Sincerely,
Douglas La follette
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
Department of Development
April 8, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
In accordance with s.
560.03(15), the Department of Development is required to submit an annual report to the legislature analyzing the use of IRB financing authorized under Section
66.521 of Wisconsin Statutes, and report on the benefits of that use. The Department of Development is also required to submit a summary of the employment impact estimates required under Section
560.034(2) of Wisconsin Statutes.
I am respectfully submitting the attached Industrial Revenue Bond Activity Report. If you have any questions concerning the report or would like to obtain copies, please contact Deb Daly in the Division of Community Development at 608/267-3895.
Sincerely,
William J. McCoshen
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Technical College System Board
April, 1996
The Honorable, The Senate:
The Graduate Follow-up Survey is conducted annually to gather data regarding the activities and perceptions of students approximately six months after their graduation from Wisconsin's Technical Colleges.
The primary objectives of the survey are to identify the current activities of program graduates, to determine the extent to which current activities are related to the graduates' educational programs, to provide information to be used as tools in career awareness and planning efforts for those making or assisting in career decisions, and to provide data to facilitate program planning, evaluation and development.
Sincerely,
dwight a. York
State Director
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
February 1996
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10(1), Wis. Stats., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the sixth annual Health Care Data Report. This report is based on hospital inpatient discharge data reported to the Office of Health Care Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals in Wisconsin from January through December 1994. It also contains selected ambulatory surgery utilization and charge data from general medical-surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin during the same period.
This report fulfills the statutory requirement to report "in a manner that permits comparisons among hospitals ... the charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups selected by the office.
Sincerely,
josephine W. musser Trudy A. Karlson, Ph.d.
Commissioner of Insurance Director, Office of Health Care
Information
Ethics Board
April 9, 1996
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s.
13.685(7), Wisconsin Statutes, I am notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers.
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board as employers of lobbyists have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
Career Employees, Assn of (ACE)
(limited lobbying organization)
Wadium, Mark
Medical College of Wisconsin
Elliott, Brian
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
McKay, Steve
Termination of lobbying authorizations:
The following individuals are no longer authorized to lobby on behalf of the organizations listed below, as of the dates indicated.
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Huffer, Linda 4/4/96
Speech, Language, Hearing Assn, Inc, Wisconsin
Huffer, Linda 4/4/96
Also available from the Wisconsin Ethics Board are reports identifying the amount and value of time state agencies have spent to affect legislative action and reports of expenditures for lobbying activities filed by the organizations that employ lobbyists.
Sincerely,
R. Roth Judd
Executive Director
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executive order #278
Relating to a Proclamation that the Flags of the United States and the State of Wisconsin be Flown at Half-Staff as a Mark of respect for the Late Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of Commerce of the United States of America and all those killed in the April 3, 1996, crash of the U. S. Air Force aircraft in Croatia
WHEREAS, on April 3, 1996, Secretary Ronald H. Brown died in an aircraft accident while in Croatia; and
WHEREAS, Secretary Brown was engaged in official business of the United States government at the time of his death; and
WHEREAS, the officials and executives who were a part of Secretary Brown's mission were engaged in the important work of rebuilding the economy of Bosnia and Croatia.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, TOMMY G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by Federal and State law, DO HEREBY ORDER that the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin shall be flown at half-staff at all buildings, grounds and military installations of the State of Wisconsin equipped with such flags beginning forthwith until sundown on Wednesday, April 10, 1996.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Madison this fourth day of April in the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six.
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
April 4, 1996
To the Honorable, the Senate:
The following bill(s), originating in the Senate, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Sincerely,
TOMMY G. THOMPSON
Governor
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Relating to tatooing and body piercing.
Submitted by Department of Regulation and Licensing.
Report received from Agency, April 5, 1996.
Referred to committee on Business, Economic Development and Urban Affairs, April 10, 1996
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Relating to examination fees, refunds and fees for test reviews.
Submitted by Department of Regulation and Licensing.
Report received from Agency, April 5, 1996.
