Brett Davis

Republican Former Representative · Assembly District 80

Bills they led · 17

Bills where Brett Davis 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 17 bills they led: 0 became law, 0 were vetoed, 15 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

1 passed one chamber 16 died at session end

Passed one chamber 1 bills

AJR 21 celebrating March 1, 2009, as St. David's Day. 2009

Died at session end 16 bills

AJR 4 commending the heroic efforts of US Airways pilot Jeff Skiles in the Hudson River crash of flight 1549. 2009
AB 967 expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement income received by an individual. 2009
AB 960 requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. 2009
AB 941 creating an income and franchise tax credit for businesses that contribute to a scholarship-granting organization or to an educational improvement organization and a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for education expenses paid for dependents who attend elementary and secondary schools. 2009
AB 921 pupil assessments. 2009
AB 919 creating a qualified economic offer for school district professional employees in the arbitration process and school board selection of the group health benefits provider for school district employees. 2009
AB 870 the requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. 2009
AB 869 operation of all-terrain vehicles by persons who are under 12 years of age. 2009
AB 866 restoring the treatment of the exclusion of capital gains for individuals and certain other persons that existed before the enactment of 2009 Wisconsin Act 28. 2009
AB 865 the limit on the number of pupils who may attend a private school under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. 2009
AB 838 creating a refundable individual income tax credit for property taxes paid on a principal dwelling that is destroyed by a natural or man-made disaster and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 667 changing the calculation of the married persons tax credit. 2009
AB 538 awarding grants to school districts for pupil academic achievement, allowing the results of pupil examinations to be used to evaluate teacher performance, and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 393 using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers. 2009
AB 351 the duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. 2009
AB 306 eliminating the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. 2009

