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Republican Representative · Assembly District 63

Source: Wisconsin Legislature , Wisconsin Ethics Commission · pulled · record through

Floor votes missed
8 of 782
Bills led
70 · 11 became law
Votes with their party
100% · 243 votes, 2025
Committees
4

Bills they led · 70

Bills where Bob Wittke is the lead author, the first name on the bill. Sponsoring a bill means putting it forward: the text itself is drafted by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau. Bills they signed onto behind another member are listed below, and bills they only voted on are in Vote history. What these roles mean

Of the 70 bills they led: 11 became law, 11 were vetoed, 15 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

11 became law 1 adopted 11 vetoed 2 passed one chamber 45 died at session end
Became law 11 bills
  • AB 696 Various changes to the laws governing the practice of accounting and modifying various administrative rules promulgated by the Accounting Examining Board relating to accounting. 2025
  • AB 265 Human trafficking and trafficking of a child and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 933 Transferring the angel investment tax credit. (FE) 2023
  • AB 932 Modifying the certification criteria to be a qualified new business venture. (FE) 2023
  • AB 912 Financial statements of registered charitable organizations. 2023
  • AB 890 Fund of funds investment program. (FE) 2023
  • AB 717 An income and franchise tax exemption for restaurant revitalization grants. (FE) 2021
  • AB 3 Modifications to the tax treatment of tax-option corporations that elect to pay tax at the entity level. (FE) 2021
  • AB 270 Marriage solemnization requirements and marriage document requirements, issuance, and validity. (FE) 2021
  • AB 2 Various changes to the laws administered and enforced by the Department of Revenue. (FE) 2021
  • AB 73 Lease terms and the imposition of sales and use taxes related to a local professional baseball park district. (FE) 2019
Adopted 1 bills
  • AJR 6 The appropriation authority of the legislature and the allocation of moneys Wisconsin receives from the federal government (second consideration). 2023
Vetoed 11 bills
  • AB 998 Recommendations made by the council on early literacy curricula. 2025
  • AB 1 Changes to the educational assessment program and the school and school district accountability report. (FE) 2025
  • AB 603 Erecting highway signs for The Prairie School in Racine County. (FE) 2023
  • AB 510 Rights reserved to a parent or guardian of a child. 2023
  • AB 1089 Interest rates on late, nondelinquent taxes and on overpayments. (FE) 2023
  • AB 984 Admission requirements at University of Wisconsin System institutions. 2021
  • AB 970 Eliminating income limits for parental choice programs; eliminating pupil participation limits for the statewide parental choice program; private school tuition charged to a pupil participating in a parental choice program; and creating an education expense reimbursement program for the 2022-23 school year and the summer of 2023. (FE) 2021
  • AB 968 Creating a Charter School Authorizing Board and allowing the board to authorize independent charter schools. (FE) 2021
  • AB 967 High-performing charter schools authorized by school boards. (FE) 2021
  • AB 966 Reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into four to eight school districts and creating a Milwaukee Public Schools Redistricting and Implementation Commission. (FE) 2021
  • AB 965 The components, methods, and formulas the Department of Public Instruction uses to publish school and school district accountability reports and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2021
Passed one chamber 2 bills
  • AJR 94 Honoring the achievements of the Racine Raiders. 2023
  • AJR 105 Declaring the week of January 21 to 27, 2024, School Choice Week and recognizing the right of parents to select the best educational path for their children. 2023
Died at session end 45 bills
  • AB 878 A tax credit for certain sales and use taxes paid on services sold through an amusement device. (FE) 2025
  • AB 870 Adopting changes to the federal Internal Revenue Code for state tax purposes and modifying administrative rules related to such changes. (FE) 2025
  • AB 818 Demonstration charter school operators. (FE) 2025
  • AB 714 Plan sponsors’ right to access claims data. 2025
  • AB 590 Definition of athletic training. (FE) 2025
  • AB 566 Qualifying investments for purposes of claiming the early stage seed investment and angel investment credits. (FE) 2025
