Every Bill Led or Signed

203 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1–200.

SR 11 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. Coauthor 2009
SJR 83 The life and public service of Russell A. Olson. Lead author 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. Coauthor 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). Coauthor 2009
SJR 53 Honoring the life and public service of Joseph P. Mettner. Coauthor 2009
SJR 51 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 48 The life and military service of Lance Corporal Dean Opicka. Lead author 2009
SJR 43 The life and public service of Linda Farley. Coauthor 2009
SJR 36 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SJR 27 Abolishing the office of lieutenant governor (first consideration). Lead author 2009
SJR 26 Deleting from the constitution the office of secretary of state (first consideration). Lead author 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). Coauthor 2009
SB 95 Adding a circuit court branch in Calumet County. Coauthor 2009
SB 90 The registration of antique snowmobiles. Coauthor 2009
SB 79 Public disclosure of certain information when abuse or neglect results in a child dying or being placed in serious or critical condition. Coauthor 2009
SB 697 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 694 Membership on the Natural Resources Board. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 687 Eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems. Coauthor 2009
SB 680 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Coauthor 2009
SB 677 Annexations of trails designated by the Department of Natural Resources. Lead author 2009
SB 66 Operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 65 Expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement plan income received by an individual. Coauthor 2009
SB 607 Terminating a tenancy on the basis that certain crimes or other activities are being committed on or near the premises. Coauthor 2009
SB 60 Highway improvement projects in the city of Kiel. Coauthor 2009
SB 581 Prohibiting social security numbers on instruments under the corporate registration system and on records under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Coauthor 2009
SB 576 The requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. Coauthor 2009
SB 565 Parking on the streets adjacent to the state capitol park. Coauthor 2009
SB 557 Notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 547 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Coauthor 2009
SB 546 Authorizing the copying of a birth certificate in order for a child to participate in an organized youth sport. Coauthor 2009
SB 545 Payment by the Department of Transportation of the costs of relocating utilities beneath or adjacent to a highway in the village of Sauk City. Coauthor 2009
SB 539 Tax incentives for job creation. Coauthor 2009
SB 532 Additional municipal aid payments based on the amount of all municipal aid payments compared to total general fund expenditures and on regional factors and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 522 Various changes to the worker's compensation law. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 50 Legislative oversight of expenditure of federal economic stimulus funds. Coauthor 2009
SB 5 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 495 Operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 481 Wild turkey hunting approvals; the regulation of the hunting of wild turkey; and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 464 Temporary restraining orders and injunctions. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 430 Collective bargaining over health care coverage for municipal employees, allowing municipal employers to change health care coverage plan providers, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 404 Registration of former military vehicles. Coauthor 2009
SB 401 Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to issue one-day fishing licenses. Coauthor 2009
SB 395 Psychological evaluations for law enforcement officers, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2009
SB 385 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Coauthor 2009
SB 382 Use of lamps on vehicles when visibility is limited by climatic conditions and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 38 Issuing annual vehicle admission receipts for motor buses for entry to state parks and other vehicle admission areas under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources. Lead author 2009
SB 377 Carrying concealed weapons by law enforcement officers and by retired law enforcement officers. Coauthor 2009
SB 376 Fees from retired law enforcement officers seeking to carry concealed weapons and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 360 Sale of a parcel of land located in Marinette County to the Wied Trust. Lead author 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 356 Acreage requirements for areas in which farm-raised deer that may be hunted are kept. Coauthor 2009
SB 355 Prohibiting electronic text messaging while driving and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 353 Federalizing the treatment of capital losses. Coauthor 2009
SB 340 Requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 33 Purchasing or leasing a motor vehicle after a violation relating to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 283 Violation of the 72-hour no contact provision in domestic violence cases and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 273 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 252 The duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. Coauthor 2009
SB 249 Popular election of technical college district boards, providing an exemption from and extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 248 Penalty enhancers for committing domestic abuse in the presence of a child and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 241 Modifying the definition of all-terrain vehicle. Coauthor 2009
SB 239 The Internet sale of unclaimed personal property by a sheriff. Coauthor 2009
SB 236 Electronic filing of campaign finance reports. Coauthor 2009
