Committee on Elections and Constitutional Law
The joint committee on Finance reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 790
Relating to: disciplinary actions against physicians, fees for renewal of physicians' licenses, requiring a report on disciplinary actions against physicians, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Assembly substitute amendment 2 adoption:
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Brancel, Foti, Porter, Schneiders, Ourada, Harsdorf, Linton and Coggs; and Senators Weeden, Schultz, Cowles, Panzer, Rosenzweig and Decker.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Brancel, Foti, Porter, Schneiders, Ourada, Harsdorf, Linton and Coggs; and Senators Weeden, Schultz, Cowles, Panzer, Rosenzweig and Decker.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 935
Relating to: recovery of enforcement costs by the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection in drainage district cases; transferring responsibility for administration of the Wisconsin consumer act; transferring responsibility for supporting the uniform commercial code statewide lien system; correcting references in certain appropriations of the department of financial institutions; the number of unclassified division administrator positions in the department of financial institutions; reversion of transferred funds to the Wisconsin development fund; minority business early planning projects; renumbering the appropriation for administrative services for regulation of industry, safety and buildings; the Milwaukee parental choice program; waiver of relocation payments and services when property is acquired by an entity vested with the power of eminent domain; collection of certain fees by the employment relations commission; payment of principal and interest on bonds issued for the clean water fund program; purses for horse races and pari-mutuel tax for simulcast races; establishing a Mendota juvenile treatment center; a plan to assure continued funding for the mental health institutes; transferring an appropriation for principal repayment and interest from the department of industry, labor and job development to the department of health and family services; changing references to low-income and at-risk child care funding; state involvement with certain municipal boundary changes; refunding of municipal bonds; a performance evaluation audit of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority; the initial period of the lease agreement and affiliation agreement between the University of Wisconsin System and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority; the contractual services agreement between the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Board and the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority; storage and management of records of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority; applicability of municipal ordinances and regulations to certain buildings, structures and facilities constructed for the benefit or use of local professional baseball park districts; changing the name of the Kickapoo valley governing board; the effective date and initial applicability of adjustments in certain lobbying regulation fees; railroad stockholder reports; granting rule-making authority; and making and decreasing appropriations.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Brancel, Foti, Porter, Schneiders, Ourada, Harsdorf, Weeden, Schultz, Cowles, Panzer, Petak, Rosenzweig and Decker.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Linton and Coggs.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Brancel, Foti, Porter, Schneiders, Ourada, Harsdorf, Weeden, Schultz, Cowles, Panzer, Petak, Rosenzweig and Decker.
Noes: 2 - Representatives Linton and Coggs.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 955
Relating to: the tax on car line companies.
Passage:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Brancel, Porter, Schneiders, Ourada, Harsdorf, Linton and Coggs; and Senators Weeden, Schultz, Cowles, Panzer and Rosenzweig.
Noes: 2 - Representative Foti and Senator Decker.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 1004
Relating to: the youth and athlete facility of the state fair park board and granting bonding authority.
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Brancel, Foti, Porter, Schneiders, Ourada, Harsdorf, Linton and Coggs; and Senators Weeden, Schultz, Panzer, Petak and Rosenzweig.
Noes: 2 - Senators Cowles and Decker.
To committee on Rules.
Ben Brancel
Assembly Chairperson
Joint committee on Finance
The committee on Financial Institutions reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 278
Relating to: authorized names for federal institutions that convert to state savings banks.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Kaufert, Hoven, Silbaugh, Ward, Green, Vrakas, Gunderson, F. Lasee, R. Potter, Baldus, Travis, Turner, La Fave, Ziegelbauer and Meyer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 464
Relating to: removal of certain references to lunatics in the statutes regarding bank trust powers (suggested as remedial legislation by the office of commissioner of banking).
Concurrence:
Ayes: 15 - Representatives Kaufert, Hoven, Silbaugh, Ward, Green, Vrakas, Gunderson, F. Lasee, R. Potter, Baldus, Travis, Turner, La Fave, Ziegelbauer and Meyer.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Dean Kaufert
Chairperson
Committee on Financial Institutions
The committee on Health reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 478
Relating to: the grounds for disciplinary action against a person regulated by the medical examining board and requiring the medical examining board to consult certain persons when conducting disciplinary investigations.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 11 - Representatives Underheim, Freese, Walker, Lazich, Zukowski, Jensen, F. Lasee, Handrick, Robson, Bock and Huber.
Noes: 5 - Representatives Urban, Johnsrud, Wirch, Meyer and Wasserman.
Indefinite postponement:
Ayes: 9 - Representatives Urban, Freese, Walker, Robson, Bock, Huber, Wirch, Meyer and Wasserman.
Noes: 6 - Representatives Underheim, Lazich, Zukowski, Jensen, F. Lasee and Handrick.
To joint committee on Finance.
Assembly Bill 573
Relating to: insurance coverage of hospital or home care after childbirth and granting rule-making authority.
Assembly substitute amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 13 - Representatives Underheim, Freese, Walker, Lazich, Zukowski, Jensen, F. Lasee, Handrick, Robson, Bock, Huber, Wirch and Wasserman.
Noes: 3 - Representatives Urban, Johnsrud and Meyer.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 11 - Representatives Underheim, Walker, Zukowski, F. Lasee, Handrick, Robson, Bock, Huber, Wirch, Meyer and Wasserman.
Noes: 5 - Representatives Urban, Johnsrud, Freese, Lazich and Jensen.
To joint committee on Finance.
Senate Bill 369
Relating to: eliminating the board on health care information, creating a health care data oversight board, requiring development of health plan performance measures and models, development of a health care data collection and dissemination systems improvement plan and the study of consolidating certain functions in a single state agency and requiring submittal of certain reports.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 16 - Representatives Underheim, Urban, Johnsrud, Freese, Walker, Lazich, Zukowski, Jensen, F. Lasee, Handrick, Robson, Bock, Huber, Wirch, Meyer and Wasserman.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Gregg Underheim
Chairperson
Committee on Health
The committee on Insurance, Securities and Corporate Policy reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 1044
Relating to: expanding eligibility for a premium subsidy under the health insurance risk-sharing plan, sunsetting that plan and making an appropriation.
Assembly amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 12 - Representatives Albers, F. Lasee, Underheim, Kreibich, Lazich, Hoven, Green, Baldus, Notestein, Robson, Cullen and Ziegelbauer.
Noes: 0.
