To committee on Environment and Utilities.
Assembly Bill 730
Relating to: the budget stabilization fund and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Hanson, Wilder, Urban, Hasenohrl, Lehman, Schneiders, Olsen, Wirch, Goetsch, Plache, Hahn, La Fave, Albers, Ainsworth, Ryba, Ziegelbauer, Grothman, Ladwig, Baldus, Wasserman, Murat, Owens, Kreuser, Lazich, Huebsch, Seratti, Gronemus, Dueholm and Meyer; cosponsored by Senators Panzer, Petak, Moen, Huelsman, Shibilski, Risser, Darling and Rosenzweig
.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 731
Relating to: requiring the department of health and social services to request a waiver to reduce the standards of assistance for aid to families with dependent children.
By
Representatives Grothman, Kelso, Ladwig, Owens, Seratti and Zukowski
.
To committee on Welfare Reform.
Assembly Bill 732
Relating to: treatment of certain contributions made by a committee of a recognized political party to a candidate for state office or his or her personal campaign committee.
By
Representatives Grothman, Ainsworth, Dobyns, Hahn, Kelso, Ladwig, Lazich, Lehman, Owens, Silbaugh, Zukowski and Seratti; cosponsored by Senator Panzer
.
To committee on Elections and Constitutional Law.
Assembly Bill 733
Relating to: regulation of tattooing, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Brandemuehl, Ryba, Urban, Ainsworth, Huber, Kelso, Freese, Johnsrud, Bock, Ott, Notestein, Olsen and Silbaugh; cosponsored by Senator Buettner
.
To committee on Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill 734
Relating to: allowing managed forest land to be located in cities.
By
Representatives Skindrud, Freese, Goetsch, Ainsworth, Murat, Gard and Grothman; cosponsored by Senator A. Lasee
.
To committee on Natural Resources.
Assembly Bill 735
Relating to: the sale of intoxicating liquor by manufacturers, rectifiers or their agents to wholesalers.
By
Representatives Harsdorf and Freese; cosponsored by Senator Andrea
.
To committee on State Affairs.
Assembly Bill 736
Relating to: supervision of assessments.
By
Representatives Harsdorf, Gunderson, Freese, Lehman, Musser, Owens, Porter, Goetsch, Hahn, Ladwig, Grothman, Klusman, Dueholm, Silbaugh, Olsen, Hasenohrl, La Fave, Gronemus, Ott, Albers and Powers; cosponsored by Senators Petak, Clausing, Weeden, Welch, Breske, C. Potter, Adelman, A. Lasee and Jauch
.
To committee on Ways and Means.
Relating to: the eligibility for group health insurance for state employes participating under the Wisconsin retirement system.
By
Representatives Harsdorf, Ladwig, Musser, Plache, Otte, Baldus, Goetsch, Vrakas, Boyle, F. Lasee, Meyer, R. Young, Hanson and Plombon; cosponsored by Senator Rosenzweig
.
To committee on Government Operations.
Assembly Bill 738
Relating to: the membership of the examining board of social workers, marriage and family therapists and professional counselors and granting independent clinical social worker certificates to certain persons.
By
Representatives Ainsworth, Silbaugh, Goetsch, Owens, Seratti, Albers and Gunderson
.
To committee on Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill 739
Relating to: providing funding for the long-term support community options program, the long-term care ombudsman program, the guardianship grant program and Alzheimer's disease training and information grants, limiting the personal exemptions tax credit and making appropriations.
By
Representatives Lehman, Krusick, Grobschmidt, Hanson, Silbaugh, Hahn, Hoven, L. Young, Baldwin, Powers, Musser, Ourada, Ott, Huber, Springer, Ainsworth, Johnsrud, Bock, Travis, Murat, Dueholm, Albers, Hutchison, Dobyns, Ryba, Wasserman, Handrick, Carpenter, Plache, Olsen, Notestein, Wirch, Coggs, Plombon, Baldus, Kreuser, Hasenohrl, Gunderson, Seratti and R. Potter; cosponsored by Senators Buettner, Panzer, Rosenzweig, Rude, Andrea, Risser, Darling, Clausing, Shibilski, Fitzgerald, Burke, Breske, Moore, Moen, C. Potter, George and Wineke, by request of Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups.
To committee on Aging and Long-Term Care.
Assembly Bill 740
Relating to: the lake acidification experiment at Little Rock Lake.
By
Representative
Handrick
; cosponsored by Senator Breske
.
To committee on Natural Resources.
Assembly Bill 741
Relating to: arrest and conviction record discrimination.
By
Representatives Kelso, Grothman, Zukowski, Underheim, Kaufert, Schneiders, Nass, Plache, Olsen, Silbaugh, Powers, Ladwig and Notestein; cosponsored by Senators Huelsman and Darling
.
