Every Bill Led or Signed

142 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1–142.

SJR 50 The life and public service of Dick Wheeler. Cosponsor 2011
SJR 43 Congratulating the 147th Aviation Regiment. Cosponsor 2011
SJR 33 Commending Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kellner on receiving the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service presented by the Smithsonian Institution. Cosponsor 2011
SJR 25 Recognizing May as Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2011
SJR 21 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 2011
SJR 12 Commending the Green Bay Packers. Cosponsor 2011
SB 81 Eligibility of hydroelectric resources under the renewable portfolio standard. Cosponsor 2011
SB 79 The privilege of self-defense. 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 54 Certain controlled substances and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
SB 527 Sales and property tax exemptions for property used by commercial radio and television stations. 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 47 Changes to the membership of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, notification to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board of bills with an economic impact on small businesses, the role of the Office of Regulatory Assistance in the Department of Commerce, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
SB 299 Failing to report the death of a child or to report a missing child, moving the corpse of a child, hiding a corpse to collect public benefits, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
SB 297 Eliminating ambulatory surgical center assessment. Cosponsor 2011
SB 237 Providing instruction in human growth and development. Cosponsor 2011
SB 226 Creating a sporting recruitment and retention council, programs to encourage recruitment of hunters and trappers, restrictions on expenditures under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship program, reduced fees for certain first-time hunting and trapping approvals, high school credit under and administration of the hunter and trapper education programs, waiving fishing license requirements for a weekend ice fishing event, and sturgeon spearing license age requirements. Cosponsor 2011
SB 197 Designating and marking a bridge across the Menominee River in Marinette County as Veterans Memorial Bridge. Cosponsor 2011
SB 135 Issuance of a bear license to the U.S. Army Wounded Warrior Program. Cosponsor 2011
SB 13 Collective bargaining unit assignments under the State Employment Labor Relations Act. 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 10 Restoring the treatment of the exclusion of capital gains for individuals and certain other persons that existed before the enactment of 2009 Wisconsin Act 28, and phasing out the taxation of capital gains. Cosponsor 2011
AR 3 Honoring the victims of the Arizona shootings. Coauthor 2011
AR 15 Proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Coauthor 2011
AJR 63 Recall of elective officers and a code of ethics for government officials (first consideration). Coauthor 2011
AJR 5 Commending Reince Priebus on his election as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Coauthor 2011
AJR 42 State sovereignty. Coauthor 2011
AJR 35 Recognizing May as Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Coauthor 2011
AJR 28 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 2011
AJR 26 Deleting from the constitution the offices of secretary of state and state treasurer (first consideration). Coauthor 2011
AJR 11 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 2011
AJR 105 The life and public service of Darin Arthur Renner. Coauthor 2011
AB 70 Changes to the membership of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, notification to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board of bills with an economic impact on small businesses, the role of the Office of Regulatory Assistance in the Department of Commerce, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 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 666 Sales and property tax exemptions for property used by commercial radio and television stations. Coauthor 2011
AB 57 Certain controlled substances and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 441 Signing a petition to recall the same officer more than once and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 408 Eliminating ambulatory surgical center assessment. Coauthor 2011
AB 4 Automobile insurance coverage limits, permissible policy provisions, and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2011
AB 397 Failing to report the death of a child or to report a missing child, moving the corpse of a child, hiding a corpse to collect public benefits, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2011
AB 337 Providing instruction in human growth and development. Coauthor 2011
AB 311 Creating a sporting recruitment and retention council, programs to encourage recruitment of hunters and trappers, restrictions on expenditures under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship program, reduced fees for certain first-time hunting and trapping approvals, high school credit under and administration of the hunter and trapper education programs, waiving fishing license requirements for a weekend ice fishing event, and sturgeon spearing license age requirements. Coauthor 2011
AB 29 Collective bargaining unit assignments under the State Employment Labor Relations Act. Coauthor 2011
AB 270 Designating and marking a bridge across the Menominee River in Marinette County as Veterans Memorial Bridge. Coauthor 2011
AB 205 A tax credit for hospitality business advertising. Coauthor 2011
AB 202 Issuance of a bear license to the U.S. Army Wounded Warrior Program. Coauthor 2011
AB 183 Applicability of the prevailing wage law; the thresholds for applicability of that law; calculation of the prevailing wage rate; the treatment of volunteers, truck drivers, subjourneypersons, and incidental work under that law; 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 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. Coauthor 2011
AB 114 Eligibility of hydroelectric resources under the renewable portfolio standard. Coauthor 2011
AB 104 Membership of the Natural Resources Board. 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 18 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). 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 65 Expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement plan income received by an individual. Cosponsor 2009
SB 64 Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 609 Requiring informed consent before administration of psychotropic medication to a nursing home resident who has degenerative brain disorder. Cosponsor 2009
SB 577 Limiting eligibility for public assistance programs to U.S. citizens and qualifying aliens, requiring documentary proof of citizenship or satisfactory immigration status, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 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 554 Qualifications of the secretary of natural resources and qualifications of members of the Natural Resources Board. Cosponsor 2009
SB 500 Requiring suspected drug activity on the part of a caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider to be reported to an immediate supervisor and to the sheriff and suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect on the part of such an individual to be reported under the child abuse and neglect reporting law and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 499 Prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing a drug-related felony or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a drug-related felony from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, of being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or of being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided. Cosponsor 2009
