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Democratic Representative · Assembly District 7

Bills they led · 2

Bills where Karen Kirsch is the lead author — the first name on the bill. Sponsoring a bill means putting it forward: the text itself is drafted by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau. Bills they signed onto behind another member are listed below, and bills they only voted on are in Vote history. What these roles mean

Of the 2 bills they led: 0 became law, 0 were vetoed, 2 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

Died at session end 2 bills
  • AB 557 Relating to: regulation and credentialing of appraisers and appraisal management companies. 2025
  • AB 379 Relating to: forms of proof of identification for voting. 2025

Coauthored · 232

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Karen Kirsch signed onto. Signing on adds their name to the bill; it is not the same as leading it. From each bill's official history.

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  • AR 8 Relating to: commemorating the victims of the Abundant Life Christian School tragedy, supporting the students, staff, families, and community of Abundant Life Christian School, and condemning violence. 2025
  • AR 6 Relating to: proclaiming March 2025 and March 2026 as Women’s History Months. 2025
  • AR 3 Relating to: observing February 28, 2025, as Rare Disease Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 98 Relating to: proclaiming October 2025 as Filipino American History Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 96 Relating to: proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Breast Cancer Awareness Months. 2025
  • AJR 94 Relating to: proclaiming January as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 92 Relating to: recognizing the United States Marine Corps’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 91 Relating to: recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 90 Relating to: recognizing August as Immunization Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 9 Relating to: honoring the life and enduring legacy of Robert George Uecker. 2025
  • AJR 89 Relating to: honoring Wisconsin’s Hispanic veterans. 2025
  • AJR 86 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jim Rooney. 2025
  • AJR 83 Relating to: recognizing September 15 to October 15, 2025, as Hispanic Heritage Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 82 Relating to: recognizing and proclaiming September 15 to October 15, 2025, as Hispanic Heritage Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 81 Relating to: urging the immediate and unconditional release of documents, files, and records related to Jeffrey Epstein. 2025
  • AJR 78 Relating to: proclaiming June 12, 2025, as Women Veterans Day. 2025
  • AJR 77 Relating to: honoring the dedication and service of Chief Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. 2025
  • AJR 75 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Thomas A. Hauke. 2025
  • AJR 72 Relating to: recognizing June 19, 2025, as Juneteenth Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 70 Relating to: proclaiming June 2025 as Immigrant Heritage Month. 2025
  • AJR 7 Relating to: proclaiming February 4, 2025, as Transit Equity Day. 2025
  • AJR 64 Relating to: designating June 2025 as Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month. 2025
  • AJR 63 Relating to: proclaiming January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025, as Wisconsin State Park System 125th Anniversary. 2025
  • AJR 61 Relating to: proclaiming June 6, 2025, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 54 Relating to: observing Tuesday, March 25, 2025, as Equal Pay Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 53 Relating to: commemorating the Bay View labor strike and tragedy. 2025
  • AJR 51 Relating to: designating May 2025 and May 2026 as Food Allergy Awareness Months. 2025
  • AJR 5 Relating to: proclaiming February 2025 as Black History Month. 2025
  • AJR 44 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Frederick P. Kessler. 2025
  • AJR 43 Relating to: congratulating the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse women’s gymnastics team on winning the 2025 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championship. 2025
  • AJR 42 Relating to: an advisory referendum on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 2025
  • AJR 41 Relating to: proclaiming May 2025 and May 2026 as Jewish American Heritage Months. 2025
  • AJR 40 Relating to: celebrating 50 years of strength and resilience of the Hmong, Lao, Cambodian, and Vietnamese people. 2025
  • AJR 39 Relating to: recognizing Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month as a time to honor the important contributions of Asians, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders to the history of the United States. 2025
  • AJR 38 Relating to: proclaiming 2025 as the year of the snake. 2025
  • AJR 31 Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2025, as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility. 2025
  • AJR 30 Relating to: congratulating the University of Wisconsin–Madison women’s hockey team on winning the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey National Championship. 2025
  • AJR 3 Relating to: proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 28 Relating to: commending the IBS Patient Support Group on its recognition of April 17 through April 19, 2025, as World IBS Days. 2025
  • AJR 27 Relating to: condemning the pardons and sentence commutations of individuals involved in the violent attack on law enforcement officers at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. 2025
  • AJR 19 Relating to: honoring April 22, 2025, as the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. 2025
  • AJR 18 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jonathan Brostoff. 2025
  • AJR 152 Relating to: slavery or involuntary servitude in punishment of a crime (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 151 Relating to: proclaiming February 2026 as Black History Month. 2025
  • AJR 146 Relating to: state contracts for stationery and printing (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 144 Relating to: congratulating the U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team on winning the Olympic gold medal. 2025
  • AJR 136 Relating to: the right to privacy (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 134 Relating to: recognizing the holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 13 Relating to: designating the month of March as Endosalpingiosis Awareness Month. 2025
  • AJR 12 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller. 2025
  • AJR 118 Relating to: proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. 2025
  • AJR 117 Relating to: calling for the immediate resolution to the trade war with China. 2025
  • AJR 11 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jim Soletski. 2025
  • AJR 108 Relating to: equality of rights on the basis of sex, gender identity, race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, family status, age, ancestry, or any other immutable characteristic and creating a private cause of action for violations of those rights by state actors (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 105 Relating to: recognizing September 25, 2025, as First Amendment Day for all people of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 104 Relating to: proclaiming November 2025 to be Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. 2025
