By
Senators
Drzewiecki, Grobschmidt, Plache, C. Potter, Moen, Panzer, Darling, Burke, Farrow, Breske, Weeden, Fitzgerald, Rude, Cowles, Ellis, Roessler and A. Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives Ryba, Zukowski, Porter, Kunicki, Urban, Otte, Hahn, Dobyns, Turner, Kedzie, Seratti, Ladwig, Owens, Walker, Notestein, R. Young, Green, Plale, Baldwin, Murat and Springer.
To committee on Senate Organization.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 468
Relating to: eliminating obsolete language and provisions from the statutes governing public schools and the department of public instruction (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of public instruction).
By
Law Revision Committee.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 469
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
Senators
Burke, Chvala, Darling, Decker, Drzewiecki, Fitzgerald, Grobschmidt, Huelsman, Panzer, Rude, Welch, Wineke and Zien; cosponsored by Representatives Gard, Albers, Baldwin, Dobyns, Duff, Green, Grothman, Hahn, Handrick, Hanson, Jensen, Johnsrud, Kaufert, F. Lasee, Musser, Olsen, Porter, Riley, Schafer, Seratti, Sykora, Travis, Walker, Ward, L. Young and Ziegelbauer.
To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions.
Senate Bill 470
Relating to: operating a motor vehicle with a suspended or revoked operating privilege, habitual traffic offenders, penalties involving sanctions against an operating privilege or operator's license, the revocation of operating privileges and vehicle registrations for failure to deposit security and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Huelsman, Risser, Darling, Grobschmidt, Rosenzweig, Weeden and Wineke; cosponsored by Representatives R. Young, Otte, Riley, Hahn, Bock, Green, Grothman, Hanson, Harsdorf, Kedzie, La Fave, F. Lasee, J. Lehman, Notestein, Plouff, Powers, Staskunas, Ziegelbauer and Baldwin.
To committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
Senate Bill 471
Relating to: protection against retaliation for reporting to any state official abuse or neglect in certain facilities, providing a cause of action and providing a penalty.
By
Senators
Roessler, Moen, Breske, Clausing, Drzewiecki, A. Lasee, Moore, Plache, Rosenzweig and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Baldwin, Underheim, Krusick, Baumgart, Bock, Boyle, Carpenter, Dobyns, Duff, Goetsch, Gunderson, Hahn, Hanson, Hasenohrl, Hebl, Huber, Kelso, Ladwig, Lazich, Lorge, Morris-Tatum, Murat, Notestein, Olsen, Ourada, Plale, Plouff, R. Potter, Powers, Riley, Robson, Ryba, Seratti, Springer, Sykora, Turner, Wasserman, L. Young and R. Young.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 472
Relating to: the distribution of an income tax refund to formerly married persons.
By
Senators
Roessler, Huelsman and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Harsdorf, Olsen, Urban, Dobyns, Huber, Gronemus, Goetsch, Owens, Notestein, Musser, Albers, Brandemuehl, F. Lasee, Bock, Ladwig, Plouff, Seratti, Ainsworth, Powers, Meyer and Murat.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 473
Relating to: a periodic study of the public schools.
By
Senator
Jauch
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To committee on Education.
Relating to: solvency contribution rates applicable to certain employers for unemployment insurance purposes in 1998, unemployment insurance information technology systems and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Plache and Zien; cosponsored by Representatives Vrakas and Vander Loop.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 475
Relating to: requiring cost-benefit analyses in the rule-promulgation process.
By
Senators
Welch, Farrow, Schultz, A. Lasee and Drzewiecki; cosponsored by Representatives Grothman, Musser, Porter, Dobyns, Ainsworth, Zukowski, Albers, Goetsch, Kreuser, Owens, Springer, Walker, F. Lasee and Underheim.
To committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 476
Relating to: requirements concerning participation by labor organizations in public construction contracts and the expenditure of public grant moneys.
By
Senator
Welch
; cosponsored by Representatives Owens, Grothman, Seratti, Ladwig, Ainsworth, F. Lasee, Nass and Schafer.
To committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions.
Senate Bill 477
Relating to: training certificates for barbers, cosmetologists, barbering or cosmetology instructors, aestheticians, electrologists and manicurists and providing a penalty.
By
Senator
Moore
; cosponsored by Representatives L. Young, Riley, Williams and Turner.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Aging, Corrections, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 478
Relating to: grants to political subdivisions for landfill cleanups, a municipal landfill cleanup fee, granting bonding authority, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations.
By
Senators
Clausing, Roessler, Wirch and Burke; cosponsored by Representatives Harsdorf, Black, Hoven, Baumgart, Sykora, Hasenohrl, Vrakas, Notestein, Musser, Robson and Otte.
To committee on Agriculture and Environmental Resources.
Senate Bill 479
Relating to: The tuition revenue expenditure authority of the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System and making an appropriation.
By
Senator
Jauch
; cosponsored by Representatives Plouff, Bock, Turner, F. Lasee, Meyer, Notestein, Nass, Hasenohrl and Baldwin.
To committee on Education.
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The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 417
Relating to: creating a Family, Communities and Schools Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
C. Potter, Jauch, Shibilski, Grobschmidt, Darling and Roessler.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Huelsman and Fitzgerald.
Calvin Potter
Chairperson
The committee on Utility Regulation reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 474
Relating to: contracts between gas utilities and individual customers.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Clausing, Shibilski, Rude, Welch and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Rodney Moen
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District
February 19, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate:
Enclosed please find the Miller Park monthly progress report for the month of January 1998 for your review and consideration.
Miller Park continues to move forward toward our "four for four" objectives of building a quality facility, on time, within budget and with meaningful community participation.
•With over 70% of our design completed, we are confident that Miller Park will meet or exceed our expectations, and will ensure the success of Major League Baseball in Wisconsin for generations to come.
•With approximately 30% of our construction efforts completed, we remain on schedule for playing ball in Miller Park on opening day in the year 2000.
•Miller Park continues to remain on budget. We have not experienced any rising costs or cost overruns. Our project budget today is exactly the same as the budget we adopted prior to breaking ground in the fall of 1996.
•Minority-owned businesses have received 24.3% and women-owned businesses have received 4.8% of total Miller Park project expenditures to date. We are well on our way toward meeting our goals and objectives of 25% and 5% respectively.
•Through late 1997, 18 of our 22 prime construction contracts are with state of Wisconsin firms. Furthermore, 74 of our 76 first tier construction subcontracts are with state of Wisconsin firms.
All of the above facts indicate the successes we continue to experience in the construction of Miller Park. Please feel free to contact me if you should have any questions or comments regarding the enclosed progress report.
Sincerely,
Michael R. Duckett, P.E.,R.L.S.
Director