SB 48 Catch and release bass and muskellunge fishing. Cosponsor 2009
SB 45 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. Cosponsor 2009
SB 416 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Cosponsor 2009
SB 397 General purpose revenue funding for the veterans trust fund and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Cosponsor 2009
SB 385 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. 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 360 Sale of a parcel of land located in Marinette County to the Wied Trust. 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 308 A requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work. Cosponsor 2009
SB 301 The application of shoreland zoning ordinances to certain unincorporated areas. Cosponsor 2009
SB 247 Information about land purchased with stewardship funding and approval by the Joint Committee on Finance of certain activities and projects that receive stewardship funding. Cosponsor 2009
SB 23 Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials and committees. Cosponsor 2009
SB 225 The designation of smoking rooms in lodging establishments. Cosponsor 2009
SB 215 A personal property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 214 A real property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 207 Possession and use of a firearm by a person under the age of 12 years. 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 167 The minimum age for hunting and for possessing a firearm, restrictions on hunting and on possessing a firearm while hunting, establishing a hunting mentorship program, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AR 29 Biofuels education at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. 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
AR 15 Requesting the participation of the attorney general as amicus curiae in certain cases before the United States Supreme Court. Coauthor 2009
AR 13 Proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 92 Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the symbolic end of the Cold War. Coauthor 2009
AJR 83 The life and public service of Tommy T. Tradewell. Coauthor 2009
AJR 55 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 51 State sovereignty. Coauthor 2009
AJR 36 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 3 Creating the Joint Committee on Economic Stimulus Accountability. 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 124 The life and military service of Sgt. Ryan C. Adams. Lead author 2009
AB 969 Income and franchise tax deductions for full-time jobs. Coauthor 2009
AB 937 Distributing one-half of general school aid using an income equalization formula. Lead author 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 871 An income and franchise tax credit for providing broadband service. Coauthor 2009
AB 87 Disposal of ash resulting from the burning of a structure. Coauthor 2009
AB 867 A tax credit for hospitality business advertising. Coauthor 2009
AB 855 Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to waive fishing license requirements for a weekend fishing event. Coauthor 2009
AB 84 Membership of the Natural Resources Board. Coauthor 2009
AB 83 Issuing annual fishing licenses to certain resident disabled veterans. 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 794 Nonrefundable individual and corporate income and franchise tax credits for purchasing a thermal biomass heating system and fuel for such a system, property tax exemptions for thermal biomass heating systems and facilities used to store fuel for such systems, and a sales and use tax exemption for purchasing a thermal biomass heating system. Coauthor 2009
AB 754 An income and franchise tax credit for lumber manufacturing facility investments and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 749 An income and franchise tax credit for equipment used to harvest or process woody biomass. Coauthor 2009
AB 74 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. Coauthor 2009
AB 695 Requiring suspected drug activity on the part of a caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider to be reported to an immediate supervisor and to the sheriff and suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect on the part of such an individual to be reported under the child abuse and neglect reporting law and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 694 Prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing a drug-related felony or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a drug-related felony from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, of being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or of being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided. Coauthor 2009
AB 631 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Coauthor 2009
AB 593 Special adjustment aid to school districts. Coauthor 2009
AB 576 Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain dependents. Coauthor 2009
AB 526 Requiring informed consent before administration of psychotropic medication to a nursing home resident who has degenerative brain disorder. Lead author 2009
AB 525 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. 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 476 Requiring the Department of Commerce to study and report on methods to retain businesses at risk of relocating or expanding outside the state and to encourage business relocations and expansions in the state and to create an emergency response team. 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 464 A requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work. Coauthor 2009
AB 441 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Coauthor 2009
AB 433 Registration fees for certain motor vehicles issued special registration plates. Coauthor 2009
AB 431 Fees charged to qualified lake associations for certain permits to control aquatic plants. Coauthor 2009
AB 42 Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials, officials elect, and committees and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 4 Catch and release bass and muskellunge fishing. Coauthor 2009
AB 394 The color and design of special distinguishing registration plates for fire fighters and emergency medical technicians. Coauthor 2009
AB 382 Fishing licenses issued to disabled veterans. Coauthor 2009
AB 370 Information about land purchased with stewardship funding and approval by the Joint Committee on Finance of certain activities and projects that receive stewardship funding. Coauthor 2009
AB 345 Accepting prisoners or detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Coauthor 2009
AB 302 A personal property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Coauthor 2009
AB 301 A real property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. 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 222 The minimum age for hunting and for possessing a firearm, restrictions on hunting and on possessing a firearm while hunting, establishing a hunting mentorship program, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 167 The inapplicability of the prevailing wage law to projects in which the construction is contracted for by a private owner or developer and the completed projected is acquired by a local governmental unit or state agency. Coauthor 2009
AB 141 Requiring distribution of autism-related information, requiring a referral when certain diagnoses are made, providing funding for the Medical Assistance autism benefit, licensure of autism paraprofessionals, creating an autism paraprofessional board, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009