Every Bill Led or Signed

2,055 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1,601–1,800.

AB 688 Trafficking food stamp program benefits. Cosponsor 2011
AB 67 Late voter registration, absentee voting in person, and implementation of a voter identification requirement at elections. Cosponsor 2011
AB 612 Experience requirements for real estate brokers and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 61 Creating an income and franchise tax credit for constructing and operating a data center that is designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact and providing an exemption from rule-making procedures. Cosponsor 2011
AB 601 The angel investment and early stage seed investment tax credit programs. Cosponsor 2011
AB 6 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, and phasing out the taxation of capital gains. Cosponsor 2011
AB 588 Annual medical examinations for individuals receiving duty disability benefits under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Cosponsor 2011
AB 57 Certain controlled substances and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 569 The immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal of motor vehicles for multiple nonmoving traffic violations. Cosponsor 2011
AB 568 Requirements for residential facilities that provide or promote themselves as providing specialized care for persons who have Alzheimer's disease or related dementia and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 560 Information related to condominiums that must be furnished with real estate condition reports. Cosponsor 2011
AB 558 The governor's read to lead development fund, the Read to Lead Development Council, grants in support of literacy and early childhood development programs, teacher licensure, screening kindergarten pupils for reading readiness, remedial reading services for certain pupils, evaluating teacher preparatory programs and educator effectiveness, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 543 Exempting a city, town, village, or school district from a county library tax. Cosponsor 2011
AB 534 Intentional program violations of public assistance programs. Cosponsor 2011
AB 524 Special distinguishing registration plates associated with Wisconsin Trout Unlimited and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 51 Creating a Charter School Authorizing Board, providing additional charter school authorizers, eliminating the limit on the number of pupils who may attend virtual charter schools, modifying teacher licensure requirements, eliminating the limit on the reduction in general school aid used to fund independent charter schools, covering certain charter school employees under the Group Insurance Board health coverage plan for local government employees, allowing a charter school to elect to participate in the Wisconsin Retirement System, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 487 Licensing anesthesiologist assistants and creating the Council on Anesthesiologist Assistants and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 450 Participation in certain training by unemployment insurance claimants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 441 Signing a petition to recall the same officer more than once and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 44 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. Cosponsor 2011
AB 420 Providing alcohol beverages to an underage person who suffers great bodily harm or death from their consumption and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 41 Preemption of city, village, town, or county ordinances requiring employers to provide employees with leave from employment to deal with family, medical, or health issues. Cosponsor 2011
AB 403 The length of time for which a variance applies. Cosponsor 2011
AB 4 Automobile insurance coverage limits, permissible policy provisions, and proof of financial responsibility. Cosponsor 2011
AB 397 Failing to report the death of a child or to report a missing child, moving the corpse of a child, hiding a corpse to collect public benefits, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 37 Authorizing the City of Milwaukee to sell city-owned property used for school purposes. Cosponsor 2011
AB 353 Membership of technical college district boards. Cosponsor 2011
AB 329 Renaming the office of county treasurer in Milwaukee County, creating the elective office of county comptroller for Milwaukee County, transferring the duties of the Milwaukee County treasurer to that elective office, and expanding the duties and responsibilities of that office. Cosponsor 2011
AB 326 Creation of a Joint Committee on State Mandates and required funding of state mandates. Cosponsor 2011
AB 324 Preaccreditation and accreditation of private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and the choice program for eligible school districts, certificates of occupancy for participating private school buildings, verification of income eligibility for pupils to participate in the programs, fees and tuition charged to pupils attending participating private schools, and standards of conduct for administrators of participating private schools. Cosponsor 2011
AB 321 Exception to local levy limits for the village of Shorewood. Cosponsor 2011
AB 319 Reductions in cost of compensation or fringe benefits to municipal employers without modifying an existing collective bargaining agreement for purposes of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10. Cosponsor 2011
AB 318 Post-retirement employment of annuitants under the Wisconsin Retirement System and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 3 Tax incentives for job creation, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 29 Collective bargaining unit assignments under the State Employment Labor Relations Act. Cosponsor 2011
AB 289 Elimination of compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing. Cosponsor 2011
AB 286 Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to bar or terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony and preempting cities, villages, towns, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law. Cosponsor 2011
