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Republican Representative · Assembly District 97

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

Floor votes missed
0 of 1,080
Bills led
69 · 3 became law
Votes with their party
100% · 243 votes, 2025
Committees
5

Bills they led · 69

Bills where Cindi Duchow 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 69 bills they led: 3 became law, 6 were vetoed, 11 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

Became law 3 bills
  • AB 420 Payments to an independent charter school authorized by a tribal college. (FE) 2021
  • AB 528 Grants to support peer-to-peer suicide prevention programs in high schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2019
  • AB 877 Disclosures to the commissioner of insurance and other changes to the insurance laws, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule-making procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2017
Adopted 1 bills
  • AJR 107 Eligibility and conditions for release prior to conviction of persons accused of certain crimes and considerations for imposing bail (first consideration). 2021
Vetoed 6 bills
  • AB 460 Pupil eligibility for parental choice programs based upon participation by a sibling or a dependent child of the pupil's parent or guardian. (FE) 2025
  • AB 225 Determination of where a defendant resides or does substantial business for purposes of venue. 2025
  • AB 1032 The sale of property under Department of Natural Resources jurisdiction to prevent the spread of avian flu. 2025
  • AB 669 A liability exemption for motor vehicle sellers after sale. 2023
  • AB 494 Status as an indefinitely confined voter for purposes of automatically receiving absentee ballots and providing a penalty. (FE) 2023
  • AB 395 Requirements for and insurance related to peer-to-peer motor vehicle sharing programs. (FE) 2023
Passed one chamber 3 bills
  • AJR 96 Proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Breast Cancer Awareness Months. 2025
  • AJR 80 Proclaiming the month of October 2023 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 2023
  • AJR 12 Declaring March 5, 2023, to March 11, 2023, as Women in Construction Week and celebrating the countless contributions of women in construction. 2023
Died at session end 56 bills
  • AB 820 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) 2025
  • AB 8 Agreements for direct primary care. 2025
  • AB 71 School district operating referenda. 2025
  • AB 649 Supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 646 Requiring a school district consolidation study. (FE) 2025
  • AB 599 Allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election, eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status for receiving absentee ballots, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 51 Participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations. 2025
  • AB 430 Discrimination based on arrest record under the fair employment law. 2025
  • AB 263 Coverage of breast cancer screenings by the Medical Assistance program and health insurance policies and plans. (FE) 2025
  • AB 148 Interpreter action by telephone or live audiovisual means in civil or criminal proceedings. 2025
  • AB 139 A tax credit for relocating to this state due to Hurricane Helene or the Los Angeles wildfires. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1047 Setback restrictions in shoreland zoning ordinances in Waukesha County. 2025
  • AJR 1 Conditions for release prior to conviction, including the imposition of bail (second consideration). 2023
  • AB 953 Agreements for direct primary care. 2023
  • AB 896 Imposing conditions on a juvenile between a plea hearing and a fact-finding hearing or disposition hearing. 2023
  • AB 772 The tuition grant program for national guard members administered by the Department of Military Affairs. (FE) 2023