  • AJR 103 Relating to: proclaiming the last full week of September as Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week. 2025
  • AB 999 Relating to: collective bargaining for employees of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority. 2025
  • AB 988 Relating to: video recording of surgical procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 976 Relating to: changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE) 2025
  • AB 97 Relating to: extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) 2025
  • AB 954 Relating to: a requirement to report lost or stolen firearms and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 953 Relating to: containers or trigger locks provided at a firearm sale and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 952 Relating to: storage of a firearm in a house in which a resident is prohibited from possessing a firearm and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 951 Relating to: storage of firearms in retail facility when unattended. 2025
  • AB 945 Relating to: residency requirement for purposes of voting. 2025
  • AB 944 Relating to: grants for the purchase of election supplies and equipment and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 943 Relating to: going armed at a polling place and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 942 Relating to: notice of change in polling place location. (FE) 2025
  • AB 941 Relating to: student identification used for voting. (FE) 2025
  • AB 920 Relating to: automatic voter registration. (FE) 2025
  • AB 92 Relating to: spinal cord injury research grants and symposia and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 917 Relating to: a first-time home buyer purchasing assistance fund and loan program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 916 Relating to: a home repair program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 871 Relating to: constructing laterals and service pipes without a landowner’s permission in the City of Milwaukee. (FE) 2025
  • AB 859 Relating to: the reimbursement rate for special education costs and school age parents programs and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 846 Relating to: funding for Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants, the “Something Special from Wisconsin” promotion, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 835 Relating to: grants for students enrolled in teacher education programs, school district revenue limits, the reimbursement rate for special education costs, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 828 Relating to: grants to school counselors, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 825 Relating to: a grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 823 Relating to: healthy food incentive program funding, payment processing equipment and services for farmers’ markets and farmers, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 820 Relating to: the practice of audiology, licensure of audiologists, the composition of the Hearing and Speech Examining Board, and repealing an administrative rule related to the practical examination of audiologists. (FE) 2025
  • AB 816 Relating to: grants to WisconsinEye for the establishment of an endowment fund, creating the Office of the Public Affairs Network to administer a public affairs network in Wisconsin, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 811 Relating to: main street bounceback grants and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 809 Relating to: investigation of any pregnancy outcome and civil and criminal liability exemptions relating to pregnancy outcome. 2025
  • AB 804 Relating to: farm to fork grants, farm to school grants, matching funds for the federal farm to school program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 797 Relating to: grants for testing privately owned wells and providing education, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 796 Relating to: grants to nonprofit religious organizations for security purposes and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 790 Relating to: creating the water fund for our future, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 773 Relating to: the treatment of a pregnant or postpartum person in prison or jail. (FE) 2025
  • AB 769 Relating to: food waste reduction grants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 765 Relating to: bonding for lead service line replacement and granting bonding authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 759 Relating to: eligibility to receive occupational credentials for recipients of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (FE) 2025
  • AB 754 Relating to: coverage of tests for sexually transmitted diseases by health insurance policies and plans. (FE) 2025
  • AB 747 Relating to: regulating hemp-derived cannabinoid products. 2025
  • AB 739 Relating to: prohibitions concerning state or local government assistance with federal immigration enforcement. 2025
  • AB 735 Relating to: online clearinghouse of information for small businesses in Wisconsin. (FE) 2025
  • AB 722 Relating to: large energy customer fees; electric utility very large customer class; a renewable resource tariff; building requirements for data centers; water usage by large customers; required pay rate on large-scale data center projects; and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 680 Relating to: prohibiting individuals under age 21 from accessing intoxicating hemp products and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 656 Relating to: the age for marriage and eliminating spousal exceptions for certain sex crimes against children. 2025
  • AB 643 Relating to: the establishment of November 11 as a day on which the offices of the agencies of state government are closed. (FE) 2025
  • AB 641 Relating to: the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 638 Relating to: student financial protection at certain private postsecondary schools. (FE) 2025
  • AB 637 Relating to: funding sources for certain private postsecondary schools and granting rule-making authority. 2025
  • AB 635 Relating to: notifying counties and tribes of an exceedance of groundwater protection standards or standards for PFAS. (FE) 2025
  • AB 622 Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE) 2025
  • AB 621 Relating to: prohibiting a virtual school from participating in a parental choice program. 2025
  • AB 620 Relating to: teacher and administrator licensure in parental choice programs and in the Special Needs Scholarship Program and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 62 Relating to: health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 611 Relating to: per pupil aid. (FE) 2025
  • AB 608 Relating to: funding for student success and retention at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 604 Relating to: coverage under the Medical Assistance program for incarcerated individuals. (FE) 2025
  • AB 600 Relating to: faculty tenure and probationary appointments at University of Wisconsin System institutions and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 593 Relating to: collective bargaining for employees of the University of Wisconsin System, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 586 Relating to: shared governance at University of Wisconsin System institutions. 2025
  • AB 579 Relating to: University of Wisconsin System tuition grant program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 57 Relating to: requirements concerning assistance in the detention of individuals who are or are alleged to be not lawfully present in the United States. 2025