  • AB 565 Qualified new business venture eligibility. (FE) 2025
  • AB 525 Repeal of obsolete tax credits and tax provisions. (FE) 2025
  • AB 408 Designating the bacterium Lactococcus lactis as the Wisconsin state microbe. 2025
  • AB 368 Prior authorization for coverage of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, chiropractic services, and other services under health plans. 2025
  • AB 353 Price transparency in hospitals, restricting certain debt collection actions against patients, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 286 Interest earned on coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds. (FE) 2025
  • AB 268 The right of appeal for complainants aggrieved by decisions of the Elections Commission concerning the conduct of election officials. 2025
  • AB 196 Rehired annuitants in the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1037 Retainage on public construction contracts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1026 Interest rates on late, nondelinquent taxes and on overpayments. (FE) 2025
  • AB 913 Expenditure of $8,630,650.62 from the general fund for payment of a claim against the state made by Walsh Construction. (FE) 2023
  • AB 838 Erecting highway signs for Wind Point Lighthouse in Racine County. (FE) 2023
  • AB 680 State aid adjustments under the full-time open enrollment program. (FE) 2023
  • AB 652 Remote proctoring of certain pupil assessments. 2023
  • AB 579 Use of fill in commercial waterways and Great Lakes waters. 2023
  • AB 342 Allowing school boards to employ a school district administrator who is not licensed by the department of public instruction. 2023
  • AB 311 Athletic training and coverage of the services of athletic trainers under health insurance policies and plans. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1120 Grants to small- or medium-sized manufacturers for the purchase of advanced manufacturing technology hardware and software and making an appropriation. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1108 School district boundary adjustments for lots in newly created subdivisions and requiring school district boundary mapping that is compatible with the statewide digital map. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1018 Rehired annuitants in the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1017 Early literacy programs administered by the Department of Public Instruction. 2023
  • AJR 112 Expenditure of moneys Wisconsin receives from the federal government (first consideration). 2021
  • AB 971 Promotion of pupils from the third grade to the fourth grade based on passage of the standardized reading test; reading readiness assessments in public schools; grants to increase licensure of reading teachers; sunsetting the Achievement Gap Reduction program; programs to identify and address pupils with dyslexia; parental opt-out of pupils in grades kindergarten to three from statewide examinations; and making an appropriation. (FE) 2021
  • AB 906 Investment board operations. 2021
  • AB 894 Local land use restrictions. (FE) 2021
  • AB 851 A property tax exemption for the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center. (FE) 2021
  • AB 849 Use of fill in commercial waterways and establishing shorelines of Great Lakes waters. (FE) 2021
  • AB 816 Pass-through entity audits. (FE) 2021
  • AB 261 The department of public instruction's waiver authority related to parental choice programs, the Special Needs Scholarship Program, and independent charter schools. 2021
  • AB 164 Increasing the expenditure period for a tax incremental district in an electronics and information technology manufacturing zone. (FE) 2021
  • AB 15 Educational qualifications for certified public accountants. 2021
  • AB 1100 Minority teacher loan program information. (FE) 2021
  • AB 1082 Reporting on, and charging high schools for the cost of, remedial courses at University of Wisconsin System institutions. (FE) 2021
  • AB 1062 Grants to public schools to purchase and implement high-quality curricular materials for teaching reading and language arts. (FE) 2021
  • AB 771 Leasing tax exempt property of a church or religious organization to an educational association. (FE) 2019
  • AB 754 Various changes to the laws administered and enforced by the Department of Revenue. (FE) 2019
  • AB 553 The school district revenue limit adjustment for energy efficiency projects. (FE) 2019
  • AB 457 Marriage license application requirements, issuance, and validity. 2019
  • AB 333 Use of formerly submerged land in the city of Racine. (FE) 2019