  • AB 66 Fees for certain motor vehicle certificate of title transfers. (FE) 2023
  • AB 54 Statutory changes to implement the constitutional amendment relating to conditions of release. 2023
  • AB 53 Reporting certain crimes and other incidents that occur on school property or school transportation and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2023
  • AB 504 Attendance of children at public events with groups of nude adults and providing a penalty. 2023
  • AB 503 Intentional exposure of genitals and providing a penalty. 2023
  • AB 291 Waiting period for marriage after divorce judgment. 2023
  • AB 127 The face-to-face requirement for retail sales of alcohol beverages and remote orders for the sale of alcohol beverages to be delivered or picked up on retail licensed premises. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1034 Participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations. 2023
  • AJR 90 Proclaiming October 2021 to be Right to Life Month in Wisconsin. 2021
  • AJR 60 Honoring the career and accomplishments of Barry Alvarez. 2021
  • AB 969 Reporting to law enforcement certain crimes and other incidents that occur in or on public school buildings and grounds, requiring certain schools to employ armed school resource officers, and allocating federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 funding to reimburse schools for costs of employing armed school resource officers. (FE) 2021
  • AB 933 Bail for criminal defendants who have previously failed to comply with a condition of his or her release for the present offense. (FE) 2021
  • AB 79 Waiting period for marriage after divorce judgment. 2021
  • AB 734 Liability exemption for motor vehicle sellers after sale. 2021
  • AB 710 Modifying the sales and use tax exemption for renewable energy property. (FE) 2021
  • AB 561 Requiring school boards to report information regarding credit recovery courses. (FE) 2021
  • AB 286 A school extension learning recovery program following the 2020-21 school term. (FE) 2021
  • AB 180 Status as an indefinitely confined voter for purposes of receiving absentee ballots automatically and providing a penalty. (FE) 2021
  • AB 179 Absentee voting in certain residential care facilities and retirement homes and providing a penalty. 2021
  • AB 118 Full-time open enrollment to attend a fully virtual program offered by a nonresident school district during the 2021-22 school year. (FE) 2021
  • AB 1002 Status as an indefinitely confined voter for purposes of receiving absentee ballots automatically and providing a penalty. 2021
  • AJR 107 Release of a person accused of a crime prior to conviction (first consideration). 2019
  • AB 861 Authorizing certain overseas and military voters to vote absentee by electronic transmission and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2019
  • AB 610 The use of a pretrial risk assessment when setting conditions for pretrial release. 2019
  • AB 609 Pretrial detention. 2019
  • AB 608 Modification of bail in a criminal action. 2019
  • AB 439 Waiting period for marriage after divorce judgment. 2019
  • AB 414 The fee for a first-time annual fishing license for residents who are 16 or 17 years old or who are 65 years old or older. (FE) 2019
  • AB 361 Requirements for colleges when service member students are called into active duty. (FE) 2019
  • AB 345 Immunity for motor vehicle sellers. 2019
  • AJR 93 Eligibility and conditions for release prior to conviction of persons accused of certain crimes and considerations for imposing bail (first consideration). 2017
  • AJR 73 Proclaiming September 2017 as Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month. 2017
  • AB 884 Actions against certain third parties by injured employees under the worker's compensation law. (FE) 2017
  • AB 83 Sale of and research on fetal body parts, final disposition of fetal body parts, cord blood banks, and providing a criminal penalty. 2017

