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Democratic Representative · Assembly District 40

Bills they led · 4

Bills where Karen DeSanto 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 4 bills they led: 0 became law, 0 were vetoed, 4 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

Died at session end 4 bills
  • AB 805 Relating to: sandhill crane damage abatement assistance for corn producers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 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 381 Relating to: perimenopause and menopause education. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1149 Relating to: adding a teacher representative to school boards. (FE) 2025

Coauthored · 161

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Karen DeSanto 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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  • 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 79 Relating to: recognizing June 2025 as LGBTQ Pride Month. 2025
  • AJR 76 Relating to: eliminating constitutional restrictions on marriage (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 70 Relating to: proclaiming June 2025 as Immigrant Heritage Month. 2025
  • AJR 63 Relating to: proclaiming January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025, as Wisconsin State Park System 125th Anniversary. 2025
  • AJR 62 Relating to: designating June 2025 as Pollinator Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 61 Relating to: proclaiming June 6, 2025, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 58 Relating to: designating May as Older Americans Month 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 5 Relating to: proclaiming February 2025 as Black History Month. 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 36 Relating to: the right of the people to a clean, safe, and healthy natural environment and to its preservation (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 33 Relating to: declaration of the Economic Justice Bill of Rights. 2025
  • AJR 31 Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2025, as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility. 2025
  • AJR 3 Relating to: proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 25 Relating to: proclaiming April 24, 2025, to be Holocaust Remembrance Day and April 27, 2025, to May 4, 2025, as Holocaust Days of Remembrance in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 23 Relating to: designating April 2025 and April 2026 as Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Months. 2025
  • AJR 20 Relating to: proclaiming the week of April 28 to May 2, 2025, as School Nutrition Professionals Appreciation Week. 2025
  • AJR 19 Relating to: honoring April 22, 2025, as the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. 2025
  • AJR 150 Relating to: proclaiming April 2026 as family strengthening month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 147 Relating to: establishing an annual Education Foundation Day in Wisconsin. 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 118 Relating to: proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. 2025
  • AJR 114 Relating to: recognizing the inherent rights of nature and Wisconsin’s commitment to environmental stewardship. 2025
  • AB 999 Relating to: collective bargaining for employees of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority. 2025
  • AB 974 Relating to: a public affairs network trust fund, grants to the WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 960 Relating to: requiring social media platforms to provide mental health warnings and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 889 Relating to: creating the Wisconsin Climate Corps program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 888 Relating to: green jobs training program grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation. 2025
  • AB 873 Relating to: funding for crime victim services and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 860 Relating to: written resource guides informing inmates and juveniles in custody of their rights and making an appropriation. (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 855 Relating to: synthetic digital representations and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 854 Relating to: violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 852 Relating to: farmland preservation implementation grants, maximum acres of agricultural enterprise areas, indexing the farmland preservation tax credit for inflation, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 851 Relating to: the agricultural conservation easement purchase program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 850 Relating to: spending cap for the Wisconsin agricultural exports program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 847 Relating to: grants for alternatives to prosecution and incarceration programs for persons with mental illness 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 834 Relating to: courtroom supports for and sealing the identifying information of child victims and child witnesses of human trafficking crimes. (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 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 790 Relating to: creating the water fund for our future, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (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 744 Relating to: free state park admission for veterans and gold star families. (FE) 2025
  • AB 736 Relating to: free menstrual products for inmates of state correctional institutions or county jails or houses of correction. (FE) 2025
  • AB 735 Relating to: online clearinghouse of information for small businesses in Wisconsin. (FE) 2025
  • AB 733 Relating to: recreational opportunities and structured programming for inmates in state correctional institutions and county jails and houses of correction. (FE) 2025
  • AB 721 Relating to: income tax credits for beginning farmers and owners of farm assets and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 688 Relating to: providing certain municipalities with additional supplemental county and municipal aid and establishing a Shared Revenue Advisory Council. (FE) 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 635 Relating to: notifying counties and tribes of an exceedance of groundwater protection standards or standards for PFAS. (FE) 2025
  • AB 633 Relating to: the rights of Devil’s Lake State Park and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 632 Relating to: issuance of permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies. 2025
  • AB 62 Relating to: health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (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 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 589 Relating to: elimination of certain abortion-related regulations. 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 570 Relating to: payments for pupils who withdraw from a parental choice program, the Special Needs Scholarship Program, or an independent charter school. (FE) 2025
