WHEREAS, the Budget therein contains a provision and appropriation for the Public Service Commission (hereinafter "PSC") for the expenditure of $6.9 Million from the PSC's Universal Service Fund (hereinafter "USF"); and
WHEREAS, as part of this $6.9 Million appropriation the PSC is instructed to expend $40,000 to establish and support the use of voice mail by homeless persons;
NOW, THEREFORE, I SCOTT McCALLUM, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by Federal and State law, do hereby:
Direct the PSC to not expend any funds over this biennium for the funding of voice mail for the homeless.
2.
Direct the PSC to redirect, where permissible under the laws of Wisconsin, such monies for the purpose of funding programs that serve to provide food, shelter, health care or other related services to homeless persons.
3.
Direct the PSC, in accordance with its authority, to suspend any administrative rule or provision providing for the funding of voice mail service for the homeless.
IN TESTIMONY WHERE OF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the city of Madison this seventeenth day of August in the year two thousand and one.
SCOTT McCALLUM
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
August 17, 2001
To the Honorable, the Senate:
The following bill(s), originating in the Senate, have been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Sincerely,
Scott McCallum
Governor
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
August 10, 2001
The Honorable, The Senate:
As required in Sections
227.485(9) and
814.245(10) of the Wis. Stats., I am submitting the report concerning decisions and resulting payments of attorney fees and related legal costs. Attorney fees and other legal costs are to be paid whenever the opposing party to an agency's Chapter
227 hearing prevails and it is determined the agency's position was not substantially justified. Payments for SFY 2001 are shown on the attached schedule.
In addition, the Department is required to report any awards granted to the Department regarding frivolous motions brought against this Department. If the hearing examiner determines that the motion of the opposing party in any Chapter
227 contested case is frivolous, the examiner may award the state agency all reasonable costs in responding to the motion. In SFY 2001, no motions of opposing parties were found to be frivolous. Consequently, the Department has no awards to report.
Sincerely,
Phyllis Dube
Secretary
Department of Health and Family Services
August 13, 2001
The Honorable, The Senate:
The Bureau of Health Information, Department of Health and Family Services, is pleased to submit to the Governor and the Legislature the Annual Health Care Data Report, 1998. The data for this report were collected under section 153.05, Wisconsin Statutes, and are published as authorized by the requirements of section 120.20, Wisconsin Administrative Code.
This report is based on data reported quarterly to the Bureau of Health Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals and Medicare-certified, freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin. It presents a summary of data on utilization and charges at those facilities in 1998.
Sincerely,
Phyllis J. Dube
Secretary
State of Wisconsin
Ethics Board
August 21, 2001
The Honorable, The Senate:
The following lobbyists have been authorized to act on behalf of the organizations set opposite their names.
For more detailed information about these lobbyists and organizations and a complete list of organizations and people authorized to lobby the 2001 session of the legislature, visit the Ethics Board's web site at
http://ethics.state.wi.us/
Bentley, Marc S Freight, Lime & Sand Hauling Inc.
Boyce, Catherine Curative Rehabilitation Services
Cole, Darnell Milwaukee Area Technical College
Julius, Buddy Ameritech (Wis Bell Inc)
McCoshen, William J Development Association Inc, The
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 organizations that employ lobbyists.
Sincerely,
Roth Judd
Director
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Relating to the allocation of volume cap on tax-exempt private activity bonds.
Submitted by Department of Commerce.
Report received from Agency, August 16, 2001.
Referred to committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations, August 22, 2001
.
Relating to the scheduling of dihydroetorphine under ch.
961, Stats., the uniform controlled substances act.
Submitted by Department of Regulation and Licensing.
Report received from Agency, August 17, 2001.
Referred to committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs, August 22, 2001
.
Relating to the teacher education loan program.
Submitted by Higher Educational Aids Board.
Report received from Agency, August 21, 2001.
Referred to committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations, August 22, 2001
.
Relating to the teacher of the visually impaired loan program.
Submitted by Higher Educational Aids Board.
Report received from Agency, August 21, 2001.
Referred to committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations, August 22, 2001
.
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The committee on Environmental Resources reports and recommends:
Relating to control of particulate matter emissions.
No action taken.
Relating to the cooperating forester program and private forestry priorities for assistance.
No action taken.
Relating to administration of the forest crop law and the managed forest law.
No action taken.
Jim Baumgart
Chairperson
The committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations reports and recommends:
