One-Hundredth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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The Chief Clerk makes the following entries dated Wednesday, August
31
, 2011.
State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
August 31, 2011
The Honorable, The Senate:
This letter is to remove the following appointment from consideration for confirmation by the Wisconsin Senate:
O'BRIEN, PATRICK,
of Larsen, as a member of the Hearing and Speech Examining Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2015.
Respectfully submitted,
SCOTT WALKER
Governor
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Governor
August 31, 2011
The Honorable, The Senate:
This letter is to remove the following appointment from consideration for confirmation by the Wisconsin Senate:
wilson
, walter,
of Milwaukee, as a member of the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers and Land Surveyors - Architect Section, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2014.
Respectfully submitted,
SCOTT WALKER
Governor
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Read and referred:
Senate Resolution 20
Relating to: recognizing the centennial of the establishment of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
By
Senators
Risser, Lassa, S. Coggs, Grothman, Schultz, Taylor and Hansen.
To committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Joint Resolution 37
Relating to: Clay Matthews AIDS Walk Wisconsin Day.
By
Senators
Carpenter, Darling, Hansen, Olsen, Taylor, Schultz, Lassa, C. Larson, Vinehout, Risser and S. Coggs; cosponsored by Representatives Kerkman, Pope-Roberts, Hebl, Steineke, Zepnick, Hulsey, Spanbauer, Milroy, Pocan, Ringhand, Pasch, Bewley, Endsley, Roys, Tranel, Jorgensen, Grigsby, Zamarripa, Brooks, Fields, Petryk, Turner and Mason.
To committee on Senate Organization.
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State of Wisconsin
Office of the Senate President
September 1
, 2011
The Honorable, the Senate:
Pursuant to Senate Rule
46 (2)(c), I am writing to inform you that I have directed the following proposal(s) to be withdrawn from committee and rereferred. I have obtained the consent of the appropriate standing committee chairperson and the chairperson of the committee on Senate Organization.
Senate Bill
164
, relating to
an income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, withdrawn from committee on Public Health, Human Services, and Revenue and rereferred to committee on Workforce Development, Small Business, and Tourism
.
Sincerely,
MICHAEL G. ELLIS
Senate President
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State of Wisconsin
Legislative Reference Bureau
September 1
, 2011
To the Honorable, the Legislature:
The following rules have been published in the August 31, 2011 Wisconsin Administrative
Register No. 668:
Clearinghouse Rules Effective Date(s)
08-0879-1-2011
10-103(part) 9-1-2011,
(part) 1-1-2012,
(part) 7-1-2014
10-1209-1-2011
10-1319-1-2011
10-1379-1-2011
10-1389-1-2011
10-1429-1-2011
10-1439-1-2011
10-1449-1-2011
10-1489-1-2011
11-0029-1-2011
11-0159-1-2011
11-0169-1-2011
11-0179-1-2011
11-0219-1-2011
Sincerely,
BRUCE J. HOESLY
Senior Legislative Attorney/Code Editor
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State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
August 31, 2011
The Honorable, The Legislature:
At the request of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, we have completed an evaluation of the Contract Sunshine Act, which requires all state agencies to report information about contracts, requests for bids and other competitive proposals, and purchase orders totaling $10,000 or more in a fiscal biennium to the Government Accountability Board (GAB) for posting on a publicly accessible Web site.
Only 12 state agencies reported information to GAB in fiscal year (FY) 2009-10, and 38 did so during the first four months of FY 2010-11. The posted information remains incomplete and is less than fully accurate because of limitations with the Web site's design, difficulties state agencies have had in compiling data for reporting at the level of detail required by the law, and confusion about which information must be reported. As a result, the Contract Sunshine Web site is of limited value in providing the public with clear, comprehensive, and useful information.
In
2011 Wisconsin Act 32, the Legislature directed the Department of Administration (DOA) to establish a new publicly accessible Web site that will report all executive, legislative, and judicial branch expenditures for state operations exceeding $100. We include a recommendation that DOA report to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee in January 2012 on its efforts to implement that Web site. If it can be successfully implemented, the new Web site will surpass the Contract Sunshine Web site in scope and potential usefulness to the public, and the Legislature should then consider repealing the Contract Sunshine statutes. If the Legislature chooses to retain the Contract Sunshine statutes, we present several statutory modifications that would somewhat improve the Contract Sunshine Web site's usefulness to the public.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by GAB. Its response follows the appendices.
Respectfully submitted,
joe chrisman
Interim State Auditor
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Vietnam Veterans of Anerica
Wisconsin Chapter
August 26, 2011
The Honorable, The Legislature:
The Vietnam Veterans of America continues to be the largest Vietnam War veteran's organization comprised solely of veterans of that war, in both Wisconsin and the United States. During the biennium, VVA's membership is approximately 1,922 with 33 chapters throughout Wisconsin. VVA is Wisconsin's fifth largest veteran's organization and has been represented on the Council of Veterans Programs since 1994.