  • AB 568 Relating to: coverage of infertility services under health policies and plans and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 567 Relating to: covenants not to compete in employment contracts. 2025
  • AB 532 Relating to: unemployment insurance benefits. (FE) 2025
  • AB 531 Relating to: grants for safe firearm disposal incentive programs and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 524 Relating to: raising the legal age for sale, purchase, and possession of cigarettes and nicotine and tobacco products; providing a legal age for sale, purchase, and possession of electronic vaping devices; and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 52 Relating to: expanding the homestead income tax credit. (FE) 2025
  • AB 513 Relating to: actions in circuit court alleging discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing. (FE) 2025
  • AB 512 Relating to: prohibiting an employer from relying on information about a prospective employee’s compensation when making employment decisions or inquiring about a prospective employee’s compensation and from restricting an employee’s right to disclose compensation information, allowing actions in circuit court, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 508 Relating to: allowing Social Security Disability Insurance recipients to receive concurrent unemployment insurance benefits. (FE) 2025
  • AB 504 Relating to: including with the property tax bill information about state aid reduction to school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 498 Relating to: automated external defibrillators in child care centers and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 495 Relating to: general equalization aids, supplemental hold harmless aid, the per pupil adjustment for school district revenue limits, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 480 Relating to: requiring job postings to include salary range and benefits, retaining records of job postings, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 48 Relating to: providing state aid to reimburse public and private schools that provide free meals to all pupils for the costs of those meals and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 478 Relating to: repealing prohibition on state and local government labor regulation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 476 Relating to: prohibiting abusive work environments and creating a cause of action. (FE) 2025
  • AB 475 Relating to: grants for the provision of immigration-related civil legal services to individuals and families, county grants for the provision of civil legal services to individuals and families, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 470 Relating to: eliminating the right-to-work law. (FE) 2025
  • AB 469 Relating to: the unemployment insurance waiting period. 2025
  • AB 468 Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance and worker’s compensation laws. (FE) 2025
  • AB 467 Relating to: unemployment insurance work search and registration and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 466 Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 464 Relating to: prevailing wage, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 462 Relating to: employee misclassification; construction contractor registration; reporting state tax law violations committed by construction industry employers; and granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 445 Relating to: registers of deeds, transportation project plats, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 444 Relating to: prohibitions concerning use of state and local facilities to detain individuals on the basis of immigration status. 2025
  • AB 442 Relating to: the first date on which nomination papers may be circulated for the spring election. 2025
  • AB 441 Relating to: identity requirements for officers who arrest or detain individuals and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 437 Relating to: requiring certain sales invoices and sales receipts to include tariff costs. 2025
  • AB 435 Relating to: the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 434 Relating to: local traffic calming grants and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 43 Relating to: permitting pharmacists to prescribe certain contraceptives, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 427 Relating to: prohibiting possessing a firearm on college and university campuses and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 404 Relating to: the Veterans Outreach and Recovery Program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 403 Relating to: requiring universal changing stations in certain buildings, creating a tax credit for installation of the stations, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 402 Relating to: coverage of maternity and newborn care under health insurance policies and plans and granting rule-making authority. 2025
  • AB 396 Relating to: appointment of legal counsel by the legislature. 2025
  • AB 378 Relating to: prohibiting the state from sharing data with the federal government that contains personally identifiable information if the data is not first masked or otherwise anonymized and authorizing a civil cause of action for negligent violations of that prohibition. (FE) 2025
  • AB 371 Relating to: the use of speed safety camera systems and traffic control photographic systems in a first class city and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 361 Relating to: eliminating criminal defenses of adequate provocation, self-defense, or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect if the claim is based on the victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation. 2025
  • AB 359 Relating to: prohibiting conversion therapy. 2025
  • AB 356 Relating to: storage of a firearm in a residence if child is present and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 355 Relating to: right to bodily autonomy, elimination of certain abortion-related regulations, and coverage of abortion under certain health care coverage plans. (FE) 2025
  • AB 343 Relating to: school mental health and pupil wellness aid and making an appropriation. 2025
  • AB 339 Relating to: aid for comprehensive school mental health services and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 332 Relating to: requiring vehicles to stop for pedestrians at certain intersections and crosswalks. 2025
  • AB 331 Relating to: establishing a civil cause of action for civil rights violations. 2025
  • AB 325 Relating to: sales and transfers of firearms and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 324 Relating to: waiting period for purchase of handguns. 2025
  • AB 321 Relating to: prohibition against undetectable firearms, possessing a frame or receiver of a firearm without a serial number, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 319 Relating to: extreme risk protection temporary restraining orders and injunctions, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 317 Relating to: a Department of Children and Families program to make payments to child care programs, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 307 Relating to: the pupil participation limit in the state parental choice program. 2025
  • AB 305 Relating to: designating the rusty patched bumble bee as the state native insect. 2025
  • AB 27 Relating to: expanding veterans benefits to individuals who served in Laos in support of the United States during the Vietnam War. 2025
  • AB 267 Relating to: waiver of fees for admission to state parks on Earth Day. (FE) 2025
