Relating to: animal health testing and diagnosis, creating a veterinary diagnostic laboratory board and making an appropriation.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 14 - Representatives Ott, Petrowski, Hahn, Kestell, Spillner, Suder, Ainsworth, Sykora, Gronemus, Lassa, Plouff, Reynolds, Steinbrink and Waukau.
Noes: 0.
To calendar.
Alvin Ott
Chairperson
Committee on Agriculture
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Speaker's Communications
March 10, 2000
Charles Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
1 East Main Street, Suite 402
P.O. Box 8952
Madison, Wisconsin 53708
Dear Mr. Sanders:
On March 7, 2000,
Assembly Bill 838 relating to:
prohibiting the sale of gasoline to which methyl tertiary butyl ether has been added, was referred to the Assembly Committee on Organization. Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I hereby withdraw
Assembly Bill 838 from the Assembly Committee on Organization and re-refer that bill to the Assembly Committee on Environment.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
Assembly Speaker
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March 10, 2000
Charles Sanders
Assembly Chief Clerk
1 East Main Street, Suite 402
P.O. Box 8952
Madison, Wisconsin 53708
Dear Mr. Sanders:
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On March 7, 2000,
Assembly Bill 846 relating to: payment of judgments in traffic cases and in municipal court and the suspension of operating privileges, was referred to the Assembly Committee on Transportation. Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I hereby withdraw
Assembly Bill 846 from the Assembly Committee on Transportation and re-refer that bill to the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and Personal Privacy.
Representative Brandemuehl has consented to the re-referral.
Sincerely,
Scott R. Jensen
Assembly Speaker
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Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Workforce Development
Madison
February 29, 2000
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
Pursuant to Chapter
109 of Wisconsin Statutes I hereby submit the department's 1999 annual report on business closings and or mass layoffs to you. The report lists all businesses that notified the department in 1999 of planned closings/mass layoffs and complaints the department received of alleged notification infractions. The report indicates the involved business, location, date complaint received, determination issued and disposition of each complaint. Beyond complaints filed in 1999, the updates the disposition of complaints pending at the end of 1998.
At the end of 1998 eleven business closing complaints remained under investigation. One of those complaints against the Menasha Corporation, remains under investigation at this time. The department anticipates completing this investigation by the end of march. Nine of the completed investigations of cases pending at the end of 1998 resulted in findings of no violation. The final completed investigation involving the Louis Allis Company resulted in the documentation of a violation. The Louis Allis case currently is pending in federal bankruptcy court.
In 1999 the department received ten complaints alleging violations of the notification law. The department completed investigation of six of the ten complaints in 1999 or early 2000. In five of the cases the department concluded no violations occurred. In the sixth case, the department initially concluded the company violated the business closing notification requirement. The employer has appealed that ruling and the matter remains under review at this time. The other four complaints remain under investigation at this time.
If you have any questions regarding the information in this report, please contact me.
Sincerely,
Linda Stewart, Ph.D.
Secretary
Referred to committee on Labor and Employment.
