Every Bill Led or Signed
1,202 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 401–600.
- AJR 61 Proclaiming September 2015 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in Wisconsin. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 59 Commemorating the 160th anniversary of Miller Brewing Company in the state of Wisconsin. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 55 Providing for an advisory referendum on the question of adopting a nonpartisan system for redistricting. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 54 Proclaiming February 2016 as USO Wisconsin Month. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 53 Eliminating constitutional restrictions on marriage (first consideration). Coauthor 2015
- AJR 46 Recognizing June 2015 as LGBT Pride Month. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 41 Honoring the life and contributions of David Duax. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 40 Commemorating the Bay View labor strike and tragedy. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 38 The right to vote (first consideration). Coauthor 2015
- AJR 35 Designating May as Older Americans Month in Wisconsin. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 33 Congratulating the University of Wisconsin-Madison men's basketball team on its 2014-15 basketball season, reaching the NCAA Final Four, and making it to the NCAA Championship Game. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 32 Honoring the life and contributions of former Secretary of Administration and Chairman of the BMO Harris Bradley Center, Marc Marotta. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 28 Commemorating the economic impacts of sportsmen and sportswomen in Wisconsin. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 27 Wisconsin children's outdoor heritage. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 23 Remembrance of April 24, 2015, as the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 17 Requiring the committees on assembly and senate organization to immediately appoint a joint task force on clean and renewable energy. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 118 Honoring Wisconsin snowplow drivers and their tireless work in keeping Wisconsin drivers and roadways safe. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 116 Requiring the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization to immediately appoint a committee to study and report on certain impacts of professional licensure requirements. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 108 Proclaiming April 28, 2016, Workers' Memorial Day in Wisconsin. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 102 Requiring the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization to immediately appoint a committee, to be known as the Commission on Debt-Free College, to study and report on the feasibility of providing a debt-free college education to all residents of this state. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 101 Fiscal estimate requirements for bills containing penalty provisions. Coauthor 2015
- AJR 100 Designating November as a month recognizing women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in Wisconsin. Coauthor 2015
- AB 990 The Special Transfer Program (Chapter 220). (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 987 Voter identification informational campaign and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 977 Disinfection of drinking water supplied by a municipal water system. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 976 The sale and purchase of products containing ivory or rhinoceros horn and providing a criminal penalty. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 973 Classifying county jailers, detention officers, and correctional officers as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 972 Increasing the motor vehicle fuel tax rate to pay debt service on transportation bonding and adjusting the rate by the annual average change in the consumer price index. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 963 Creating a nonrefundable individual and corporate income and franchise tax credit for costs paid to eliminate exposure to a lead hazard in a dwelling. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 962 Violent death reporting system and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 957 Testing for lead in homes of certain children and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 933 Inclusion in the economic impact analysis for a proposed administrative rule an assessment of the impact that the proposed rule will have on public health and the environment. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 932 Requiring coverage of dispensing of an extended supply of contraceptives. Coauthor 2015
- AB 930 Funding for bilingual-bicultural education programs and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 93 Bonding, spending, and taxation authority and auditing of local professional baseball park districts. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 925 Authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment on the basis of military service to pay compensatory and punitive damages. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 917 Civil cause of action for financial exploitation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 915 Prohibiting sales or leases of municipal water or sewer utilities to investor-owned utilities. Coauthor 2015
- AB 901 Aids to individuals and organizations related to the arts and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 900 Collective bargaining for public employees, prohibiting employees other than public safety employees from bargaining collectively on insurance contributions and employee required contributions to retirement, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 898 Faculty tenure and probationary appointments at University of Wisconsin System institutions and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 883 Counting pupils enrolled in 4-year-old kindergarten. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 882 Requiring an employer to provide reasonable break time for an employee who is breast-feeding her child to express breast milk for the child. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 880 Medically accurate information, conscientious beliefs of reproductive health care providers, health care provider liability insurance, eliminating certain abortion requirements, prohibiting employment retribution and discrimination, actions against a person seeking or providing health care, and providing a criminal penalty. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 879 Prohibiting consideration of the conviction record of an applicant for employment before the applicant has been selected for an interview. Coauthor 2015
- AB 869 Nonemergency medical transportation for Medical Assistance recipients in certain counties. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 862 Damages in personal injury claims involving asbestos trusts. Coauthor 2015
- AB 860 Reporting of contributions received by political parties, legislative campaign committees, independent expenditure committees, and referendum committees from corporations, cooperatives, and American Indian tribes. Coauthor 2015
