Kristen Dexter

Democratic Former Representative · Assembly District 68

Bills they led · 22

Bills where Kristen Dexter 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 22 bills they led: 5 became law, 0 were vetoed, 3 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

5 became law 1 passed one chamber 16 died at session end

Became law 5 bills

AB 808 student achievement guarantee in education program contracts. 2009
AB 638 the format and fees for obtaining copies of public records. 2009
AB 485 required judicial findings and orders when a child is placed outside the home, termination of parental rights warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters, the confidentiality of social services records, changing from day care to child care the term used to describe care and supervision for children for less than 24 hours a day, and renumbering the definition of neglect. 2009
AB 400 requiring landlords to change locks. 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

Passed one chamber 1 bills

AJR 91 declaring October to be Adopt a Shelter Pet Month. 2009

Died at session end 16 bills

AB 835 adding a member to the council on veterans programs. 2009
AB 809 transportation of private school pupils. 2009
AB 807 transportation aid to school districts. 2009
AB 702 the veterans tuition reimbursement program. 2009
AB 691 requiring certain county agencies to petition a court to freeze accounts of certain individuals being financially exploited. 2009
AB 690 a sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities. 2009
AB 68 the distribution of the first dollar property tax credit. 2009
AB 651 the wholesale distribution of prescription drugs. 2009
AB 640 expanding the types of governmental units that may participate in a joint local governmental self-insured health insurance plan. 2009
AB 639 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 63 the scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. 2009
AB 488 requiring newborn hearing screening. 2009
AB 486 requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in making reasonable efforts to place a child in a permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring notice to relatives when a child is removed from the home; requiring reasonable efforts to place siblings together or to provide for visitation between siblings; requiring agencies to assist children in developing a plan for transition to independent living; requiring health care providers to report cases of infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings; specifying certain placements for purposes of calculating how long a child has been placed outside the home for purposes of filing a termination of parental rights petition; and permitting disclosure of information to a relative of a child for purposes of facilitating placement of the child with the relative or to a public or private agency in this state or any other state for purposes of investigating a proposed foster or adoptive placement. 2009
AB 378 traffic control devices used by school safety patrols. 2009
AB 305 notification of alternative dispute resolution in foreclosure actions. 2009
AB 28 the filing of certain forms related to tax incremental financing district number ten in the city of Chippewa Falls. 2009

Coauthored · 86

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Kristen Dexter 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 86 coauthored bills

