health insurance program for low income children and families. The program may also eventually incorporate other programs such as the General Assistance Medical Program (GAMP) in Milwaukee.
Wisconsin will lead the nation in streamlining health care eligibility by making BadgerCare Plus more efficient and less costly to administer. The expansion of managed care and the administrative savings from streamlining the eligibility process will generate a savings of approximately $17.4 million over the first two years of BadgerCare Plus. We look forward to keeping Wisconsin on the cutting edge of quality and efficient health care coverage for those in need.
With warm regards,
Kevin R. Hayden
Secretary
Referred to committee on Health and Health Care Reform.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Regulation and Licensing
Madison
January 7, 2008
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Attached please find the annual report of the Controlled Substances Board. As a statutory requirement, the report must be prepared and filed with the Chief Clerk of each house of the legislature.
Sincerely,
Tom Ryan
Director, Bureau of Health Professions
Referred to committee on Criminal Justice.
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Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
December 14, 2007
Dear Mr. Morgan and Mr. Censky:
We have completed a financial audit of the State of Wisconsin as of and for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007. We have issued an unqualified auditor's report on the fair presentation of the basic financial statements. The financial statements and related opinion are included in the State of Wisconsin's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, which is published by the Department of Administration.
During the course of our audit, we identified a variety of internal control concerns at various state agencies that are required to be reported under Government Auditing Standards. As provided for in these standards, we are furnishing you with the auditor's report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance and other matters. The state agencies' responses to our concerns and recommendations are included in the text of the report so that readers may see the State's intended resolution of the matters discussed. In future audits, we will determine the extent to which findings in the report have been resolved.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by the Department of Administration and other state agencies during the audit.
Sincerely,
janice Mueller
State Auditor
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State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
December 18, 2007