  • AB 263 Relating to: coverage of breast cancer screenings by the Medical Assistance program and health insurance policies and plans. (FE) 2025
  • AB 227 Relating to: inducements to sign or refrain from signing nomination papers, recall petitions, and certain other petitions. 2025
  • AB 220 Relating to: discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, national guard, jury duty, and adoption and in the receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation services. 2025
  • AB 215 Relating to: eliminating the publication requirement for a name change petition seeking to conform an individual’s name with the individual’s gender identity. 2025
  • AB 211 Relating to: exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban. 2025
  • AB 205 Relating to: serving maple syrup in a public eating place. 2025
  • AB 194 Relating to: modifications to housing programs under the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 186 Relating to: study of guaranteed employment grant program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 175 Relating to: requiring periodic inspections of parking structures. 2025
  • AB 173 Relating to: regulation of pharmacy benefit managers, fiduciary and disclosure requirements on pharmacy benefit managers, and application of prescription drug payments to health insurance cost-sharing requirements. (FE) 2025
  • AB 150 Relating to: requiring the legislature to convene an extraordinary session if an executive order of the president of the United States freezes federal aid to the state. 2025
  • AB 145 Relating to: passing legislation to reduce carbon emissions. 2025
  • AB 142 Relating to: algorithmic software for residential housing, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 125 Relating to: special observance days in schools. 2025
  • AB 1235 Relating to: reporting of mass communications. 2025
  • AB 1220 Relating to: coordination of mass communications. 2025
  • AB 1219 Relating to: campaign contribution limits. 2025
  • AB 1216 Relating to: a state-based insurance exchange and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1203 Relating to: net zero emissions, carbon-free and renewable energy standards, and creating an office of sustainability and clean energy, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1202 Relating to: reporting a contributor’s place of employment. 2025
  • AB 1201 Relating to: the definition of political action committee for campaign finance purposes. 2025
  • AB 1200 Relating to: contributions by corporations, cooperative associations, labor organizations, and federally recognized American Indian Tribes. 2025
  • AB 1187 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1178 Relating to: regional transit authorities and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1176 Relating to: general equalization aids, the reimbursement rate for special education costs, excluding special education reimbursement from certain per pupil payments, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1170 Relating to: prescription drug cost reporting by manufacturers, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1158 Relating to: a state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1156 Relating to: state procurement of products and services from businesses located in this state and setting a goal for local governments to purchase a certain percentage of products and services from businesses located in this state. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1153 Relating to: BadgerCare purchase option, basic plan, state-based insurance exchange, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1149 Relating to: adding a teacher representative to school boards. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1142 Relating to: funding for passenger rail operations and making an appropriation. 2025
  • AB 1131 Relating to: penalties for certain offenses related to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, restrictions related to ignition interlock devices, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1128 Relating to: insurer claims denial practices and auditing, creating the Office of the Public Intervenor, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1125 Relating to: disrupting access to a reproductive health service facility or place of religious worship and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 1117 Relating to: constitutional eligibility of candidates for federal office. 2025
  • AB 1109 Relating to: use of artificial intelligence to deny prior authorization for medical necessity or experimental status. 2025
  • AB 1104 Relating to: requiring school boards to compensate teachers for time spent on nonclassroom services. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1103 Relating to: establishing minimum salaries for public school teachers. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1102 Relating to: longevity bonuses for teachers in school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1101 Relating to: grants to encourage individuals to pursue a career in teaching or to facilitate teacher licensure, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 11 Relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients. 2025
  • AB 1092 Relating to: paid preparation time for teachers. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1077 Relating to: permits for firearms dealers, firearms transactions and safety, firearms crimes, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1061 Relating to: legalizing the possession of cannabis; medical cannabis; expunging or adjusting past convictions for marijuana-related crimes; regulating the production, processing, transportation, testing, and sale of cannabis; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1060 Relating to: grants for falls prevention awareness and initiatives and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1059 Relating to: funding for home-delivered meals and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1048 Relating to: local regulation of landlords. 2025
  • AB 1044 Relating to: grants for patient lift devices and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1043 Relating to: fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1023 Relating to: funding for tribal child care training and technical assistance and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1018 Relating to: income eligibility for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1017 Relating to: child care subsidies for custodial parents who are child care employees and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1016 Relating to: funding for child care provider workforce training and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1015 Relating to: Wisconsin Shares copayment amounts and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1012 Relating to: the establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a family member and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that must allow an employee to take family or medical leave; allowing a local government to adopt ordinances requiring employers to provide leave benefits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1011 Relating to: recovery of noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases. 2025
  • AB 1010 Relating to: claims for loss of society and companionship resulting from medical malpractice. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1008 Relating to: references to like-kin under the Wisconsin Shares program. 2025
  • AB 10 Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for the sale of gun safes. (FE) 2025

