Thursday, January 8, 2009
Ninety-Ninth Regular Session
STATE OF WISCONSIN
Senate Journal
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Introduction, First Reading, and
Reference of Proposals
Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 1
Relating to: a state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority.
By Senators Decker, Kreitlow, Sullivan, Wirch, Taylor, Lehman, Carpenter, Coggs, Plale, Erpenbach, Miller, Hansen and Vinehout; cosponsored by Representatives Mason, Sinicki, Milroy, Turner, Hilgenberg, Colon, Grigsby, Pope-Roberts, Pocan, Berceau, Kessler, Zepnick, Black, A. Williams, Garthwaite, Soletski, Sherman, Shilling, Benedict, Toles, Krusick and Young.
To committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs.
Senate Bill 2
Relating to: the filing of a wage claim or the bringing of a wage claim action by a collective bargaining representative on behalf of an employee and the priority of a wage claim lien over a prior lien of a commercial lending institution and over the rights of a purchaser of any property of the employer.
By Senators Lehman, Robson, Hansen, Wirch, Carpenter, Decker, Kreitlow, Erpenbach, Coggs, Miller, Plale, Holperin and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Garthwaite, Sinicki, Mason, Black, Turner, Jorgensen, Zepnick and Cullen.
To committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs.
Senate Bill 3
Relating to: health insurance coverage of treatment for autism spectrum disorders.
By Senators Robson, Sullivan, Hansen, Erpenbach, Wirch, Kreitlow, Jauch, Carpenter, Lehman, Lassa, Miller, Decker and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Hixson, Pasch, Benedict, Berceau, A. Ott, Krusick, Shilling, Turner, Young, Radcliffe, Van Akkeren, Kaufert, Sherman, Pocan, Hraychuck, Schneider, Black, Hubler, Jorgensen, Bernard Schaber, Hilgenberg, Sinicki, Hebl and A. Williams.
To committee on Health, Health Insurance, Privacy, Property Tax Relief, and Revenue.
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Petitions and Communications
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Reference Bureau
January 8 , 2009
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
The following rules have been published in the December 31, 2008 Wisconsin Administrative Register No. 636:
Clearinghouse Rules Effective Date(s)
04-0231-1-2009
07-0041-1-2009
07-073 (part) 1-1-2009
(part) 3-1-2008
07-0931-1-2009
07-1021-1-2009
07-1051-1-2009
08-0271-1-2009
08-0301-1-2009
08-0451-1-2009
08-0521-1-2009
08-0531-1-2009
08-0541-1-2009
08-0611-1-2009
08-0641-1-2009
08-0661-1-2009
08-0771-1-2009
Sincerely,
BRUCE J. HOESLY
Senior Legislative Attorney/Code Editor
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Corrections
December 22, 2008
The Honorable, The Legislature:
The 2005-07 biennial budget, 2005 Wisconsin Act 25, required the Department to conduct a study regarding the possibility of reducing its costs for the care of inmates, who are not a threat to the community and require extended nursing care. The Department has completed such a study and per the instructions in the non-statutory section 9109 (3q) it is being submitted for distribution under section 13.172(3) of the statutes.
Sincerely,
rick raemisch
Secretary
Referred to committee on Judiciary, Corrections, and Housing.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Health Services
December 22, 2008
The Honorable, The Legislature:
S19 In accordance with Section 51.06 (8), Wisconsin Statutes, enclosed is a copy of the report on people relocated and diverted from nursing homes, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded (ICFs-MR), and State Centers for the Developmentally Disabled in state fiscal year (SFY) 2008. This report provides information related to four programs, the ICF-MR Restructuring Initiative, Relocations from the State Centers for the Developmentally Disabled, the Community Relocation Initiative, and the Nursing Home Diversion Initiative.
The Department's relocation and diversion programs have been highly successful, providing the opportunity in SFY08 for 895 elderly individuals and people with physical and developmental disabilities who otherwise would have resided in ICFs-MR and Nursing Facilities to live in community based settings. Since FY 2006, approximately 2,545 elders and people with physical and developmental disabilities have successfully relocated from institutional settings and an additional approximately 492 individuals were diverted from admission to a nursing home though the Department's programs. The quality of life for these 3,037 individuals has been enhanced through the opportunity to live in the community and be near family and friends and more fully involved in community activities.
Highlights of the relocation and diversion initiatives include:
600 people with developmental disabilities, many of whom resided in institutions for decades, moved to the community and participated in community activities that were not available to them when they resided in institutions.
1,331 frail elders who resided in nursing facilities chose to live in the community near their families and friends. Prior to this initiative, these people would have been on a waiting list for home and community-based care, and few would have had the opportunity to return to the community.
614 people with physical disabilities chose to live in the community where they were able to access community activities, rather than live in nursing facilities.
People with developmental disabilities have been served in the community at a cost that is within the institutional budget for this population.
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