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Coauthored · 724

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Cindi Duchow 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 724 coauthored bills
  • AR 6 Proclaiming March 2025 and March 2026 as Women’s History Months. 2025
  • AJR 92 Recognizing the United States Marine Corps’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 83 Recognizing September 15 to October 15, 2025, as Hispanic Heritage Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 59 Proclaiming June as Dairy Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 50 Recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 4 Honoring the life and public service of Justice David T. Prosser Jr. 2025
  • AJR 34 Honoring the 50th anniversary of the child support program. 2025
  • AJR 3 Proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 135 Paying tribute to the entire Polish community that has lived in Wisconsin for 180 years and contributed to its strength. 2025
  • AJR 133 Legislative suspension of rules promulgated by state agencies (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 109 Honoring Wisconsin’s Hispanic and Latino veterans. 2025
  • AJR 1 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • AB 991 Allowing employment of minors in the operation of a pizza-dough roller. (FE) 2025
  • AB 975 Prohibiting the use of phones while driving a motor vehicle and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 97 Extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) 2025
  • AB 92 Spinal cord injury research grants and symposia and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 906 Expressly prohibiting a foreign national from making a contribution to a referendum committee. 2025
  • AB 905 Threats to health care providers and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 880 Nuisance actions against racing facilities. 2025
  • AB 87 Restitution orders following a conviction for human trafficking and restoration of the right to vote to a person barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction. (FE) 2025
  • AB 85 Recommendation to revoke extended supervision, parole, or probation if a person is charged with a crime. (FE) 2025
  • AB 840 Certain requirements related to data centers. 2025
  • AB 793 Creating an Office of Internal Audit attached to the Department of Employee Trust Funds. (FE) 2025
  • AB 792 Excluding costs funded by referenda from shared costs for the purpose of determining general equalization aids for school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 78 Impoundment of vehicles used in certain reckless driving offenses. (FE) 2025
  • AB 779 Increasing jurisdictional amounts in small claims actions. (FE) 2025
  • AB 759 Eligibility to receive occupational credentials for recipients of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (FE) 2025
  • AB 750 Admission of students to technical college programs. 2025
  • AB 749 Instruction in blood and organ donation in high school grades. (FE) 2025
  • AB 747 Regulating hemp-derived cannabinoid products. 2025
  • AB 716 Preferences for woman-owned businesses in state procurement for architectural and engineering services. (FE) 2025
  • AB 714 Plan sponsors’ right to access claims data. 2025
  • AB 693 The offering of deer to a meat processing facility for provision to a food pantry. 2025
  • AB 682 Fees for nonresident hunting, trapping, and fishing approvals and nonresident vehicle admission receipts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 678 School board policies on appropriate communication with pupils. (FE) 2025
  • AB 677 Creating a crime of grooming a child for sexual activity and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 671 A study of redundancies in legal requirements for new housing construction. (FE) 2025
  • AB 664 Serving margarine as a substitute for butter in certain circumstances. 2025
  • AB 66 Dismissing or amending certain criminal charges and deferred prosecution agreements for certain crimes. 2025
  • AB 648 Supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 647 Whole grade sharing grants for school boards. (FE) 2025
  • AB 645 Grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing. (FE) 2025
  • AB 644 State aid for consolidated school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 615 Mathematics assessments, achievement plans, and interventions. (FE) 2025
  • AB 514 Authorizing additional circuit court and criminal justice system positions. (FE) 2025
  • AB 501 Free speech and academic freedom at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges, due process in disciplinary proceedings at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges, and causes of action against the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and technical college district boards. (FE) 2025
  • AB 499 Coverage of nonopioid drug alternatives for the treatment and management of pain. 2025
  • AB 458 Admissibility of expert witness testimony. 2025
  • AB 457 The conditions under which a school district may adopt a resolution to exceed its revenue limit. (FE) 2025
  • AB 45 Ratification of the Dietitian Licensure Compact. (FE) 2025

