Committee on Senate Organization
Scheduling Report for
Thursday, March 7, 2002
10:00 A.M.
In accordance with Senate Rules, 18 hours prior to convening of a session, items may be added to the Senate Calendar.
CLEMENCE, DR. KEITH, of Hales Corners, as a member of the Dentistry Examining Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2005. (Report confirmation, Ayes 9, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.)
MARG, DAVID J., of Mosinee, as a member of the Snowmobile Recreation Council, to serve for the interim term ending July 1, 2003. (Report confirmation, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Environmental Resources.)
REINEMANN, ROGER, of Mequon, as a member of the Judicial Commission, to serve for the interim term ending August 1, 2003. (Report confirmation, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Judiciary, Consumer Affairs, and Campaign Finance Reform.)
Senate Bill 336. Relating to: safety training for all-terrain vehicle and motorboat operation. By Joint Legislative Council. (Assembly substitute amendment 1 pending).
Senate Resolution 14. Relating to: designating April 24 of each year as Wisconsin Day of Remembrance for the Armenian Genocide of 1915 to 1923. By Senators Plache, Grobschmidt, Wirch, Welch, Burke, Darling, Roessler, Cowles and Lazich. (Report adoption, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Senate Organization.)
Senate Bill 353. Relating to: state government holidays. By Senators Harsdorf, Wirch, Burke, Kanavas, Plache, Erpenbach, Roessler and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Pettis, Musser, Pocan, Huebsch, Gronemus, Petrowski, Rhoades, Freese, Gunderson, McCormick, Leibham, Starzyk, Seratti, Miller, Plouff, Ott, Sykora, Hines, Kreuser, Loeffelholz, Urban and Ryba, by request of Mrs. Zirbel's 3rd grade class in River Falls, Wisconsin. (FE) (Report passage, Ayes 4, Noes 1 recommended by committee on Labor and Agriculture.)
Senate Bill 393. Relating to: electric personal assistive mobility devices, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. By Senator Breske; cosponsored by Representative Stone. (FE) (Report passage, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Insurance, Tourism, and Transportation.)
Senate Bill 397. Relating to: the practice of nurse-midwifery, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. By Senators Robson, Moen, Moore, Roessler, Rosenzweig, Wirch, Burke, Erpenbach, Breske and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Underheim, Krawczyk, Lippert, Miller, Olsen, Bies, Skindrud, Townsend, Albers and Gard. (FE) (Report Senate amendment 1 adoption, Ayes 9, Noes 0, passage as amended, Ayes 9, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.)
Assembly Bill 589. Relating to: registration by certain hospitalized electors. By Representatives Huber, Ainsworth, Meyerhofer, Kestell, Plale, Ryba, Gronemus, Turner, J. Lehman, Bock, Plouff, Richards, Williams and Berceau; cosponsored by Senators Hansen, Burke, Robson, Plache and Decker.(Report concurrence, Ayes 6, Noes 1 recommended by committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations.)
Assembly Bill 588. Relating to: funding for the enforcement of laws regulating snowmobiles and the operation of snowmobiles and making an appropriation. By Representatives Gard, D. Meyer, Friske, Seratti, Suder, Kaufert, Bies, Starzyk and Pettis; cosponsored by Senators Decker, Welch and Breske. (FE) (Report concurrence, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Environmental Resources.) Assembly amendment 1 adopted.
Senate Joint Resolution 59. Relating to: reducing, by income tax credits or by payments from state revenues, property taxes upon residential and agricultural real property as defined by law (first consideration). By Senators Wirch, Decker, Chvala, Plache, Erpenbach, Baumgart, Burke and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Sherman, Bock, Carpenter and Miller. (Report adoption, Ayes 4, Noes 3 recommended by committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations.)
Senate Joint Resolution 62. Relating to: proclaiming March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. By Senators Moen, Burke, Schultz, Plache, Kanavas, Hansen, Darling, Wirch, Rosenzweig and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Urban, Krug, Pettis, Berceau, Petrowski, Staskunas, Townsend, Wasserman, Olsen, Coggs, Plouff, Hahn, J. Lehman, Turner, Sykora, Bock, Lassa, Ryba, Schneider and Young. (Report adoption, Ayes 9, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.)