AB 283 Designation of an official state automotive museum. Cosponsor 2011
AB 278 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 and payments to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation related to extended-range electric vehicles; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 273 The loan program for property taxes imposed as a result of an error in equalized value and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 272 Correcting the 2011 equalized valuation for the village of Twin Lakes. Cosponsor 2011
AB 263 Costs associated with providing false information to a law enforcement officer. Cosponsor 2011
AB 259 Concussions and other head injuries sustained in youth athletic activities. Cosponsor 2011
AB 245 Procurement of prescription drugs by a faculty member at an institution of higher education for the purpose of lawful research, teaching, or testing. Cosponsor 2011
AB 240 The disclosure of electronic juvenile court records to law enforcement agencies and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 216 Maintenance and removal of vegetation obstructing the view of outdoor advertising signs along highways under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 212 Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 209 Mandatory minimum sentences for certain child sex offenses. Cosponsor 2011
AB 208 Penalties for operating-while-intoxicated offenses and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 207 Penalties for driving a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 194 Requiring certain information in state agency budget requests. Cosponsor 2011
AB 190 Carrying a concealed weapon if prohibited from possessing a firearm, purchasing a firearm for a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 171 An income and franchise tax credit for qualified production activities income. Cosponsor 2011
AB 156 Venue for actions and appeals in which the sole defendant is the state, a state board or commission, or certain state officers, employees, or agents. Cosponsor 2011
AB 151 Copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for oral chemotherapy and injected or intravenous chemotherapy. Cosponsor 2011
AB 148 Changes affecting state finances in the 2010-11 fiscal year and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 147 Inadmissibility of a statement of apology or condolence by a health care provider. Cosponsor 2011
AB 130 Granting high school credit for extracurricular sports; services provided by a special education program; transportation aid paid to school districts; the use of moneys received by a school district from the common school fund; using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate, discharge, suspend, or discipline a teacher or for the nonrenewal of a teacher's contract; the number of teaching days scheduled in the Milwaukee Public Schools; permitting a school district to limit the grades in which to reduce class size under the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education Program; permitting a school board to deny enrollment to a pupil who has been expelled from an out-of-state school or from an independent charter school in this state and permitting an independent charter school to expel a pupil; use of law enforcement records to take disciplinary action against a pupil under a school district's athletic code; and changing the date by which a school district must certify the amount of its property tax levy. Cosponsor 2011
AB 129 Creation of the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, creation of the badger jobs fund and the jobs now fund certification program, both of which are to be administered by the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 122 Permitting an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon. Cosponsor 2011
AB 110 Creating the Special Needs Scholarship Program for disabled pupils, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 109 Eliminating substitution of judges in criminal matters. Cosponsor 2011
AB 108 Costs of administering tests for intoxication. Cosponsor 2011
AB 107 A property tax credit for business expansion and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 100 Evidentiary recordings of persons under the age of 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct and certain sex offenses against children and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 1 Processing refunds for the jobs tax credit. Cosponsor 2011
SR 9 Calling on the Wisconsin congressional delegation to take action to grandfather preexisting highway weight limits upon the designation of USH 41 as part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower system of interstate and defense highways. Coauthor 2009
SR 6 State sovereignty. Coauthor 2009
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 81 A civilian national security force. Coauthor 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 71 Prohibiting the state and local governments from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, an individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ancestry, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting (first consideration). 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 56 Proclaiming February 7 to 14, 2010, as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. Coauthor 2009
SJR 54 Commending Mary and Ted Kellner on the occasion of their receiving the Warren P. Knowles Humanitarian Award. Lead author 2009
SJR 51 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 47 The second anniversary of WisconsinEye's commencement of broadcast operations. Coauthor 2009
SJR 45 Calling on the Wisconsin congressional delegation to take action to grandfather preexisting highway weight limits upon the designation of USH 41 as part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower system of interstate and defense highways. Coauthor 2009
SJR 4 Recognizing February 2009 as American Heart Month and February 6, 2009, as Wear Red For Women Day. Coauthor 2009