Cosponsored · 201

Bills from the other house that Karen Kirsch signed onto. Signing on adds their name to the bill; it is not the same as leading it. From each bill's official history.

Show all 201 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 98 Relating to: equality of rights on the basis of sex, gender identity, race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, family status, age, ancestry, or any other immutable characteristic and creating a private cause of action for violations of those rights by state actors (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 97 Relating to: recognizing September 25, 2025, as First Amendment Day for all people of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 93 Relating to: proclaiming November 2025 to be Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. 2025
  • SJR 92 Relating to: proclaiming October 2025 as Filipino American History Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 91 Relating to: proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Breast Cancer Awareness Months. 2025
  • SJR 90 Relating to: proclaiming January as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 87 Relating to: recognizing the United States Marine Corps’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 86 Relating to: recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 85 Relating to: recognizing August as Immunization Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 84 Relating to: honoring Wisconsin’s Hispanic veterans. 2025
  • SJR 8 Relating to: proclaiming February 4, 2025, as Transit Equity Day. 2025
  • SJR 79 Relating to: urging the immediate and unconditional release of documents, files, and records related to Jeffrey Epstein. 2025
  • SJR 78 Relating to: honoring the dedication and service of Chief Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. 2025
  • SJR 77 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Thomas A. Hauke. 2025
  • SJR 74 Relating to: recognizing June 19, 2025, as Juneteenth Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 72 Relating to: proclaiming June 2025 as Immigrant Heritage Month. 2025
  • SJR 70 Relating to: proclaiming June 12, 2025, as Women Veterans Day. 2025
  • SJR 62 Relating to: proclaiming January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025, as Wisconsin State Park System 125th Anniversary. 2025
  • SJR 60 Relating to: proclaiming June 6, 2025, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 6 Relating to: honoring the life and enduring legacy of Robert George Uecker. 2025
  • SJR 54 Relating to: designating May 2025 and May 2026 as Food Allergy Awareness Months. 2025
  • SJR 47 Relating to: observing Tuesday, March 25, 2025, as Equal Pay Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 46 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Frederick P. Kessler. 2025
  • SJR 45 Relating to: proclaiming May 2025 and May 2026 as Jewish American Heritage Months. 2025
  • SJR 42 Relating to: proclaiming 2025 as the year of the snake. 2025
  • SJR 41 Relating to: celebrating 50 years of strength and resilience of the Hmong, Lao, Cambodian, and Vietnamese people. 2025
  • SJR 40 Relating to: recognizing Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month as a time to honor the important contributions of Asians, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders to the history of the United States. 2025
  • SJR 38 Relating to: an advisory referendum on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 2025
  • SJR 36 Relating to: congratulating the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse women’s gymnastics team on winning the 2025 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championship. 2025
  • SJR 31 Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2025, as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility. 2025
  • SJR 30 Relating to: congratulating the University of Wisconsin–Madison women’s hockey team on winning the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey National Championship. 2025
  • SJR 3 Relating to: proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 25 Relating to: commending the IBS Patient Support Group on its recognition of April 17 through April 19, 2025, as World IBS Days. 2025
  • SJR 20 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jim Soletski. 2025
  • SJR 19 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jonathan Brostoff. 2025
  • SJR 17 Relating to: honoring April 22, 2025, as the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. 2025
  • SJR 15 Relating to: condemning the pardons and sentence commutations of individuals involved in the violent attack on law enforcement officers at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. 2025
  • SJR 145 Relating to: state contracts for stationery and printing (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 140 Relating to: congratulating the U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team on winning the Olympic gold medal. 2025
  • SJR 139 Relating to: slavery or involuntary servitude in punishment of a crime (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 134 Relating to: proclaiming February 2026 as Black History Month. 2025
  • SJR 131 Relating to: the right to privacy (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 13 Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller. 2025
  • SJR 129 Relating to: recognizing the holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 12 Relating to: designating the month of March as Endosalpingiosis Awareness Month. 2025
  • SJR 111 Relating to: proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. 2025
  • SJR 110 Relating to: calling for the immediate resolution to the trade war with China. 2025
  • SJR 100 Relating to: proclaiming the last full week of September as Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week. 2025
  • SJR 10 Relating to: proclaiming February 2025 as Black History Month. 2025
  • SB 992 Relating to: references to like-kin under the Wisconsin Shares program. 2025
  • SB 991 Relating to: funding for tribal child care training and technical assistance and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 965 Relating to: collective bargaining for employees of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority. 2025
  • SB 958 Relating to: creating the water fund for our future, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 948 Relating to: storage of a firearm in a house in which a resident is prohibited from possessing a firearm and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 947 Relating to: a requirement to report lost or stolen firearms and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 946 Relating to: containers or trigger locks provided at a firearm sale and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 945 Relating to: storage of firearms in retail facility when unattended. 2025