- AB 86 Grants to technical college district boards and technical college faculty, staff, and students and making appropriations. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 852 Expanding eligibility for the earned income tax credit; hospital best practices for postpartum patients and newborns; hospital staff privileges and written agreements required for nurse-midwives; coverage of nurse-midwives under the injured patients and families compensation fund; a report on information related to hospital neonatal intensive care units; an electronic application and information system to determine eligibility and register for public assistance programs; directing the Department of Health Services to request a Medical Assistance waiver; evidence-based home visitation program services for persons who are at risk of poor birth outcomes or of abusing or neglecting their children; designating race and ethnicity on birth certificates; a report on fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; requiring informed consent for performance on pregnant women of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; cultural competency training for certain students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 851 Making unemployed veterans eligible for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs and Transitional Jobs programs. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 85 Restoring indexing provisions to the homestead tax credit. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 84 Creating a refundable earned income tax credit for individuals, repealing the changes made to the earned income tax credit in 2011 Wisconsin Act 32, and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 836 First responders on duty at prisons. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 835 Administration of prescription drugs by correctional officers. Coauthor 2015
- AB 834 Limiting overtime at the Department of Corrections. Coauthor 2015
- AB 833 Reports of incidents between inmates and prison employees and between inmates. Coauthor 2015
- AB 831 Staff required to be on duty at prisons. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 830 Training for newly hired correctional officers. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 829 Physical education in public schools. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 816 Marriage between persons of the same sex and extending parentage rights to married couples of the same sex. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 815 The state share of funding for a federal program to provide tuition-free enrollment for certain technical college students and making an appropriation. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 813 Collective bargaining over workplace safety for employees of the Department of Corrections. Coauthor 2015
- AB 765 Collection of health care information. Coauthor 2015
- AB 763 Child care provider rates and ratings under Wisconsin Shares, funding for Wisconsin Shares child care subsidies, and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 752 Leave from employment for the purpose of serving as a bone marrow or organ donor and providing a penalty. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 746 Creation of a committee to study the model used by the state of Missouri to provide rehabilitation for juveniles adjudicated delinquent who are in need of restrictive custodial treatment and to prepare a plan for the development and implementation of a similar model for the rehabilitation of such juveniles in this state. Coauthor 2015
- AB 716 The sales and use tax exemption for commercial radio and television station property. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 697 The sale of unpasteurized milk and unpasteurized milk products and an exemption from requirements for certain dairy farms. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 69 Fraud in parental choice programs and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2015
- AB 673 Creating a program to protect the confidentiality of addresses for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 656 Eligibility for certain low-income energy assistance. Coauthor 2015
- AB 637 Control of nonpoint source water pollution in certain areas with carbonate bedrock and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 636 A grant program to support creative industries, job creation, or economic development in this state and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 635 Monitoring industrial sand mining and processing operations and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 634 Regulating and monitoring airborne particulate matter and respirable silica and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 633 Copies of certain vital records. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 62 Entrepreneurial tax credit access grants. Coauthor 2015
- AB 618 Requiring a private school participating in a parental choice program to report suspensions and expulsions of pupils. Coauthor 2015
- AB 604 Suspension of operating privilege for failure to pay monetary judgment. Coauthor 2015
- AB 570 Authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing to pay compensatory and punitive damages. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 569 Leave from employment for the purpose of serving as an organ donor. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 567 Using the Made in Wisconsin logotype and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 560 Disconnection devices for distributed generation facilities. Coauthor 2015
- AB 551 District board membership for the Milwaukee Area Technical College. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 548 Establishing a Wisconsin conservation corps program, authorizing a transfer of moneys appropriated to one or more state agencies, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing exemptions from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 544 Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to establish a special wild turkey hunting program for certain disabled veterans. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 538 Fee waivers for state park vehicle admission receipts and distribution of state park activity guides to pupils enrolled in grade 4 and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 529 Creating an Office of Civil Service. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 526 The open season for hunting raccoon. Coauthor 2015
- AB 524 Policies related to transgender pupils. Coauthor 2015
- AB 516 The establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a grandparent, grandchild, or sibling and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that are required to permit an employee to take family or medical leave; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 515 Recycling grants for local governments and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 512 Designating and marking a specified highway route in the counties of Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Jefferson, Dane, Iowa, Sauk, and Richland as the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 510 Health care aid for certain veterans and their family members. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 506 Grant funding for services for Syrian refugees. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 499 Eliminating the requirement that the Natural Resources Board offer certain land for sale. Coauthor 2015
