Relating to: defining "meal" and "sandwich" for the sales tax and use tax on food and specifying the tax status of exempt food and similar goods that are packaged with other property.
By
Representatives Gard, Porter, Jensen, Riley, Ziegelbauer, Hahn, Musser, Hanson, Baldwin, Dobyns, Handrick, Walker, Ward, Kaufert, Sykora, Goetsch, Seratti, Olsen, Green, F. Lasee, Schafer, Johnsrud, L. Young, Albers, Grothman, Duff, Travis and Harsdorf; cosponsored by Senators Fitzgerald, Burke, Drzewiecki, Chvala, Zien, Rude, Darling, Grobschmidt, Huelsman, Welch, Wineke and Panzer.
To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
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Speaker's Communications
February 23, 1998
Charles Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
1 East Main Street, Suite 402
P.O. Box 8952
Madison, Wisconsin 53708
Dear Mr. Sanders:
On February 17, 1998,
Senate Bill 373 relating to the creation of a bluff protection program was referred to the Assembly Committee on
Natural Resources. Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I hereby withdraw
Senate Bill 373 from the Assembly Committee on
Natural Resources and re-refer
Senate Bill 373 to the Assembly Committee on
Land Use.
Representative Johnsrud has consented to the re-referral.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
Assembly Speaker
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Speaker's appointments
January 26, 1998
Representative Joan Spillner
Room 21, State Capitol
Madison, WI 53702
Dear Joan:
As Assembly Speaker, it is my pleasure to appoint you as a member of the Tourism and Recreation Committee. You will be filling the position recently vacated by Representative Gard. This appointment is effective immediately.
Thank you for your service.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
Assembly Speaker
January 26, 1998
Representative Joan Spillner
Room 21, State Capitol
Madison, WI 53702
Dear Joan:
As Assembly Speaker, it is my pleasure to appoint you as a member of the Mandates Committee. You will be filling the position recently vacated by Representative Gard. This appointment is effective immediately.
Thank you for your service.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
Assembly Speaker
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Communications
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Council Staff
Madison
February 20, 1998
Mr. Charles R. Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
1 East Main Street, Suite 402
Madison, WI 53702
Dear Charlie:
Enclosed is a copy of the
1997 Annual Report on the Legislative Council Rules Clearinghouse, submitted to the Legislature pursuant to s.
227.15(5), Stats. Copies have been distributed to the offices of each member of the Legislature.
The report covers the 18th full calendar year of operation of the Rules Clearinghouse. I trust that it will be found to be informative.
Sincerely,
David J. Stute
Director
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
Madison
October 1997
To 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 seventh 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 1995. 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
Commissioner of Insurance
Barbara A. Rudolph, PhD.,
Deputy Director, OHCI
Referred to committee on Health.
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DATE: February 11, 1998
TO: Charles Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
FROM: Katherine C. Lyall, President
The University of Wisconsin System
RE: 1998 Salary Group/Range Assignment Report
Required under Section
20.923(5), Wis. Stats.
Section
20.923(5), Wis. Stats., requires that the Board of Regents assign specified titled positions to salary ranges in whatever manner the board determines. The board is required to file a report annually with the Governor and Legislature.
The board has directed that all positions referenced in s.
20.923(5) be assigned to either a State Executive Salary Group or to a UW System salary range based on the following assignment criteria:
I. Positions subject to State Executive Salary Group Assignment:
A. All positions referenced in s.
20.923(5) which carry the following titles regardless of annual salary:
Associate Vice Presidents
Assistant Vice Presidents
Associate Chancellors
Associate Vice Chancellors
Assistant Vice Chancellors
Assistant Chancellors
B. All positions carrying the director or associate director title with over 50 percent of their activities coded as physical plant, general operations and services, and auxiliary enterprises whose fiscal year annual salary rate exceeds the maximum of pay range 1-17 (1997-98 maximum is $61,984) of the general non-represented pay schedule #1.
II. Positions subject to UWS Salary Range Assignment:
A597
All directors or associate directors with over 50 percent of their position assigned to an enumerated activity code in the statute whose annual salary does not exceed the maximum of pay range 1-17.
Part A of the attached report designates those positions assigned to State Executive Salary Groups and Part B provides the minimum and maximum for those positions assigned to a UWS Salary Range. The report is dated January 1, 1998 and serves to fulfill this calendar year's reporting requirement.
Referred to committee on Colleges and Universities.
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State of Wisconsin
Technical College System Board
Madison
February 11, 1998
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
