To committee on Energy and Utilities
.
Assembly Bill 978
Relating to: expanding the definition of public utility in the municipal revenue obligations statute and inserting a missing word into the cultural arts district statute.
By
Representative
Grothman
; cosponsored by Senator Panzer
.
To committee on Energy and Utilities
.
Assembly Bill 979
Relating to: school district human growth and development programs; requiring a hospital to provide to an alleged victim of sexual assault, with consent, information and emergency contraception; requiring the availability, in a hospital, of a practitioner to prescribe contraceptive articles; requiring the availability, in a pharmacy, of a pharmacist to dispense contraceptive articles; and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Berceau, Pocan, Richards, Pope-Roberts, Shilling, Sinicki, Taylor, Vruwink, Hebl, Wasserman, Black, Turner, Miller and Boyle; cosponsored by Senators Moore, Plale, Carpenter, Risser, Wirch and Robson.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 980
Relating to: regulating mobile telephone service providers and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Berceau, Miller, Schneider, Musser, Hines and Albers.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 981
Relating to: deceptive preapproved rates, terms, or conditions, open-end credit plan billing statements, and providing a penalty.
By
Representatives Berceau, Black, Molepske, Turner and J. Lehman; cosponsored by Senators Robson and Risser.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 982
Relating to: transactions excluded from and penalties under the Wisconsin Consumer Act and authority of licensed lenders and consumer leases under the Uniform Commercial Code.
By
Representatives Berceau, Young, Pocan, Hines and J. Lehman; cosponsored by Senator Risser
.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 983
Relating to: the purpose of the injured patients and families compensation fund.
By
Representatives Wasserman, Hines, Hahn, Berceau, Molepske and Turner; cosponsored by Senator Risser
.
To committee on Rules.
Assembly Bill 984
Relating to: immunity of volunteer interpreters for patients of health care providers and immunity of health care providers who rely on volunteer interpreters.
By
Representatives Krawczyk, McCormick, Nischke, Jeskewitz, Ladwig, Montgomery, Van Roy, Albers, Hahn and Berceau; cosponsored by Senator Roessler
.
To committee on Health.
Relating to: connection of water sources producing water that contains radium 225, radium 228, or gross alpha particle radioactivity to public water systems.
By
Representatives Gundrum, Jensen, Gard, M. Lehman, Musser, Nass, Van Roy, Vrakas, Hines, Ladwig, Hahn, Stone, Albers, Gunderson, Petrowski, Nischke, Gielow, Seratti and Olsen; cosponsored by Senators Lazich, Kanavas, Darling, Roessler, Reynolds and S. Fitzgerald.
To committee on Natural Resources
.
Assembly Bill 986
Relating to: the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program; independent charter schools; the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program; the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education Program; intradistrict transfer aid; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Sinicki, Richards, Cullen, Taylor, J. Lehman, Turner, Young, Zepnick, Molepske, Miller, Hebl, Pope-Roberts and Berceau; cosponsored by Senators Moore, Robson, Jauch, Carpenter, Coggs, M. Meyer and Erpenbach, by request of Governor James E. Doyle
.
To committee on Education.
Assembly Bill 987
Relating to: increasing funding for local youth apprenticeship grants for programs that are targeted at providing training in the areas of health care and technology and making an appropriation.
By
Representatives Wieckert, Musser and Loeffelholz; cosponsored by Senator Roessler
.
To committee on Workforce Development
.
Assembly Bill 988
Relating to: the applicability of city and village comprehensive plans in unincorporated territory.
By
Representative
Berceau
.
To committee on Urban and Local Affairs
.
Assembly Bill 989
Relating to: creating a procedure for cities and villages to annex town peninsulas.
By
Representative
Berceau
.
To committee on Urban and Local Affairs
.
Assembly Bill 990
Relating to: requiring subdividers to comply with municipal extraterritorial public improvement requirements.
By
Representative
Berceau
.
To committee on Urban and Local Affairs
.
Assembly Bill 991
Relating to: the regulation of certain consumer mortgage loans, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
By
Representative
Morris
.
To committee on Financial Institutions
.
Assembly Bill 992
Relating to: civil marriages.
By
Representatives Pocan, Berceau, Black, Boyle and Miller; cosponsored by Senator Risser
.
To joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
.
Assembly Bill 993
Relating to: a loan program for lead-based paint abatement.
By
Representatives Wieckert and Morris; cosponsored by Senators Moore and Stepp.
To committee on Housing.
Assembly Bill 994
Relating to: killing of wild animals in chronic wasting disease eradication zones.
By
Representative
Johnsrud
, by request of Department of Natural Resources.
To committee on Natural Resources
.
Assembly Bill 995
Relating to: treating property taxes as a deduction to annual household income for purposes of determining eligibility and deductible amounts under the prescription drug assistance program for the elderly; exempting amounts claimed for depreciation for purposes of calculating farm and self-employment income under the Medical Assistance and Badger Care health care programs; requiring Medical Assistance incentive payments to hospitals that establish a physician order entry record system; prescriptions for antibiotic drugs for treatment of chlamydia, gonorrhea, or trichomonas; the requirements for examinations for nursing home administrator licenses and for reciprocal nursing home administrator licenses and creating an exemption from such requirements; provision of home and community-based services under a community integration program to persons relocated from facilities; discrimination in prescription drug prices; health care provider service rates and insurer health care services reimbursement rates; expanding the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program to include provision of services to students from 4-year-old kindergarten to grade 6 in public elementary schools, charter schools, and private schools that participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program; allowing any provider to participate in a health care plan under the terms of the plan, requiring an annual period for providers to elect to participate in health care plans, and requiring notice to a provider of the reason for exclusion from a health care plan; 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; increasing the limits for insurance coverage of nervous or mental health disorders or alcoholism or other drug abuse problems; an exception to confidentiality requirements for treatment records; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
By
Representatives Wasserman, Miller, Molepske, Vruwink, Kreuser, Sherman, Shilling, Hebl, Taylor, Pope-Roberts, Cullen, Schooff, Sinicki, Berceau, Staskunas, Huber and Richards.
To committee on Health.
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The committee on Aging and Long-Term Care reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 842
Relating to: regulation of nursing homes, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Passage:
Ayes: 7 - Representatives Hundertmark, Weber, Ladwig, Pettis, Hines, LeMahieu and Nischke.
Noes: 5 - Representatives Krusick, Travis, Vruwink, Pope-Roberts and Miller.
To committee on Rules.
Jean Hundertmark
Chairperson
Committee on Aging and Long-Term Care
The committee on Agriculture reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 781
Relating to: computing expense deductions and amortization and depreciation on property used in farming for income and franchise tax purposes.