  • SB 942 Relating to: changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE) 2025
  • SB 934 Relating to: notice of change in polling place location. (FE) 2025
  • SB 931 Relating to: student identification used for voting. (FE) 2025
  • SB 925 Relating to: automatic voter registration. (FE) 2025
  • SB 924 Relating to: grants for the purchase of election supplies and equipment and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 923 Relating to: residency requirement for purposes of voting. 2025
  • SB 860 Relating to: the practice of audiology, licensure of audiologists, the composition of the Hearing and Speech Examining Board, and repealing an administrative rule related to the practical examination of audiologists. (FE) 2025
  • SB 852 Relating to: the reimbursement rate for special education costs and school age parents programs and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 848 Relating to: constructing laterals and service pipes without a landowner’s permission in the City of Milwaukee. (FE) 2025
  • SB 834 Relating to: a grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 833 Relating to: grants to school counselors, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 829 Relating to: funding for Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants, the “Something Special from Wisconsin” promotion, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 828 Relating to: grants for students enrolled in teacher education programs, school district revenue limits, the reimbursement rate for special education costs, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 817 Relating to: healthy food incentive program funding, payment processing equipment and services for farmers’ markets and farmers, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 807 Relating to: grants to WisconsinEye for the establishment of an endowment fund, creating the Office of the Public Affairs Network to administer a public affairs network in Wisconsin, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 806 Relating to: main street bounceback grants and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 804 Relating to: investigation of any pregnancy outcome and civil and criminal liability exemptions relating to pregnancy outcome. 2025
  • SB 770 Relating to: farm to fork grants, farm to school grants, matching funds for the federal farm to school program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 769 Relating to: bonding for lead service line replacement and granting bonding authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 762 Relating to: grants for testing privately owned wells and providing education, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 757 Relating to: coverage of tests for sexually transmitted diseases by health insurance policies and plans. (FE) 2025
  • SB 755 Relating to: the treatment of a pregnant or postpartum person in prison or jail. (FE) 2025
  • SB 745 Relating to: eligibility to receive occupational credentials for recipients of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (FE) 2025
  • SB 741 Relating to: food waste reduction grants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 740 Relating to: online clearinghouse of information for small businesses in Wisconsin. (FE) 2025
  • SB 67 Relating to: providing state aid to reimburse public and private schools that provide free meals to all pupils for the costs of those meals and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 644 Relating to: prohibiting individuals under age 21 from accessing intoxicating hemp products and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 639 Relating to: veterans mental health services and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 631 Relating to: student financial protection at certain private postsecondary schools. (FE) 2025
  • SB 630 Relating to: funding sources for certain private postsecondary schools and granting rule-making authority. 2025
  • SB 628 Relating to: notifying counties and tribes of an exceedance of groundwater protection standards or standards for PFAS. (FE) 2025
  • SB 617 Relating to: the establishment of November 11 as a day on which the offices of the agencies of state government are closed. (FE) 2025
  • SB 615 Relating to: the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 604 Relating to: teacher and administrator licensure in parental choice programs and in the Special Needs Scholarship Program and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 603 Relating to: per pupil aid. (FE) 2025
  • SB 602 Relating to: prohibiting a virtual school from participating in a parental choice program. 2025
  • SB 60 Relating to: expanding the homestead income tax credit. (FE) 2025
  • SB 590 Relating to: faculty tenure and probationary appointments at University of Wisconsin System institutions and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 586 Relating to: University of Wisconsin System tuition grant program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 585 Relating to: funding for student success and retention at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 581 Relating to: shared governance at University of Wisconsin System institutions. 2025
  • SB 579 Relating to: collective bargaining for employees of the University of Wisconsin System, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 543 Relating to: regulation and credentialing of appraisers and appraisal management companies. 2025
  • SB 541 Relating to: actions in circuit court alleging discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing. (FE) 2025
  • SB 540 Relating to: prohibiting an employer from relying on information about a prospective employee’s compensation when making employment decisions or inquiring about a prospective employee’s compensation and from restricting an employee’s right to disclose compensation information, allowing actions in circuit court, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 54 Relating to: requirements concerning assistance in the detention of individuals who are or are alleged to be not lawfully present in the United States. 2025
  • SB 515 Relating to: unemployment insurance benefits. (FE) 2025
  • SB 507 Relating to: allowing Social Security Disability Insurance recipients to receive concurrent unemployment insurance benefits. (FE) 2025
  • SB 503 Relating to: grants for safe firearm disposal incentive programs and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 500 Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE) 2025