Coauthored · 356

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Bob Wittke signed onto. Signing on adds their name to the bill; it is not the same as leading it. From each bill's official history.

Show all 356 coauthored bills
  • AR 10 Congratulating the University of Wisconsin–River Falls Falcons football team on winning the NCAA Division III National Championship. 2025
  • AJR 99 Recognizing October 14, 2025, as First Responders Appreciation Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 96 Proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Breast Cancer Awareness Months. 2025
  • AJR 95 Designating October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 94 Proclaiming January as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 92 Recognizing the United States Marine Corps’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 91 Recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 55 Designating May as Mental Health Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 50 Recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 48 Commemorating Hmong-Lao Veterans Day and honoring the Hmong-Lao veterans who served alongside the United States in the Vietnam War. 2025
  • AJR 4 Honoring the life and public service of Justice David T. Prosser Jr. 2025
  • AJR 30 Congratulating the University of Wisconsin–Madison women’s hockey team on winning the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey National Championship. 2025
  • AJR 3 Proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 29 Celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 24 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. 2025
  • AJR 23 Designating April 2025 and April 2026 as Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Months. 2025
  • AJR 133 Legislative suspension of rules promulgated by state agencies (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 12 Honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller. 2025
  • AJR 1 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • AB 990 Personal financial literacy high school graduation requirement. 2025
  • AB 974 A public affairs network trust fund, grants to the WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 97 Extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) 2025
  • AB 955 The rule-making authority of agencies. (FE) 2025
  • AB 92 Spinal cord injury research grants and symposia and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 91 The requirement that first class cities and first class city school districts place school resource officers in schools. (FE) 2025
  • AB 892 Digital asset staking and the state’s securities laws. 2025
  • AB 89 Theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 864 Various changes to the state lottery. (FE) 2025
  • AB 840 Certain requirements related to data centers. 2025
  • AB 794 Independent contractor healthcare workers and healthcare worker platforms. 2025
  • AB 751 Calculation of fuel costs for an electric public utility’s fuel cost plan. 2025
  • AB 749 Instruction in blood and organ donation in high school grades. (FE) 2025
  • AB 615 Mathematics assessments, achievement plans, and interventions. (FE) 2025
  • AB 606 Regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, renaming the Division of Alcohol Beverages as the Division of Intoxicating Products, creating an occupational tax on hemp-derived cannabinoid products, alcohol beverage warehouses and production arrangements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 604 Coverage under the Medical Assistance program for incarcerated individuals. (FE) 2025
  • AB 602 Participating in the federal tax credit program for contributions to scholarship granting organizations. 2025
  • AB 601 Excluding certain event or sports wagers from the definition of “bet”. 2025
  • AB 598 Consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE) 2025
  • AB 511 The cigarette excise tax and cigarettes that involve heating tobacco without combustion. (FE) 2025
  • AB 494 Increasing the carryover period of the research income tax credit. (FE) 2025
  • AB 49 A minor’s authority to consent to health care. 2025
  • AB 471 The regulation of digital assets. 2025
  • AB 458 Admissibility of expert witness testimony. 2025
  • AB 450 Applicability of the commercial building code to certain buildings. (FE) 2025
  • AB 43 Permitting pharmacists to prescribe certain contraceptives, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 419 A sales and use tax exemption for ski lifts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 32 Access to public high schools for military recruiters. 2025
  • AB 302 Authorized lights for funeral procession vehicles. 2025
  • AB 300 A grant program for the purchase of automated registration plate reader systems. (FE) 2025
  • AB 284 Enumeration of projects in the Authorized State Building Program, modifications to building program project budgets, selection of project architects and engineers, single prime contracting, agency cooperation with energy conservation contractors, timeline for claims before the Claims Board, and making a transfer to the state building trust fund. (FE) 2025

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Cosponsored · 385

Bills from the other house that Bob Wittke signed onto. Signing on adds their name to the bill; it is not the same as leading it. From each bill's official history.

