← Ben DeSmidt

Every Bill Led or Signed

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

• SJR 99 Recognizing October 14, 2025, as First Responders Appreciation Day in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 98 Equality of rights on the basis of sex, gender identity, race, color, sexual orientation, disability, religion, national origin, marital status, family status, age, ancestry, or any other immutable characteristic and creating a private cause of action for violations of those rights by state actors (first consideration). Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 95 Designating October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 93 Proclaiming November 2025 to be Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 92 Proclaiming October 2025 as Filipino American History Month in the state of Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 90 Proclaiming January as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 87 Recognizing the United States Marine Corps’s 250th birthday. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 86 Recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 85 Recognizing August as Immunization Awareness Month in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 84 Honoring Wisconsin’s Hispanic veterans. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 83 Recognizing November 10, 2025, as the 50th anniversary of the tragic loss of the crew of SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 81 Congratulating the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Baseball Team on winning the 2025 NCAA Division III National Championship. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 78 Honoring the dedication and service of Chief Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 76 Honoring the life and public service of Senator Bruce S. Peloquin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 74 Recognizing June 19, 2025, as Juneteenth Day in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 73 Recognizing June 2025 as LGBTQ Pride Month. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 72 Proclaiming June 2025 as Immigrant Heritage Month. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 70 Proclaiming June 12, 2025, as Women Veterans Day. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 67 Honoring Anna Mae Robertson for her extraordinary achievements and service to our nation. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 62 Proclaiming January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2025, as Wisconsin State Park System 125th Anniversary. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 60 Proclaiming June 6, 2025, as Gun Violence Awareness Day in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 6 Honoring the life and enduring legacy of Robert George Uecker. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 57 Designating May as Older Americans Month in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 56 Proclaiming April 20 to 26 as 2025 National Infertility Awareness Week in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 55 Recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 50 Congratulating the Milwaukee Rufus King Cheer and Stunt Team on their double state championship win in 2025. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 47 Observing Tuesday, March 25, 2025, as Equal Pay Day in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 46 Honoring the life and public service of Representative Frederick P. Kessler. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 45 Proclaiming May 2025 and May 2026 as Jewish American Heritage Months. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 44 Congratulating the Wauwatosa East Girls Basketball Team on their 2025 Division II State Basketball Championship. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 43 Congratulating the Wauwatosa West Boys Basketball Team on their 2025 Division II State Basketball Championship. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 42 Proclaiming 2025 as the year of the snake. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 41 Celebrating 50 years of strength and resilience of the Hmong, Lao, Cambodian, and Vietnamese people. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 40 Recognizing Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month as a time to honor the important contributions of Asians, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders to the history of the United States. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 38 An advisory referendum on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 37 The right of the people to a clean, safe, and healthy natural environment and to its preservation (first consideration). Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 36 Congratulating the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse women’s gymnastics team on winning the 2025 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championship. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 35 Proclaiming May 16, 17, and 18, 2025, Syttende Mai Weekend. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 34 Honoring the 50th anniversary of the child support program. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 33 Declaration of the Economic Justice Bill of Rights. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 31 Proclaiming March 31, 2025, as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 30 Congratulating the University of Wisconsin–Madison women’s hockey team on winning the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey National Championship. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 29 Designating April 2025 and April 2026 as Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Months. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 28 Reaffirming Wisconsin’s commitment to the strengthening and deepening of the sister ties between the State of Wisconsin and Taiwan; reaffirming Wisconsin’s support for the Taiwan Relations Act; supporting Taiwan’s signing of a Bilateral Trade Agreement with the United States; and continuing support for increasing Taiwan’s international profile. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 27 Proclaiming April 24, 2025, to be Holocaust Remembrance Day and April 27, 2025, to May 4, 2025, as Holocaust Days of Remembrance in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 26 Celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 25 Commending the IBS Patient Support Group on its recognition of April 17 through April 19, 2025, as World IBS Days. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 23 Proclaiming the week of April 28 to May 2, 2025, as School Nutrition Professionals Appreciation Week. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 21 Honoring the life and public service of Senator Timothy Francis Cullen. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 20 Honoring the life and public service of Representative Jim Soletski. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 19 Honoring the life and public service of Representative Jonathan Brostoff. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 17 Honoring April 22, 2025, as the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 145 State contracts for stationery and printing (first consideration). Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 134 Proclaiming February 2026 as Black History Month. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 131 The right to privacy (first consideration). Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 125 The life and public service of George Meyer. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 122 Proclaiming February 4, 2026, as Transit Equity Day. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 120 Congratulating the St. Joseph Catholic Academy Lancers football team on winning the 2025 WIAA Division 7 State Football Championship. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 12 Designating the month of March as Endosalpingiosis Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 118 Congratulating the Grafton Black Hawks football team for winning the 2025 Wisconsin State Football Championship. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 115 Proclaiming November 20 in 2025 and 2026 as Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 111 Proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 108 Recognizing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 107 Recognizing the inherent rights of nature and Wisconsin’s commitment to environmental stewardship. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 104 Recognizing September 23, 2025, and September 23, 2026, as Celebrate Bisexuality Day in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 102 Honoring the 200th anniversary of Norwegian immigration to the United States. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 101 Declaring November as Veteran Mental Health and Suicide Awareness Month in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 100 Proclaiming the last full week of September as Frontotemporal Dementia Awareness Week. Cosponsor 2025