SB 217 Ineligibility of convicted felons for licensure as lobbyists. Lead author 2009
SB 215 A personal property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 197 Damages for frivolous claims. Coauthor 2009
SB 177 Reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into eight school districts and creating a Milwaukee Public Schools Redistricting and Implementation Commission. Coauthor 2009
SB 176 A sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs. Coauthor 2009
SB 172 Limiting a city's and village's use of direct annexation and authorizing limited town challenges to an annexation. Coauthor 2009
SB 166 Creating an individual income tax deduction for any amount of interest paid on certain loans that are used for educational expenses. Coauthor 2009
SB 164 Increasing the maximum claim under the school property tax credit for older claimants. Coauthor 2009
SB 156 Eliminating the penalty for participating in an office sports pool. Coauthor 2009
SB 14 The definition of sexual intercourse for the crime of incest. Coauthor 2009
SB 137 The definitions of motor bicycle and moped. Coauthor 2009
SB 130 Surrendering vehicle registration plates and the seizure and sale of vehicles used in certain drunken driving violations and creating a penalty. Lead author 2009
SB 129 The privilege of self-defense. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 103 Restrictions on the operation of motor vehicles by persons using electronic text messaging devices and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
SB 101 Battery to a highway construction or maintenance worker and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AJR 88 The life and public service of Jay W. Johnson. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 82 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 68 The life and public service of Edwin C. Stephan. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 56 The 100 year anniversary of Peninsula State Park. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 55 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
AJR 51 State sovereignty. Cosponsor 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). Cosponsor 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). Cosponsor 2009
AJR 125 Requiring a photographic identification to vote, or register to vote, at the polls on election day (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
AJR 12 Renaming the decorated tree on display in the capitol rotunda during the Christmas holiday season as the Wisconsin State Christmas Tree. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 100 Congratulating the Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 1 Proclaiming Niagara Escarpment year and month. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 977 Eliminating the Office of the Commissioner of Railroads and transferring the office's duties to the Department of Transportation, the Department of Financial Institutions, and the Division of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Administration, funding of railroad and water carrier regulation, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 974 Insurance coverage of oral and injected chemotherapy. Cosponsor 2009
AB 969 Income and franchise tax deductions for full-time jobs. Cosponsor 2009
AB 960 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Cosponsor 2009
AB 96 Operating a motor vehicle after revocation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 950 Eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 94 Issuing annual vehicle admission receipts for motor buses for entry to state parks and other vehicle admission areas under the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources. Cosponsor 2009
AB 93 Prohibiting certain automated telephone solicitations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 923 Parking on the streets adjacent to the state capitol park. Cosponsor 2009
AB 918 Offers of settlement. Cosponsor 2009
AB 879 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 871 An income and franchise tax credit for providing broadband service. Cosponsor 2009
AB 870 The requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. Cosponsor 2009
AB 868 An income and franchise tax credit for shipbuilding. Cosponsor 2009
AB 867 A tax credit for hospitality business advertising. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 863 Eliminating the requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. Cosponsor 2009
AB 859 Semiannual meetings of small winery cooperative wholesalers. Cosponsor 2009
AB 833 Additional municipal aid payments based on the amount of all municipal aid payments compared to total general fund expenditures and on regional factors and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 819 Prohibiting social security numbers on instruments under the corporate registration system and on records under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Cosponsor 2009
AB 818 Notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 786 Payment by the Department of Transportation of the costs of relocating utilities beneath or adjacent to a highway in the village of Sauk City. Cosponsor 2009
AB 784 Reporting the results of a religious organization's investigation of sexual contact with a child and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 762 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Cosponsor 2009
AB 749 An income and franchise tax credit for equipment used to harvest or process woody biomass. Cosponsor 2009
AB 748 Suspension of the requirement that certain milk contractors pay an assessment into the agricultural producer security fund. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 736 Agreements relating to motor carrier liability. Cosponsor 2009
AB 71 Contacting, harming, or threatening to harm a juror and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 706 Various changes to the worker's compensation law. Cosponsor 2009
AB 680 Temporary restraining orders and injunctions. Cosponsor 2009
AB 593 Special adjustment aid to school districts. Cosponsor 2009
AB 592 Registration of former military vehicles. Cosponsor 2009
AB 582 Eliminating the authority of municipalities and counties to impose a local motor vehicle registration fee. Cosponsor 2009
