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Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
Senate Judiciary and Health Committees meet today
By Mary Lazich
Thursday, Feb 28 2008, 10:11 AM
I am a member of state Senate committees that are holding hearings in the state Capitol today. The Senate Committee on Judiciary, Corrections, and Housing and the Senate Committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job Creation will consider several bills.
Here are the agendas for both Senate committees:
Senate
PUBLIC HEARING
Committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job Creation
The committee will hold a public hearing on the following items at the time specified below:
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
12:00 PM
411 South
State Capitol
Senate Bill 518
Relating to: changes to BadgerCare Plus.
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 374
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.
Senate Bill 398
Relating to: eliminating certain abortion prohibitions.
Senate
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job Creation
The committee will hold an executive session on the following items at the time specified below:
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
12:00 PM - Before the start of the public hearing
411 South
State Capitol
Senate Bill 246
Relating to: mental health professionals who may provide outpatient services for the treatment of nervous and mental conditions and alcoholism and other drug abuse problems or who, under Medical Assistance, may provide psychotherapy and alcohol and other drug abuse services and exempting certain Medical Assistance benefits from physician prescription requirements.
By Senators Miller, Lehman, Erpenbach, Darling, Hansen, Risser, Roessler, Vinehout and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Bies, Pope-Roberts, Albers, Benedict, Berceau, Black, Davis, Gunderson, Grigsby, Hahn, Hintz, Hubler, Kaufert, Mursau, A. Ott, Sheridan, Soletski, Townsend, Zepnick and Wasserman.
Senate Bill 409
Relating to: remote dispensing by pharmacists and authorizing the exercise of rule-making powers.
By Senators Breske, Roessler, Darling, Grothman, S. Fitzgerald, Hansen, Lehman, Lazich, A. Lasee, Plale, Wirch, Cowles, Kreitlow, Lassa and Kapanke; cosponsored by Representatives Montgomery, Musser, Soletski, Mursau, Hahn, A. Ott, Nerison, Hines, Petrowski, Nygren, Tauchen, Seidel and Molepske.
Senate Bill 487
Relating to: treatment records and patient health care records.
By Senators Erpenbach, Decker, Wirch, Robson, Lehman, Vinehout, Lassa, Schultz, Darling, Olsen, Risser, Kreitlow, Jauch, Sullivan, Hansen, Kapanke and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Moulton, Hixson, Davis, Benedict, Sheridan, Petersen, Wood, Musser, Owens, Van Roy, Bies, Ballweg, Strachota, Newcomer, Molepske, Nerison, Kerkman, A. Ott, Seidel, M. Williams, Turner, Shilling, Townsend, Hines, Pope-Roberts, Mursau, Jorgensen, Hintz, Kestell, Wieckert, Richards, Sinicki, Jeskewitz and A. Williams.
Assembly Bill 173
Relating to: membership of the Council on Mental Health.
By Representatives Grigsby, Zepnick, Berceau, Cullen, Fields, Molepske, Sinicki, Toles, A. Williams, Young, Gunderson, Mursau and A. Ott; cosponsored by Senators Lehman, Coggs, Erpenbach, Lassa, Miller, Taylor, Wirch and Darling, by request of Wisconsin Council on Mental Health.
Senate
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Committee on Judiciary, Corrections, and Housing
The committee will hold an executive session on the following items at the time specified below:
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
3:00 PM
201 Southeast
State Capitol
Bagadia, Nikhil
Of Milwaukee, as a member of the Real Estate Appraisers Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2011.
Lee, Kenneth
Of River Falls, as a member of the Real Estate Board, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2011.
Senate Bill 278
Relating to: threatening or committing battery against certain employees of first class cities and providing a penalty.
By Senators Coggs, Plale, Roessler and Lassa; cosponsored by Representatives Zepnick, Colon, Honadel, Grigsby, Montgomery, Fields, A. Ott, Cullen, Hahn, Sinicki, Sheridan and Turner.
Senate Bill 384
Relating to: disclosure of juvenile court records to other courts, law enforcement agencies, district attorneys and other prosecutors, and agencies providing services to a juvenile court and providing a penalty.
By Senators Sullivan, Darling, Roessler and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Jeskewitz, Grigsby, Kestell, Ziegelbauer, Ballweg, Vos, Albers, Hahn and Sinicki.
Senate Bill 461
Relating to: liability of the state for a violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
By Senators Taylor and Risser; cosponsored by Representatives Mason, Hixson, Black, Sheridan, Pocan, Boyle, Sinicki, Turner, Schneider, Soletski, Benedict, Grigsby, Van Akkeren and Young.
Senate Bill 497
Relating to: assistant district attorney positions and making an appropriation.
By Senators Sullivan, Taylor, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Darling, Plale, Kanavas, Harsdorf, Risser and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Staskunas, Hraychuck, Soletski, Richards, Jeskewitz, Nelson, Zepnick, A. Ott, Cullen, Berceau, Sinicki, Molepske and Hintz.
Assembly Bill 337
Relating to: battery or threat to witnesses and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Gundrum, Musser, Wood, Travis, Jeskewitz, J. Ott, Kaufert, A. Ott, Bies, Petrowski, Gunderson, Nass, Hahn, Mursau, Townsend and Roth; cosponsored by Senators Darling and Roessler.
Senate
PUBLIC HEARING
Committee on Judiciary, Corrections, and Housing
The committee will hold a public hearing on the following items at the time specified below:
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
3:00 PM - or following the committee's Executive Session
201 Southeast
State Capitol
Raemisch, Richard
Of Waunakee, as a member of the Prison Industries Board, to serve for the term ending May 1, 2008.
Senate Bill 537
Relating to: judicial discretion in certain John Doe proceedings.
By Senators Taylor, Hansen, Lehman, Erpenbach and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Grigsby and Turner.
Senate Bill 496
Relating to: the consequences for failure to act within a time period specified in the Children's Code or the Juvenile Justice Code, extension of certain time periods specified in the Children's Code, and informal dispositions under the Children's Code.
By Senators Coggs and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Jeskewitz and Grigsby.
Senate Bill 498
Relating to: possession of an electric weapon.
By Senators Lassa, Grothman, Olsen, Cowles, Harsdorf, Lazich, Roessler, Schultz and Kedzie; cosponsored by Representatives Ballweg, Bies, Hines, Kestell, LeMahieu, Molepske, Mursau, Ziegelbauer, Albers, Friske, Gottlieb, Hahn, Hixson, Jeskewitz, Kaufert, Musser, Nygren, A. Ott, Petrowski, Tauchen, Townsend and Lothian.
Assembly Bill 51
Relating to: prohibiting certain computer messages or postings that invite harassment or obscene, lewd, or profane communication and providing a penalty.
By Representatives Friske, Schneider, Bies, Petrowski, J. Ott, Mursau, Ballweg, A. Ott, Nerison, Jeskewitz, Gunderson, Musser, Townsend, Hahn and Albers; cosponsored by Senators Lassa, Darling, Roessler and Lazich.
Assembly Bill 411
Relating to: receiving a stolen firearm, and providing a penalty.
By Representatives LeMahieu, Friske, Bies, Albers, Hahn, Lothian, Musser and Townsend; cosponsored by Senators Olsen and Roessler.
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