• SJR 10 Proclaiming February 2025 as Black History Month. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 992 References to like-kin under the Wisconsin Shares program. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 991 Funding for tribal child care training and technical assistance and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 987 The drug repository program. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 985 Administration of the veterans at risk alert system. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 978 Online services accessed by minors, minors’ personal data, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 977 Grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 976 Grants for community emergency medical services, grants for falls prevention awareness and initiatives, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 975 Virtual currency kiosks. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 974 Tuition and materials reimbursement for community paramedics and community emergency medical services practitioners. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 970 Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 968 Funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program for social media education and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 965 Collective bargaining for employees of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 958 Creating the water fund for our future, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 956 Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 955 Internet crimes against children law enforcement and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 953 Internet crimes against children administrative subpoenas for the crime of sexual extortion when the crime victim is a child. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 948 Storage of a firearm in a house in which a resident is prohibited from possessing a firearm and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 946 Containers or trigger locks provided at a firearm sale and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 945 Storage of firearms in retail facility when unattended. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 942 Changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 934 Notice of change in polling place location. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 933 Requiring social media platforms to provide mental health warnings and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 931 Student identification used for voting. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 927 Pet insurance and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 925 Automatic voter registration. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 924 Grants for the purchase of election supplies and equipment and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 923 Residency requirement for purposes of voting. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 922 Automatic voter registration, deceptive election practices, voter intimidation and suppression, voter rights, polling place posting and language requirements, election manual requirements, withholding of voluntarily provided elector information, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 901 Cost-sharing cap on insulin. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 894 A victim protective services grant program and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 878 Grants for regional biodigesters, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 876 Green jobs training program grants, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 874 Report on environmental impacts to vulnerable communities and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 871 Creating a grant program for farmers who implement certain sustainable practices, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 870 Focus on Energy inclusion of programs promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy measures for low-income households and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 869 Increasing the Focus on Energy rate and including residential energy storage in Focus on Energy. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 863 An energy efficiency grant program for school districts, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 860 The practice of audiology, licensure of audiologists, the composition of the Hearing and Speech Examining Board, and repealing an administrative rule related to the practical examination of audiologists. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 858 On-bill financing of energy improvements and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 857 The Energy Innovation Grant Program and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 856 Climate change scholarships and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 855 Funding for certain research positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 854 County conservation staff for climate change resiliency purposes and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 853 Consideration of climate change in certain local plans and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 852 The reimbursement rate for special education costs and school age parents programs and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 847 Written resource guides informing inmates and juveniles in custody of their rights and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 844 Forensic examinations done on a crime victim to gather evidence, modifying administrative rules relating to reimbursement for forensic examinations, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 842 Violence prevention grants and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 841 Farmland preservation implementation grants, maximum acres of agricultural enterprise areas, indexing the farmland preservation tax credit for inflation, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 840 The agricultural conservation easement purchase program and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 837 Grants for alternatives to prosecution and incarceration programs for persons with mental illness and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 829 Funding for Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grants, the “Something Special from Wisconsin” promotion, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 828 Grants for students enrolled in teacher education programs, school district revenue limits, the reimbursement rate for special education costs, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 827 Creating a stretch energy code. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 826 Vaccination of minors without parental consent. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 824 Required inclusions in the long-range statewide transportation plan. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 823 Spending cap for the Wisconsin agricultural exports program and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 817 Healthy food incentive program funding, payment processing equipment and services for farmers’ markets and farmers, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 808 Creating a blue envelope program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 807 Grants to WisconsinEye for the establishment of an endowment fund, creating the Office of the Public Affairs Network to administer a public affairs network in Wisconsin, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 806 Main street bounceback grants and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 804 Investigation of any pregnancy outcome and civil and criminal liability exemptions relating to pregnancy outcome. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 790 Actions in small claims for third-party complaints, personal injury claims, and actions based in tort. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 789 Grants to nonprofit religious organizations for security purposes and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 782 Intentionally sending false text messages to 911 and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 780 A percentage of income payment program for electricity and gas service, electricity and gas service disconnections, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 779 Prohibiting food and beverages from being served in foam polystyrene packaging and providing a penalty. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 778 Packaging reduction and recycling, creating a producer responsibility program, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 777 Local regulation of certain containers. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 776 Repealing the dry cleaner environmental response program, creating the revitalize Wisconsin program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 775 Sandhill crane damage abatement assistance for corn producers, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 774 Wolf monitoring and nonlethal abatement and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 773 Funding for the University of Wisconsin System freshwater collaborative and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 772 Groundwater Coordinating Council activities funding and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 771 Creating a multifamily housing innovation council and allowing a multifamily dwelling up to six stories to be served by a single stairway. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 770 Farm to fork grants, farm to school grants, matching funds for the federal farm to school program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 769 Bonding for lead service line replacement and granting bonding authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 765 Prohibiting step therapy protocols for certain cancer drugs. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 764 Cost-sharing cap on epinephrine delivery systems under health insurance policies and plans. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 762 Grants for testing privately owned wells and providing education, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 761 Eliminating and modifying certain provisions enacted under 2023 Act 12 regarding the city of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 757 Coverage of tests for sexually transmitted diseases by health insurance policies and plans. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 756 Coverage of sterilization procedures and patient education and counseling under health insurance policies and plans. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 755 The treatment of a pregnant or postpartum person in prison or jail. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 753 Funding for the department of financial institutions from the college savings program trust fund and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 752 Creating a WisKids savings account program within the college savings program. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 749 Substance abuse counselor-in-training, clinical supervisor-in-training, and prevention specialist-in-training certifications. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 747 Grants to match county investments in the health care, public health, and care provider workforce and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 741 Food waste reduction grants, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 740 Online clearinghouse of information for small businesses in Wisconsin. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 737 Regulation of lease-purchase agreements for personal property and creating a cause of action. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 73 Prosecuting or adjudicating delinquent a person under the age of 18 for committing an act of prostitution. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 729 Large energy customer fees; electric utility very large customer class; a renewable resource tariff; building requirements for data centers; water usage by large customers; required pay rate on large-scale data center projects; and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 728 Free menstrual products for inmates of state correctional institutions or county jails or houses of correction. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 726 Department of Corrections reporting of complaints in state correctional institutions and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 723 Income tax credits for beginning farmers and owners of farm assets and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 713 Access to prisons and jails for oversight purposes. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 708 Telecommunications service access by inmates and juveniles and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 698 Managed forest land recording fees. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 696 Equalized value calculations, project costs, and local levy limits relating to tax incremental districts. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 694 Providing certain municipalities with additional supplemental county and municipal aid and establishing a Shared Revenue Advisory Council. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 691 The issuance of an alcohol beverage retail license for premises where certain art-related business is conducted. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 690 Condemnation authority for recreational trails. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 689 Extension of tax incremental district lifespan for purposes of housing stock improvement. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 686 Designating the Wisconsin natural pearl as the state gem. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 671 Creating a crime of grooming a child for sexual activity and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 67 Providing state aid to reimburse public and private schools that provide free meals to all pupils for the costs of those meals and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 664 Reducing the eligibility threshold to claim the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 644 Prohibiting individuals under age 21 from accessing intoxicating hemp products and providing a penalty. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 643 An audit of fire sprinkler systems in certain residential buildings and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 642 Creating a landlord fire prevention grant program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 641 Allowing local governments to enact ordinances related to fire detection, prevention, or suppression in residential buildings. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 639 Veterans mental health services and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 634 The age for marriage and eliminating spousal exceptions for certain sex crimes against children. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 631 Student financial protection at certain private postsecondary schools. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 630 Funding sources for certain private postsecondary schools and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 629 Legal action against certain private postsecondary schools. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 628 Notifying counties and tribes of an exceedance of groundwater protection standards or standards for PFAS. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 623 Issuance of permits for the mining of sulfide ore bodies. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 619 Electronic copies of operators’ licenses and identification cards. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 618 Allowing renters to claim the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 617 The establishment of November 11 as a day on which the offices of the agencies of state government are closed. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 615 The University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 613 The rights of Devil’s Lake State Park and providing a penalty. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 604 Teacher and administrator licensure in parental choice programs and in the Special Needs Scholarship Program and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 603 Per pupil aid. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 602 Prohibiting a virtual school from participating in a parental choice program. Cosponsor 2025
• SB 601 An income tax subtraction for payments on education loans. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 60 Expanding the homestead income tax credit. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 598 Coverage under the Medical Assistance program for incarcerated individuals. (FE) Cosponsor 2025
• SB 594 Ranked-choice voting for local nonpartisan elections, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2025