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Republican Representative · Assembly District 83

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

Floor votes missed
0 of 429
Bills led
31 · 1 became law
Votes with their party
100% · 238 votes, 2025
Committees
7

Bills they led · 31

Bills where Dave Maxey 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 31 bills they led: 1 became law, 3 were vetoed, 12 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

1 became law 3 vetoed 27 died at session end
Became law 1 bills
  • AB 237 Requirements for releasing a prisoner to parole or extended supervision. (FE) 2023
Vetoed 3 bills
  • AB 241 Required ratio of journeyworkers to apprentices in apprenticeship programs and contracts. 2025
  • AB 146 Requests for information from employers about unemployment insurance claims. 2025
  • AB 570 Certain kinds of election fraud, defects on absentee ballot certificates, returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk, appointment of election officials, allowing an employee of a residential care facility or qualified retirement home to serve as a personal care voting assistant during a public health emergency or an incident of infectious disease, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2023
Died at session end 27 bills
  • AB 848 Operation of autonomous vehicles on highways and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 802 A onetime grant to establish an online dashboard of health care claims information, funding to support increased operational costs for the Wisconsin Health Information Organization, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 801 Mandatory participation in the Wisconsin Health Information Organization. (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 70 A disclaimer of parental rights and payments allowed in connection with an adoption. 2025
  • AB 631 Use of public lands to provide temporary residence for the homeless and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 630 Tracking a person who is registered as a sex offender but unable to provide an address. 2025
  • AB 548 Special registration plates for persons awarded the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. (FE) 2025
  • AB 521 Removal of vegetation obstructing outdoor advertising signs. 2025
  • AB 483 Local wheel tax referenda. (FE) 2025
  • AB 391 The per pupil adjustment for school district revenue limits. (FE) 2025
  • AB 370 Crime victim notification cards. (FE) 2025
  • AB 292 The use of artificial intelligence or other machine assisted translation in court proceedings and of telephone or live audiovisual interpretation in criminal trials. (FE) 2025
  • AB 235 Workforce literacy grant program. (FE) 2025
  • AB 175 Requiring periodic inspections of parking structures. 2025
  • AB 157 Prohibiting filing or recording contracts for services or materials that do not improve real estate and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 143 Allowing an unlicensed person to use a motor vehicle and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 1079 Creating an undergraduate assistance grant program for students enrolled in private nonprofit postsecondary institutions and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1078 Creating an innovation grant program for institutions of higher education and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1042 Driving skills tests for certain drivers. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1006 The definition of “veteran” for purposes of certain state veterans benefits. 2025
  • AB 988 Eliminating minimum markup requirements and the prohibition on sales below cost. (FE) 2023
  • AB 892 Compliance with the federal Electoral Count Reform Act. 2023
  • AB 587 Entrance upon real property by a metropolitan sewerage district including a 1st class city. (FE) 2023
  • AB 239 Tuition and fee remission for eligible veterans' spouses and children enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or a technical college. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1116 Payments to individuals holding over in executive positions. 2023
  • AB 107 A disclaimer of parental rights and payments allowed in connection with an adoption. 2023