Coauthored · 89

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Brett Davis 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 25 requiring the Committee on Rules to offer a resolution calling for a special order of business on 2009 Assembly Resolution 14. 2009
AR 21 authorizing the attorney general to file or join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or any part thereof, and the federal Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, or any part thereof. 2009
AR 15 requesting the participation of the attorney general as amicus curiae in certain cases before the United States Supreme Court. 2009
AR 13 proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 2009
AJR 92 recognizing the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the symbolic end of the Cold War. 2009
AJR 83 the life and public service of Tommy T. Tradewell. 2009
AJR 82 proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 2009
AJR 75 the life and public service of John Stanley. 2009
AJR 58 accounting and expenditure of state funds (first consideration). 2009
AJR 36 creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). 2009
AJR 32 public officer salary changes (first consideration). 2009
AJR 3 creating the Joint Committee on Economic Stimulus Accountability. 2009
AJR 16 the dissolution of state funds and accounts and prohibiting the state from changing the purpose of any state fund or program revenue appropriation account (first consideration). 2009
AJR 138 the right of the people to contract privately for health care services and health care coverage, and prohibiting requiring a person to obtain or maintain health insurance coverage or to participate in any health care system or plan (first consideration). 2009
AJR 134 proclaiming May 6, 2010, as Wisconsin Day of Prayer. 2009
AJR 125 requiring a photographic identification to vote, or register to vote, at the polls on election day (first consideration). 2009
AJR 121 proclaiming May 2010 as Motorcycle Awareness Month. 2009
AB 99 adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. 2009
AB 98 the designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
AB 97 the designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
AB 947 requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 92 the regulation, preservation, and restoration of historic buildings; the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit and the state historic rehabilitation tax credit; requiring the certification of downtowns; promoting certain downtown areas in this state; highway projects involving business and downtown areas; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
AB 917 elimination of sick leave for legislators, justices and judges, and all other state elected officials. 2009
AB 91 an income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
AB 89 prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. 2009
AB 879 sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
AB 861 Celebrate Children special distinguishing registration plates. 2009
AB 84 membership of the Natural Resources Board. 2009
AB 829 applicability of the prevailing wage law to publicly funded private construction projects and to regional transit authorities, the threshold for applicability of that law to a project of public works, the submission to the Department of Workforce Development of payroll records of persons performing work that is subject to that law, the inspection of those records, and the remedies for a violation of that law. 2009
AB 814 an optional identification requirement for voting in elections. 2009
AB 80 an education tax credit for businesses. 2009
AB 799 changes to the membership of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, notification to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board of bills with an economic impact on small businesses, and the role of the Office of the Small Business Advocate in the Department of Commerce. 2009
AB 796 the rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. 2009
AB 79 release of persons who commit operating-while-intoxicated offenses and providing penalties. 2009
AB 77 increasing the amount of the early stage seed and angel investment credits. 2009
AB 756 the dairy and livestock investment tax credits. 2009
AB 748 suspension of the requirement that certain milk contractors pay an assessment into the agricultural producer security fund. 2009
AB 74 creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. 2009
AB 712 a sales and use tax exemption for extended-range electric vehicles; a property tax exemption for tangible personal property used to recharge electric vehicles; the motor vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program, extended-range electric vehicle grants; an income and franchise tax credit for research conducted in this state by a corporation; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
AB 703 correcting errors in the assessment of counties and taxation districts by the Department of Revenue. 2009
AB 695 requiring suspected drug activity on the part of a caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider to be reported to an immediate supervisor and to the sheriff and suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect on the part of such an individual to be reported under the child abuse and neglect reporting law and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 694 prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing a drug-related felony or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a drug-related felony from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, of being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or of being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided. 2009
AB 652 establishing a deer hunting season for certain persons serving on active duty in the U.S. armed forces or national guard. 2009
AB 608 adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. 2009
AB 600 authority of the Public Service Commission regarding fuel costs of certain electric public utilities and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 597 requiring the University of Wisconsin System to obtain the approval of the Joint Committee on Finance in order to acquire property by condemnation. 2009
AB 592 registration of former military vehicles. 2009
AB 584 screening pupils for phonemic awareness and rapid naming. 2009
AB 58 the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, as approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. 2009
AB 540 allowing out-of-state insurers to offer health care plans that are exempt from certain laws to employers and individuals in this state. 2009
AB 539 disclosure of information by health care providers, insurers, and governmental self-insured plans; requiring acceptance by a health care provider of a payment amount in certain circumstances; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
AB 525 automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. 2009
AB 517 highway maps published by the Department of Transportation. 2009
AB 505 the Department of Revenue's interpretation of the law. 2009
AB 479 prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing certain serious crimes, who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a serious crime, or who has had entered against him or her a domestic abuse, child abuse, individual-at-risk abuse, or harassment temporary restraining order or injunction in the preceding 15 years from being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, from being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or from being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided; requiring suspected fraudulent activity on the part of a participant in the Wisconsin Works Program, including a person receiving a child care subsidy under that program, to be reported to the district attorney; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 478 ending combined reporting. 2009
AB 477 the effective date of the jobs tax credit. 2009
AB 476 requiring the Department of Commerce to study and report on methods to retain businesses at risk of relocating or expanding outside the state and to encourage business relocations and expansions in the state and to create an emergency response team. 2009
AB 441 factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. 2009
AB 437 reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into eight school districts and creating a Milwaukee Public Schools Redistricting and Implementation Commission. 2009
AB 426 authorizing the designation of a tax incremental district as distressed and expanding the use of donor tax incremental districts. 2009
AB 42 acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials, officials elect, and committees and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 401 creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 394 the color and design of special distinguishing registration plates for fire fighters and emergency medical technicians. 2009
AB 391 deployment of high-speed Internet services. 2009
AB 38 excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. 2009
AB 376 restitution for misappropriation from a cemetery of certain objects that relate to a veteran. 2009
AB 350 sales and use tax exemption for motorboats. 2009
AB 34 allowing dairy cooperatives to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 300 an income and franchise credit for property taxes paid on restaurant kitchen machinery and equipment. 2009
AB 275 the Physical Therapists Affiliated Credentialing Board. 2009
AB 266 the provision of support services information to employees who are affected by a business closing or mass layoff and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 254 a sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs. 2009
AB 250 regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 236 requiring that certain high school agriculture courses be counted as science credits. 2009
AB 235 the issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. 2009
AB 222 the minimum age for hunting and for possessing a firearm, restrictions on hunting and on possessing a firearm while hunting, establishing a hunting mentorship program, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 220 regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. 2009
AB 196 providing the public with information on state agency and school district operations expenditures and state agency and school district contracts and grants. 2009
AB 193 the privilege of self-defense. 2009
AB 18 the income and franchise tax credit that supplements the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit. 2009
AB 17 requiring ignition interlock devices for certain motor vehicle violations, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 168 preparation and legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill; making executive sessions of the Joint Committee on Finance relating to the biennial budget bill available in real time for viewing by the public on the legislature's Internet Web site; and reporting of certain information by lobbying principals. 2009
AB 159 the charge-back of refunded or rescinded taxes and of personal property taxes and sharing certain collected taxes. 2009
AB 142 requiring a license to engage in the practice of landscape architecture. 2009
AB 138 the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. 2009
AB 127 preparation of zero-based biennial budget requests by executive branch agencies, preparation and passage of biennial budget bill or bills, state budget deficit, and generally accepted accounting principles. 2009
AB 103 authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. 2009
AB 10 a report on food safety programs. 2009

Cosponsored · 68

Bills from the other house that Brett Davis 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 68 cosponsored bills