  • AB 528 Relating to: school district employee participation in state group health insurance and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 52 Relating to: expanding the homestead income tax credit. (FE) 2025
  • AB 505 Relating to: creating a veterinary loan repayment grant program administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board and exempting from taxation amounts received from such a grant program. 2025
  • AB 504 Relating to: including with the property tax bill information about state aid reduction to school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 500 Relating to: prohibiting corporal punishment in public and private schools. 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 488 Relating to: fire suppression products derived from soybeans. 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 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 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 441 Relating to: identity requirements for officers who arrest or detain individuals and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 439 Relating to: eligibility of a highway for an agricultural roads improvement program grant. (FE) 2025
  • AB 435 Relating to: the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program and making an appropriation. (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 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 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 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 345 Relating to: withholding state payments to the federal government if federal aid to the state is withheld under certain circumstances. (FE) 2025
  • AB 344 Relating to: pursuing liens on federal property if federal aid to the state is withheld under certain circumstances. (FE) 2025
  • AB 343 Relating to: school mental health and pupil wellness aid and making an appropriation. 2025
  • AB 342 Relating to: grants to hire school mental health professionals who are members of a racial minority group, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 341 Relating to: grants for prospective school social workers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 340 Relating to: payment for school medical services. (FE) 2025
  • AB 338 Relating to: coverage of treatment for mental health or substance use disorders under health insurance policies and plans. 2025
  • AB 337 Relating to: training to address student mental health and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 336 Relating to: funding for University of Wisconsin System student health services and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 335 Relating to: stipend payments for school social worker interns and making an appropriation. (FE) 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 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 316 Relating to: grants for LGBTQIA+ rights training for school counselors and school social workers and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 314 Relating to: adopting gender-neutral terminology and incorporating gender-neutral marriage and parentage rights. (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 291 Relating to: native prairie and forage plants. 2025
  • AB 290 Relating to: special registration plates to support protecting pollinators and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 289 Relating to: ban on the use of certain insecticides by the Department of Natural Resources. 2025
  • AB 288 Relating to: labeling plants as beneficial to pollinators. (FE) 2025
  • AB 287 Relating to: local regulation of pesticides to protect pollinators. 2025
  • AB 272 Relating to: eligibility for Family Care for individuals who are deaf-blind. (FE) 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 256 Relating to: a special observance day in schools for Armenian Genocide Awareness Day. 2025
  • AB 219 Relating to: a tax credit for rail infrastructure modernization. (FE) 2025
  • AB 213 Relating to: prohibiting hedge funds from acquiring single-family homes in this state. (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 125 Relating to: special observance days in schools. 2025
  • AB 1238 Relating to: allocation of building trust funds to develop preliminary plans and specification for expansion of the mother-young child care program under the Department of Corrections. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1213 Relating to: a dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program, granting rule-making authority, 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 1194 Relating to: the sale of alcohol beverages by a municipality or county in a park. 2025
  • AB 1188 Relating to: authorizing the creation of an emergency services district, authorizing an emergency services district to levy a property tax, and authorizing an emergency services district to impose special charges and issue debt. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1182 Relating to: leadership in energy and environmental design certification grant program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 118 Relating to: a transition to grazing pilot program and making an appropriation. (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 1166 Relating to: requiring an employer to provide reasonable break time and accommodations for an employee who is breastfeeding the employee’s child to express breast milk for the child. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1161 Relating to: online services accessed by minors, minors’ personal data, and granting rule-making authority. 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 1157 Relating to: pupil discrimination and private schools participating in a parental choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program, discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 1153 Relating to: BadgerCare purchase option, basic plan, state-based insurance exchange, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1150 Relating to: implementation of an individualized education program or services plan under the Special Needs Scholarship Program. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1129 Relating to: an assistance program for water infrastructure in 3rd class and 4th class cities, villages, and towns; 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 1121 Relating to: health insurance coverage of prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1118 Relating to: refundability of the additional child and dependent care tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1093 Relating to: employment by a former member of the legislature as a lobbyist. 2025
  • AB 1090 Relating to: the statewide policy regarding homelessness, an income tax credit for property taxes paid by senior citizens, and making an appropriation. (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 1069 Relating to: a study committee on the installation of empty conduit lines for future fiber-optic internet expansion. 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 1055 Relating to: a victim protective services grant program 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 1008 Relating to: references to like-kin under the Wisconsin Shares program. 2025

