Wednesday, January 13, 1999
Ninety-Fourth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 1
Relating to: requiring the department of employe trust funds to establish a health care coverage plan for employers in the private sector, creating a private employer health care coverage board and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Moen, Rosenzweig, Burke, Robson, Welch, Breske, Chvala, Roessler, Plache, Clausing, Baumgart, Decker, Fitzgerald, George, Erpenbach, Wirch, Moore, Jauch, Risser and Grobschmidt; cosponsored by Representatives Musser, Krug, Seratti, Bock, Kreuser, Travis, La Fave, Kreibich, Schooff, Gronemus, Black, Miller, Handrick, Staskunas, Boyle, Plouff, Sykora, J. Lehman, Hahn, Lassa, Ryba, Plale, Balow, Ainsworth, Wasserman, Hebl, Huber, Carpenter, Goetsch, Turner, Pocan, Ziegelbauer, Berceau, Albers, Hasenohrl, Meyer, Sinicki, Olsen, Meyerhofer, Colon, Richards, Sherman, Cullen, Wood, Schneider, Steinbrink, Williams, Riley, Coggs, Pettis, Hundertmark, Hubler, Krusick, Young, Kelso and Reynolds.
To committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 2
Relating to: increasing a school district's revenue limit by the amount spent for school security measures.
By
Senators
Jauch, Baumgart, Breske, Plache, George, Risser and Clausing; cosponsored by Representatives Black, Cullen, J. Lehman, Wasserman, Miller, Bock, Young, Turner, Staskunas, Krusick, Plouff, Reynolds, Kreuser, Ryba and Gronemus.
To committee on Education.
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State of Wisconsin
January 11, 1999
The Honorable, The Senate:
Pursuant to Senate Rule
20(2)(a) and
(b), I have appointed Senator Roger Breske to the Joint Survey committee on Tax Exemptions.
Sincerely,
Chuck Chvala
Chair, Committee on Senate Organization
State of Wisconsin
January 11, 1999
The Honorable, The Senate:
Pursuant to
1997 Wisconsin Act 27, s.
9156(2m), I have appointed Michael Kittleson of Blair to the Benevolent Retirement Home for the Aged Task Force.
Sincerely,
Chuck Chvala
Chair, Committee on Senate Organization
State of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
January 7, 1999
The Honorable, The Senate:
Enclosed are copies of the annual audit of the Educational Communications Board Radio and Television networks as prepared by the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau. These audits are being submitted to your office to satisfy the requirements of s.39.11(17m) which reads:
The Educational Communications Board shall maintain annual records of its expenditures for programming purposes by type of programming and by source of revenue. By December 1, 1981, and annually thereafter, the Educational Communications Board shall submit to the Governor and to the Chief Clerk of each house of the legislature, for distribution to the legislature under s.13.172(2), a report on all of the boards sources of revenue by source and amount.
If further information is required please contact me at (608) 264-9667.
Sincerely,
Ted Tobie
Associate Director of Finance and Administration
State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
January 12, 1999
The Honorable, The Legislature:
We have completed an evaluation of the Community Youth and Family Aids Program, commonly referred to as the Youth Aids program. Youth Aids is the State's primary means of providing counties with direct assistance to fund county juvenile delinquency services. In 1997, the program funded 45.4 percent of the $181.4 million counties spent on juvenile delinquency services.
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Because total juvenile delinquency expenditures statewide have increased at a faster rate than Youth Aids funding, the percentage of juvenile delinquency service costs funded by Youth Aids has fallen over time. In addition, because the formula used to allocate most Youth Aids funding has not been modified or updated since 1981, state-provided county funding has become less connected to need. If the same formula were used with more current data, the distribution pattern would change: funding would increase for 14 counties and decrease for the other 58.
An increasing portion of county Youth Aids allocations is being spent on correctional costs. From 1992 to 1998, the daily rate counties were charged for sending youth to state-operated juvenile correctional institutions increased 42.5 percent, from $108.75 to $154.94, in response to increasing operational costs, the addition of specialized institutions, and declining juvenile populations.
Based on concerns about increases in juvenile delinquency costs, the Legislature has, in recent years, taken steps to assist counties by: 1) increasing the State's responsibility for paying juvenile delinquency costs, and 2) creating less-costly alternatives to out-of-home placements, especially juvenile correctional institutions. To date, however, these initiatives have had limited financial success for counties. We include alternatives the Legislature my wish to consider in addressing county concerns about Youth Aids funding.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by the Department of Corrections. The Department's response is Appendix III.
Sincerely,
Janice Mueller
State Auditor
State of Wisconsin
Department of Revenue
January 7, 1999
The Honorable, The Legislature:
I am submitting the quarterly report of the Wisconsin Lottery for the quarter ending December 31, 1998. As required by s.
565.37(3), Wis. Stats., the attached materials contain Wisconsin Lottery year to date sales and financial information.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this report, please feel free to contact me at (608) 266-6466.
Sincerely,
