Government Relations
Legislative Update
April 25, 2003
Joint Finance Committee Proceedings
Joint Finance Committee executive sessions began this week and are expected to be completed in late May. The committee removed some policy items from the budget, including one that assessed nonresident tuition for certain undocumented students. The committee voted on Wednesday to delete nearly $15 million from the Health Care Grants program in the Wisconsin Technical Colleges budget proposal by Gov. Jim Doyle. The UW System budget has not yet been scheduled for consideration by the Joint Finance Committee.
For the Legislative Fiscal Bureau summary of the governor's budget,
click on:
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lfb/2003-05budget/Governor/tableofcontents.htm
Floor Session
The Senate will NOT meet on Tuesday, April 29. It is expected to meet next on Tuesday, May 6.
The Assembly is scheduled to convene at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 29. The proposed calendar includes AB-74: Tuition vouchers for students who sound Taps at military honors funerals.
The Assembly will not be in session on Wednesday, April 30.
New Legislation Circulating
LRB 0220/3 (Sen. Risser, D-Madison). The proposed legislation would allow teaching assistants and program assistants within the University of Wisconsin System to participate in the WRS.
New Legislation Introduced
AB-264 (Rep. Richards, D-Milwaukee). The legislation would prohibit parking for non-residents on certain streets at the UW-Milwaukee campus (To Committee on Urban and Local Affairs).
AB 173 (Rep. Loeffelholz, R-Platteville) Increases the authorized general fund supported borrowing authority of the state by $4,900,000 for the purpose of constructing a veterinary diagnostic laboratory located at UW-Madison. The bill also increases the amount enumerated for the laboratory under the 2001-03 authorized state building program from $20,000,000 to $24,900,000. (To Committee on Agriculture).
Information on the Web
UW System Government Relations:
http://www.uwsa.edu/govrel/
UW System Budget:
http://www.uwsa.edu/budplan/
Wisconsin Legislature on the Web
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/
Prepared by Kerry
Niemcek.
For further information contact Margaret
Lewis (608) 262-4464 or David
Miller (608) 262-4463