Submitted by Department of Health and Family Services.
Report received from Agency, July 7, 2003.
To committee on Health.
Referred on July 15, 2003
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 433
Relating to: authorizing cities, villages, towns, and counties to suspend their compliance with certain state mandates.
By
Representatives Balow, Gronemus, Bies, Staskunas and Plouff; cosponsored by Senators Plale and A. Lasee.
To committee on Urban and Local Affairs
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Assembly Bill 434
Relating to: limiting the corporate income tax deduction for compensation paid to an employee.
By
Representatives Pocan, Berceau, Black, Boyle, J. Lehman, Miller, Musser, Plouff, Schneider, Sinicki and Taylor; cosponsored by Senators Risser, Carpenter and Chvala.
To committee on Ways and Means.
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The committee on Health reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 383
Relating to: a Medical Assistance family planning demonstration project minimum age eligibility limitation change.
Reported without recommendation pursuant to s.
227.26 (2)(h), of the Wisconsin Statutes.
To committee on Rules.
Gregg Underheim
Chairperson
Committee on Health
The committee on Highway Safety reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 161
Relating to: the use of a flashing or rotating amber light on certain motor trucks.
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Petrowski, Bies, Van Roy, Musser, Young, Staskunas and Shilling.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Jerry Petrowski
Chairperson
Committee on Highway Safety
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The committee on Natural Resources reports and recommends:
Relating to the regulation of baiting and feeding to control and manage chronic wasting disease.
Objection:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Gunderson, Pettis, Bies, Krawczyk, M. Williams, Gronemus and Steinbrink.
Noes: 4 - Representatives Johnsrud, Ott, Black and Miller.
To joint committee for review of Administrative Rules
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DuWayne Johnsrud
Chairperson
Committee on Natural Resources
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Speaker's Communications
July 14, 2003
Mr. Patrick Fuller
Chief Clerk
Wisconsin State Assembly
Room 208, Risser Justice Center
17 West Main Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53708
Dear Patrick:
Pursuant to Assembly Rule
42 (3)(c), I am withdrawing
Assembly Bill 432 from the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and re-referring it to the Assembly Committee on Tourism. I have the consent of Representative DuWayne Johnsrud, chairman of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, to take this action.
Please call Ellen Nowak of my office if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
John G. Gard
Speaker
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Chief Clerk Reports
The Chief Clerk records:
Assembly Bill 378
Presented to the Governor on Monday, July 14.
Patrick E. Fuller
Assembly Chief Clerk
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Executive Communications
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
Madison
July 15, 2003
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
The following bill, originating in the Assembly, has been approved, signed and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State:
Bill Number Act Number Date Approved
AB 378
(In part)31July 15, 2003
Respectfully submitted,
James Doyle
Governor
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Governor's Veto Message
July 15, 2003
To the Honorable Members of the Assembly:
I have approved
Assembly Bill 378 as
2003 Wisconsin Act 31 and have deposited it in the Office of the Secretary of State. I have exercised the partial veto in Sections 22 and 23.
Assembly Bill 378 makes a significant down payment on future economic growth by helping Wisconsin meet its future energy needs. It will compensate communities that agree to site baseload power plants for the increased demand on its local infrastructure. These additional costs -- in road construction, improved safety and environmental mitigation - often follow after a community agrees to host the new generation facility.
Assembly Bill 378 marks a significant improvement in the state's effort to provide the energy necessary to enhance Wisconsin's economic growth.
I am however making several technical changes that create either inappropriate limitations or inequitable treatment of localities. With my partial veto of these sections, a more comprehensive, flexible and balanced energy strategy is established.
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Section 22 [as it relates to municipalities contiguous to baseload plants] provides a payment to a municipality that is contiguous to the location of a baseload electric generating facility. I am partially vetoing this provision because it creates inequities and may ultimately lead to unnecessary and substantially higher state costs. Before the state begins making incentive payments to localities that do not host a plant, but are instead near a plant, it needs to both consider both the fiscal consequences and develop an evenhanded payment methodology. This provision was crafted to specifically benefit one municipality. A number of other municipalities, however, could likewise be considered to have impacts from nearby power plants yet these local governments would not receive payments. This construct is unfair. As a result of this partial veto, the bill's incentive payments will be limited to localities that host power plants. If payments to neighboring localities are to be considered, this concern should be addressed more broadly and equitably.