- AB 488 Requiring an evaluation by a local educational agency of whether a pupil with an extended absence from school is a child with a disability. Lead author 2015
- AB 484 Providing additional funding for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 474 Paid sick leave. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 460 Resolution of claims against the state for wrongful imprisonment of innocent persons, exempting from taxation certain amounts an individual receives from the claims board or legislature, health benefits for wrongfully imprisoned persons, and making appropriations. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 448 A trapping mentorship program, restrictions on taking or appropriating a trap or its contents, and requirements for tagging traps. Coauthor 2015
- AB 437 Creating an optional holiday for state employees to observe the birthday of Cesar E. Chavez. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 436 The regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 430 Granting victims of certain crimes the right to be accompanied by a victim advocate. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 423 Accountability provisions for private schools participating in a parental choice program, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 414 Eligibility for and premiums under the Medical Assistance purchase plan and disregarding assets in an independence account and retirement benefits for purposes of determining eligibility and cost-sharing requirements under a number of Medical Assistance and long-term care programs. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 399 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit based on the federal tax credit for certain expenses for household and dependent care services. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 381 No-knock search warrants. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 380 Reports to the Department of Justice from special units maintained by law enforcement agencies. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 379 Voter registration; proving residence for registration and voting purposes; reviewing certain expenditures of the Government Accountability Board by the Joint Committee on Finance; and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 369 Membership of certain federated public library system boards. Coauthor 2015
- AB 368 Regulation of persons that own or operate dental practices and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 343 Issuance of motor vehicle operator's licenses and identification cards by the Department of Transportation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 328 Legislative and congressional redistricting. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 323 Prohibiting certain mining and drilling activities that cause the destruction or filling in of a lake bed, reservoir, or flowage or that cause the withdrawal of water from a reservoir or flowage. Coauthor 2015
- AB 322 Highway parking of motor vehicles owned by carsharing organizations. Coauthor 2015
- AB 318 Deletion of the waiting period for collection of unemployment insurance benefits. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 316 Allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to preregister to vote. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 295 Increasing school district revenue limits. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 294 Increase funding for special education. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 293 Political disbursements and obligations by corporations, cooperative associations, and labor organizations and the scope of regulated activity and reporting of certain activity under the campaign finance law. Coauthor 2015
- AB 292 A Grow Wisconsin pilot program providing benefits to FoodShare recipients for purchasing Wisconsin-grown foods and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2015
- AB 291 The color of clothing required to be worn during the season for hunting deer with firearms. Coauthor 2015
- AB 29 Limiting the authority of a law enforcement officer to arrest someone for sleeping or camping in a county park, authorizing local ordinances to prohibit overnight sleeping or camping in a county park, and providing a penalty. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 283 The requirements for participation in a parental choice program and the percentage of pupils who may attend a private school under such a program. Coauthor 2015
- AB 275 Increasing the rate paid to private attorneys for representing indigent clients. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 272 Student loans, the individual income tax subtract modification for tuition and student fees, creating an authority to be known as the Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 267 The investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution; and prohibiting prosecuting a person under the age of 18 with committing an act of prostitution. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 265 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 264 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 262 Authorizing limited residency requirements for a city operating under the city manager plan. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 261 Employment discrimination based on employment status. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 234 Payments to schools under the School Breakfast Program. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 231 Prohibiting abusive work environments and permitting a person who has been subjected to such an environment to bring a civil action. Coauthor 2015
- AB 221 Medicaid expansion and eligibility for BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 216 Community school start-up grants and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 211 Waiver for prescription drug assistance for elderly program, use of excess moneys in prescription drug assistance for elderly program, and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 20 Preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 187 An exemption for disabled veterans and recipients of the purple heart medal from the cumulative preference system for issuing wild turkey hunting licenses and tags. Coauthor 2015
- AB 185 Directing the governor to annually proclaim Veteran Education Awareness Week. Coauthor 2015
- AB 183 Task force on issues concerning service members returning home from war. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 16 Posters regarding the national human trafficking resource center hotline. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 153 Application of the open meetings law to legislative party caucuses. Lead author 2015
- AB 15 The manufacture and acceptance for sale of products containing microbeads. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 148 Requiring a private school participating in a parental choice program to employ certain special education staff and to comply with certain provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Coauthor 2015
- AB 145 Grants to certain small businesses that receive federal grants. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 143 Regulation of transportation network companies, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 12 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 107 Authorizing reimbursement to counties for the costs incurred in processing and donating certain wild turkeys. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 106 Policies regulating the use of electronic smoking devices on school district property. Coauthor 2015