Cosponsored · 160

Bills from the other house that Karen DeSanto 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 160 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 85 Relating to: recognizing August as Immunization Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 73 Relating to: recognizing June 2025 as LGBTQ Pride Month. 2025
  • SJR 72 Relating to: proclaiming June 2025 as Immigrant Heritage Month. 2025
  • SJR 68 Relating to: eliminating constitutional restrictions on marriage (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 62 Relating to: proclaiming January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025, as Wisconsin State Park System 125th Anniversary. 2025
  • SJR 61 Relating to: designating June 2025 as Pollinator Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 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 57 Relating to: designating May as Older Americans Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 47 Relating to: observing Tuesday, March 25, 2025, as Equal Pay Day in Wisconsin. 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 37 Relating to: the right of the people to a clean, safe, and healthy natural environment and to its preservation (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 33 Relating to: declaration of the Economic Justice Bill of Rights. 2025
  • SJR 31 Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2025, as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility. 2025
  • SJR 3 Relating to: proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 23 Relating to: proclaiming the week of April 28 to May 2, 2025, as School Nutrition Professionals Appreciation Week. 2025
  • SJR 17 Relating to: honoring April 22, 2025, as the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. 2025
  • SJR 149 Relating to: proclaiming April 2026 as family strengthening month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 147 Relating to: establishing an annual Education Foundation Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 140 Relating to: congratulating the U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team on winning the Olympic gold medal. 2025
  • SJR 131 Relating to: the right to privacy (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 111 Relating to: proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. 2025
  • SJR 107 Relating to: recognizing the inherent rights of nature and Wisconsin’s commitment to environmental stewardship. 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 978 Relating to: online services accessed by minors, minors’ personal data, and granting rule-making authority. 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 933 Relating to: requiring social media platforms to provide mental health warnings and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 894 Relating to: a victim protective services grant program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 881 Relating to: funding for crime victim services and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 876 Relating to: green jobs training program grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation. 2025
  • SB 864 Relating to: courtroom supports for and sealing the identifying information of child victims and child witnesses of human trafficking crimes. (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 847 Relating to: written resource guides informing inmates and juveniles in custody of their rights and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 842 Relating to: violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 841 Relating to: farmland preservation implementation grants, maximum acres of agricultural enterprise areas, indexing the farmland preservation tax credit for inflation, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 840 Relating to: the agricultural conservation easement purchase program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 837 Relating to: grants for alternatives to prosecution and incarceration programs for persons with mental illness 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 823 Relating to: spending cap for the Wisconsin agricultural exports program 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 815 Relating to: synthetic digital representations and providing a penalty. 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 775 Relating to: sandhill crane damage abatement assistance for corn producers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 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 749 Relating to: substance abuse counselor-in-training, clinical supervisor-in-training, and prevention specialist-in-training certifications. 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 728 Relating to: free menstrual products for inmates of state correctional institutions or county jails or houses of correction. (FE) 2025
  • SB 724 Relating to: recreational opportunities and structured programming for inmates in state correctional institutions and county jails and houses of correction. (FE) 2025
  • SB 723 Relating to: income tax credits for beginning farmers and owners of farm assets and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 718 Relating to: free state park admission for veterans and gold star families. (FE) 2025
  • SB 694 Relating to: providing certain municipalities with additional supplemental county and municipal aid and establishing a Shared Revenue Advisory Council. (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 639 Relating to: veterans mental health services and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 628 Relating to: notifying counties and tribes of an exceedance of groundwater protection standards or standards for PFAS. (FE) 2025
  • SB 623 Relating to: issuance of permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies. 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 613 Relating to: the rights of Devil’s Lake State Park and providing a penalty. (FE) 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 569 Relating to: implementation of an individualized education program or services plan under the Special Needs Scholarship Program. (FE) 2025
  • SB 568 Relating to: payments for pupils who withdraw from a parental choice program, the Special Needs Scholarship Program, or an independent charter school. (FE) 2025
  • SB 565 Relating to: pupil discrimination and private schools participating in a parental choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program, discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 547 Relating to: elimination of certain abortion-related regulations. 2025