  • SB 50 Relating to: health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 494 Relating to: repealing prohibition on state and local government labor regulation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 491 Relating to: general equalization aids, supplemental hold harmless aid, the per pupil adjustment for school district revenue limits, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 490 Relating to: prevailing wage, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 488 Relating to: requiring job postings to include salary range and benefits, retaining records of job postings, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 486 Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance and worker’s compensation laws. (FE) 2025
  • SB 484 Relating to: prohibitions concerning use of state and local facilities to detain individuals on the basis of immigration status. 2025
  • SB 483 Relating to: including with the property tax bill information about state aid reduction to school districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 471 Relating to: unemployment insurance work search and registration and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 465 Relating to: project labor agreements and public contracts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 460 Relating to: prohibiting abusive work environments and creating a cause of action. (FE) 2025
  • SB 458 Relating to: eliminating the right-to-work law. (FE) 2025
  • SB 457 Relating to: the unemployment insurance waiting period. 2025
  • SB 453 Relating to: the first date on which nomination papers may be circulated for the spring election. 2025
  • SB 449 Relating to: registers of deeds, transportation project plats, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 446 Relating to: grants for the provision of immigration-related civil legal services to individuals and families, county grants for the provision of civil legal services to individuals and families, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 444 Relating to: identity requirements for officers who arrest or detain individuals and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 438 Relating to: requiring certain sales invoices and sales receipts to include tariff costs. 2025
  • SB 437 Relating to: automated external defibrillators in child care centers and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 436 Relating to: the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 433 Relating to: local traffic calming grants and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 429 Relating to: prohibiting possessing a firearm on college and university campuses and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 401 Relating to: coverage of maternity and newborn care under health insurance policies and plans and granting rule-making authority. 2025
  • SB 398 Relating to: requiring universal changing stations in certain buildings, creating a tax credit for installation of the stations, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 397 Relating to: appointment of legal counsel by the legislature. 2025
  • SB 396 Relating to: the Veterans Outreach and Recovery Program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 380 Relating to: eliminating criminal defenses of adequate provocation, self-defense, or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect if the claim is based on the victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation. 2025
  • SB 375 Relating to: the use of speed safety camera systems and traffic control photographic systems in a first class city and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 369 Relating to: prohibiting the state from sharing data with the federal government that contains personally identifiable information if the data is not first masked or otherwise anonymized and authorizing a civil cause of action for negligent violations of that prohibition. (FE) 2025
  • SB 362 Relating to: forms of proof of identification for voting. 2025
  • SB 350 Relating to: school mental health and pupil wellness aid and making an appropriation. 2025
  • SB 345 Relating to: requiring vehicles to stop for pedestrians at certain intersections and crosswalks. 2025
  • SB 332 Relating to: prohibition against undetectable firearms, possessing a frame or receiver of a firearm without a serial number, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 330 Relating to: waiting period for purchase of handguns. 2025
  • SB 329 Relating to: extreme risk protection temporary restraining orders and injunctions, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 322 Relating to: a Department of Children and Families program to make payments to child care programs, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 319 Relating to: designating the rusty patched bumble bee as the state native insect. 2025
  • SB 314 Relating to: the pupil participation limit in the state parental choice program. 2025
  • SB 271 Relating to: right to bodily autonomy, elimination of certain abortion-related regulations, and coverage of abortion under certain health care coverage plans. (FE) 2025
  • SB 265 Relating to: waiver of fees for admission to state parks on Earth Day. (FE) 2025
  • SB 264 Relating to: coverage of breast cancer screenings by the Medical Assistance program and health insurance policies and plans. (FE) 2025
  • SB 233 Relating to: inducements to sign or refrain from signing nomination papers, recall petitions, and certain other petitions. 2025
  • SB 23 Relating to: extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) 2025
  • SB 223 Relating to: discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, national guard, jury duty, and adoption and in the receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation services. 2025
  • SB 217 Relating to: eliminating the publication requirement for a name change petition seeking to conform an individual’s name with the individual’s gender identity. 2025
  • SB 211 Relating to: exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban. 2025
  • SB 203 Relating to: regulation of pharmacy benefit managers, fiduciary and disclosure requirements on pharmacy benefit managers, and application of prescription drug payments to health insurance cost-sharing requirements. (FE) 2025
  • SB 195 Relating to: serving maple syrup in a public eating place. 2025
  • SB 187 Relating to: study of guaranteed employment grant program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 150 Relating to: passing legislation to reduce carbon emissions. 2025
  • SB 149 Relating to: requiring the legislature to convene an extraordinary session if an executive order of the president of the United States freezes federal aid to the state. 2025
  • SB 142 Relating to: algorithmic software for residential housing, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 14 Relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients. 2025
  • SB 135 Relating to: special observance days in schools. 2025
