State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Service
July 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10 (1), Wis. Stat., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the quarterly Health Care Data Report. This report is based on hospital inpatient discharge data reported to the Office of Health Care Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals in Wisconsin for the third quarter of 1997. It also contains selected ambulatory surgery utilization and charge data from general medical-surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin during the same quarter.
This report fulfills the statutory requirement to report "in a manner that permits comparisons among hospitals...the charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups selected by the office."
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Rudolph, Ph.D.
Director - Office of Health Care Information
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Service
July 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10 (1), Wis. Stat., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the quarterly Health Care Data Report. This report is based on hospital inpatient discharge data reported to the Office of Health Care Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals in Wisconsin for the fourth quarter of 1997. It also contains selected ambulatory surgery utilization and charge data from general medical-surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin during the same quarter.
This report fulfills the statutory requirement to report "in a manner that permits comparisons among hospitals...the charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups selected by the office."
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Rudolph, Ph.D.
Director - Office of Health Care Information
State of Wisconsin
Milwaukee Area Technical College
October 28, 1998
The Honorable, The Senate:
Attached is a copy of the information provided to all students, in accordance with Wis. Stats. 38.12.
a. All new students are required to attend a New Student Orientation. During these orientations, detailed information is shared regarding Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment, also these students receive the attached handout.
b. All continuing students receive in the mail the attached flyer.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Mr. Archie Graham, Director of Student Life at (414)297-6870.
Sincerely,
Mr. Archie L. Graham
Director of Student Life
Department of Financial Institutions
November 1, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
On behalf of Department of Financial Institutions Secretary Richard L. Dean and pursuant to Section
13.172(2), Wis. Stats., I am transmitting this report on the open-end consumer credit market in Wisconsin. Pursuant to section
15 of
1995 Wisconsin Act 23, the Department of Financial Institutions was required to review and report on the open-end consumer credit market in Wisconsin by November 1, 1998. The report is submitted below in electronic form as a Microsoft Word document. It is recommended that the report be reviewed in "page layout" view in order to see and easily access footnotes.
If you are unable to access this document, please contact me at (608)266-0450 to obtain a paper copy.
Sincerely,
Lisa M. Roys
Director of Communications
Department of Financial Institutions
State of Wisconsin
Department of Financial Institutions
October 30, 1998
The Honorable, The Legislature:
Pursuant to
1997 Wisconsin Act 306, the Department of Financial Institutions is required to prepare by November 1, 1998, a report to the Joint Committee on Information Policy and the Governor's Commission on the Use of Electronic Signatures. This report is to contain any information and recommendations that the Department considers useful to governmental units in implementing systems to use electronic signatures to authenticate electronic documents submitted to governmental units.
Pursuant to Wis. Stat. Sec. 13.172(3), the Department of Financial Institutions submits this report to the Chief Clerks via
www.esignatures.org - the official website of the Governor's Commission on the Use of Electronic Signatures. On October 19, 1998, the Department presented this report to the commission via this website at the Commission's first meeting.
Sincerely,
Richard L. Dean
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
October 27, 1998
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.
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:
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Liebe, Thomas
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.
MCI Telecommunications Corp.
Brown, George 10/23/98
Sincerely,
Roth Judd
Director
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
November 3, 1998
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.
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:
Wisconsin Electric Power Co
Irwin, Ron
Mueller, H. Carl
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,
Roth Judd
Director
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State of Wisconsin
Revisor of Statutes Bureau
November 1, 1998
To the Honorable, the Senate:
S794
The following rules have been published:
Sincerely,
GARY L. POULSON
Deputy Revisor
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Relating to the operation of rural medical centers.
Submitted by Department of Health and Family Services.
Report received from Agency, October 30, 1998.