  • SB 516 Relating to: school district employee participation in state group health insurance and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 501 Relating to: creating a veterinary loan repayment grant program administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board and exempting from taxation amounts received from such a grant program. 2025
  • SB 50 Relating to: health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (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 483 Relating to: including with the property tax bill information about state aid reduction to school districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 474 Relating to: fire suppression products derived from soybeans. 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 458 Relating to: eliminating the right-to-work law. (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 443 Relating to: eligibility of a highway for an agricultural roads improvement program grant. (FE) 2025
  • SB 436 Relating to: the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program 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 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 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 356 Relating to: perimenopause and menopause education. (FE) 2025
  • SB 355 Relating to: establishing a civil cause of action for civil rights violations. 2025
  • SB 354 Relating to: pursuing liens on federal property if federal aid to the state is withheld under certain circumstances. (FE) 2025
  • SB 353 Relating to: withholding state payments to the federal government if federal aid to the state is withheld under certain circumstances. (FE) 2025
  • SB 352 Relating to: grants to hire school mental health professionals who are members of a racial minority group, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 351 Relating to: funding for University of Wisconsin System student health services and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 350 Relating to: school mental health and pupil wellness aid and making an appropriation. 2025
  • SB 349 Relating to: payment for school medical services. (FE) 2025
  • SB 348 Relating to: training to address student mental health and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 346 Relating to: grants for prospective school social workers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 342 Relating to: coverage of treatment for mental health or substance use disorders under health insurance policies and plans. 2025
  • SB 340 Relating to: stipend payments for school social worker interns and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 336 Relating to: sales and transfers of firearms and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 330 Relating to: waiting period for purchase of handguns. 2025
  • SB 324 Relating to: prohibiting conversion therapy. 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 321 Relating to: adopting gender-neutral terminology and incorporating gender-neutral marriage and parentage rights. (FE) 2025
  • SB 320 Relating to: grants for LGBTQIA+ rights training for school counselors and school social workers 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 298 Relating to: ban on the use of certain insecticides by the Department of Natural Resources. 2025
  • SB 297 Relating to: special registration plates to support protecting pollinators and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 294 Relating to: labeling plants as beneficial to pollinators. (FE) 2025
  • SB 293 Relating to: native prairie and forage plants. 2025
  • SB 292 Relating to: local regulation of pesticides to protect pollinators. 2025
  • SB 272 Relating to: eligibility for Family Care for individuals who are deaf-blind. (FE) 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 268 Relating to: prohibiting corporal punishment in public and private schools. 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 246 Relating to: a special observance day in schools for Armenian Genocide Awareness Day. 2025
  • SB 23 Relating to: extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) 2025
  • SB 213 Relating to: a tax credit for rail infrastructure modernization. (FE) 2025
  • SB 208 Relating to: prohibiting hedge funds from acquiring single-family homes in this state. (FE) 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 135 Relating to: special observance days in schools. 2025
  • SB 1178 Relating to: creating the Wisconsin Climate Corps program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1168 Relating to: leadership in energy and environmental design certification grant program and making an appropriation. (FE) 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 1148 Relating to: authorizing the creation of an emergency services district, authorizing an emergency services district to levy a property tax, and authorizing an emergency services district to impose special charges and issue debt. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1146 Relating to: a dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1131 Relating to: requiring an employer to provide reasonable break time and accommodations for an employee who is breastfeeding the employee’s child to express breast milk for the child. (FE) 2025
  • SB 113 Relating to: a transition to grazing pilot program and making an appropriation. (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 1110 Relating to: allocation of building trust funds to develop preliminary plans and specification for expansion of the mother-young child care program under the Department of Corrections. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1088 Relating to: an assistance program for water infrastructure in 3rd class and 4th class cities, villages, and towns; 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 1079 Relating to: Wisconsin Shares copayment amounts and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1077 Relating to: health insurance coverage of prosthetic limbs and custom orthotic braces. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1074 Relating to: refundability of the additional child and dependent care tax credit and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 1053 Relating to: adding a teacher representative to school boards. (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 1038 Relating to: a study committee on the installation of empty conduit lines for future fiber-optic internet expansion. 2025
  • SB 1035 Relating to: employment by a former member of the legislature as a lobbyist. 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

