Passed.
Senate Bill 459
Relating to: vacating or discontinuing public access to lakes and streams.
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 462
Relating to: requirements for driver education courses.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate Bill 462
Read a third time and passed.
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).
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Moen, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate Bill 468
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 490
Relating to: Downer Woods on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate Bill 490
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 493
Relating to: grants to teachers who are certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
Read a second time.
Senator Burke, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 493 be referred to the Joint Committee on Finance.
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.
Read a second time.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 351?
Adopted.
Senate amendment 2 to Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 351 offered by Senators Jauch and Panzer.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 2 to Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 351?
Adopted.
The question was: Adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 351?
Adopted.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate Bill 351
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 494
Relating to: suspension of licenses, permits and other credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and other credential applications and on certain documents concerning marriage and children; creating a record matching program to match information about delinquent child support obligors with financial account information of financial institutions; creating a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability support program and cooperation with child support efforts under Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance, adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other technical changes related to child support enforcement; access to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health care coverage for a child; hospital-based voluntary establishment of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; access by county child support employes to tax information; acknowledgment of paternity; procedure, temporary orders and probable cause in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement; intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from court judgments and settlements; granting rulemaking authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty.
Read a second time.
Senator Burke, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 494 be referred to the Joint Committee on Finance.
Senator Burke, with unanimous consent, asked that the rules be suspended and that Senate Bill
494 be withdrawn from the Joint Committee on Finance and taken up at this time.
Read a second time.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 494 be placed at the foot of the 11th order of business on the calendar of March 19, 1998.
Senate Bill 360
Relating to: allowing brewers and alcohol beverage wholesalers to contribute money or things of value to or for the benefit of certain festivals held in 2nd class cities.
Read a second time.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill 360?
Adopted.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Chvala, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate Bill 360
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 21; noes, 11; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Burke, Chvala, Clausing, Decker, George, Grobschmidt, Huelsman, Jauch, Moen, Moore, Plache, C. Potter, Risser, Rosenzweig, Rude, Shibilski, Welch, Wineke, Wirch and Zien - 21.
Noes - Senators Cowles, Darling, Drzewiecki, Ellis, Farrow, Fitzgerald, A. Lasee, Panzer, Roessler, Schultz and Weeden - 11.
Absent or not voting - None.
Passed.
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).
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Moen, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 496
Relating to: ozone-depleting refrigerant and mobile air conditioners.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Moen, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate Bill 496
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 40
Relating to: the election of certain persons to a city, village or town planning commission.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Moen, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senate Bill 40
Read a third time and passed.
Senate Bill 494
Relating to: suspension of licenses, permits and other credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and other credential applications and on certain documents concerning marriage and children; creating a record matching program to match information about delinquent child support obligors with financial account information of financial institutions; creating a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability support program and cooperation with child support efforts under Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance, adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other technical changes related to child support enforcement; access to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health care coverage for a child; hospital-based voluntary establishment of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; access by county child support employes to tax information; acknowledgment of paternity; procedure, temporary orders and probable cause in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement; intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from court judgments and settlements; granting rulemaking authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty.
Senator Moen, with unanimous consent, asked that Senate Bill 494 be placed after Assembly Bill 669 on the calendar of March 19, 1998.
Senator Moore, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 494.