SJR 37 Accounting and expenditure of state funds (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SJR 36 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SJR 32 Proclaiming May 2, 2009, as Pediatric Stroke Awareness Day. Lead author 2009
SJR 30 Memorializing Congress to not enact the Employee Free Choice Act. Coauthor 2009
SJR 28 Proclaiming April 22, 2009, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff. Coauthor 2009
SJR 26 Deleting from the constitution the office of secretary of state (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SJR 24 Proclaiming May as American Stroke Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 21 Celebrating March 25, 2009, as the 188th anniversary of Greek independence. Coauthor 2009
SJR 2 Commending Jim Miller on his retirement as president of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Lead author 2009
SJR 19 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 18 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SJR 17 Proclaiming March of every year as Irish-American Heritage Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 16 Limiting the provisions that may be considered by the committee of conference. Coauthor 2009
SJR 13 The Professional Ambulance Association of Wisconsin. Coauthor 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 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Coauthor 2009
SB 96 Diversions under a community integration program of Medical Assistance-eligible persons from imminent entry into nursing homes. Coauthor 2009
SB 94 The licensing and regulation of thermal system insulation mechanics; creating a thermal system insulation council; requiring the employment of a state inspector; establishing standards for installing and maintaining thermal system insulation; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 88 Purchase of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces. Coauthor 2009
SB 87 Increasing the maximum annual loan amount under the property tax deferral loan program of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 85 Eligibility for tuition fee remission for certain veterans and their spouses, surviving spouses, and children. Coauthor 2009
SB 84 Ineligibility for state financial assistance of a postsecondary student who has been convicted of possessing, with intent to manufacture, distribute, or deliver, or of manufacturing, distributing, or delivering, a controlled substance or controlled substance analog based on conduct that occurred during a period of enrollment for which the postsecondary student was receiving any state financial assistance and granting rule-making authority. 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. Lead author 2009
SB 77 Changes to economic development tax benefit programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 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. 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 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 680 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Coauthor 2009
SB 666 Requiring an assessment of a juvenile sex offender for the probability of reoffending and consideration of the results of the assessment in determining the services to be provided for the juvenile. Lead author 2009
SB 66 Operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 652 Special identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation providing parking privileges for persons with physical disabilities 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 647 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. Coauthor 2009
SB 644 The duties of the Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership Council. Lead author 2009
SB 641 Collection of deoxyribonucleic acid samples and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 64 Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers. Coauthor 2009
SB 63 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses. Coauthor 2009
SB 627 Special distinguishing registration plate decals for certain vehicles owned by certain members of special groups associated with the armed services. Coauthor 2009
SB 605 Allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically. Coauthor 2009
SB 592 A biometric fingerprint identification system for enrollment and monitoring child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares. Lead author 2009
SB 587 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. Coauthor 2009
SB 579 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. 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 543 Registration plates for certain disabled veterans. Coauthor 2009
SB 54 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. Lead author 2009
SB 539 Tax incentives for job creation. Coauthor 2009
SB 538 Requiring nursing homes to notify residents of certain alleged violations and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 535 Licensing anesthesiologist assistants and creating the Council on Anesthesiologist Assistants and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 524 Subpoenas and warrants requiring providers of electronic communications services or of remote computing services to provide customer information or disclose contents of wire or electronic communications. 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 52 An education tax credit for businesses. Lead author 2009
SB 519 The issuance by the Department of Transportation of Eagle Scout decals to be affixed to motor vehicle registration plates and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 509 Creating a nonrefundable individual income and corporate income and franchise tax credit for contributions to certain public school programs and to private school scholarship funds. Coauthor 2009
SB 502 Exempting wellness programs from unfair trade or marketing practices. Coauthor 2009
