Senate Bill 387
Relating to: the financial responsibility of persons who perform on one-family and 2-family dwellings work for which a building permit is required.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 11 - Representatives Owens, Kaufert, Silbaugh, Green, Vrakas, Kelso, Morris-Tatum, Bell, Baldwin, Wilder and Riley.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 547
Relating to: the registration and regulation of certain nonprofit corporations as mortgage bankers, loan originators or loan solicitors.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 11 - Representatives Owens, Kaufert, Silbaugh, Green, Vrakas, Kelso, Morris-Tatum, Bell, Baldwin, Wilder and Riley.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Carol Owens
Chairperson
Committee on Housing
The committee on Small Business and Economic Development reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 519
Relating to: security deposits made by motor fuel dealers.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 10 - Representatives Seratti, Vrakas, Kreibich, Kaufert, Owens, Huebsch, Rutkowski, Wilder, Plombon and Springer.
Noes: 0.
Concurrence as amended:
Ayes: 10 - Representatives Seratti, Vrakas, Kreibich, Kaufert, Owens, Huebsch, Rutkowski, Wilder, Plombon and Springer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Lorraine Seratti
Chairperson
Committee on Small Business and Economic Development
The committee on Urban Education reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 290
Relating to: children-at-risk programs operated by the Milwaukee Public Schools.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Williams, Duff, Nass, Lazich, Grothman, Walker and Black.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Annette Polly Williams
Chairperson
Committee on Urban Education
The committee on Ways and Means reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 360
Relating to: exempting all transfers between spouses from the real estate transfer fee.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Lehman, Klusman, Coleman, Underheim, Seratti, Gard, Goetsch, Huebsch, Handrick, Wood, Robson, Turner, Hanson, Riley and Ziegelbauer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Michael Lehman
Chairperson
Committee on Ways and Means
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Executive Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
The following bills, originating in the Assembly, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Bill Number Act Number Date Approved
571287
April 25, 1996
550288
April 25, 1996
591 (partial veto)289April 25, 1996
495
290April 25, 1996
528291
April 25, 1996
585296
April 29, 1996
Respectfully submitted,
Tommy G. Thompson
Governor
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Governor's Veto Message
April 26, 1996
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I have approved
Assembly Bill 591 as
1995 Act 289 and have deposited it in the Office of the Secretary of State. I have exercised the partial veto in a number of areas.
I am very pleased to sign the country's most significant piece of welfare reform legislation. Through a series of waivers and pilot programs, beginning with Learnfare in 1987, we have established the basic premise that for those who can work, only work should pay, and that everybody should work to the extent of their abilities. Welfare should be used as a temporary last resort, and should provide incentives to promote individuals' efforts to attain self sufficiency. It should provide only as much service as an individual asks for and its fairness should be measured by comparison to working families who are supporting their families without public assistance. This set of principles has been one of the keystones of this administration. It culminates with the signing of this bill.
Several years ago, as a result of those waivers and pilot programs, we had established a foundation which resulted in significant consensus between the executive and legislative branches on the need to move forward to meaningful, comprehensive restructuring of the welfare system. It remained only to determine the design of that reform. AB 591, Wisconsin Works or W-2, is that design. It is the result of many months of concentrated work by both of these branches of government, and I have every confidence that it will change and improve both the lives of those who must rely on some support from their government and the communities in which they live.
Working together to implement the provisions of AB 591, we can change our state forever to one where those who are able to work do so, and where those who are not are given the incentives and supports they need to enable them to do so. We will be a state where all citizens are educated and trained to work and expected to do so, where communities work together to provide temporary help to those who need it, and where the government of the state acts to enable persons to work, instead of simply providing cash to individuals who are not working.
WISCONSIN WORKS PROVISIONS
A1091
The Wisconsin Works (W-2) initiative that I proposed in September 1995 is enacted in this legislation. It responds to the directive in
1993 Wisconsin Act 99 to replace the current welfare system by January 1, 1999. That replacement system, as embodied in this legislation, will have the following characteristics for clients:
• For those who cannot immediately enter the workforce, provide 3 levels of employment support:
- Trial jobs, for which a subsidy is provided to employers for a limited time, to meet the needs of those without a work history;
- Community Service jobs, for those who need to practice the work habits and skills necessary to be hired by a private business; and
- W-2 Transition jobs, for those not yet able to perform self-sustaining work, where they can participate in activities consistent with their abilities.
• Provide health care, delivered through managed care providers, to all families with low incomes and low assets who do not have coverage provided by their employers. All families will pay a portion of their health care premium based on income.
• Provide child care for all eligible families with low income and low assets who need it to work. All families will pay a portion of their child care costs based on income.
• Provide educational or training opportunities for those who are in Community Service or W-2 Transition employment, to enable them to increase their earning potential.
• Provide other services that a client needs such as transportation, job access loans and the services of a financial and employment planner for every client who needs assistance in developing a plan for self-sufficiency.
• Assure that child support payments go to whom they belong - working custodial parents and their children.
To underline that W-2 is intended to help people become self-sufficient, not substitute for self-sufficiency, participation in the employment components will be limited to 60 months overall, with some exceptions, and will be limited to shorter periods for each component. To insure that clients receive the assistance they need, W-2 agency contracts will be performance-based, so funds will be channeled to the agencies that are the most successful in placing and keeping people in private sector employment.
Not only does this legislation provide supports to people differently than in the past, it also provides those supports through a different delivery system. The new system is intended to strengthen the ties between people and their communities by creating more support for the needed services at the local level, and to integrate employment programs at the state level. To achieve this the W-2 legislation includes the creation of:
• Local Community Steering Committees, made of up community leaders to oversee the creation of job opportunities; and
• Children's Services Networks, to provide a link from families to a comprehensive array of services such as food and clothing centers, transportation and housing.
