Relating to the adjustment of thresholds for application of prevailing wage rates and payment and performance assurance requirements.
Submitted by Department of Workforce Development .
Report received from Agency, February 27, 2004.
Referred to committee on Labor, Small Business Development and Consumer Affairs, March 2, 2004
.
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The committee on Health, Children, Families, Aging and Long Term Care reports and recommends:
Relating to minor changes to conform the rules to current practices and to correct oversights and problematic language in the current rules, especially related to the board's adoption of Part IV of the national exam in lieu of a state-administered exam to demonstrate clinical competence.
Modifications requested, Ayes 9, Noes 0.
Ayes, 9 - Senators
Roessler, Kanavas, Brown, Welch, Schultz, Robson, Chvala, Jauch and Carpenter.
Noes, 0 - None.
relating to the professional service area requirements where the pharmacist is absent.
No action taken.
Carol Roessler
Chairperson
The committee on Labor, Small Business Development and Consumer Affairs reports and recommends:
Relating to licenses, certifications, and registrations.
No action taken.
Thomas Reynolds
Chairperson
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By Patrick E. Fuller, chief clerk.
Mr. President:
I am directed to inform you that the Assembly has adopted and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Joint Resolution 72
Assembly Joint Resolution 72
Relating to: the life and military service of United States Army Staff Sergeant Warren Scott Hansen.
By Representative
Hundertmark
; cosponsored by Senator Welch
.
Read and referred to committee on Senate Organization.
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Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that Assembly Joint Resolution 72 be withdrawn from the committee on Senate Organization and taken up.
Assembly Joint Resolution 72
Relating to: the life and military service of United States Army Staff Sergeant Warren Scott Hansen.
Read.
Concurred in.
Senator Carpenter, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 490.
Senator Carpenter, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 405.
Senator Carpenter, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 420.
Senator Carpenter, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a cosponsor of Assembly Bill
738.
Senate Bill 46
Relating to: the designation and marking of certain highways and bridges.
Read.
The question was: Shall Assembly amendment 1 to Senate Bill 46 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Senate Bill 100
Relating to: administrative rule making regarding small businesses, data used by administrative agencies in preparing proposed rules, increasing attorney fees, creating an Internet site for proposed rules, and creating a Small Business Regulatory Review Board.
Read.
The question was: Shall Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 100 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
Senate Bill 287
Relating to: multiple municipal local health departments in Milwaukee County.
Read.
The question was: Shall Assembly substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 287 be concurred in?
Concurred in.
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Senate Joint Resolution 67
Relating to: commending President Katharine C. Lyall for her many years of dedicated service to the University of Wisconsin System and to the state of Wisconsin.
Read.
Adopted.
Senate Bill 71
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.
Read a second time.
Ordered to a third reading.
Senator Panzer, with unanimous consent, asked that the bill be considered for final action at this time.
Senator Moore, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 71.
Senator Wirch, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 71.
Senator Erpenbach, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 71.
Senator Hansen, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 71.
Senator Carpenter, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 71.
Senator Zien, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 200.
Senator Zien, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 244.
Senator Zien, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a coauthor of Senate Bill 399.
Senator Zien, with unanimous consent, asked to be added as a cosponsor of Assembly Bill 423.
Senate
Bill 71
Read a third time.
The ayes and noes were demanded and the vote was: ayes, 29; noes, 4; absent or not voting, 0; as follows:
Ayes - Senators Breske, Brown, Carpenter, Chvala, Coggs, Darling, Decker, Ellis, Erpenbach, Hansen, Harsdorf, Jauch, Kanavas, Kedzie, A. Lasee, Lassa, Lazich, Leibham, M. Meyer, Moore, Panzer, Plale, Risser, Robson, Roessler, Schultz, Stepp, Wirch and Zien - 29.
Noes - Senators Cowles, S. Fitzgerald, Reynolds and Welch - 4.
Absent or not voting - None.
Passed.
Senate Bill 120
Relating to: creating a public health council, reimbursement for quarantine costs, intrastate mutual aid, requiring use of the incident command system in an emergency, exemption from liability during a state of emergency, threats to release or disseminate harmful chemical, biological, or radioactive substances, making appropriations, and providing a penalty.