SB 501 Disclosure of the identity of a foster parent or treatment foster parent of a child; the rights of a foster parent, treatment foster parent, or other physical custodian of a child on removal of the child from the person's home; and placement of a child for adoption with a foster parent, treatment foster parent, or other physical custodian of the child. Lead author 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. Lead author 2009
SB 50 Legislative oversight of expenditure of federal economic stimulus funds. Coauthor 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. Lead author 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 477 Treatment of abandoned employee retirement accounts under a retirement system of a 1st class city. Coauthor 2009
SB 470 Dementia specialist certification program and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 464 Temporary restraining orders and injunctions. Coauthor 2009
SB 458 The local regulation of ticket selling and providing a penalty. 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. Lead author 2009
SB 447 State contractual services and false claims submitted to state and local governments, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 44 Adjudications for involuntary commitment, appointment of a guardian of the person, and protective placement or protective services, background checks for the purchase of handguns, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Lead author 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 434 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. Coauthor 2009
SB 433 Child in need of protection or services jurisdiction over a child based on another child from the child's home being placed outside the home under a juvenile court order and involuntary termination of parental rights on the grounds of three or more prior voluntary or involuntary terminations of parental rights. 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. Lead author 2009
SB 42 A report on food safety programs. Coauthor 2009
SB 416 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Coauthor 2009
SB 411 Disclosure of adoption records for purposes of determining the availability of a placement for a child with an adoptive parent or proposed adoptive parent of a sibling of the child. Coauthor 2009
SB 41 Indoor environmental quality in public and private schools. Coauthor 2009
SB 402 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Coauthor 2009
SB 401 Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to issue one-day fishing licenses. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 397 General purpose revenue funding for the veterans trust fund and making an appropriation. 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 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 375 The exchange of electronic records contained in the Consolidated Court Automation Program and in the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System between the director of state courts and the Department of Children and Families and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 374 Creating a commercial driver license exception for law enforcement officers operating commercial motor vehicles. Coauthor 2009
SB 363 The penalty for failing to stop at the scene of a motor vehicle accident and providing a penalty. Coauthor 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. Lead author 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 350 An optional identification requirement for voting in elections. Coauthor 2009
SB 342 Pupils attending a school district under the Open Enrollment Program who are habitually truant. Coauthor 2009
SB 340 Requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants. Coauthor 2009
SB 336 Requiring a person arrested for a felony or a juvenile taken into custody for certain sexual assault offenses to provide a biological specimen for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis, inclusion of the analysis results in the Department of Justice deoxyribonucleic acid data bank, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 335 Using county jail funds for costs related to providing educational and medical services to county jail inmates. Coauthor 2009
SB 334 Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty. 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. Lead author 2009
SB 331 Prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing certain serious crimes or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a serious crime 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 and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 330 Exposure to a minor and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 323 Requiring newborn hearing screening. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 304 The veterans tuition reimbursement program. Coauthor 2009
SB 303 Requesting a person who operates a vehicle that is involved in an accident that causes death or injury to submit to a test for intoxication. Coauthor 2009
SB 297 The immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal of motor vehicles for multiple nonmoving traffic violations. Coauthor 2009
SB 293 Directing the governor to annually proclaim March 25 as Medal of Honor Day. Coauthor 2009
SB 288 Indian child welfare. Coauthor 2009
SB 286 Collection agencies. Lead author 2009
SB 283 Violation of the 72-hour no contact provision in domestic violence cases and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 281 The prohibition against making, reproducing, or possessing a nude depiction of a person without the person's consent and the sex offender registry. Coauthor 2009
SB 280 Personal liability of officers, directors, and employees of child care providers. Coauthor 2009
SB 28 Excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. Coauthor 2009
SB 273 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 27 Requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. Coauthor 2009
SB 260 Granting police authority to technical college district boards. Coauthor 2009
SB 258 Using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers. Coauthor 2009
SB 252 The duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. Coauthor 2009
SB 250 Accepting pupils under the full-time Open Enrollment Program. Lead author 2009