Show all 385 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 99 Recognizing October 14, 2025, as First Responders Appreciation Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 95 Designating October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 91 Proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Breast Cancer Awareness Months. 2025
  • SJR 90 Proclaiming January as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 9 Honoring the life and public service of Justice David T. Prosser Jr. 2025
  • SJR 87 Recognizing the United States Marine Corps’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 86 Recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 55 Recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 53 Designating May as Mental Health Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 49 Commemorating Hmong-Lao Veterans Day and honoring the Hmong-Lao veterans who served alongside the United States in the Vietnam War. 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. 2025
  • SJR 3 Proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 29 Designating April 2025 and April 2026 as Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Months. 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. 2025
  • SJR 26 Celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 2 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 144 Accounting and expenditure of state funds and reduction of deficit (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 13 Honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller. 2025
  • SJR 124 Legislative suspension of rules promulgated by state agencies (first consideration). 2025
  • SB 998 Tourism promotion improvement districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 99 Spinal cord injury research grants and symposia and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 98 Conversion of cooperative associations organized to establish and operate nonprofit plans or programs for health care into service insurance corporations. 2025
  • SB 972 Recommendations made by the council on early literacy curricula. 2025
  • SB 940 The rule-making authority of agencies. (FE) 2025
  • SB 921 Personal financial literacy high school graduation requirement. 2025
  • SB 92 Theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 885 Digital asset staking and the state’s securities laws. 2025
  • SB 865 A tax credit for certain sales and use taxes paid on services sold through an amusement device. (FE) 2025
  • SB 861 Various changes to the state lottery. (FE) 2025
  • SB 859 Adopting changes to the federal Internal Revenue Code for state tax purposes and modifying administrative rules related to such changes. (FE) 2025
  • SB 843 Certain requirements related to data centers. 2025
  • SB 818 Demonstration charter school operators. (FE) 2025
  • SB 768 Independent contractor healthcare workers and healthcare worker platforms. 2025
  • SB 733 Calculation of fuel costs for an electric public utility’s fuel cost plan. 2025
  • SB 732 Various changes to the laws governing the practice of accounting and modifying various administrative rules promulgated by the Accounting Examining Board relating to accounting. 2025
  • SB 703 Plan sponsors’ right to access claims data. 2025
  • SB 70 A minor’s authority to consent to health care. 2025
  • SB 681 Regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, renaming the Division of Alcohol Beverages as the Division of Intoxicating Products, creating an occupational tax on hemp-derived cannabinoid products, alcohol beverage warehouses and production arrangements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 616 Mathematics assessments, achievement plans, and interventions. (FE) 2025
  • SB 600 Participating in the federal tax credit program for contributions to scholarship granting organizations. 2025
  • SB 598 Coverage under the Medical Assistance program for incarcerated individuals. (FE) 2025
  • SB 592 Excluding certain event or sports wagers from the definition of “bet”. 2025
  • SB 583 Definition of athletic training. (FE) 2025
  • SB 578 Consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE) 2025
  • SB 564 Qualified new business venture eligibility. (FE) 2025
  • SB 563 Qualifying investments for purposes of claiming the early stage seed investment and angel investment credits. (FE) 2025
  • SB 544 The cigarette excise tax and cigarettes that involve heating tobacco without combustion. (FE) 2025
  • SB 535 The regulation of digital assets. 2025
  • SB 529 Repeal of obsolete tax credits and tax provisions. (FE) 2025
  • SB 482 Increasing the carryover period of the research income tax credit. (FE) 2025

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Campaign money

$33,117 reported receipts across 177 records

Jan 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2026. Includes collected receipts before taking office. Latest reported transaction: Aug 11, 2026. Earliest collected receipt in this view: Feb 1, 2025. Filings and amendments may be missing; totals cover collected records.

2025
Receipts by quarter in the selected period. Gold bars with a tick under them are election quarters; peak $12,271 in 2026 Q3.
Quarter by quarter
  • 2025 Q1: $5,515
  • 2025 Q2: $100
  • 2025 Q3: $8,525
  • 2025 Q4: $3,041
  • 2026 Q2: $3,665
  • 2026 Q3: $12,271

Where it came from

  • Individuals: $27,412 (83%)
  • Political committees: $5,600 (17%)
  • Unregistered: $100 (0%)
  • Anonymous: $5 (0%)

Source types exactly as the committee reported each receipt to CFIS.

Top contributing committees

PACs, party and other political committees

Top individual donors

within the selected period, grouped by CFIS donor identity

  • Jason Mulvihill 1 receipts $1,000
  • CRAIG AND HELEN LEIPOLD AND JOHNSON-LEIPOLD 1 receipts $1,000
  • DAN AND CHRISTINE OAKES 1 receipts $1,000
  • Glenn Madrigrano, Jr. 1 receipts $1,000
  • Diane M. Hendricks 1 receipts $1,000

Top occupations of individual donors

as reported by donors; individuals gave $27,412 in total

  • Retired $5,190
  • RET $2,360
  • BUS Owner $1,650
  • Business Executive $1,500
  • Business Owner $1,250

Source: Wisconsin Ethics Commission campaign finance filings (campaignfinance.wi.gov), refreshed nightly. Wisconsin law bars corporations from contributing to candidates; money comes from individuals and political committees. Totals cover verified candidate committees, including runs for other offices. Receipts can include loans, transfers, refunds, and in-kind support. All available history starts no earlier than July 2008 and may have gaps. Full methodology

Key votes · 235

Selected by rule, not judgment: the final recorded passage vote of every bill that became law, any floor vote decided by five or fewer, and every veto-override vote. Each row links to the official roll call.

Floor attendance

Only days the chamber held recorded floor votes are shown, on every tile below, they either voted or missed: 782 votes across 92 voting days, 8 missed.

voted all present, not voting missed votes (striped) not in office
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2025
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2022
Missed-vote days in 2022 · 1
  • Feb 24: missed 8 of 19
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2019

Vote history · 774

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