To committee on Labor and Employment.
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Executive Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
December 6, 1995
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly and the Senate:
The following bill(s), originating in the Senate or the Assembly, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Assembly Bill Act Number
Date Approved
138107December 6, 1995
222108December 6, 1995
676109December 6, 1995
557 (partial veto)113December 6, 1995
Respectfully submitted,
Tommy G. Thompson
Governor
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Governor's Veto Message
December 6, 1995
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I have approved
Assembly Bill 557 as
1995 Wisconsin Act 113 and deposited it in the Office of the Secretary of State.
The signing of this bill marks the conclusion of a lengthy period of debate about funding for critical transportation improvement projects and local transportation needs. I forwarded two separate revenue and spending proposals to the Legislature to address these needs in the 1995-97 biennium. These proposals included increases in user fees to address declining federal highway aid and increasing multimodal state transportation needs and to provide property tax relief through increases in the state share of local transportation costs. Ultimately, the Legislature chose not to approve the user fee changes I recommended and decided to substantially increase the use of bonding to make more cash available in the short term while substantially increasing our debt obligations over the long term.
I respect the Legislature's efforts to do more with fewer dollars in the operations of the Department of Transportation. I also applaud the resourceful reallocation of dwindling federal dollars toward critical highway rehabilitation efforts. But I cannot approve the extensive use of borrowing to support a transportation program that we cannot afford without changes to federal and state transportation user fee revenue levels.
The transportation bill I am signing is balanced and through my vetoes relies less on borrowing. However, it continues to be a bill that does not adequately provide for long term state and local transportation needs. It will result in significant delays in completing the critical backbone element of the Corridors 2020 plan and reduce the number of miles of state and local roads and streets that will be rehabilitated.
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These issues cannot be ignored. In the next biennium, it is anticipated that even more demands, particularly with the Milwaukee freeway system, will arise. The difficult resource decisions faced in this biennium remain and must be addressed in 1997-99.
Total spending under this bill will be $1,497.5 million in fiscal year 1995-96 and $1,510.5 million in fiscal year 1996-97. Net spending from segregated transportation fund revenue will be $959.6 million in fiscal year 1995-96 (a 3.3% increase) and $964.7 million in fiscal year 1996-97 (an increase of 0.5%), for a total of $1.9 billion. Spending for operations decreases to reflect a 5.9% reduction in spending from base.
This bill increases state aid to local governments for transportation-related costs by 3% annually for calendar years 1996 and 1997. The share of the state funded transportation budget allocated to local road aids increases over 3% under this bill. On the other hand, the non-highway operations (State Patrol, Motor Vehicles and general department operations) share of the budget declines almost 8%. Funding for accelerating the Highway 29 project is included to ensure that this key transportation artery is completed by December 31, 2000.
I am signing this bill with a total of 11 vetoes. Some of these vetoes are technical in nature and clean up conflicting language or drafting problems. Other vetoes establish more reasonable timelines for the several new one-time reports, studies, or legislative approvals created by the Legislature for the Department of Transportation. I have continued to recognize the importance of these reports by requesting a later completion date in the veto message.
The partial vetoes I am executing will also provide more funding for state highway rehabilitation efforts through the revenue certification procedure included in the bill. Assuming no change in current revenue estimates, my vetoes will increase funding for highway rehabilitation by over $1,900,000 in fiscal year 1996-97. This funding will help to offset the minimal increases provided in the bill for this crucial program.
We need to face the reality that our transportation system has critical needs that require long-term solutions. I have offered proposals to address these needs. I look forward to the time when we can face the difficult decisions and resolve them. It is my hope that some of the provisions included in this bill, particularly the creation of a transportation finance study committee, can generate the consensus necessary to address these issues. Sustaining our economic vitality demands that we continue to make prudent investments in transportation infrastructure.
A summary of the major provisions of the transportation budget bill follows:
Local Assistance
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Increases general transportation aid to counties, municipalities and towns by 3% annually.
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Replaces the statutory requirement to support 42% of local transit costs with a five-tiered formula (Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha, cities over 50,000 in population and cities under 50,000 in population) that will provide, within each tier, a uniform percentage of combined federal and state support for local transit costs.
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Increases funding for elderly and disabled transportation assistance by 11% in fiscal year 1995-96.
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Increases the county forest road aid rate per mile by 50%.
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Allocates $500,000 SEG in fiscal year 1996-97 to accelerate completion of improvements at the Fond du Lac County airport.
State and Local Highways
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Provides $33 million to accelerate completion of the Highway 29 expansion by December 31, 2000.
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Authorizes DOT to supplement highway rehabilitation costs associated with building a new stadium in Milwaukee.
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Requires that any additional transportation user fee revenues above those estimated in this bill be used for highway rehabilitation projects.
Other Provisions
