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Relating to titling and registration of homemade, reconstructed, or repaired salvage vehicles.
Submitted by Department of Transportation.
Report received from Agency, February 6, 2004.
To committee on Transportation.
Referred on February 16, 2004.
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Read first time and referred:
Assembly Bill 837
Relating to: attaching the Office of the Commissioner of Railroads to the Department of Transportation, decisions related to railroad crossing protection improvements, and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Foti, Kerkman, Nass, Ladwig, Musser, Owens, Pettis, Hahn and Kreibich; cosponsored by Senators S. Fitzgerald, A. Lasee, Reynolds and Kanavas.
To committee on Transportation.
Assembly Bill 838
Relating to: treatment of prescription drug costs, diagnostic testing, and payments under mandated insurance coverage of treatment for nervous and mental disorders and alcoholism and other drug abuse problems, and granting rule-making authority.
By
Representative
J. Lehman
; cosponsored by Senator Hansen
.
To committee on Insurance.
Assembly Bill 839
Relating to: increasing the limits for insurance coverage of nervous or mental health disorders or alcoholism or other drug abuse problems.
By
Representative
J. Lehman
; cosponsored by Senator Hansen
.
To committee on Insurance.
Assembly Bill 840
Relating to: making various miscellaneous changes to the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Underheim, Gielow, Hahn, Townsend, Bies, Miller, Albers, Johnsrud, Balow, Van Roy, Seratti and McCormick; cosponsored by Senators Roessler and Schultz.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 841
Relating to: various changes to the regulation of hearing instrument specialists, speech-language pathologists, and audiologists and granting rule-making authority.
A702
By
Representatives Underheim, Berceau, Kreibich, Townsend, Vrakas, Albers, Hines, Bies, Wasserman and Ott; cosponsored by Senator Kedzie
.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 842
Relating to: regulation of nursing homes, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Pettis, Rhoades, M. Williams, Gronemus, Hines, Johnsrud, Musser, Albers, Grothman, Hahn, LeMahieu, Hundertmark, Krawczyk, Olsen, Petrowski, Ott, Van Roy, Jeskewitz, Nischke, Seratti, Stone, Suder, J. Wood and D. Meyer; cosponsored by Senators Harsdorf and Reynolds.
To committee on Aging and Long-Term Care
.
Assembly Bill 843
Relating to: the issuance of debt by natural gas and electric public utilities to finance certain environmental activities.
By
Representatives Jensen, Gottlieb, Friske, Nischke, Honadel, Rhoades, Stone, Seratti, Musser, Vrakas, M. Lehman, Grothman, Taylor, McCormick, Hahn, Jeskewitz, Johnsrud, Suder, Huebsch, Olsen, Kaufert and Gunderson; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Plale, Moore, M. Meyer, Kanavas, Wirch and Roessler.
To committee on Energy and Utilities
.
Assembly Bill 844
Relating to: waiver of a requirement under hemophilia treatment program to apply for other coverage.
By
Representatives Johnsrud, Huebsch, Hahn, Hines, McCormick, Gronemus, Plouff, Suder and Albers; cosponsored by Senators M. Meyer and Schultz.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 845
Relating to: establishing a cancer drug repository program and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
By
Representatives Underheim, Krawczyk, Pettis, M. Lehman, Johnsrud, Kerkman, Vruwink, Kreibich, Montgomery, Miller, Vukmir, Gunderson, Hahn, Hebl, Gielow, Hines, Plouff, Huber, Wieckert, Huebsch, Hundertmark, Bies, Townsend, Nass, Travis and McCormick; cosponsored by Senators Stepp, Roessler, Schultz, Robson, Chvala, Plale, Lassa, Kanavas, Carpenter, Zien, Welch, Coggs, Erpenbach, Brown, Wirch and A. Lasee.
To committee on Health.
Assembly Bill 846
Relating to: traffic regulations and traffic control devices at railroad crossings, making appropriations, and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Ainsworth, Owens, Hahn, Ott, Petrowski, Krawczyk, Gronemus, Albers, Musser, Van Roy and Gunderson; cosponsored by Senators Cowles, Roessler, A. Lasee and Schultz.
To committee on Transportation.
Assembly Bill 847
Relating to: the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and granting rule-making authority.
By
Representative
Sinicki
; cosponsored by Senator Moore
.
To committee on Education Reform
.
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The committee on Education reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 640
Relating to: allowing the use of technologies other than fingerprint cards for background checks related to teacher licensing and changing a statutory reference to reflect the name change of the Wisconsin Council of Religious and Independent Schools (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Public Instruction).
Assembly Amendment 1 adoption:
Ayes: 16 - Representatives Olsen, Towns, Nass, Hahn, Kestell, Hundertmark, Townsend, Loeffelholz, Hines, J. Lehman, A. Williams, Ziegelbauer, Plouff, Pope-Roberts, Van Akkeren and Molepske.
Noes: 0.
Passage as amended:
Ayes: 16 - Representatives Olsen, Towns, Nass, Hahn, Kestell, Hundertmark, Townsend, Loeffelholz, Hines, J. Lehman, A. Williams, Ziegelbauer, Plouff, Pope-Roberts, Van Akkeren and Molepske.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Senate Bill 60
Relating to: leasing of school property.
Concurrence:
Ayes: 16 - Representatives Olsen, Towns, Nass, Hahn, Kestell, Hundertmark, Townsend, Loeffelholz, Hines, J. Lehman, A. Williams, Ziegelbauer, Plouff, Pope-Roberts, Van Akkeren and Molepske.
Noes: 0.
To committee on Rules.
Luther Olsen
Chairperson
Committee on Education
The committee on Ways and Means reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 242
Relating to: the annual adjustment of the motor vehicle fuel tax rate.
Assembly Amendment 2 adoption:
Ayes: 10 - Representatives M. Lehman, Nass, F. Lasee, Kerkman, Lothian, W. Wood, Young, Berceau, Ziegelbauer and Morris.
Noes: 2 - Representatives J. Wood and Hahn.
Ayes: 11 - Representatives M. Lehman, J. Wood, Nass, F. Lasee, Kerkman, Lothian, W. Wood, Young, Berceau, Ziegelbauer and Morris.
Noes: 1 - Representative
Hahn.
To joint committee on Finance.
Michael Lehman
Chairperson
