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.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Carpenter, Coggs, Kreitlow, Schultz and Cowles.
Noes, 0 - None.
Tim Carpenter
Chairperson
The committee on Small Business, Emergency Preparedness, Workforce Development, Technical Colleges and Consumer Protection reports and recommends:
Relating to: the total amount of airport development zone and technology zone tax credits.
Passage.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Carpenter, Plale and Kedzie.
Noes, 0 - None.
Senate Bill 507
Relating to: technical college attendance under Wisconsin Works.
Adoption of Senate Amendment 1.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Carpenter, Plale and Kedzie.
Noes, 0 - None.
Passage as amended.
Ayes, 4 - Senators
Wirch, Carpenter, Plale and Kedzie.
Noes, 0 - None.
Robert Wirch
Chairperson
The committee on Senate Organization reports:
The following bills were referred to the joint committee on
Finance, pursuant to Senate Rule
41 (1) (e):
Senate Bill 441
Relating to: environmental regulation of mining and notice to transferees of interests in mining sites.
Senate Bill 452
Relating to: an integrated crime alert network.
Senate Bill 471
Relating to: payment of premiums for health or long-term care insurance coverage from annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System and distributions from deferred compensation accounts.
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.
Senate Bill 512
Relating to: mandatory overtime hours worked by health care workers employed by health care facilities and providing penalties.
Senate Bill 524
Relating to: utility aid payments based on a production plant's value in 1990.
Senate Bill 552
Relating to: use of a social security number as personal identifier in the administration of a state or local governmental program.
The following bills were referred to and withdrawn from the joint committee on
Finance and made Available for Scheduling, pursuant to Senate Rule
41 (1) (e):
Senate Bill 413
Relating to: markers for military memorial highways and bridges.
Senate Bill 433
Relating to: cash value of life insurance regarding eligibility for the veterans assistance program.
Senate Bill 528
Relating to: expanding an exception to local levy limits for levies for debts incurred by a joint fire department.
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).
Assembly Bill 501
Relating to: insurance agent license requirements, revocations, and reinstatement and relicensing requirements, and granting rule-making authority.
Russ Decker
Chairperson
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Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Robson added as a cosponsor of
Assembly Bill
442
.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Senator Darling added as a cosponsor of
Assembly Joint Resolution 97
.
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By Patrick E. Fuller, chief clerk.
Mr. President:
I am directed to inform you that the Assembly has passed and asks concurrence in:
Assembly Bill 47
Assembly Bill 67
Assembly Bill 71
Assembly Bill 92
Assembly Bill 144
Assembly Bill 151
Assembly Bill 159
