Every Bill Led or Signed

148 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1–148.

SB 390 Expanding the requirement of county board approval of a town amendment of its zoning ordinances. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
SB 317 Race-based nicknames, logos, mascots, and team names and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
SB 30 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
SB 23 Workforce training, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
SB 207 Incorporations including territory of two towns. Cosponsor 2013
SB 182 The law governing repair, replacement, and refund under a motor vehicle warranty. Cosponsor 2013
SB 154 Injunctions suspending or restraining the enforcement or execution statewide of a statute of this state. Cosponsor 2013
SB 1 Regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, procedures for obtaining approvals from the Department of Natural Resources for the construction of utility facilities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
AR 3 The assembly rules. Coauthor 2013
AR 18 Commending the Honor Flight Network and its volunteers. Coauthor 2013
AJR 81 Application to Congress under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States for a convention for proposing amendments relating to a balanced budget. Coauthor 2013
AJR 24 Expressing prayers and condolences to the families, friends of the victims, and the injured from the bombings at the Boston Marathon and praising the first responders who rushed to their aid. Coauthor 2013
AJR 15 The life and public service of Joseph LaPorte. Coauthor 2013
AB 704 State highway funding and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2013
AB 512 Expanding the requirement of county board approval of a town amendment of its zoning ordinances. (FE) Coauthor 2013
AB 493 Exemption of certain electors from the requirement to present proof of identification when voting in an election and use of veterans identification cards as proof of identification. Coauthor 2013
AB 42 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. (FE) Coauthor 2013
AB 350 Exemptions from securities registration requirements. (FE) Coauthor 2013
AB 297 The use of race-based nicknames, logos, mascots, and team names by school boards. Coauthor 2013
AB 225 Various changes in the campaign finance laws; exemption of certain electors from the requirement to present proof of identification when voting in an election; identifying documentation to establish proof of residency for voter registration; recording the type of identifying document provided as proof of residence; limiting the times for voting by absentee ballot in person; the method of reporting election returns by municipalities; fees for election recounts; the method of recounting votes cast with automatic tabulating equipment; residency of election officials; recall petition requirements; the procedure for recounting ballots when electors voting in person are required to sign the poll list and fail to do so; challenging an elector's registration during recount proceedings; witness addresses on absentee ballot certificates; nominees submitted by the Government Accountability Board candidate committee; securing ballot containers; party representation for election officials serving at polling places; and scheduling of referendums. (FE) Coauthor 2013
AB 200 The law governing repair, replacement, and refund under a motor vehicle warranty. Lead author 2013
AB 189 Incorporations of villages and cities involving more than one town. Coauthor 2013
AB 161 Injunctions suspending or restraining the enforcement or execution statewide of a statute of this state. Coauthor 2013
AB 14 Workforce training, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Coauthor 2013
AB 1 Regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, procedures for obtaining approvals from the Department of Natural Resources for the construction of utility facilities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. (FE) Coauthor 2013
SJR 8 The vote on bills that would increase certain tax rates (first consideration). Cosponsor 2011
SJR 36 Election of chief justice. Cosponsor 2011
SJR 12 Commending the Green Bay Packers. Cosponsor 2011
SB 93 Going armed with weapons, possessing or transporting a firearm, bow, or crossbow under certain circumstances, disorderly conduct limitations, and electric weapons. Cosponsor 2011
SB 86 Permitting an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon. Cosponsor 2011
SB 7 Automobile insurance coverage limits, permissible policy provisions, and proof of financial responsibility. Cosponsor 2011
SB 6 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 2011
SB 563 Requiring legislation for agencies to take an action to, request federal moneys to, and use state moneys to assist the federal government to implement federal health reform and reports on implementation of federal health reform. Cosponsor 2011
SB 540 Unlawful use of a global positioning device and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
SB 514 Elimination of sick leave for state senators and representatives to the assembly. Cosponsor 2011
SB 506 Management and performance evaluation audits of large programs and large agencies by the Legislative Audit Bureau. Cosponsor 2011
SB 488 Regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, procedures for obtaining approvals from the Department of Natural Resources for the construction of utility facilities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
SB 486 Creating the Special Needs Scholarship Program for disabled pupils, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
SB 393 Duties of review boards for banks, savings banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions and eliminating the mortgage loan originator council. Cosponsor 2011
SB 391 The procedure for the administrative dissolution of corporations. Cosponsor 2011
SB 390 Appointment of notaries public, collection agencies, and community currency exchanges. Cosponsor 2011
SB 385 State agency fiscal and operations reports and quarterly hearings of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Cosponsor 2011
SB 374 Offering anything of value to induce someone to sign or not sign a recall petition and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
SB 360 The minimum sale price of prescription drugs. Cosponsor 2011
SB 308 Deposit placement programs of public depositories. Cosponsor 2011
SB 30 Placing limits on residency requirements for 1st class city police officers and fire fighters. Cosponsor 2011
SB 296 Interest due on property determined to be abandoned and due to be paid or delivered to the state treasurer. Cosponsor 2011
SB 295 Agreements to locate unclaimed property reported to the state treasurer. Cosponsor 2011
SB 294 Procedures for establishing a claim (suggested as remedial legislation by the Office of the State Treasurer). Cosponsor 2011
SB 172 Sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
SB 117 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
SB 114 Legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill. Cosponsor 2011
SB 104 Requiring persons who violate certain restraining orders or injunctions to be monitored by a global positioning system, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 9 The vote on bills that would increase certain tax rates (first consideration). Coauthor 2011
AJR 5 Commending Reince Priebus on his election as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Coauthor 2011
AJR 49 Election of chief justice (first consideration). Coauthor 2011
AJR 43 The life and public service of Sheriff Raymond Klink. Coauthor 2011
AB 7 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. Coauthor 2011
AB 690 Unlawful use of a global positioning device and providing a penalty. Lead author 2011
AB 671 Legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill. Lead author 2011
AB 653 Elimination of sick leave for state senators and representatives to the assembly. Coauthor 2011
AB 65 Placing limits on residency requirements for 1st class city police officers and fire fighters. Lead author 2011
