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The committee on State Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Joint Resolution 14
Relating to: petitioning the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Congress to establish a 1st class postage stamp entitled "Game Warden" to honor our nation's conservation wardens, past and present.
Adoption:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Skindrud, Musser, Silbaugh, Coleman, Gunderson, L. Young, Baumgart, Ryba and Plache.
Noes: 1 - Representative Wood.
To committee on Rules.
Rick Skindrud
Chairperson
Committee on State Affairs
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The committee on Veterans and Military Affairs reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 706
Relating to: eligibility for veterans programs.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Musser, Zukowski, Dobyns, Lorge, Ryba, Boyle, Baldus and Vander Loop.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Musser, Zukowski, Dobyns, Lorge, Ryba, Boyle, Baldus and Vander Loop.
Noes: 0.
To joint committee on Finance.
Terry Musser
Chairperson
Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs
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The committee on Ways and Means reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 78
Relating to: a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for adoption expenses.
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Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Lehman, Kelso, Klusman, Coleman, Gard, Huebsch, Handrick, Travis, Robson, Turner, Hanson, Riley and Ziegelbauer.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Goetsch and Bell.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Lehman, Kelso, Klusman, Coleman, Gard, Goetsch, Huebsch, Handrick, Travis, Robson, Turner, Hanson, Riley and Ziegelbauer.
Noes: 1 - Representative Bell.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 526
Relating to: signatures and authentication requirements for orders under the forest croplands program and the woodland tax law program.
Passage:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Lehman, Kelso, Klusman, Coleman, Gard, Goetsch, Huebsch, Handrick, Bell, Travis, Robson, Turner, Hanson, Riley and Ziegelbauer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 611
Relating to: timely filing of sales tax and use tax documents and payments.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Lehman, Kelso, Klusman, Coleman, Gard, Goetsch, Huebsch, Handrick, Bell, Travis, Robson, Turner, Hanson, Riley and Ziegelbauer.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Lehman, Kelso, Klusman, Coleman, Gard, Goetsch, Huebsch, Handrick, Bell, Travis, Robson, Turner, Hanson, Riley and Ziegelbauer.
Noes: 0.
To joint committee on Finance.
Michael Lehman
Chairperson
Committee on Ways and Means
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The committee on Welfare Reform reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 591
Relating to: creating a new public assistance program for families with dependent children, modifying the sunset of the aid to families with dependent children program, modifying administration of the food stamp program, modifying the eligibility requirements of certain recipients of medical assistance, creating a program to provide payment to a relative, other than a parent, who is providing care and maintenance for a child, eliminating postsecondary education and vocational skills training from the job opportunities and basic skills program, applying the learnfare provisions statewide to certain individuals who are 6 to 19 years of age, eliminating child care funded under community aids, modifying eligibility requirements for low-income and at-risk child care, creating a tax exemption, making modifications to the job opportunities and basic skills program, making modifications to the food stamp employment and training program, consolidating state general purpose revenue appropriations for public assistance and local aid, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations.
Assembly substitute amendment 2 adoption:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Gard, Dobyns, Ladwig, Grothman, Lazich, Huebsch, Hutchison, Krusick and Krug.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Notestein, R. Young and Riley.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 8 - Representatives Gard, Dobyns, Ladwig, Grothman, Lazich, Huebsch, Hutchison and Krusick.
Noes: 4 - Representatives Notestein, Krug, R. Young and Riley.
To joint committee on Finance.
John Gard
Chairperson
Committee on Welfare Reform
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Executive Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
December 19, 1995
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
The following bill(s), originating in the Assembly, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Bill Number Act Number Date Approved
583 (partial veto)116December 18, 1995
607117
December 18, 1995
Respectfully submitted,
Tommy G. Thompson
Governor
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Governor's Veto Message
December 18, 1995
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I have approved 1995
Assembly Bill 583 as
1995 Wisconsin Act 116 and have deposited it in the office of the Secretary of State. Because this is an appropriation bill, I have exercised the partial veto in sections 1, 1c, 4 and 5.
AB 583 creates a job training loan guarantee program in the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), which will be administered by the Department of Development. I support this program and my objections to the bill are technical in nature. I believe that these vetoes do not change the substance of the bill and facilitate the administration of this program for the Department of Development.
Sections 1 and 1c create appropriation s.
20.143 (4)(hs) - Executive and Administrative Services. I am vetoing these sections because the department already has appropriation s.
20.143 (1)(g) - Gift, Grant and Proceeds which can be used for this purpose. As such, creating a new appropriation for this program is unnecessary.
Section 4 directs that all reimbursements and fees be deposited in the appropriation under s.
20.143 (4)(hs) created under this bill. I am partially vetoing this section to remove the deposit requirement because it is no longer necessary due to my veto of sections 1 and 1c. The department will still have the authority to deposit these funds in the gifts and grants appropriation under s. 20. 143 (1)(g).
Section 5 authorizes WHEDA and the Department of Development to establish an eligibility review panel. I am partially vetoing this provision to clarify that the department has the administrative responsibility for the job training loan guarantee program. This section also directs the Department of Development to submit an annual report on the program every year on November 1. I am partially vetoing this section to remove the reporting date because it imposes additional reporting requirements on the department. I am requesting the Department of Development to include information on the job training loan guarantee program in the semiannual status report on Wisconsin Development Fund Programs, which are submitted to the chairs of the economic development committees of the Legislature.
