To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
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Assembly Bill 626
Relating to: prohibiting the expenditure of University of Wisconsin System funds to send family and friends of faculty and staff and nonessential personnel to events.
By
Representatives Skindrud, Albers, Carpenter, Goetsch, Gronemus, Nass, Plouff, Pettis, Stone, Suder and Townsend; cosponsored by Senator A. Lasee
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To committee on State Affairs.
Assembly Bill 627
Relating to: registration of reductions in certain air emissions and granting rule-making authority.
By
Representatives Kaufert, Bock, Turner, Plouff, Black, J. Lehman, Pocan, Miller and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators Burke, Cowles, Clausing, Rosenzweig, Darling and Roessler.
To committee on Environment.
Assembly Bill 628
Relating to: the number of school districts to which a pupil may apply under the open enrollment program.
By
Representatives La Fave, Duff, Montgomery, M. Lehman, Bock, Sinicki, Staskunas, J. Lehman, Nass, Gunderson, Goetsch, Walker, Gronemus, Musser and Ryba; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Grobschmidt and Panzer.
To committee on Education Reform
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Assembly Bill 629
Relating to: creating a loan program for teachers and orientation and mobility instructors of visually impaired pupils, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Brandemuehl, Olsen, Kestell, Nass, Musser, Ainsworth, Plale, Wood, Albers, Spillner, Sykora, M. Lehman, Freese, Stone and Gronemus; cosponsored by Senators Grobschmidt, Breske, Rosenzweig, Wirch, Baumgart and Schultz.
To committee on Colleges and Universities
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Assembly Bill 630
Relating to: designating personal care shortage areas, reimbursement for losses in the provision of personal care services, providing a supplement for hourly medical assistance reimbursement rates for in-home personal care services workers, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority and making appropriations.
By
Representatives Meyer, Krusick, Plouff, Waukau, Balow, Black, Schooff, Schneider, Travis, Meyerhofer, Lassa, Gunderson, Johnsrud, Colon, Berceau, Huebsch, Hebl, Huber, Musser, Young, Riley, Sykora, Olsen, Turner, La Fave, Bock, Ott, Kreibich, Boyle, Albers, Carpenter, Kreuser, J. Lehman, Handrick, Gronemus, Hasenohrl, Miller, Pocan, Ryba, Richards, Sinicki, Plale, Reynolds, Steinbrink, Krug, Wasserman, Cullen, Coggs, Hubler, Sherman, Staskunas, Ziegelbauer, Williams and Rhoades; cosponsored by Senators Moen, Wirch, Clausing, Erpenbach, Plache, Rude, Robson, Risser, Burke, Drzewiecki, Grobschmidt, Breske, Roessler, Shibilski, Rosenzweig and George.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 631
Relating to: eliminating the school levy tax credit, and guaranteed aid for primary costs and weighting children at risk for equalization aid purposes.
By
Representatives Plouff, Musser, Bock, Gronemus, Hasenohrl, Krug, Lassa, J. Lehman, Miller, Reynolds, Richards, Riley, Ryba and Sykora; cosponsored by Senators Burke, Clausing, Erpenbach, Moen, Moore, Plache and Schultz.
To committee on Ways and Means.
Assembly Bill 632
Relating to: prohibiting the use of funds for family planning services and pregnancy counseling to prescribe, dispense or administer a contraceptive prescription drug or device to a minor without parental notification.
By
Representatives Grothman, Owens, Jensen, Gundrum, Gunderson, Albers, Hahn, Handrick, Huebsch, Kestell, Kreibich, Nass, Pettis, Leibham, Petrowski, Urban, Sykora, Vrakas, Walker, Wieckert, Ziegelbauer, Suder and Spillner; cosponsored by Senators Lazich, Farrow, Drzewiecki, A. Lasee and Welch.
To committee on Family Law.
Relating to: the involuntary commitment of prisoners for mental health treatment.
By
Representatives Urban, Underheim, Bock, Vrakas, Turner, Olsen, Ryba, F. Lasee, Kreuser, Sykora, Gronemus, Skindrud, Plouff, Spillner, Kestell, Hundertmark and Owens; cosponsored by Senators George, Huelsman, Roessler, Rosenzweig and Darling.
To committee on Corrections and the Courts
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Assembly Bill 634
Relating to: the liability of married persons filing a joint income tax return, the payment of the alternate fuel tax and the tobacco products tax, reducing nondelinquent taxes, rounding dollar amounts to whole dollars on all tax returns, allowing a mathematical computation of sales and use taxes, items used exclusively for tax-exempt purposes, paying taxes with a credit card, extending the time for filing a tax withholding report, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives M. Lehman and Wood; cosponsored by Senators Wirch and Drzewiecki, by request of Department of Revenue.
To committee on Ways and Means.
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Governor's Veto Message
December 23, 1999
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I am vetoing Assembly Bill 189 in its entirety. This decision comes after receiving strong feedback from several hundred parishioners and parish leaders in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee regarding the harmful impact this legislation could have on the ongoing dispute over current parish mergers in that Archdiocese. My concern is not over whether the mergers might be warranted, but that this legislation would insert the state in the middle of a merger process that has already started.
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the people of the parishes involved in the merger process each make strong arguments. I understand that merging and closing parishes is always a difficult decision for church leaders. But the state should not be changing the rules on parish consolidations in the Roman Catholic Church in Wisconsin in the middle of a existing merger process.
I am more than willing to revisit this issue in the next session of the Legislature if legislation can be crafted to address the concerns of the Catholic Church in Wisconsin while not affecting existing mergers.
Sincerely,
Tommy G. Thompson
Governor