AB 531 Requiring legislation for agencies to take an action to, request federal moneys to, and use state moneys to assist the federal government to implement federal health reform. Coauthor 2011
AB 530 Reports on implementation of federal health reform. Coauthor 2011
AB 510 Deposit placement programs of public depositories. Lead author 2011
AB 494 Appointment of notaries public, collection agencies, and community currency exchanges. Lead author 2011
AB 493 The procedure for the administrative dissolution of corporations. Lead author 2011
AB 492 Duties of review boards for banks, savings banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions and eliminating the mortgage loan originator council. Lead author 2011
AB 472 Offering anything of value to induce someone to sign or not sign a recall petition and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 448 A prohibition on partial-birth abortions and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 419 Interest due on property determined to be abandoned and due to be paid or delivered to the state treasurer. Lead author 2011
AB 418 Agreements to locate unclaimed property reported to the state treasurer. Lead author 2011
AB 417 Procedures for establishing a claim (suggested as remedial legislation by the Office of the State Treasurer). Lead author 2011
AB 400 State agency fiscal and operations reports and quarterly hearings of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Lead author 2011
AB 4 Automobile insurance coverage limits, permissible policy provisions, and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2011
AB 214 Sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 175 Requiring persons who violate certain restraining orders or injunctions to be monitored by a global positioning system, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2011
AB 122 Permitting an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon. Coauthor 2011
AB 110 Creating the Special Needs Scholarship Program for disabled pupils, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
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. Cosponsor 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). Cosponsor 2009
SJR 36 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). Cosponsor 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). Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 697 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 680 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 52 An education tax credit for businesses. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 420 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to contributions to individual retirement accounts and retirement plans. Cosponsor 2009
SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Cosponsor 2009
SB 377 Carrying concealed weapons by law enforcement officers and by retired law enforcement officers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 376 Fees from retired law enforcement officers seeking to carry concealed weapons and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 350 An optional identification requirement for voting in elections. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 28 Excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. Cosponsor 2009
SB 220 Eliminating the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 166 Creating an individual income tax deduction for any amount of interest paid on certain loans that are used for educational expenses. Cosponsor 2009
SB 165 Changing the type of income that may be used to calculate the married persons tax credit. Cosponsor 2009
AR 7 Requiring a two-thirds majority vote in the assembly for passage, concurrence, and adoption of proposals that increase the rate of the state sales tax, increase any of the rates of the income tax or franchise tax, or increase a fee. Coauthor 2009
AR 25 Requiring the Committee on Rules to offer a resolution calling for a special order of business on 2009 Assembly Resolution 14. Coauthor 2009
AR 21 Authorizing the attorney general to file or join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or any part thereof, and the federal Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, or any part thereof. Coauthor 2009
AJR 55 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 51 State sovereignty. Coauthor 2009
AJR 3 Creating the Joint Committee on Economic Stimulus Accountability. Coauthor 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). Coauthor 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). Coauthor 2009
AJR 125 Requiring a photographic identification to vote, or register to vote, at the polls on election day (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AB 972 Creation of the Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Oversight Commission to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse in state government and make recommendations to the Joint Committee on Finance. Coauthor 2009
AB 960 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 91 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 879 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 865 The limit on the number of pupils who may attend a private school under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 814 An optional identification requirement for voting in elections. Lead author 2009
AB 80 An education tax credit for businesses. Coauthor 2009
AB 608 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Coauthor 2009
AB 582 Eliminating the authority of municipalities and counties to impose a local motor vehicle registration fee. Coauthor 2009
AB 540 Allowing out-of-state insurers to offer health care plans that are exempt from certain laws to employers and individuals in this state. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 525 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2009
AB 505 The Department of Revenue's interpretation of the law. Coauthor 2009
AB 502 Requiring the Department of Revenue to certify the tax base of Tax Incremental Financing District Number 18 in the city of Waukesha. Lead author 2009
AB 482 The minimum sale price of prescription drugs. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 478 Ending combined reporting. Coauthor 2009
AB 477 The effective date of the jobs tax credit. Coauthor 2009
AB 474 Carrying concealed weapons by law enforcement officers and by retired law enforcement officers. Coauthor 2009
AB 473 Fees from retired law enforcement officers seeking to carry concealed weapons and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 380 State agency fiscal and operations reports and quarterly hearings of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Lead author 2009
AB 38 Excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. Coauthor 2009
AB 369 Social and financial impact reports. Coauthor 2009
AB 352 Vehicle owner liability for a vehicle's failure to stop as required for a school bus. Lead author 2009
AB 306 Eliminating the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 226 Increases in undergraduate resident tuition and nonallocable segregated fees at the University of Wisconsin System. Coauthor 2009
AB 196 Providing the public with information on state agency and school district operations expenditures and state agency and school district contracts and grants. Lead author 2009
AB 171 Unlawful use of a global positioning device and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
AB 168 Preparation and legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill; making executive sessions of the Joint Committee on Finance relating to the biennial budget bill available in real time for viewing by the public on the legislature's Internet Web site; and reporting of certain information by lobbying principals. Coauthor 2009
AB 134 The extension for objecting to property tax assessments. Coauthor 2009
AB 127 Preparation of zero-based biennial budget requests by executive branch agencies, preparation and passage of biennial budget bill or bills, state budget deficit, and generally accepted accounting principles. Coauthor 2009
AB 120 Providing the public with information on state agency operations expenditures and state agency contracts and grants. Coauthor 2009