Relating to: providing exceptions for dental plans from certain mandated coverages.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler and Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None
.
Senate Bill 454
Relating to: payments for children of recipients of supplemental security income.
Introduction and adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler and Rosenzweig.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Fitzgerald.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler and Rosenzweig.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Fitzgerald.
Senate Bill 480
Relating to: neonatal intensive care unit training grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 495
Relating to: mental health crisis intervention services; requirements for a Level I local health officer; coordination by a local board of health of activities of a sanitarian; fetal death reports; access by a coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner or medical examiner's assistant to patient health care records; confidentiality restrictions on cancer reports; service contracts under community integration programs; eliminating outdated requirements for bed assessments for nursing homes and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded; designation by a nursing home of a person to accept service of notice or mail; required information for licenses for nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating a date for posting notice about the long-term care ombudsman program; eliminating dates for determinations that nursing homes are institutions for mental diseases; resident rights and responsibilities for residents of nursing homes and community-based residential facilities; eliminating dates for requesting and providing information about nursing homes; evaluations of integrated services projects; matching funds requirements for participants in integrated services projects; eliminating a requirement for a plan and report on school-community alcohol and drug abuse prevention and other services; eliminating a requirement that a person investigating a report of suspected or threatened emotional abuse of a child determine that the person responsible for the emotional damage is neglecting, refusing or unable for reasons other than poverty to remedy the harm; and prohibiting an adoptive parent from moving for relief from an order granting adoption or petitioning for a rehearing of such an order (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of health and family services).
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 499
Relating to: funding for the statewide immunization program and making an appropriation.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Moen, Breske, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Fitzgerald.
Noes, 0 - None.
Rodney Moen
Chairperson
S526
The joint committee on
Information Policy reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 351
Relating to: enforcement of interconnection agreements by the public service commission, protections for users of certain telecommunications services, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
Introduction of Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 10 - Senators
Jauch, Moore, Shibilski, Panzer and Rosenzweig. Representatives Hutchison, Kaufert, Vrakas, Schneider and Hanson.
Noes, 0 - None.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate substitute amendment 1.
Ayes, 10 - Senators
Jauch, Moore, Shibilski, Panzer and Rosenzweig. Representatives Hutchison, Kaufert, Vrakas, Schneider and Hanson.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate substitute amendment 1 adoption.
Ayes, 10 - Senators
Jauch, Moore, Shibilski, Panzer and Rosenzweig. Representatives Hutchison, Kaufert, Vrakas, Schneider and Hanson.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 9 - Senators
Jauch, Moore, Shibilski, Panzer and Rosenzweig. Representatives Hutchison, Vrakas, Schneider and Hanson.
Noes, 1 - Representative
Kaufert.
Robert Jauch
Senate Chairperson
The committee on Labor, Transportation and Financial Institutions reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 285
Relating to: the method of determining reductions in general transportation aids for late filing of applications for such aid.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 760
Relating to: issuing regular operator's licenses to drivers licensed to operate certain noncommercial vehicles in another country.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Cockson, Carol J.,
of Altoona, as a member of the Credit Union Review Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2003.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Curran
, James M.,
of Green Bay, as a member of the Banking Review Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2003.
Confirmation.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Plache, Moore, Decker, Zien, Darling and Farrow.
Noes, 0 - None.
Kimberly Plache
Chairperson
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State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
March 17, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate/Legislature:
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.
Bass plc, c/oWmJ MacKnight,Jr,Esq, Wormser Kiely Galef & Jacobs LLP
Subject(s): Seek to amend Section
125.33 of Wisconsin State to clarify that (1) a person which owns or has a financial interest in a brewer may own or have a financial interest in the holder of a Class "B" retail license which is operated as part of a hotel provided certain conditions are met and, (2) an affiliate of a brewer may make loans, lease and/or sell certain types of personal property to the holder of Class "B" retail license which is operated as part of a hotel provided certain conditions are met.
Stenger, Scott
Cigar Association of America Inc
Subject(s): All tobacco legislation.
Moore, Thomas E
Commonweal Mortgage Company
Subject(s): We are interested in A.B. 830, this bill could legislate our company out of business. Many items in the bill are unnecessary and unreasonable. It will effect smaller mortgage brokers and insurance, accounting and financial planning professionals throughout the state.
Hanson, Richard
Concord Communications
Subject(s): Provide telecommunication services for all state agencies.
Essie, Patrick
Pawnbrokers Association Wisconsin