SJR 79 single-subject rule for appropriation bills (first consideration). 2009
SJR 74 the retirement of Russ Whitesel, Senior Staff Attorney, Legislative Council Staff, following a long and distinguished career in nonpartisan service to the Wisconsin legislature. 2009
SJR 62 the right of the people to contract privately for health care services and health care coverage, and prohibiting requiring a person to obtain or maintain health insurance coverage or to participate in any health care system or plan (first consideration). 2009
SJR 53 honoring the life and public service of Joseph P. Mettner. 2009
SJR 51 proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 2009
SJR 4 recognizing February 2009 as American Heart Month and February 6, 2009, as Wear Red For Women Day. 2009
SJR 37 accounting and expenditure of state funds (first consideration). 2009
SJR 18 creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). 2009
SJR 10 the dissolution of state funds and accounts and prohibiting the state from changing the purpose of any state fund or program revenue appropriation account (first consideration). 2009
SB 97 authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. 2009
SB 92 preparation and legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill; making all meetings of the Joint Committee on Finance relating to the biennial budget bill available in real time for viewing by the public on the legislature's Internet Web site; and reporting of certain information by lobbying principals. 2009
SB 76 the designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
SB 75 the designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
SB 703 content of executive budget bills and requiring a supermajority approval for certain bills in the state legislature, preparation of results-based biennial budget requests by executive branch state agencies, and state agency base budget review reports. 2009
SB 699 providing the public with information on state agency and school district operations expenditures and state agency and school district contracts and grants. 2009
SB 697 sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
SB 696 applicability of the prevailing wage law to publicly funded private construction projects and to regional transit authorities, the threshold for applicability of that law to a project of public works, the submission to the Department of Workforce Development of payroll records of persons performing work that is subject to that law, the inspection of those records, and the remedies for a violation of that law. 2009
SB 69 adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. 2009
SB 680 requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. 2009
SB 65 expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement plan income received by an individual. 2009
SB 64 increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers. 2009
SB 63 a postsecondary education tax credit for businesses. 2009
SB 619 Celebrate Children special distinguishing registration plates. 2009
SB 577 limiting eligibility for public assistance programs to U.S. citizens and qualifying aliens, requiring documentary proof of citizenship or satisfactory immigration status, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 576 the requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. 2009
SB 566 requiring the University of Wisconsin System to obtain the approval of the Joint Committee on Finance in order to acquire property by condemnation. 2009
SB 56 an income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
SB 559 the dairy and livestock investment tax credits. 2009
SB 55 the regulation, preservation, and restoration of historic buildings; the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit and the state historic rehabilitation tax credit; requiring the certification of downtowns; promoting certain downtown areas in this state; highway projects involving business and downtown areas; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
SB 54 prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. 2009
SB 539 tax incentives for job creation. 2009
SB 521 a sales and use tax exemption for extended-range electric vehicles; a property tax exemption for tangible personal property used to recharge electric vehicles; the motor vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program, extended-range electric vehicle grants; an income and franchise tax credit for research conducted in this state by a corporation; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
SB 52 an education tax credit for businesses. 2009
SB 500 requiring suspected drug activity on the part of a caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider to be reported to an immediate supervisor and to the sheriff and suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect on the part of such an individual to be reported under the child abuse and neglect reporting law and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 499 prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing a drug-related felony or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a drug-related felony from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, of being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or of being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided. 2009
SB 454 establishing a deer hunting season for certain persons serving on active duty in the U.S. armed forces or national guard. 2009
SB 45 creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. 2009
SB 420 adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to contributions to individual retirement accounts and retirement plans. 2009
SB 42 a report on food safety programs. 2009
SB 404 registration of former military vehicles. 2009
SB 397 general purpose revenue funding for the veterans trust fund and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 386 automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. 2009
SB 385 factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. 2009
SB 357 awarding grants to school districts for pupil academic achievement, allowing the results of pupil examinations to be used to evaluate teacher performance, and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 350 an optional identification requirement for voting in elections. 2009
SB 343 the rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. 2009
SB 333 prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing certain serious crimes, who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a serious crime, or who has had entered against him or her a domestic abuse, child abuse, individual-at-risk abuse, or harassment temporary restraining order or injunction in the preceding 15 years from being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, from being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or from being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided; requiring suspected fraudulent activity on the part of a participant in the Wisconsin Works Program, including a person receiving a child care subsidy under that program, to be reported to the district attorney; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 31 the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, as approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. 2009
SB 291 authorizing the designation of a tax incremental district as distressed and expanding the use of donor tax incremental districts. 2009
SB 28 excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. 2009
SB 273 creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 261 deployment of high-speed Internet services. 2009
SB 26 allowing dairy cooperatives to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 258 using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers. 2009
SB 252 the duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. 2009
SB 23 acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials and committees. 2009
SB 220 eliminating the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. 2009
SB 208 regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 199 requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, and the fee for an identification card issued by the Department of Transportation. 2009
SB 183 the provision of support services information to employees who are affected by a business closing or mass layoff and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 176 a sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs. 2009
SB 175 the issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. 2009
SB 167 the minimum age for hunting and for possessing a firearm, restrictions on hunting and on possessing a firearm while hunting, establishing a hunting mentorship program, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 129 the privilege of self-defense. 2009
SB 128 regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. 2009
SB 113 the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. 2009
SB 104 requiring a license to engage in the practice of landscape architecture. 2009
SB 10 the income and franchise tax credit that supplements the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit. 2009

Brett Davis

Bills they led · 17

Coauthored · 89

Cosponsored · 68

Vote history · 0