Coauthored · 378

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Dave Maxey 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 378 coauthored bills
  • AJR 8 Restricting the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an appropriation bill that are capable of separate enactment and reducing appropriations in a bill (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 6 Recognizing that the Wisconsin State Legislature supports nuclear power and fusion energy as clean energy sources that are critical to safely meeting Wisconsin’s growing energy demands and declaring the legislature’s commitment to the continuation and expansion of nuclear power and nuclear technologies, the development of nuclear technologies and fusion energy, and employing the leadership and resources necessary to support the development of and investment in nuclear power, fusion energy, and related technologies in the state. 2025
  • AJR 133 Legislative suspension of rules promulgated by state agencies (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 129 Recognizing February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 127 Prohibiting the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee (second consideration). 2025
  • AJR 122 Recognizing December 25 as the celebration of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 2025
  • AJR 112 The right to keep and bear arms (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 102 Prohibiting governmental entity discrimination (second consideration). 2025
  • AJR 101 Honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. 2025
  • AJR 10 The freedom to gather in places of worship during a state of emergency (second consideration). 2025
  • AJR 1 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • AB 998 Recommendations made by the council on early literacy curricula. 2025
  • AB 997 Funding for the Department of Financial Institutions for contributions to Trump accounts and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 996 Contributions by the Department of Financial Institutions to Trump accounts. 2025
  • AB 984 Requirements for the use of a memory care designation by community-based residential facilities. (FE) 2025
  • AB 972 Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. 2025
  • AB 971 Tuition and materials reimbursement for community paramedics and community emergency medical services practitioners. (FE) 2025
  • AB 97 Extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) 2025
  • AB 965 Artificial intelligence systems that simulate humanlike relationships with children and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 964 Internet crimes against children administrative subpoenas for the crime of sexual extortion when the crime victim is a child. (FE) 2025
  • AB 959 The legal status of artificial intelligence. 2025
  • AB 958 Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE) 2025
  • AB 957 Internet crimes against children law enforcement and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 955 The rule-making authority of agencies. (FE) 2025
  • AB 923 Creating a civil cause of action for sexual extortion. 2025
  • AB 91 The requirement that first class cities and first class city school districts place school resource officers in schools. (FE) 2025
  • AB 908 Government service delivery improvements. (FE) 2025
  • AB 905 Threats to health care providers and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 903 Termination of parental rights under the safe haven law. (FE) 2025
  • AB 9 Allowing representatives of certain federally chartered youth membership organizations to provide information to pupils on public school property. 2025
  • AB 897 Elimination of a jury trial in a child in need of protection or services (CHIPS) proceeding and substitution of judge in a proceeding for the termination of parental rights. 2025
  • AB 89 Theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 88 Civil action for injury or damages resulting from riot or vandalism, participation in a riot, prohibiting certain limitations or restrictions on law enforcement responses to riot or vandalism activity, and providing a penalty. 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 84 Prostitution crime surcharge and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 83 Governmental restrictions based on the energy source of a motor vehicle or other device. 2025
  • AB 82 Exempting certain conveyances between grandparents and grandchildren from the real estate transfer fee. (FE) 2025
  • AB 817 Reimbursement for the provision of military funeral honors. (FE) 2025
  • AB 81 Excluding expenditures funded by referenda from shared costs for the purpose of determining equalization aid for school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 795 Including information about investigations of license holders in an online licensing portal maintained by the Department of Public Instruction. (FE) 2025
  • AB 791 Intentionally sending false text messages to 911 and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 78 Impoundment of vehicles used in certain reckless driving offenses. (FE) 2025
  • AB 77 Registration plate concealment devices and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 768 Operation of drones over certain utility facilities and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 767 The management of assets of and the voting of ownership interests in securities by the Wisconsin Retirement System and the retirement systems of the City and County of Milwaukee. (FE) 2025
  • AB 75 Department of Justice collection and reporting of certain criminal case data. (FE) 2025
  • AB 71 School district operating referenda. 2025
  • AB 701 Adopting the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act. 2025
  • AB 7 Requiring local approval for certain wind and solar projects before Public Service Commission approval. 2025