Campaign money

$42,132 raised across 334 reported receipts since taking office, Jan 2025 to Jul 27, 2026

2025
Receipts by quarter since taking office. Gold bars with a tick under them are election quarters; peak $10,743 in 2026 Q2.
Quarter by quarter
  • 2025 Q1: $106
  • 2025 Q2: $5,519
  • 2025 Q3: $3,837
  • 2025 Q4: $5,797
  • 2026 Q1: $9,129
  • 2026 Q2: $10,743
  • 2026 Q3: $7,001

Where it came from

  • Individuals: $30,365 (72%)
  • Political committees: $6,549 (16%)
  • Businesses & other entities: $3,868 (9%)
  • Unregistered: $1,350 (3%)

Source types exactly as the committee reported each receipt to CFIS.

Top contributing committees

PACs, party and other political committees

Top individual donors

cumulative across all their reported receipts, by CFIS donor identity

  • Susan Lipp 1 receipts $1,000
  • Rebecca Oettinger 1 receipts $1,000
  • Jonathan Lipp 1 receipts $1,000
  • Molly Nowlan 1 receipts $1,000
  • Sarah Sell 1 receipts $1,000

Top occupations of individual donors

as reported by donors; individuals gave $30,365 in total

  • Not employed $10,451
  • Retired $3,645
  • Consultant $1,631
  • CEO $1,250
  • Unknown $1,125

Source: Wisconsin Ethics Commission campaign finance filings (campaignfinance.wi.gov), refreshed nightly. Wisconsin law bars corporations from contributing to candidates; money comes from individuals and political committees. Totals cover this legislator's candidate committees while in office, including any runs for other offices. Electronic records begin in 2008, so the longest-serving members' totals start there. Full methodology

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 · 5

Roll calls where Karen DeSanto 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.

Show all 5 party-break votes
  • Feb 19, 2026 SB 176 CONCURRENCE AS AMENDED Voted Aye; Democrats split 7 Aye–33 Nay roll call
  • Feb 19, 2026 AB 963 PASSAGE Voted Aye; Democrats split 7 Aye–34 Nay roll call
  • Feb 19, 2026 AB 839 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Democrats split 30 Aye–10 Nay roll call
  • Feb 17, 2026 SB 782 CONCURRENCE Voted Nay; Democrats split 30 Aye–15 Nay roll call
  • Mar 20, 2025 AB 105 PASSAGE Voted Aye; Democrats split 20 Aye–22 Nay roll call

Floor attendance

Only days the chamber held recorded floor votes are shown — on every tile below, they either voted or missed: 245 votes across 25 voting days, none missed.

voted all present, not voting missed votes (striped)
2026
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Vote history · 245

Show all 245 votes (45 more)