Relating to: registration fees for certain motor vehicles issued special registration plates.
By
Representatives Friske, Barca, Ripp, Spanbauer, Brooks, Hraychuck, Jorgensen, Clark, Bies, Gunderson, LeMahieu, Meyer, Petersen, Suder and Townsend; cosponsored by Senators Hansen, A. Lasee, Schultz and Grothman.
To committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
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Assembly Bill 434
Relating to: eliminating Special Transfer Program aid.
By
Representatives Friske, Bies, Kestell, LeMahieu, Lothian, Petersen, Rhoades, Strachota, Suder, Tauchen and Townsend; cosponsored by Senators Schultz and Grothman.
To committee on Education Reform
.
Assembly Bill 435
Relating to: the operation of all-terrain vehicles on highways for the purpose of certain types of access and granting rule-making authority.
By
Representatives Mursau, Brooks, Gunderson, Kaufert, Knodl, Nass, Nerison, Nygren, A. Ott, Suder, Townsend, M. Williams and Ballweg; cosponsored by Senators Holperin, Hansen, Olsen and Schultz.
To committee on Transportation.
Assembly Bill 436
Relating to: stewardship funding for grants to control invasive species.
By
Representatives Molepske Jr., A. Ott, Pasch, Berceau, Hraychuck and Mursau; cosponsored by Senator Holperin
.
To committee on Natural Resources
.
Assembly Bill 437
Relating to: reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into eight school districts and creating a Milwaukee Public Schools Redistricting and Implementation Commission.
By
Representatives Vukmir, Vos, Davis, Nass, Gunderson, Zipperer, Bies and Lothian; cosponsored by Senators Kanavas, Grothman, Darling and A. Lasee.
To committee on Education Reform
.
Assembly Bill 438
Relating to: changes in the regulation of boxing contests, regulating mixed martial arts fighting contests, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty.
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By
Representatives Colon, Pocan, Zepnick, Hintz, Zigmunt, Kleefisch, Vruwink, Richards, Cullen, Staskunas, Honadel and Seidel; cosponsored by Senators Hansen, Lehman, Plale, Cowles, Lassa, Taylor and Sullivan.
To committee on Consumer Protection
.
Assembly Bill 439
Relating to: powersports vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Vruwink, Kaufert, Ripp, Townsend, A. Ott, Zepnick and Kestell; cosponsored by Senators Hansen, Holperin, Taylor, Ellis, Cowles and Schultz.
To committee on Tourism, Recreation and State Properties.
Assembly Bill 440
Relating to: licensure of dietitian nutritionists and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
By
Representatives Pasch, Hebl, Danou, Spanbauer, Fields, A. Ott, Zepnick, Soletski, Richards, Suder and Lothian; cosponsored by Senators Vinehout, Carpenter, Lehman, Taylor and Plale.
To committee on Health and Healthcare Reform
.
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From: Robert J. Marchant, Senate Chief Clerk.
Mr. Speaker:
I am directed to inform you that the Senate has
Passed and asks concurrence in:
Senate Bill 190
Senate Bill 241
Senate Bill 243
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Senate Bill 190
Relating to: renewals and extensions of business contracts.
By
Senators
Wirch, Lehman, Taylor, Holperin, Lassa and Erpenbach; cosponsored by Representatives Turner, Hubler, Townsend, Vos, Kaufert, Spanbauer, Bies, Kessler, Hilgenberg and Zepnick.
To committee on Jobs, the Economy and Small Business.
Senate Bill 241
Relating to: modifying the definition of all-terrain vehicle.
By
Senators
Holperin, Taylor, Vinehout, Harsdorf, A. Lasee and Grothman; cosponsored by Representatives Hraychuck, Brooks, Roys, Townsend, Jorgensen, Radcliffe, Suder, Petrowski, Hubler, Gunderson, Tauchen, Murtha, Ballweg, Ripp and Spanbauer.
To committee on Tourism, Recreation and State Properties.
Senate Bill 243
Relating to: hunting of deer during the open bow hunting season.
By
Senators
Miller, Holperin, Lehman, Kedzie, Lassa, Vinehout, Taylor and Grothman; cosponsored by Representatives Hraychuck, Molepske Jr., Jorgensen, Ripp, Murtha, Ballweg, Nerison, Gunderson, Mason, Brooks and A. Ott.
To committee on Fish and Wildlife.
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Speaker's Appointments
September 23, 2009
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
I am appointing Representative Don Pridemore to the Personal Privacy Committee to replace Representative Scott Suder during his military deployment.
This appointment is effective immediately.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Sheridan
Assembly Speaker
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Speaker's Communications
September 23, 2009
Patrick Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
17 West Main Street, Suite 401
Madison, WI 53703
Dear Chief Clerk Fuller:
Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I am withdrawing Assembly Bill 426
from the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means and re-referring it to the Assembly Committee on Jobs, the Economy and Small Business.
I have the consent of Representative Gary Hebl, chairperson of the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means, to take this action.
Thank you for your immediate attention to this referral.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Sheridan
Assembly Speaker
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State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
Madison
September 23, 2009
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Earlier this year, the Joint Legislative Audit Committee directed this office to conduct a comprehensive audit of the State's child care subsidy program, Wisconsin Shares, which is administered by the Department of Children and Families (DCF). Our June 2009 letter report on the first phase of that audit identified numerous eligibility, wage verification, and record-keeping problems and estimated that, as a result, $22.5 million in improper subsidy payments had been made in 2008. Our evaluation of the overall effectiveness of child care regulation is ongoing, but we are writing at this time to disclose a serious problem we discovered during the course of our work.
In July 2009, we began to compare the addresses of registered sex offenders to addresses for the sites at which all licensed and certified child care providers care for children. We subsequently found four matches. DCF and the Department of Corrections (DOC), which maintains Wisconsin's Sex Offender Registry, were notified immediately and have confirmed the accuracy of the matches we found in electronic records. They are continuing to follow up and at this point believe that no child was harmed as a result of the situations we identified. However, we could not independently determine whether registered sex offenders had ever been present while care was being provided, and unless procedures are implemented to ensure similar situations do not occur in the future, such a potential will exist.
In response to our findings, DCF issued a memorandum on August 25, 2009, directing state licensing and county certification staff to search an electronic database of registered sex offenders for anyone who applies for licensure or certification as a child care provider.