  • SB 1179 Relating to: a home repair program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1169 Relating to: a first-time home buyer purchasing assistance fund and loan program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1158 Relating to: reporting of mass communications. 2025
  • SB 1157 Relating to: reporting a contributor’s place of employment. 2025
  • SB 1156 Relating to: contributions by corporations, cooperative associations, labor organizations, and federally recognized American Indian Tribes. 2025
  • SB 1155 Relating to: coordination of mass communications. 2025
  • SB 1154 Relating to: the definition of political action committee for campaign finance purposes. 2025
  • SB 1153 Relating to: campaign contribution limits. 2025
  • SB 1151 Relating to: general equalization aids, the reimbursement rate for special education costs, excluding special education reimbursement from certain per pupil payments, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1150 Relating to: net zero emissions, carbon-free and renewable energy standards, and creating an office of sustainability and clean energy, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1149 Relating to: prescription drug cost reporting by manufacturers, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1139 Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1123 Relating to: a state minimum wage, allowing the enactment of local minimum wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1121 Relating to: BadgerCare purchase option, basic plan, state-based insurance exchange, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1118 Relating to: state procurement of products and services from businesses located in this state and setting a goal for local governments to purchase a certain percentage of products and services from businesses located in this state. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1117 Relating to: entering into an agreement among the states to elect the president and vice president of the United States by means of a national popular vote. 2025
  • SB 1113 Relating to: funding for passenger rail operations and making an appropriation. 2025
  • SB 1111 Relating to: penalties for certain offenses related to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, restrictions related to ignition interlock devices, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1100 Relating to: a state-based insurance exchange and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1097 Relating to: insurer claims denial practices and auditing, creating the Office of the Public Intervenor, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1096 Relating to: allowing private individuals, families, and private employers to elect health care coverage through plans offered by the Group Insurance Board, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1087 Relating to: disrupting access to a reproductive health service facility or place of religious worship and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 1085 Relating to: longevity bonuses for teachers in school districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1079 Relating to: Wisconsin Shares copayment amounts and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1071 Relating to: constitutional eligibility of candidates for federal office. 2025
  • SB 1066 Relating to: use of artificial intelligence to deny prior authorization for medical necessity or experimental status. 2025
  • SB 1055 Relating to: funding for home-delivered meals and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1053 Relating to: adding a teacher representative to school boards. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1052 Relating to: paid preparation time for teachers. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1051 Relating to: establishing minimum salaries for public school teachers. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1050 Relating to: requiring school boards to compensate teachers for time spent on nonclassroom services. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1046 Relating to: permits for firearms dealers, firearms transactions and safety, firearms crimes, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1045 Relating to: legalizing the possession of cannabis; medical cannabis; expunging or adjusting past convictions for marijuana-related crimes; regulating the production, processing, transportation, testing, and sale of cannabis; granting rule-making authority; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1029 Relating to: local regulation of landlords. 2025
  • SB 1021 Relating to: fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1020 Relating to: grants for patient lift devices and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1017 Relating to: funding for child care provider workforce training and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1016 Relating to: child care subsidies for custodial parents who are child care employees and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1011 Relating to: income eligibility for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1001 Relating to: the establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a family member and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that must allow an employee to take family or medical leave; allowing a local government to adopt ordinances requiring employers to provide leave benefits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from rule-making procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025

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Key votes · 79

Selected by rule, not judgment: the final recorded passage vote of every bill that became law, any floor vote decided by five or fewer, and every veto-override vote. Each row links to the official roll call.

Votes against their party · 6

Roll calls where Karen Kirsch voted opposite the majority of Democrats casting an Aye or Nay on that roll call. Ties within the party are excluded; absences never count. Each row links to the official roll call.

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  • Feb 19, 2026 SB 501 CONCURRENCE Voted Nay; Democrats split 35 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Feb 17, 2026 AB 446 PASSAGE Voted Aye; Democrats split 12 Aye–33 Nay roll call
  • Feb 17, 2026 AB 737 PASSAGE Voted Aye; Democrats split 10 Aye–35 Nay roll call
  • Nov 19, 2025 AB 616 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Democrats split 34 Aye–9 Nay roll call
  • Sep 11, 2025 AB 211 PASSAGE Voted Aye; Democrats split 7 Aye–37 Nay roll call
  • Mar 13, 2025 AB 89 PASSAGE Voted Aye; Democrats split 18 Aye–26 Nay roll call

Floor attendance

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Vote history · 245

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