Senate Bill 274. Relating to: the licensing of motor vehicle dealers, motor vehicle salespersons, and sales finance companies and providing a penalty. By Senators M. Meyer, Breske, Burke, Cowles, Darling, Huelsman, Jauch and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Suder, Huber, Ainsworth, Albers, Bies, Gunderson, Hahn, Jeskewitz, Krawczyk, Kreibich, Lassa, Ott, Ryba and Sykora. (Report passage, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Insurance, Tourism, and Transportation.)
Senate Bill 307. Relating to: the possession of wild animals and their carcass parts; farm-raised deer; farm-raised game birds; animal health and animal markets, dealers, and truckers; participation in the national poultry improvement plan; taking, removing, selling, and transporting certain wild plants; granting rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties. By Senators Moen, Schultz, Burke, Darling, Hansen and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Johnsrud, Ott, Musser, Gunderson, Miller, Shilling, Albers, J. Lehman, Pettis, Nass, M. Lehman, Townsend, Freese, Hahn, Loeffelholz, Krawczyk, Sykora, D. Meyer and Kedzie. (FE) (Report Senate amendment 1 adoption, Ayes 3, Noes 2, passage as amended, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Environmental Resources.)
Senate Bill 375. Relating to: miscellaneous changes to the insurance laws related to the confidentiality of personal information obtained in the course of administering a state insurance fund, the statute of limitations for bringing an action against the patients compensation fund, the applicability of a timeliness requirement for the payment of insurance claims for chiropractic services, an exception from a requirement to obtain consent to incorporate certain publications by reference in administrative rules, the type of property for which the loss amount is the insurance limits, the renewal date for viatical settlement brokers? licenses, eliminating the requirement to keep a separate account for surplus lines taxes, issuance of temporary licenses for intermediaries, specifying by rule the amount of stop-loss reinsurance that a town mutual must obtain, standards related to assisting unauthorized insurers, and defining extraordinary dividends for life insurers; and granting rule-making authority. By Senator Breske; cosponsored by Representative Montgomery. (Report introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1, Ayes 5, Noes 0, introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 2, Ayes 5, Noes 0, passage as amended, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Insurance, Tourism, and Transportation.)
Senate Bill 413. Relating to: the regulation of massage therapists and bodyworkers, creating a massage therapy and bodywork examining board, granting rule-making authority and providing a penalty. By Senators Robson, Huelsman, Plache, Burke, Ellis, George, Roessler, A. Lasee, Harsdorf, Darling and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Kaufert, Krawczyk, Urban, Bies, Nass, Plale, Owens, Ryba, Vrakas, Jeskewitz, Ziegelbauer, J. Lehman, Turner, Ladwig, Wasserman, Ott and Hines. (FE) (Report introduction of Senate substitute amendment 1, Ayes 9, Noes 0, introduction and adoption os Senate amendment 1 to Senate substitute amendment 1, Ayes 9, Noes 0, adoption of Senate substitute amendment 1, Ayes 9, Noes 0, passage as amended Ayes 9, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.)
Senate Bill 463. Relating to: legislative redistricting. By Senators Risser, Chvala, Moen and Moore; cosponsored by Representatives Black, Kreuser, Coggs, Huber, Colon, Turner, Morris-Tatum and Riley. (Report passage, Ayes 3, Noes 2 recommended by committee on Senate Organization.)
Senate Bill 470. Relating to: licensing of electricians and electrical contractors, regulation of electrical construction, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. By Senators Baumgart and M. Meyer; cosponsored by Representatives Meyerhofer, Ott, Plouff, Hines, Gronemus, Pettis, J. Lehman and Jeskewitz. (FE) (Report passage, Ayes 6, Noes 1 recommended by committee on Universities, Housing, and Government Operations.)
Senate Bill 471. Relating to: authorizing dairy product wholesalers to furnish freezer cabinets to dairy product retailers. By Senators Hansen and Moen; cosponsored by Representatives Krawczyk and Ott. (Report introduction and adoption of Senate amendment 1, Ayes 5, Noes 0, passage as amended, Ayes 5, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Labor and Agriculture.)
Senate Bill 479. Relating to: payment of a medical assistance supplement to care management organizations that contract with municipal nursing homes for the provision of services to family care recipients. By Senator M. Meyer; cosponsored by Representative Johnsrud. (FE) (Report passage, Ayes 9, Noes 0 recommended by committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs.)
