WEDNESDayMarch261997
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 136
Relating to: hunting approvals issued to persons born on or after January 1, 1973.
By
Senators
Shibilski, Decker, Jauch, Burke, Wirch, George, Grobschmidt, C. Potter, Clausing, Breske, Moore, Risser, Plache, Chvala, Wineke, Schultz, Rude, Moen, Welch, A. Lasee, Zien, Darling, Rosenzweig, Fitzgerald, Farrow, Panzer, Buettner and Cowles; cosponsored by Representatives Johnsrud, Hasenohrl, Powers, Kreuser, Freese, Huber, Albers, Ott, Turner, Musser, Gronemus, Hahn, Rutkowski, Lorge, Underheim, Seratti and Grothman.
To committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
Senate Bill 137
Relating to: authorization for the attorney general and district attorneys to issue subpoenas to investigate alleged violations of the open meetings law.
By
Senator
Adelman
, by request of Attorney General James E. Doyle.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 138
Relating to: treatment of child care expenses, ordering trusts for the support of children, order of disbursement of wages for Huber law inmates, ordering payment of postmajority support for a child with exceptional educational needs and paternity judgments and blood test costs.
By
Senators
Weeden, Huelsman and Buettner; cosponsored by Representatives Ainsworth, R. Young, Albers, Kedzie, Springer, La Fave, Turner, Gunderson, Owens, M. Lehman and Hahn.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 139
Relating to: enacting traffic regulation ordinances that conform with rules of the department of transportation.
By
Senators
Drzewiecki, Huelsman, Cowles, Farrow, Schultz and Rosenzweig; cosponsored by Representatives Brandemuehl, Musser, Goetsch, Dobyns, Ainsworth, Albers, Hanson, La Fave, Urban, Seratti, Grothman and Gunderson.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 140
Relating to: access to public records.
By
Senators
Buettner, Drzewiecki, Cowles, Ellis, Fitzgerald, Huelsman, Welch, Farrow and Zien; cosponsored by Representatives Goetsch, Otte, Dobyns, Gard, Ziegelbauer, Underheim, Freese, Gunderson, M. Lehman, Seratti, Wasserman, Ladwig, Duff, F. Lasee, Brandemuehl, Olsen, Skindrud, Kreibich, Plale and Grothman.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 141
Relating to: motor vehicle hit-and-run offenses and providing penalties.
By
Senators
Plache, Huelsman, Weeden and Buettner; cosponsored by Representatives Kaufert, Black, Walker, Bock, Musser, Hasenohrl, Kelso, Hanson, Dobyns, Turner, Ziegelbauer, Cullen, Plale, Ryba, Riley, Robson and Huber, by request of Attorney General James E. Doyle
.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 142
Relating to: sexual assaults causing substantial bodily harm.
By
Senators
Burke, Buettner, Clausing, Drzewiecki, Farrow, Huelsman, Plache, Rosenzweig, Schultz and Welch; cosponsored by Representatives Rutkowski, Ainsworth, Baldwin, Bock, Boyle, Coggs, Cullen, Dobyns, Duff, Gunderson, Hahn, Hasenohrl, Ladwig, F. Lasee, Musser, Plale, Riley, Ryba, Seratti, Turner, Walker and Wasserman.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
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State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
March 24, 1997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
During the course of financial audits we perform, we identified four fiscal control and budgetary issues that we would like to bring to your attention. One concern is the determination by the Department of Administration that it had legal authority to disburse $2.15 million from a sum sufficient appropriation in the Capitol Improvement Fund to redeem revenue bonds for a student loan program. We have concluded that the Department acted beyond its authority in making this disbursement.
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A second concern revolves around the treatment of agency requests to transfer funds budgeted for fringe benefits to other expenditure categories. Although Department of Administration budget and allotment instructions explicitly prohibit such transfers, approvals were given. Most significantly, one agency was allowed to use $480,000 in funds set aside for fringe benefits for the purchase of computers.
Our third issue relates to the statutory exemption on sales tax for food that is provided under contracts by public and private colleges. The exemption benefit was created for students who rely on meal contracts while attending college. We found the University of Wisconsin-Madison also applies the exemption to faculty and staff, as well as the catering business run by the student union. Other University of Wisconsin campuses similarly use the sales tax exemption benefit, which we learned is applied to food contracts with the three National Football League teams that use campus facilities for training. For example, the Chicago Bears football team does not pay sales tax on the $181,000 annual food contract it has with the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
Our final topic may affect budget calculations. Due to problems in implementing the State's current accounting system, the General Fund made disbursements on behalf of the segregated funds for certain payroll taxes. The General Fund was reimbursed for these disbursements, but not for the interest earnings it had lost. In October 1995, we asked the Department of Administration to calculate the lost interest and make appropriate adjustments to benefit the General Fund. The needed calculations were made in January 1997 but have not yet been factored into budget considerations. When all the repayments are made, the General Fund will receive $2.757 million in additional revenue, while the Transportation Fund will lose $1.564 million, the Conservation Fund will lose 4626,275, and other segregated funds will lose $566,654.
We hope that you find this information useful. Please advise me if you desire further information on any of these issues.
Sincerely,
Dale Cattanach
State Auditor
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
March 21, 1997
The Honorable, The Senate:
Enclosed is a copy of the Annual Wisconsin Report on Child Abuse and Neglect pursuant to s.48.981. The report includes a full statistical analysis of suspected child abuse and neglect reports received by county child protective services agencies in 1995. This report describes the extent of abuse and neglect in Wisconsin and discusses steps Wisconsin has taken to address the needs of maltreated children and their families.
Sincerely,
joe leean
Secretary
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