- AB 105 Groundwater management, approval of high capacity wells, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Lead author 2015
- AB 104 Establishing a nanotechnology information hub and a nanotechnology council. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 103 Entrepreneurial assistance grants and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2015
- AB 1017 Establishing college savings accounts for children born in this state and making an appropriation. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- AB 101 Premium and cost-sharing assistance for health plans through the Medical Assistance program. (FE) Coauthor 2015
- SJR 87 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 83 The right to vote (first consideration). Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 74 Eliminating constitutional restrictions on marriage (first consideration). Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 64 Commending the Iron Brigade. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 62 The life and public service of Nelson R. Mandela. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 60 Commending Pope Francis. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 59 Early childhood brain development. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 58 Requiring the legislature to enact laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees, and making members of the legislature subject to citations and civil penalties for violations of such laws (first consideration). Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 56 Proclaiming the month of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 55 Honoring Caron Butler on his return to his home state of Wisconsin to play for the Milwaukee Bucks. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 52 Proclaiming October as Polish-American Heritage Month. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 51 Honoring Wisconsin soldiers who served in the Battle of Gettysburg. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 42 Designating December 14 as a day of remembrance for the victims of the Sandy Hook school shootings. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 39 Recognizing June 19, 2013, as Juneteenth Day. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 34 Honoring the AFL-CIO Milwaukee Labor Press. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 33 Recognizing the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 32 Commending His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama upon his visit to Wisconsin on May 14 and 15, 2013. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 27 Proclaiming May 2013 as Mental Health Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2013
- SJR 11 Recognizing Black History Month. Cosponsor 2013
- SB 91 Alternate sites for absentee voting in person. Cosponsor 2013
- SB 88 Preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 74 State procurement of products and services from businesses located in this state and setting a goal for local government to purchase a certain percentage of products and services from businesses located in this state. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 671 Mass transit operating aids and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 670 The Specialized Transportation Assistance Program in the Department of Transportation and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 663 Classifying county jailers, detention officers, and correctional officers as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 660 Renewable portfolio standards and credits; electricity derived from biofuels; electric utility purchases of renewable energy and customer-generated electricity; distributed generation rules; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 653 Suspension of operating privilege for failure to pay monetary judgment. Cosponsor 2013
- SB 623 Eliminating requirement to have an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion and eliminating requirement that physicians performing abortions have admitting privileges at certain hospitals. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 616 Deceptive election practices and providing a penalty. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 604 Authorizing certain same-sex couples to file a joint individual income tax return. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 596 Including water trails in the state trail system. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 591 Rule-making procedures and modifying and repealing various rules promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources. Cosponsor 2013
- SB 568 A grant program to support creative industries, job creation, or economic development in this state and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 559 Categorical aids for special education and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 558 Collective bargaining for public employees, prohibiting employees other than public safety employees from bargaining collectively on insurance contributions and employee required contributions to retirement, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 554 Requiring a private school participating in a parental choice program to employ certain special education staff and to comply with certain provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Cosponsor 2013
- SB 546 Expanding eligibility for the earned income tax credit; hospital best practices for postpartum patients and newborns; hospital staff privileges and written agreements required for nurse-midwives; coverage of nurse-midwives under the injured patients and families compensation fund; a report on information related to hospital neonatal intensive care units; an electronic application and information system to determine eligibility and register for public assistance programs; directing the Department of Health Services to request a Medical Assistance waiver; evidence-based home visitation program services for persons who are at risk of poor birth outcomes or of abusing or neglecting their children; designating race and ethnicity on birth certificates; a report on fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; requiring informed consent for performance on pregnant women of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; cultural competency training for certain students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 53 Entrepreneurial tax credit access grants. Cosponsor 2013
- SB 523 Tests administered to newborns for congenital disorders. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 507 Providing grants to counties that offer substance abuse treatment and diversion from incarceration and making an appropriation. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 505 A state minimum wage, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 498 Notifications concerning the assertion of rights under a patent or pending patent and providing a penalty. (FE) Cosponsor 2013
- SB 449 Authorizing the transfer of certain tax credits earned in connection with economic development in this state. Cosponsor 2013
- SB 42 Creating a preference in state procurement for Wisconsin-based businesses. (FE) Cosponsor 2013