Senate Bill 408
Relating to: regulation of and enforcement against large price-regulated telecommunications utilities, termination of certain telecommunications contracts, telecommunications unbundling and interconnection requirements, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
By
Senator
Robson
; cosponsored by Representative Powers
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To committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.
Senate Bill 409
Relating to: a property tax exemption for restaurant kitchen equipment.
By
Senators
M. Meyer, Darling, Welch, Lazich and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Bies, Plale, Kedzie, Krawczyk, Gard, Pettis, Ladwig, Ziegelbauer, Ainsworth, Musser, Grothman, Seratti, Sykora, Starzyk, Owens, Schooff, McCormick, Leibham, Freese, Petrowski, Gunderson, Vrakas, Jeskewitz, Stone, Ott, Suder, F. Lasee, Gronemus and Underheim.
To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions.
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The committee on Economic Development and Corrections reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 384
Relating to: permitting the period for which a serious juvenile offender program participant may be placed in a juvenile secured correctional facility to be extended; prohibiting a juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent from being transferred to an adult prison; permitting a juvenile who has been sentenced as an adult to be transferred to an adult prison on reaching 15 years of age; permitting a juvenile to be placed in a juvenile secured correctional facility only until the juvenile reaches 18 years of age; and requiring the juvenile court, when placing a juvenile who has been adjudged delinquent outside the home or when denying parental visitation with such a juvenile, to warn the parents of any applicable termination of parental rights grounds and of the conditions necessary for the juvenile to be returned to the home or for the parent to be granted visitation.
Introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Jauch, M. Meyer and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 3 - Senators
Jauch, M. Meyer and Zien.
Noes, 0 - None.
Robert Jauch
Chairperson
The joint committee on Finance reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 395
Relating to: temporary supplemental unemployment insurance benefits and certain other changes to the unemployment insurance law.
Passage.
Ayes, 15 - Senators
Burke, Decker, Moore, Shibilski, Plache, Wirch, Darling and Rosenzweig. Representatives Gard, Kaufert, Hoven, Duff, Ward, Huebsch and Huber.
Noes, 0 - None.
Brian Burke
Senate Chairperson
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The committee on
Labor and Agriculture reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 742
Relating to: temporary supplemental unemployment insurance benefits and certain other changes to the unemployment insurance law.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Hansen, Decker, Baumgart, A. Lasee and Harsdorf.
Noes, 0 - None.
David Hansen
Chairperson
The committee on Senate Organization reports and recommends:
Senate Joint Resolution 58
Relating to: recognizing February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day.
Adoption.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Chvala, Risser, Moen, Panzer and A. Lasee.
Noes, 0 - None.
Charles Chvala
Chairperson
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executive order #39
Relating to the Creation of the Governor's Task Force on Small Business Regulatory Reform
WHEREAS, small business is Wisconsin's largest employer and greatest generator of jobs; and
WHEREAS, Wisconsin's 100,000 small businesses are a key sector of Wisconsin's economy, providing more than 1.2 million jobs and $21 billion in payroll income; and
WHEREAS, 96 percent of Wisconsin businesses employ fewer than 100 employees; and
WHEREAS, regulations can be disproportionately burdensome to small businesses which have limited resources to meet the high costs of compliance in comparison to larger businesses;
NOW, THEREFORE, I SCOTT McCALLUM, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of this State, and specifically by Section
14.019 of the Wisconsin Statutes, do hereby:
1. Create the Governor's Task Force on Small Business Regulatory Reform (hereinafter "Task Force") consisting of twelve (12) members appointed by the Governor to serve at the pleasure of the Governor; and
2. Provide that the Governor shall designate two (2) members of the Task Force as Co-chairs to serve at the pleasure of the Governor; and
3. Provide that the Task Force shall have the following mission:
a. Examine the existing statutory provisions, administrative rules and other state policies related to the regulatory process and recommend actions or legislative changes needed to ensure efficient and cost effective regulations; and
b.Assure smaller businesses achieve regulatory compliance without unnecessary expense or inconvenience; and
c. Review ways to reduce the negative impact of state rules and regulations on small businesses; and
4. Require state agencies to analyze the impact of their regulatory actions on small entities and determine if a rule will have a significant economic impact on a substantial level of small businesses; and
5. Direct the Department of Commerce to provide staff support to the Task Force; and
6. Direct the Department of Administration to provide the Task Force with such sums of money as are necessary for travel and operating expenses in accordance with Section
20.505(3)(a) of the Wisconsin Statutes; and
7. Provide that the Task Force issue a report to the Governor within one year of the first meeting date; and
8. Provide that the Task Force shall dissolve when its final report is accepted by the Governor.
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 twenty-second day of January in the year two thousand and two.
SCOTT McCALLUM
Governor
By the governor:
DOUGLAS LA FOLLETTE
Secretary of State
State of Wisconsin
January 22, 2002
The Honorable, The Senate:
I am writing in regards to Senate Bill 379.
According to Joint Rules, I am required to contact your office in writing to have my name removed as a co-sponsor of a Senate Bill that still resides within the Senate. I would like to have my name removed as a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 379.
Thank you in advance. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 266-3363.
Sincerely,
Representative Scott Gunderson
83rd District
Wisconsin State Assembly
State of Wisconsin
January 29, 2002
The Honorable, The Senate:
Please remove my name as cosponsor of Senate Bill 389, relating to changing the definition of abortion for informed consent to an abortion and for parental consent to a minor's abortion.
Sincerely,
Representative Mark D. Gundrum