AR 13 proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 2009
AJR 46 declaring May 2009 as Drug Court Month. 2009
AJR 43 proclaiming April 22, 2009, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff. 2009
AJR 31 declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. 2009
AJR 23 declaring May as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month. 2009
AJR 122 declaring April as Forensic Month in Wisconsin. 2009
AJR 108 commending the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 32nd Brigade, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry, for receiving the Walter T. Kerwin Jr. Award. 2009
AB 98 the designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
AB 97 the designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
AB 949 financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. 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 912 construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 910 establishment of a Wisconsin conservation corps program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. 2009
AB 895 various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
AB 878 a grant for providing assistance to individuals to obtain and maintain health care benefits and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 853 tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 846 allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically. 2009
AB 844 groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 806 the procedure for school district consolidations. 2009
AB 805 grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 783 requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota. 2009
AB 779 designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 770 assessment on critical access hospitals; payments to critical access hospitals under the Medical Assistance Program; creating a rural physician residency assistance program; the physician, dentist, and health care provider loan assistance programs; and making appropriations. 2009
AB 768 authorizing the Department of Commerce to designate two additional enterprise zones. 2009
AB 767 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 758 life settlements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 751 entering into an agreement among the states to elect the president of the United States by means of a national popular vote. 2009
AB 730 prohibiting health insurance policies and self-insured health plans from excluding coverage for injuries based on the use of alcohol or controlled substances. 2009
AB 727 changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program. 2009
AB 717 the agricultural producer security program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 680 temporary restraining orders and injunctions. 2009
AB 664 requiring certain chain restaurants to post or provide nutritional information, providing immunity for restaurants that provide inaccurate nutritional information, and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 660 certification of ironworkers, maximum and minimum numbers of certain individuals performing ironwork at construction sites, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
AB 648 adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes. 2009
AB 642 an income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
AB 641 a postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
AB 625 authority to modify speed limits in school zones. 2009
AB 614 disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 611 changing certain administrative procedures under the tax incremental financing program. 2009
AB 607 requiring carbon monoxide detectors in buildings containing one or two dwelling units. 2009
AB 605 authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds. 2009
AB 600 authority of the Public Service Commission regarding fuel costs of certain electric public utilities and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 551 furlough of executive branch state employees during the 2009-11 fiscal biennium and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 537 grants for improving academic achievement. 2009
AB 536 authorizing the Department of Public Instruction, the University of Wisconsin System, the Technical College System, and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities to study each other's education programs, requiring a written agreement concerning such studies, and requiring the establishment of a longitudinal data system of student data. 2009
AB 535 establishing or contracting for the establishment of a charter school. 2009
AB 534 authorizing the state superintendent of public instruction to direct a school district to implement a new curriculum or instructional design, make personnel changes, or adopt accountability measures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
AB 533 using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers and requiring the development of a teacher evaluation plan to be a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. 2009
AB 481 making crimes based on gender of victim subject to a penalty enhancer and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 480 creating a civil cause of action for acts of violence motivated by gender. 2009
AB 472 certification and licensure of real estate appraisers and requirements for appraisal reports and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 464 a requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work. 2009
AB 461 allowing a school district to carry over unused revenue limit authority to the following school year. 2009
AB 458 providing instruction in human growth and development. 2009
AB 407 mortgage loan defaults and notification of alternative dispute resolution options. 2009
AB 403 local government property insurance fund premiums. 2009
AB 401 creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 395 criteria for determining indigency for purposes of representation by the State Public Defender and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
AB 392 finance charges for licensed lenders. 2009
AB 387 the homestead exemption and increases in the value of the exemption for various property that is exempt from execution. 2009
AB 349 limiting the searchability of a governmental Internet listing of property taxes assessed. 2009
AB 343 expanding the secretary of revenue's authority to waive or reduce interest or penalties. 2009
AB 342 operation of lightweight utility vehicles on certain highways by persons with disabilities to access hunting and fishing areas. 2009
AB 313 licensure fee for an emergency medical technician. 2009
AB 31 authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment to pay compensatory and punitive damages and a surcharge and making an appropriation. 2009
AB 3 restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 299 products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. 2009
AB 278 the sale, disposal, collection, and recycling of electronic devices, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. 2009
AB 277 prohibiting discrimination in housing because of domestic abuse victim status and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 269 causing injury to a law enforcement officer while resisting or obstructing an officer or while attempting to flee and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 265 the regulation of income tax refund anticipation loans and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 263 requiring persons who violate certain restraining orders or injunctions to be monitored by a global positioning system, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 261 soliciting purchases of goods or services using unsolicited checks or money orders and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 260 extraterritorial plat approval on basis of land's use. 2009
AB 257 the amount of the environmental surcharge. 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 246 the use of automatic dialing announcing devices and providing a penalty. 2009
AB 235 the issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. 2009
AB 230 electronic access by law enforcement agencies to photographs on motor vehicle operators licenses and identification cards. 2009
AB 16 requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. 2009
AB 15 health insurance coverage of treatment for autism spectrum disorders. 2009
AB 140 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 14 the regulation of traveling sales crews, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
AB 125 commencement of the school term in public schools. 2009
AB 106 underage persons possessing, consuming, or being provided alcohol beverages on licensed premises when accompanied by a parent, guardian, or spouse. 2009
AB 103 authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. 2009

Cosponsored · 80

Bills from the other house that Kristen Dexter 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 80 cosponsored bills