AB 581 Use of lamps on vehicles when visibility is limited by climatic conditions and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 577 Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to issue one-day fishing licenses. Cosponsor 2009
AB 55 Finance charges for certain motor vehicle title and payday loans. Cosponsor 2009
AB 549 Psychological evaluations for law enforcement officers, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 548 Possession of certain animals killed by vehicles. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 523 The sales and use tax exemption for electricity and natural gas. Cosponsor 2009
AB 516 Requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants. Cosponsor 2009
AB 514 Time limitations for commencing prosecution of crimes. Cosponsor 2009
AB 50 Maintaining records of certain driving offenses related to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Cosponsor 2009
AB 496 Prohibiting electronic text messaging while driving and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 493 Vehicle admission receipt fees for certain members of the armed forces. Cosponsor 2009
AB 49 Special distinguishing registration plates for motorcycles owned by veterans. Cosponsor 2009
AB 48 Special distinguishing registration plates for groups that are military in nature and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 474 Carrying concealed weapons by law enforcement officers and by retired law enforcement officers. Cosponsor 2009
AB 473 Fees from retired law enforcement officers seeking to carry concealed weapons and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 46 An official state language, encouragement of cultural diversity, use of English for governmental written expression, acquiring language proficiency, and use of languages for nongovernmental purposes. Cosponsor 2009
AB 441 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Cosponsor 2009
AB 437 Reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into eight school districts and creating a Milwaukee Public Schools Redistricting and Implementation Commission. Cosponsor 2009
AB 433 Registration fees for certain motor vehicles issued special registration plates. Cosponsor 2009
AB 431 Fees charged to qualified lake associations for certain permits to control aquatic plants. Cosponsor 2009
AB 410 Violation of the 72-hour no contact provision in domestic violence cases and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 402 The operation of neighborhood electric vehicles on county trunk highways. Cosponsor 2009
AB 401 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 392 Finance charges for licensed lenders. Cosponsor 2009
AB 365 Admitting prior testimony of a felony victim at a probation, parole, or extended supervision revocation hearing. Cosponsor 2009
AB 361 The amount of the exemption from income tax withholding requirements for employees of a county fair association. Cosponsor 2009
AB 356 Modifying the definition of all-terrain vehicle. Cosponsor 2009
AB 351 The duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. Cosponsor 2009
AB 350 Sales and use tax exemption for motorboats. Cosponsor 2009
AB 347 The Internet sale of unclaimed personal property by a sheriff. Cosponsor 2009
AB 342 Operation of lightweight utility vehicles on certain highways by persons with disabilities to access hunting and fishing areas. Cosponsor 2009
AB 339 A sales and use tax exemption for building materials used to construct or remodel single-family residences. Cosponsor 2009
AB 329 Conditions of extended supervision, probation, and parole for persons convicted of certain sex offenses. Cosponsor 2009
AB 312 Authorizing cities and towns, and expanding the authority of villages, to create combined protective services departments. Cosponsor 2009
AB 309 Dry cask storage of spent fuel from nuclear power plants and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 304 Ineligibility of convicted felons for licensure as lobbyists. Cosponsor 2009
AB 300 An income and franchise credit for property taxes paid on restaurant kitchen machinery and equipment. Cosponsor 2009
AB 3 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 279 Registration of livestock premises. Cosponsor 2009
AB 270 Utility aid payments to towns and counties for production plants that generate electricity from wind power. Cosponsor 2009
AB 27 The definition of sexual intercourse for the crime of incest. Cosponsor 2009
AB 268 Federalizing the treatment of capital losses. Cosponsor 2009
AB 254 A sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 247 Granting high school diplomas to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities. Cosponsor 2009
AB 239 Limiting a city's and village's use of direct annexation and authorizing limited town challenges to an annexation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 232 Duties upon striking a person or an attended or occupied vehicle and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 230 Electronic access by law enforcement agencies to photographs on motor vehicle operators licenses and identification cards. Cosponsor 2009
AB 226 Increases in undergraduate resident tuition and nonallocable segregated fees at the University of Wisconsin System. Cosponsor 2009
AB 197 The definitions of motor bicycle and moped. Cosponsor 2009
AB 193 The privilege of self-defense. Cosponsor 2009
AB 192 Battery to a highway construction or maintenance worker and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 181 Operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
AB 17 Requiring ignition interlock devices for certain motor vehicle violations, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 154 Prohibiting purchase of tobacco products on behalf of, or to provide to, a minor and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
AB 148 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Cosponsor 2009
AB 143 Application of the open meetings law to legislative party caucuses. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 13 Creating an individual income tax subtract modification for amounts received from the well contamination and abandonment compensation program. Cosponsor 2009