To committee on Small Business, Emergency Preparedness, Workforce Development, Technical Colleges and Consumer Protection.
Senate Bill 126
Relating to: notification of the state regarding a medical malpractice claim.
By
Senators
Risser, Sullivan, Grothman, Coggs and Plale; cosponsored by Representatives Montgomery, Berceau, Sheridan, Staskunas, Newcomer, A. Ott and Hahn.
To committee on Judiciary and Corrections.
Senate Bill 127
Relating to: removal of abandoned dams.
By
Senators
Leibham, Grothman and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Kestell, Lothian, Musser, Hahn, Petrowski, LeMahieu, Mursau, Albers and Townsend.
To committee on Environment and Natural Resources.
Senate Bill 128
Relating to: heated exterior pedestrian walkways.
By
Senators
Decker, Plale, Breske, Schultz and Olsen; cosponsored by Representatives Montgomery, Mason, Musser, Jeskewitz, Seidel, Sheridan, A. Ott, Albers, Hahn, M. Williams, Hixson and Gunderson.
To committee on Environment and Natural Resources.
Senate Bill 129
Relating to: requiring a hospital to provide to a sexual assault victim information and, upon her request, emergency contraception and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Robson, Taylor, Miller, Plale, Risser, Erpenbach, Lehman, Wirch, Hansen, Jauch, Carpenter, Kreitlow, Coggs, Lassa and Sullivan; cosponsored by Representatives Pocan, Benedict, Berceau, Black, Boyle, Grigsby, Hraychuck, Kessler, Parisi, Pope-Roberts, Seidel, Sheridan, Sherman, Shilling, Sinicki, Smith, Travis, Turner, Vruwink, Young and Zepnick.
To committee on Health and Human Services.
Senate Bill 130
Relating to: a state minimum wage and granting rule-making authority.
By
Senators
Decker, Hansen, Breske, Sullivan, Carpenter, Lehman, Jauch, Erpenbach, Risser and Miller; cosponsored by Representatives Mason, Sherman, Van Akkeren, Sheridan, Boyle, Travis, Sinicki, Pope-Roberts, Turner, Pocan, Young, Zepnick, Berceau and Black.
To committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs.
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State of Wisconsin
Senate President
April 2, 2007
The Honorable, the Legislature:
Pursuant to Senate Rule
36(2)(c) and sections 13.52(6), Wisconsin Statutes, the Co-Chairs of the Joint Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions shall prepare and submit a report in writing setting forth an opinion on the desirability of
Senate Bill 122, relating to the property tax exemption for waste treatment facilities, as a matter of public policy.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
FRED A. RISSER
Senate President
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 2, 2007
To the Honorable, the Senate:
Please withdraw Roberta J. Wollman
whose nomination to the Real Estate Appraisers Board is pending in the Senate.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Doyle
Governor
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 3, 2007
To the Honorable, the Senate:
Please withdraw Roberta J. Wollman
whose nomination to the Real Estate Appraisers Board is pending in the Senate.
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Doyle
Governor
State of Wisconsin
Department of Revenue
March 15, 2007
The Honorable, The Legislature:
I am submitting the quarterly report of the Wisconsin Lottery for the quarter ending December 31, 2006. As required by s.565.37(3), Wis. Stats., the attached materials contain unaudited Wisconsin Lottery year to date Revenue and Expenditure information.
The information reported here is a summary and is not intended to be a complete financial accounting of Wisconsin Lottery operations.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this report, please feel free to contact me at (608) 266-6466.
Sincerely,
ROGER M. ERVIN
Secretary of Revenue
State of Wisconsin
Building Commission
March 27, 2007
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Section
13.48(2)(e) stipulates that the Wisconsin State Building Commission shall report to the Legislature at each regular session the progress on projects authorized in the two preceding and current biennia. This report is submitted in accordance with that provision and covers the period from July 2001 through December 2006. Projects having budgets over $100,000 are listed in detail. Those of lesser amounts have been grouped for each agency as one item for the biennium in which they were authorized.
In summary, during this five and a half year period, the Building Commission approved projects with a total value of $2,877,006,384.56. Of that amount, $2,229,430,383.11 has been spent or encumbered, leaving a balance of $647,576,001.45 to be used to complete projects in progress. The sources of funds for the projects are either cash or borrowed funds which flow through the Building Trust Fund, the Capital Improvement fund, or agency operating budgets.
Each section of this report is organized by the state agency for which the facilities are being built.
Sincerely,
Robert Cramer
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
March 30, 2007
The Honorable, The Legislature:
This report is transmitted as required by s.
20.002(11)(f), Wisconsin Statutes, (for distribution to the appropriate standing committees under s.
13.172(3), Wisconsin Statutes) and confirms that the Department of Administration has found it necessary to exercise the “temporary reallocation of balances" authority provided by this section in order to meet payment responsibilities and cover resulting negative cash balances during the month of February 2007.
On February 16, 2007, the Conservation Fund cash balance closed at a negative $873.0 thousand. This negative balance continued through February 28, 2007, when the fund's cash balance closed at a negative $4.2 million. The Conservation Fund cash balance reached its intra-month low of a negative $5.1 million on February 22, 2007. The negative balance was due to the difference in the timing of revenues and expenditures.
On February 1, 2007, the Wisconsin Health Education Loan Repayment Fund cash balance closed at a negative $1.0 thousand. This negative balance continued through February 28, 2007, when the fund's cash balance closed at a negative $2.0 thousand. The Wisconsin Health Education Loan Repayment Fund cash balance reached its intra-month low of a negative $2.0 thousand on February 6, 2007. The negative balance was due to the difference in the timing of revenues and expenditures.
The Conservation Fund and Wisconsin Health Education Loan Repayment Fund shortfalls were not in excess of the statutory interfund borrowing limitations and did not exceed the balances of the funds available for interfund borrowing.
The distribution of interest earnings to investment pool participants is based on the average daily balance in the pool and each fund's share. Therefore, the monthly calculation by the State Controller's Office will automatically reflect the use of these temporary reallocations of balance authority, and as a result, the funds requiring the use of the authority will effectively bear the interest cost.
Sincerely,
MICHAEL L. MORGAN
Secretary
Referred to joint committee on Finance.
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Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Representative Sheridan added as a cosponsor of
Senate Bill
122
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