Read first time and referred to committee on Insurance, Tourism, Transportation and Corrections.
Assembly Bill
709
Relating to: regulation of athletic agents, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Wieckert, Underheim, Kreibich, Suder, Ott, Hahn, Albers, Goetsch, Sykora, Musser, Owens, Olsen, Huebsch, Kreuser, Kelso, Pettis, Seratti, Miller, Vrakas, Ainsworth, Kaufert and Plouff; cosponsored by Senators Grobschmidt, Roessler, Welch and Rosenzweig.
Read first time and referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Assembly Bill
718
Relating to: payments to ethanol producers, granting rule-making authority and making an appropriation.
By Representatives Huebsch, Meyer, Hahn, Gronemus, Ott, Schooff, M. Lehman, Ainsworth, Sykora, Freese, Spillner, Skindrud, Pettis, Musser, Boyle and Goetsch; cosponsored by Senators Clausing and Rude.
Read first time and referred to committee on Agriculture, Environmental Resources and Campaign Finance Reform.
Assembly Bill
721
Relating to: assistant district attorney positions and making an appropriation.
By Representatives Kaufert, Sykora, Huber and Underheim; cosponsored by Senators George and Huelsman, by request of Governor Tommy G. Thompson
.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
733
Relating to: using a computer to facilitate having sexual contact or sexual intercourse with a person believed to be a child and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Huber, Walker, Ziegelbauer, Ladwig, Plale, Kaufert, Bock, Gunderson, Wasserman, Musser, J. Lehman, Spillner, Black, Kelso, Hasenohrl, Grothman, Williams, Albers, Gronemus, Sykora, Kreuser and Berceau; cosponsored by Senators Erpenbach, Huelsman, Decker, Schultz, Clausing, Roessler, Robson, Rosenzweig, Baumgart and Darling.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
759
Relating to: premium rates for coverage under the health insurance risk-sharing plan for persons who are eligible for medicare.
By Representatives Underheim, Albers, Urban, Owens, Olsen, Musser, Goetsch and Gunderson; cosponsored by Senators Rosenzweig, Breske and Roessler.
Read first time and referred to committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Assembly Bill
773
Relating to: threatening to cause death to another and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Sykora, Reynolds, Musser, Ainsworth and Brandemuehl; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Zien, Roessler and Drzewiecki.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
780
Relating to: providing infrared optical equipment to the civil air patrol and making an appropriation.
By Representatives Sykora, Musser, Pettis, Petrowski, Ryba, Hasenohrl, Hebl, Albers, Stone, Ott, Brandemuehl, Gunderson, Kelso and Gronemus; cosponsored by Senators Schultz and Zien.
Read first time and referred to committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Relating to: detention of persons placed on conditional release after being found not guilty of a crime by reason of mental disease and defect.
By Representative
Walker
; cosponsored by Senator Breske
.
Read first time and referred to committee on Insurance, Tourism, Transportation and Corrections.
Assembly Bill
840
Relating to: school board contracts with University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical college district boards to operate charter schools.
By Representatives Duff, Rhoades and Albers; cosponsored by Senator Darling
, by request of Governor Tommy G. Thompson.
Read first time and referred to committee on Education.
Assembly Bill
842
Relating to: certain applicants for preference points under the cumulative preference system for issuing Class A bear hunting licenses.
By Representatives Gunderson, Suder, Johnsrud, Musser, Gronemus, Pettis, Goetsch, Albers and Sykora; cosponsored by Senator Plache
.
Read first time and referred to committee on Agriculture, Environmental Resources and Campaign Finance Reform.
Assembly Bill
847
Relating to: documentation of agricultural credit transactions and granting rule-making authority.
By Representatives Gronemus, Freese, Petrowski, Ryba, Seratti, Plouff, Ott, Sykora, Pettis, Albers, Goetsch and Porter; cosponsored by Senators George and Schultz.
Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary and Consumer Affairs.
Assembly Bill
853
Relating to: authorizing the creation of a local cultural arts district; granting a property tax exemption for the district's property; granting a sales tax and use tax exemption for tangible personal property and services purchased by the district; giving a local cultural arts district the authority to issue bonds and granting income tax exemptions for interest income on bonds issued by the district; authorizing certain local cultural arts districts to acquire property by condemnation; and authorizing the Wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority to issue bonds to finance certain cultural arts facilities.
By Representatives Underheim and Miller; cosponsored by Senator Risser
.
Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization.
Assembly Bill
860
Relating to: references to the Internal Revenue Code for income tax and franchise tax purposes, withholding income taxes from the amount paid to purchase the assignment of a lottery prize and requiring the lottery administrator to report to the department of revenue the federal income tax number of an assignee.
By Representative
Gard
; cosponsored by Senator Burke
, by request of Department of Revenue
.
Read first time and referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Assembly Bill
871
Relating to: assigning a judgment in a tax foreclosure action.
By Representative
Duff
; cosponsored by Senator Burke
.
Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization.
Assembly Bill
902
Relating to: increasing the family income that an individual may have to be eligible for the medical leave premium subsidy program; changing the term "informal conference" to "case conference" for resolution of appeals of alleged violations by certain facilities; additional medical assistance payments to a hospital that qualifies as a disproportionate share hospital; the amounts of revenues in excess of allowable costs that may be retained by nonprofit providers of rate-based services under contracts with the department of health and family services or with certain county departments; requiring the presence of a manager or his or her agent at certain times in specifically classified community-based residential facilities; funding for fiscal year 1993-94 for pilot alcohol and other drug abuse treatment program for hearing-impaired individuals; funding for social services and mental hygiene services for American Indians; the provision of financial information by a parent of a child who is placed in substitute care; the licensing of foster homes; the conditions that must be met for a person to receive kinship care or long-term kinship care payments; and granting rule-making authority (suggested as remedial legislation by the department of health and family services).
By Law Revision Committee.
Read first time and referred to committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Assembly Bill
941
Relating to: financial assistance for an air carrier that operates from a hub facility, creating an airport financing committee, granting rule-making authority and making appropriations.
By Representatives Stone, Jensen, Gard, Duff, Walker, Jeskewitz, Klusman, Wieckert, Kaufert, Kedzie, Townsend, Seratti, Skindrud, Kelso and Vrakas.
Read first time and referred to committee on Economic Development, Housing and Government Operations.
Assembly Bill
942
Relating to: providing a supplement for hourly medical assistance reimbursement rates for in-home personal care services workers, individual income tax modifications for medical insurance premiums and making an appropriation.
By Representative
Gard
.
Read first time and referred to committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
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Senate Resolution 7
Relating to: commending the University of Wisconsin women's basketball team on its recent WNIT tournament appearance.
Read.
Senator Darling, with unanimous consent, asked that all members of the Senate be made coauthors of Senate Resolution 7.
Senator Darling, with unanimous consent, asked that all members of the Senate be made coauthors of Senate Resolution 8.
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Senator Darling, with unanimous consent, asked that all members of the Senate be made coauthors of
Senate Resolution 9.
Senate amendment 1 to Senate Resolution 7 offered by Senators Erpenbach and Risser.
The question was: Adoption of Senate amendment 1 to Senate Resolution 7?
Adopted.
The question was: Adoption of Senate Resolution 7?
Adopted.
Senate Resolution 8
Relating to: commending the University of Wisconsin (UW) men's hockey team on its accomplishments during the 1999-2000 hockey season.
Read.
Adopted.
Senate Resolution 9
Relating to: commending the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team on its participation in its first Final Four competition in 59 years.
Read.