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Cosponsored · 717

Bills from the other house that Cindi Duchow 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 717 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 91 Proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Breast Cancer Awareness Months. 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 63 Proclaiming June as Dairy Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 55 Recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 34 Honoring the 50th anniversary of the child support program. 2025
  • SJR 3 Proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 2 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 128 Paying tribute to the entire Polish community that has lived in Wisconsin for 180 years and contributed to its strength. 2025
  • SJR 124 Legislative suspension of rules promulgated by state agencies (first consideration). 2025
  • SB 99 Spinal cord injury research grants and symposia and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 95 Restitution orders following a conviction for human trafficking and restoration of the right to vote to a person barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction. (FE) 2025
  • SB 935 Prohibiting the use of phones while driving a motor vehicle and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 93 Recommendation to revoke extended supervision, parole, or probation if a person is charged with a crime. (FE) 2025
  • SB 899 Expressly prohibiting a foreign national from making a contribution to a referendum committee. 2025
  • SB 897 Threats to health care providers and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 883 Allowing employment of minors in the operation of a pizza-dough roller. (FE) 2025
  • SB 872 Nuisance actions against racing facilities. 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) 2025
  • SB 81 School district operating referenda. 2025
  • SB 788 Creating an Office of Internal Audit attached to the Department of Employee Trust Funds. (FE) 2025
  • SB 787 Increasing jurisdictional amounts in small claims actions. (FE) 2025
  • SB 76 Dismissing or amending certain criminal charges and deferred prosecution agreements for certain crimes. 2025
  • SB 750 Admission of students to technical college programs. 2025
  • SB 745 Eligibility to receive occupational credentials for recipients of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (FE) 2025
  • SB 731 Instruction in blood and organ donation in high school grades. (FE) 2025
  • SB 71 Ratification of the Dietitian Licensure Compact. (FE) 2025
  • SB 704 Preferences for woman-owned businesses in state procurement for architectural and engineering services. (FE) 2025
  • SB 703 Plan sponsors’ right to access claims data. 2025
  • SB 682 Regulating hemp-derived cannabinoid products. 2025
  • SB 673 School board policies on appropriate communication with pupils. (FE) 2025
  • SB 671 Creating a crime of grooming a child for sexual activity and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 670 Fees for nonresident hunting, trapping, and fishing approvals and nonresident vehicle admission receipts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 669 Grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing. (FE) 2025
  • SB 668 Supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 667 Whole grade sharing grants for school boards. (FE) 2025
  • SB 663 A study of redundancies in legal requirements for new housing construction. (FE) 2025
  • SB 656 State aid for consolidated school districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 655 Requiring a school district consolidation study. (FE) 2025
  • SB 65 Impoundment of vehicles used in certain reckless driving offenses. (FE) 2025
  • SB 645 Serving margarine as a substitute for butter in certain circumstances. 2025
  • SB 616 Mathematics assessments, achievement plans, and interventions. (FE) 2025
  • SB 597 Allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election, eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status for receiving absentee ballots, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 57 County sheriff assistance with certain federal immigration functions. (FE) 2025
  • SB 546 Authorizing additional circuit court and criminal justice system positions. (FE) 2025
  • SB 498 Free speech and academic freedom at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges, due process in disciplinary proceedings at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges, and causes of action against the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and technical college district boards. (FE) 2025
  • SB 492 Coverage of nonopioid drug alternatives for the treatment and management of pain. 2025
  • SB 459 Admissibility of expert witness testimony. 2025
  • SB 453 The first date on which nomination papers may be circulated for the spring election. 2025
  • SB 452 Pupil eligibility for parental choice programs based upon participation by a sibling or a dependent child of the pupil's parent or guardian. (FE) 2025

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Campaign money

$20,721 reported receipts across 92 records

Jan 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2026. Includes collected receipts before taking office. Latest reported transaction: Jul 12, 2026. Earliest collected receipt in this view: Jan 31, 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 $9,751 in 2025 Q4.
Quarter by quarter
  • 2025 Q1: $523
  • 2025 Q2: $9
  • 2025 Q3: $553
  • 2025 Q4: $9,751
  • 2026 Q1: $506
  • 2026 Q2: $3,954
  • 2026 Q3: $5,425

Where it came from

  • Individuals: $13,989 (68%)
  • Political committees: $6,200 (30%)
  • Unregistered: $500 (2%)
  • Depository/Bank: $32 (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

  • Mary Schmidt 1 receipts $1,000
  • Meredy Hase 1 receipts $1,000
  • Shirley Klauser 1 receipts $1,000
  • Robert Oswell 1 receipts $500
  • Tim Colombe 1 receipts $500

Top occupations of individual donors

as reported by donors; individuals gave $13,989 in total

  • Retired $3,990
  • Business Owner $2,100
  • Banker $1,475
  • Audiologist $1,000
  • Technology Specialist $500

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 · 421

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.

Showing the 300 most recent; the full record is in Vote history below.

Votes against their party · 2

Roll calls where Cindi Duchow voted opposite the majority of Republicans casting an Aye or Nay on that roll call. Ties within the party are excluded; absences never count. Each row links to the official roll call.

Show all 2 party-break votes
  • Mar 23, 2021 SB 39 CONCURRENCE Voted Nay; Republicans split 58 Aye–1 Nay roll call
  • Feb 18, 2016 SB 87 Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 65, Noes 29 Voted Nay; Republicans split 39 Aye–22 Nay roll call

Floor attendance

Only days the chamber held recorded floor votes are shown, on every tile below, they either voted or missed: 1,080 votes across 127 voting days, none missed.

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Vote history · 1,080

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