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 46 proclaiming Juror Appreciation Month. 2009
SJR 28 proclaiming April 22, 2009, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff. 2009
SJR 19 declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. 2009
SB 97 authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. 2009
SB 76 the designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
SB 75 the designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
SB 7 the filing of certain forms related to tax incremental financing district number ten in the city of Chippewa Falls. 2009
SB 690 establishment of a Wisconsin conservation corps program, authorizing a transfer of moneys appropriated to one or more state agencies, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 664 financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. 2009
SB 656 construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 640 various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
SB 633 a grant for providing assistance to individuals to obtain and maintain health care benefits and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 629 the sale, disposal, collection, and recycling of mercury-added lamps and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 621 tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 620 groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 608 requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota. 2009
SB 605 allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically. 2009
SB 599 grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 598 the procedure for school district consolidations. 2009
SB 596 transportation aid to school districts. 2009
SB 595 transportation of private school pupils. 2009
SB 593 student achievement guarantee in education program contracts. 2009
SB 579 designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. 2009
SB 578 adding a member to the council on veterans programs. 2009
SB 553 assessment on critical access hospitals; payments to critical access hospitals under the Medical Assistance Program; creating a rural physician residency assistance program; the physician, dentist, and health care provider loan assistance programs; and making appropriations. 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 549 entering into an agreement among the states to elect the president of the United States by means of a national popular vote. 2009
SB 527 the agricultural producer security program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 507 changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program. 2009
SB 503 requiring certain county agencies to petition a court to freeze accounts of certain individuals being financially exploited. 2009
SB 5 restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 483 prohibiting health insurance policies and self-insured health plans from excluding coverage for injuries based on the use of alcohol or controlled substances. 2009
SB 476 certification of ironworkers, maximum and minimum numbers of certain individuals performing ironwork at construction sites, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
SB 466 regulation by the office of the commissioner of insurance of self-insured health plans offered by a city, town, village, county, or school district, providing a penalty, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 464 temporary restraining orders and injunctions. 2009
SB 461 an income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
SB 455 the wholesale distribution of prescription drugs. 2009
SB 452 a sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities. 2009
SB 439 adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes. 2009
SB 43 the scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. 2009
SB 427 expanding the types of governmental units that may participate in a joint local governmental self-insured health insurance plan. 2009
SB 426 the format and fees for obtaining copies of public records. 2009
SB 425 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 415 requiring carbon monoxide detectors in buildings containing one or two dwelling units. 2009
SB 412 changing certain administrative procedures under the tax incremental financing program. 2009
SB 409 a postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
SB 4 the regulation of traveling sales crews, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
SB 399 authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds. 2009
SB 35 the distribution of the first dollar property tax credit. 2009
SB 347 requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in making reasonable efforts to place a child in a permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring notice to relatives when a child is removed from the home; requiring reasonable efforts to place siblings together or to provide for visitation between siblings; requiring agencies to assist children in developing a plan for transition to independent living; requiring health care providers to report cases of infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings; specifying certain placements for purposes of calculating how long a child has been placed outside the home for purposes of filing a termination of parental rights petition; and permitting disclosure of information to a relative of a child for purposes of facilitating placement of the child with the relative or to a public or private agency in this state or any other state for purposes of investigating a proposed foster or adoptive placement. 2009
SB 346 required judicial findings and orders when a child is placed outside the home, termination of parental rights warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters, the confidentiality of social services records, changing from day care to child care the term used to describe care and supervision for children for less than 24 hours a day, and renumbering the definition of neglect. 2009
SB 344 making crimes based on gender of victim subject to a penalty enhancer and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 339 certification and licensure of real estate appraisers and requirements for appraisal reports and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 337 creating a civil cause of action for acts of violence motivated by gender. 2009
SB 324 providing instruction in human growth and development. 2009
SB 323 requiring newborn hearing screening. 2009
SB 308 a requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work. 2009
SB 304 the veterans tuition reimbursement program. 2009
SB 30 underage persons possessing, consuming, or being provided alcohol beverages on licensed premises when accompanied by a parent, guardian, or spouse. 2009
SB 274 requiring landlords to change locks. 2009
SB 273 creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 270 limiting the searchability of a governmental Internet listing of property taxes assessed. 2009
SB 27 requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. 2009
SB 263 criteria for determining indigency for purposes of representation by the State Public Defender and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
SB 259 the homestead exemption and increases in the value of the exemption for various property that is exempt from execution. 2009
SB 253 traffic control devices used by school safety patrols. 2009
SB 219 causing injury to a law enforcement officer while resisting or obstructing an officer or while attempting to flee and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 213 notification of alternative dispute resolution in foreclosure actions. 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 204 prohibiting discrimination in housing because of domestic abuse victim status and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 200 products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. 2009
SB 20 authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment to pay compensatory and punitive damages and a surcharge and making an appropriation. 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 178 requiring persons who violate certain restraining orders or injunctions to be monitored by a global positioning system, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 2009
SB 175 the issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. 2009
SB 117 extraterritorial plat approval on basis of land's use. 2009
SB 111 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 109 commencement of the school term in public schools. 2009
SB 107 the sale, disposal, collection, and recycling of electronic devices, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. 2009

Kristen Dexter

Bills they led · 22

Coauthored · 86

Cosponsored · 80

Vote history · 0