Tuesday, July 1, 1997
10:00 A.M.
Ninety-Third Regular Session
The Senate met.
The Senate was called to order by Senator Fred Risser.
The Chair, with unanimous consent, asked that the proper entries be made in the journal.
__________________
Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 252
Relating to: fermented malt beverage wholesalers.
By
Senators
Shibilski, Rude, Breske, Schultz, Jauch, Welch, Huelsman, Grobschmidt, Rosenzweig, Drzewiecki, George, Fitzgerald, Wineke and Decker; cosponsored by Representatives Musser, Huebsch, Green, Meyer, Owens, Duff, Gronemus, Gard, Hasenohrl, M. Lehman, Huber, Kaufert, Boyle, Kelso, Kunicki, Kreibich, Wasserman, Ryba, Schafer, La Fave, Sykora, Ourada, Walker, Ward, Krug, Plale and Ziegelbauer.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 253
Relating to: creating a lien for services provided by a chiropractor.
By
Senators
Moen, Breske, Grobschmidt and Plache; cosponsored by Representatives F. Lasee, Underheim, Kunicki, Musser, Boyle, Kelso, Kreuser, Williams, Porter and Powers.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
__________________
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
July 1, 997
The Honorable, The Legislature:
We have completed a best practices review of local government operations as required by s.
13.94(8), Wis. Stats. The provision of 9-1-1 emergency telephone service was selected as the topic of our review with the assistance of the Local Government Advisory Council, which consists of representatives of counties, cities, villages, and towns.
State statutes allow local governments broad discretion in determining whether and how 9-1-1 telephone service will be provided. We estimate that 94 percent of Wisconsin residents have access to 9-1-1 telephone service, but service is not available to about 294,000 residents of 15 lesser-populated counties and portions of another county. Telephone companies collected approximately $5.4 million in 1996 for providing 9-1-1 service and, based on responses of local officials to our survey, approximately $70 million is spent annually by local governments to operate 9-1-1 answering points.
The organization, equipment, staffing, and services of 9-1-1 answering points vary widely. Based on the 9-1-1 experiences of several counties and municipalities, as well as professional literature, this report identifies best practices to follow when delivering 9-1-1 service. We also identify specific practices for local governments to consider in identifying equipment and staffing needs, establishing service area boundaries, processing incoming calls, and dispatching emergency service providers. In addition, we note that future 9-1-1 service delivery may be affected by advances in telecommunications technology, changes in public expectations, and proposed changes to how 9-1-1 service is funded.
We thank the Local Government Advisory Council for its assistance in the completion of this review, and we appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by local government staff.
Sincerely,
Dale Cattanach
State Auditor
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
July 1, 1997
To the Honorable the Senate:
At the direction of s.
13.685(7),
Wisconsin Statutes, I am furnishing you with the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board that employ one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules, and notifying you of changes in the Ethics Board's records of licensed lobbyists and their employers. For each recently registered organization I have included the organization's description of the general area of legislative or administrative action that it attempts to influence and the name of each licensed lobbyist that the organization has authorized to act on its behalf.
Organizations recently registered:
Below are the names of organizations recently registered with the Ethics Board as employing one or more individuals to affect state legislation or administrative rules.
Lake Schooner Education Assn Wisconsin
Subject(s): Wisconsin Lake Schooner Education Assn is building a three-masted Great Lakes Schooner to be used as a floating classroom and our state's goodwill ambassador. Its primary purpose will be to teach Wisconsin's youth about our most valuable natural resource, The Great Lakes - while at the same time having an immense benefit to Wisconsin's tourism industry.
Haines, Kimberly
S218
Madison Area Builders Assn
Subject(s): May attempt to influence legislation and administrative rules that involve all aspects of the home-building industry.
Semmann, Michael
Organization's authorization of additional lobbyists:
The following organizations previously registered with the Ethics Board have authorized to act on their behalf these additional licensed lobbyists:
USA Waste Services of Wisconsin
Moore, Thomas E
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.
AFSCME District Council 48
Bau, Fred 6/27/97
Children's Health System, Inc.
Gazzana, Thomas 6/30/97
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
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
June 27, 1997
