Senate Journal
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Chief Clerk's Entries
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries dated Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
Amendments Offered
Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 269 offered by Senator Coggs.
Introduction, First Reading, and Reference of Proposals; Reference of Appointments
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
October 22, 2007
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am pleased to nominate and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint Grignon, John, of New Berlin, as a member of the Dentistry Examining Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2009.
Respectfully submitted,
JIM DOYLE
Governor
Read and referred to committee on Health and Human Services.
Referrals and Receipt of Committee Reports Concerning Proposed Administrative Rules
The committee on Environment and Natural Resources reports and recommends:
Relating to use of department properties.
No action taken.
Relating to groundwater quality standards.
No action taken.
Mark Miller
Chairperson
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Amendments Offered
Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 228 offered by Senator Wirch.
Senate Enrolled Proposals
The Chief Clerk records:
Senate Bill 40
Report correctly enrolled on 10-24-2007.
Legislative Reference Bureau Corrections
Corrections In:
CONFERENCE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1
TO 2007 Senate Bill 40
Prepared by the Legislative Reference Bureau
(October 24, 2007)
In enrolling, the following correction was made:
1.   Page 1011, line 15: on lines 15 and 16, delete “publication" and substitute “the effective date of this subsection".
2.   Page 1012, line 16: on lines 16 and 17, delete “publication" and substitute “the effective date of this paragraph".
3.   Page 1014, line 7: delete “publication" and substitute “the effective date of this subsection".
4.   Page 1017, line 10: on lines 10 and 17, delete “publication" and substitute “the effective date of this subdivision".
5.   Page 1020, line 3: delete “publication" and substitute “the effective date of this paragraph".
Note: Items 1. to 5., above, correct terminology consistent with LRB drafting.
6.   Page 1608, line 25: delete “(e)" and substitute “(f)".
Note: This change corrects a cross-reference.
7.   Page 1618, line 19: delete “of the statutes (by Section 282f)" and substitute “(by Section 282f) of the statutes".
8.   Page 1620, line 11: delete lines 11 to 15 and substitute:
“(1) Home exchange service sales. The creation of section 77.54 (54) of the statutes takes effect on the first day of the 2nd month beginning after publication.".
Note: This change deletes an effective date provision that references a nonexistent bill section and that was inadvertently retained in the bill.
9.   Page 1621, line 6: delete “(e)" and substitute “(f)".
Note: This change corrects a cross-reference.
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Report of Committees
The committee on Judiciary and Corrections reports and recommends:
S369 Senate Bill 96
Relating to: liability for the actions of tribal law enforcement officers when enforcing state law.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators Taylor, Sullivan, Vinehout and Lazich.
Noes, 1 - Senator Grothman.
Lena Taylor
Chairperson
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Petitions and Communications
State of Wisconsin
Senate
October 24 , 2007
The Honorable, the Senate:
This letter is to officially inform you that the Senate Democratic Caucus has elected Senator Russ Decker as Senate Majority Leader, effective immediately.
Sincerely,
MARK MILLER
Caucus Chair
State of Wisconsin
Department of Administration
October 15, 2007
The Honorable, The Legislature:
This report presents statements of fund condition and operations (budgetary basis) of the State of Wisconsin for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007. This satisfies the requirements of sec. 16.40(3), Wisconsin Statutes. Displayed are major sources of revenues and major categories of expenditures for the General Fund and other funds compared to the prior year.
The General Fund has an undesignated balance of $66.3 million as of the end of the fiscal year. This is $5.4 million lower than the balance of $71.7 million projected in the summary for 2007 Wis. Stat. Act 5. The balance would have been $55.6 million higher had the new provisions of Chapter 16.518 not been in place requiring the transfer of fifty percent of revenue received over the original budget estimate to the Budget Stabilization Fund. The balance of the Budget Stabilization Fund is now $55.6 million higher.
General-purpose revenue taxes were $12.618 billion compared to $12.030 billion in the prior year, an increase of $588 million or 4.9 percent. This increase was $75.4 million higher than the 2007 Wis. Stat. Act 5 summary of $12.543 billion. General-purpose revenue expenditures, excluding fund transfers, were $13.105 billion compared to $12.385 billion in the prior year, an increase of $720 million or 5.8 percent. This increase reflects funding associated with implementing support for two-thirds of local school costs and the property tax freeze.
In fiscal year 2007, the State of Wisconsin continued to devote the major share of state tax collections to assistance to local school districts, municipalities and counties. Local assistance accounted for 56.0 percent of total general purpose revenue spending. Aid payments to individuals and organizations represented 21.0 percent of total general purpose revenue expenditures. The University of Wisconsin accounted for 7.8 percent of total general purpose revenue spending and state operations spending for all other state agencies accounted for 15.2 percent of the total.
The State of Wisconsin expects to publish its comprehensive annual financial report in December of 2007. The report will be prepared under generally accepted accounting principles.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael L. Morgan
Secretary
Stephen J. Censky, CPA
State Controller
State of Wisconsin
Medical College of Wisconsin
October 16, 2007
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