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Cosponsored · 391

Bills from the other house that Dave Maxey 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 391 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 94 Prohibiting governmental entity discrimination (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 88 Honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. 2025
  • SJR 7 Recognizing that the Wisconsin State Legislature supports nuclear power and fusion energy as clean energy sources that are critical to safely meeting Wisconsin’s growing energy demands and declaring the legislature’s commitment to the continuation and expansion of nuclear power and nuclear technologies, the development of nuclear technologies and fusion energy, and employing the leadership and resources necessary to support the development of and investment in nuclear power, fusion energy, and related technologies in the state. 2025
  • SJR 4 The freedom to gather in places of worship during a state of emergency (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 2 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 124 Legislative suspension of rules promulgated by state agencies (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 121 Recognizing February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 116 Prohibiting the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 114 Recognizing December 25 as the celebration of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 2025
  • SJR 11 Restricting the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an appropriation bill that are capable of separate enactment and reducing appropriations in a bill (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 105 The right to keep and bear arms (first consideration). 2025
  • SB 990 The state or federal benefits of a child in out-of-home care. (FE) 2025
  • SB 983 The definition of “veteran” for purposes of certain state veterans benefits. 2025
  • SB 974 Tuition and materials reimbursement for community paramedics and community emergency medical services practitioners. (FE) 2025
  • SB 972 Recommendations made by the council on early literacy curricula. 2025
  • SB 970 Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults. 2025
  • SB 969 Prohibiting nondisclosure agreements intended to conceal information about a data center from the public. 2025
  • SB 959 Requirements for the use of a memory care designation by community-based residential facilities. (FE) 2025
  • SB 956 Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE) 2025
  • SB 955 Internet crimes against children law enforcement and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 953 Internet crimes against children administrative subpoenas for the crime of sexual extortion when the crime victim is a child. (FE) 2025
  • SB 952 Government service delivery improvements. (FE) 2025
  • SB 940 The rule-making authority of agencies. (FE) 2025
  • SB 94 Civil action for injury or damages resulting from riot or vandalism, participation in a riot, prohibiting certain limitations or restrictions on law enforcement responses to riot or vandalism activity, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 939 Artificial intelligence systems that simulate humanlike relationships with children and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 932 The legal status of artificial intelligence. 2025
  • SB 93 Recommendation to revoke extended supervision, parole, or probation if a person is charged with a crime. (FE) 2025
  • SB 92 Theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 902 Creating a civil cause of action for sexual extortion. 2025
  • SB 897 Threats to health care providers and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 893 Termination of parental rights under the safe haven law. (FE) 2025
  • SB 888 Registration of births by surrogate mother. 2025
  • SB 886 Elimination of a jury trial in a child in need of protection or services (CHIPS) proceeding and substitution of judge in a proceeding for the termination of parental rights. 2025
  • SB 868 Permissible financial aid reductions in higher education. (FE) 2025
  • SB 843 Certain requirements related to data centers. 2025
  • SB 84 Exempting certain conveyances between grandparents and grandchildren from the real estate transfer fee. (FE) 2025
  • SB 831 Operation of autonomous vehicles on highways and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 82 Governmental restrictions based on the energy source of a motor vehicle or other device. 2025
  • SB 810 Reimbursement for the provision of military funeral honors. (FE) 2025
  • SB 81 School district operating referenda. 2025
  • SB 797 A onetime grant to establish an online dashboard of health care claims information, funding to support increased operational costs for the Wisconsin Health Information Organization, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 796 Mandatory participation in the Wisconsin Health Information Organization. (FE) 2025
  • SB 79 A disclaimer of parental rights and payments allowed in connection with an adoption. 2025
  • SB 785 Including information about investigations of license holders in an online licensing portal maintained by the Department of Public Instruction. (FE) 2025
  • SB 782 Intentionally sending false text messages to 911 and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 781 Excluding costs funded by referenda from shared costs for the purpose of determining general equalization aids for school districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 766 Operation of drones over certain utility facilities and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 763 The management of assets of and the voting of ownership interests in securities by the Wisconsin Retirement System and the retirement systems of the City and County of Milwaukee. (FE) 2025
  • SB 722 Weight limits for vehicles transporting grain, feed, or commercial fertilizer. (FE) 2025
  • SB 7 Prohibiting a foreign adversary from acquiring agricultural or forestry land in this state. 2025

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Campaign money

$7,065 reported receipts across 77 records

Jan 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2026. Includes collected receipts before taking office. Latest reported transaction: Jul 1, 2026. Earliest collected receipt in this view: Jul 12, 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 $3,174 in 2025 Q3.
Quarter by quarter
  • 2025 Q3: $3,174
  • 2025 Q4: $825
  • 2026 Q1: $1,916
  • 2026 Q2: $550
  • 2026 Q3: $600

Where it came from

  • Individuals: $6,565 (93%)
  • Political committees: $500 (7%)

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

  • Brad Pockat 1 receipts $521
  • Bruce Boll 1 receipts $500
  • Jerome Johnson 1 receipts $500
  • Cynthia Stiemsma 1 receipts $250
  • James Leef 1 receipts $250

Top occupations of individual donors

as reported by donors; individuals gave $6,565 in total

  • Retired $2,030
  • manufacturing $521
  • Retired Attorney $500
  • Realtor $500
  • Vice President/General Manager $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 · 153

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.

Votes against their party · 7

Roll calls where Dave Maxey 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 7 party-break votes
  • May 13, 2025 AB 43 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 43 Aye–10 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 55 Aye–9 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 57 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 56 Aye–8 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 57 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 57 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 53 Aye–11 Nay roll call

Floor attendance

Only days the chamber held recorded floor votes are shown, on every tile below, they either voted or missed: 429 votes across 50 voting days, none missed.

voted all present, not voting missed votes (striped) not in office
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Vote history · 429

Showing the most recent 200, see all 429 votes →