Adoption of Senate Amendment 1.
Ayes, 7 - Senators
Lehman, Erpenbach, Hansen, Kreitlow, Olsen, Grothman and Lazich.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Lehman, Erpenbach, Hansen, Kreitlow and Olsen.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Grothman and Lazich.
Senate Bill 486
Relating to: requiring the licensure of instructional staff in schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Lehman, Erpenbach, Hansen and Kreitlow.
Noes, 3 - Senators
Olsen, Grothman and Lazich.
Senate Bill 493
Relating to: providing information about suicide prevention to public and private school professional staff.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Lehman, Erpenbach, Hansen, Kreitlow and Olsen.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Grothman and Lazich.
Senate Bill 557
Relating to: state special education aid for the salaries of certain pupil services personnel and granting rule-authority.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Lehman, Erpenbach, Hansen, Kreitlow, Olsen and Grothman.
Noes, 1 - Senator
Lazich.
John Lehman
Chairperson
The committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job Creation reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 501
Relating to: insurance agent license requirements, revocations, and reinstatement and relicensing requirements, and granting rule-making authority.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Erpenbach, Vinehout, Carpenter, Taylor, Lazich and Kanavas.
Noes, 0 - None.
Relating to: compulsory financial responsibility for the operation of motor vehicles, providing an exemption from emergency rule-making procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Erpenbach, Vinehout, Carpenter and Taylor.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Lazich and Kanavas.
Senate Bill 474
Relating to: licenses and limited X-ray machine operator permits to engage in the practice of radiography, creating a radiography examining board, granting rule-making authority, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Erpenbach, Vinehout, Carpenter, Taylor, Lazich and Kanavas.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 490
Relating to: eliminating an assessment on the gross private patient revenue of hospitals, creating an assessment on the gross patient revenue of hospitals, creating a hospital assessment trust fund, increasing the Medical Assistance and Badger Care payment rate for hospitals, requiring monthly payments by health maintenance organizations to hospitals and reconciliation of payments with actual utilization of services, increasing supplemental Medical Assistance payments to rural hospitals, transferring moneys from the hospital assessment fund to the injured patients and families compensation fund, requiring the Department of Health and Family Services annually to submit a report for review by the Joint Committee on Finance, and making appropriations.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Erpenbach, Vinehout, Carpenter and Taylor.
Noes, 2 - Senators
Lazich and Kanavas.
Senate Bill 504
Relating to: supervision of barber or cosmetologist apprentices.
Passage.
Ayes, 6 - Senators
Erpenbach, Vinehout, Carpenter, Taylor, Lazich and Kanavas.
Noes, 0 - None.
Jon Erpenbach
Chairperson
The committee on Public Health, Senior Issues, Long Term Care and Privacy reports and recommends:
Assembly Bill 185
Relating to: the birth defect prevention and surveillance system.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 611
Relating to: creating an exception to the prohibition on protective placement or continued protective placement of an individual in a nursing facility (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family Services).
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 616
Relating to: authorization to administer the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly under the Medical Assistance program (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family Services).
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 674
Relating to: the statewide nursing home bed cap and nursing home bed transfers.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 731
Relating to: remote dispensing by pharmacists and authorizing the exercise of rule-making powers.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Assembly Bill 764
Relating to: coverage of long-term care districts under the Wisconsin Retirement System.
Concurrence.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 548
Relating to: changing the terms home health aide, hospice aide, and nurse's assistant to the term nurse aide; changing requirements for instructional and competency evaluation programs for nurse aides; changing certain requirements for review and investigation of reports of client abuse or neglect; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family Services).
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 552
Relating to: use of a social security number as personal identifier in the administration of a state or local governmental program.
