Adoption of Report:
Ayes: 6 - Representatives Urban, Foti and Schneider; Senators Wineke and Farrow; and Mr. Lee.
Noes: 1 - Ms. Secretary Zeuske.
To committee on Tourism and Recreation.
Frank Urban
Assembly Chairperson
Joint survey committee on Tax Exemptions
Referral of Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
Office of Health Care Information
Madison
January 1998
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10(1), Wis. Stats., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the quarterly Health Care Data Report. This report is based on hospital inpatient discharge data reported to the Office of health Care Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals in Wisconsin for the second quarter of 1996. It also contains selected ambulatory surgery utilization and charge data from general medical-surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin during the same quarter.
This report fulfills the statutory requirement to report "in a manner that permits comparisons among hospitals ... the charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups selected by the office."
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Rudolph, Ph.D.,
Deputy Director, OHCI
Referred to committee on Health.
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State of Wisconsin
Department of Health and Family Services
Office of Health Care Information
Madison
January 1998
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
Pursuant to section 153.10(1), Wis. Stats., we are pleased to submit to the Governor and to the Legislature the quarterly Health Care Data Report. This report is based on hospital inpatient discharge data reported to the Office of health Care Information by all operating general medical-surgical and specialty hospitals in Wisconsin for the third quarter of 1996. It also contains selected ambulatory surgery utilization and charge data from general medical-surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgery centers in Wisconsin during the same quarter.
This report fulfills the statutory requirement to report "in a manner that permits comparisons among hospitals ... the charges for up to 100 health care services or diagnostic-related groups selected by the office."
Sincerely,
Barbara A. Rudolph, Ph.D.,
Deputy Director, OHCI
Referred to committee on Health.
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Agency Reports
State of Wisconsin
Claims Board
Madison
March 4, 1998
To the Honorable, the Assembly:
Enclosed is the report of the State Claims Board covering the claims heard on February 19, 1998.
The amounts recommended for payment under $5,000 on claims included in this report have, under the provisions of s.
16.007, Stats., been paid directly by the Board.
The Board is preparing the bill(s) on the recommended award(s) over $5,000, if any, and will submit such to the Joint Finance Committee for legislative introduction.
This report is for the information of the Legislature. The Board would appreciate your acceptance and spreading of it upon the Journal to inform the members of the Legislature.
Sincerely,
Edward D. Main
Secretary, Claims Board
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Representative Meyer asked unanimous consent to be withdrawn as a coauthor of Assembly Bill
745. Granted.
Representative Plale asked unanimous consent to be withdrawn as a coauthor of Assembly Bill
745. Granted.
Representative La Fave asked unanimous consent to be withdrawn as a coauthor of Assembly Bill
745. Granted.
Representative Handrick asked unanimous consent to be made a coauthor of Assembly Joint Resolution 79. Granted.
Representative Green asked unanimous consent to be made a coauthor of Assembly Joint Resolution 108 and Assembly Bill 308. Granted.
Representative Wasserman asked unanimous consent to be withdrawn as a coauthor of Assembly Bill 857. Granted.
Representative Hubler asked unanimous consent that the rules be suspended and that Assembly Resolution 18 be introduced and taken up at this time. Granted.
Assembly Resolution 18
Relating to: proclaiming Chosin Few Day.
By Representatives Hubler, Musser and Schneider.
The question was: Shall Assembly Resolution 18 be adopted?
Motion carried.
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Assembly Bill 50
Relating to: the operation of all-terrain vehicles by minors.
A625
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that Assembly Bill 50 be laid on the table. Granted.
Representative Green asked unanimous consent that the Assembly stand recessed. Granted.
The Assembly stood recessed.
11:20 A.M.
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2:40 P.M.
The Assembly reconvened.
Speaker Pro Tempore Freese in the chair.
Representative Foti asked unanimous consent that the speeches of retired Chief Justice Nathan S. Heffernan and Representative Spencer Coggs, which were made on January 14, 1998 when the Assembly met in the Council House at the First Capitol Historic Site in Belmont to celebrate Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial, be reprinted in today's Assembly Journal. Granted.
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WISCONSIN STATE ASSEMBLY SESSION
IN THE COUNCIL HOUSE
AT THE FIRST CAPITOL
HISTORIC SITE IN BELMONT
1:30 P.M.
Wednesday
January 14, 1998
Nathan S. Heffernan
Chief Justice (Retired)
Wisconsin Supreme Court
"Governor Thompson, Mr. Speaker Jensen, Speaker Pro Tempore Freese, distinguished members of the Wisconsin Assembly and friends, it is a great honor to appear before this distinguished group on this historic occasion. We meet here today not only to commemorate the historic event of the first legislative session of the Wisconsin territory in 1836 to 1837, but we are also here for an event that is in itself historic: the first meeting of the state assembly outside of Madison, and as the initial event in the celebration of Wisconsin's 150th year of statehood.
But today, here in old Belmont, I will talk about the Wisconsin --territory's first legislature. To get a better perspective of what this area near Belmont was like in the early and mid-1830's. I will commence my remarks with excerpts from the recollections of a typical pioneer of territorial days. His name was Samuel Druen. Samuel Druen was in his early 20's when he came up the Mississippi from Missouri in response to the lead strike. I wish I had time to read more of his pioneer recollections but I think brief excerpts will give you some of the flavor of the times. I quote Sam Druen:
"I came to Grant county on the 20th of April, 1832, passing my first night on (the top) of Sinsinawa Mound. (Not far from where we are today.)"
Druen tells that he was awakened that first night by sounds of an Indian war party that had encamped just below him on the mound. He spent a troubled night, but when he awoke the war party was gone. He goes on to write:
"The next day I learned that a party of U.S. surveyors had made rich discoveries of lead at Potosi and I started thither at once having neither track nor path to follow or to guide me.
Proceeding on my way, I came to a place where a dozen or so men were engaged in building a cabin -- the first White man's structure erected on the site of Potosi.
A number of us pitched our tent and went to work. Potosi grew and its population, mostly miners, rapidly increased.
All went prosperously until one night at about 11 o'clock, when a man rode wildly into camp bearing the news of Stillman's defeat (by Blackhawk) at Rock River. We were all badly scared, turned tail and fled, some toward Galena, some toward Jamestown, and some toward Platteville. Only two men had the courage to stand their ground and risk their scalps. The next day we recovered from our fright, assembled in considerable force and held sort of a council of war.
Some were for building a fort right there in the diggings; others thought it a rather good thing to go to Galena (as fast as we could). Hearing that a military company was organizing at Cassville, three others and myself set out for that town at once.
At Cassville we found the "colonel" building a fort and organizing a company of soldiers. Upon telling him what we came for, he desired to know whether we would or could do any fighting. I said, "Take off your coat and lets have a round." He looked at me and said he guessed held take us. So we were mustered in at once and forthwith put on duty. Our company was known as the Rangers, for we were employed in ranging the country between the Grant and the Wisconsin River, a tract which we traversed a great many times and wherein we killed 8 or 10 Indians and made 12 or 15 prisoners.
