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Republican Representative · Assembly District 4

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

Floor votes missed
0 of 1,113
Bills led
88 · 14 became law
Votes with their party
100% · 229 votes, 2025
Committees
4

Bills they led · 88

Bills where David Steffen 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 88 bills they led: 14 became law, 2 were vetoed, 27 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

Became law 14 bills
  • AB 543 The sales tax exemption for memberships sold to real estate brokers. (FE) 2025
  • AB 35 Withdrawal of candidacy for certain offices filled at the general election and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 36 A time limit for processing sexual assault kits. (FE) 2023
  • AB 251 A tier I license issued by the Department of Public Instruction and modifying administrative rules promulgated by the Department of Public Instruction. 2023
  • AB 56 Distribution of the aid payment for personal property upon termination of a tax incremental district. (FE) 2021
  • AB 32 The retail sale of intoxicating liquor by the glass for consumption away from the licensed premises. 2021
  • AB 426 Trespassing on the property of an energy provider and providing a penalty. 2019
  • AB 357 Regulation of public adjusters and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2019
  • AB 497 Mitigation requirements applicable to wetland individual permits. (FE) 2017
  • AB 381 Voluntary payments associated with special distinguishing registration plates expressing support for the family members of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty and making an appropriation. (FE) 2017
  • AB 624 Retaining invoices for the sale of malt beverages and intoxicating liquors and the local option for issuing liquor licenses. (FE) 2015
  • AB 612 Municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses. (FE) 2015
  • AB 547 Trespass and damage to property owned or used by an energy provider and providing a criminal penalty. (FE) 2015
  • AB 522 Reimbursement of counties for probationers, parolees, and persons on extended supervision who are placed with the county pending disposition of revocation proceedings. (FE) 2015
Vetoed 2 bills
  • AB 386 Lowering the individual income tax rates in the third bracket and increasing and expanding the retirement income subtraction. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1021 Increasing and expanding the retirement income subtraction. (FE) 2023
Passed one chamber 3 bills
  • AJR 80 Proclaiming October 15th, 2017, as White Cane Safety Day. 2017
  • AJR 72 Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame, Inc., and declaring October 21, 2017, Packers Hall of Fame Day. 2017
  • AJR 94 Commending and congratulating the Medical College of Wisconsin. 2015
Died at session end 69 bills
  • 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 57 Urging support for a constitutional amendment to provide states with authority to regulate campaign financing. 2025
  • AB 67 Venue for actions in which there is a governmental party. 2025
  • AB 514 Authorizing additional circuit court and criminal justice system positions. (FE) 2025
  • AB 46 Flags flown at state and local government buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule. 2025
  • AB 222 A sustainable aviation fuel production tax credit. (FE) 2025
  • AB 132 Creating a board to organize, promote, and host a Wisconsin nuclear power summit. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1071 Testing and labeling related to toxic heavy metals in baby food and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AJR 52 Honoring 2023 as the 100th anniversary of the Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society. 2023
  • AJR 23 Honoring the public service of Commissioner Ellen Nowak. 2023
  • AB 974 The civil causes of action for human trafficking and trafficking a child. 2023
  • AB 414 Public funds for substantially identical materials distributed by state senators and representatives to the assembly prior to a general election and providing a penalty. 2023
  • AB 408 A tax credit for transportation services for blind workers. (FE) 2023
  • AB 399 A sales and use tax exemption for various items used in the care of babies. (FE) 2023
  • AB 384 An increase and expansion of the retirement income subtraction. (FE) 2023
  • AB 38 Absentee ballot request and return confirmation. (FE) 2023
  • AB 373 Use of social media platforms by minors, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2023
  • AB 371 Exempting personal property from the tax imposed on telephone companies. (FE) 2023
  • AB 37 Expungement of records of certain crimes and discrimination based on expunged conviction. (FE) 2023
  • AB 353 Creating a sales and use tax exemption for the sale of certain memberships to a real estate broker. (FE) 2023
  • AB 275 Damages claims relating to delayed relocation of utilities in a highway right-of-way and modifying administrative rules promulgated by the Department of Transportation. (FE) 2023
  • AB 252 Interception of oral communications by public bodies in public spaces. 2023
  • AB 228 Changing the name of the earned income tax credit. (FE) 2023
  • AB 227 Sick leave for state legislators. (FE) 2023
  • AB 128 Venue for actions in which the legislature is a party. 2023
  • AB 108 The definition of “strip search” for the purpose of the prohibition against strip-searching a pupil. 2023
  • AJR 81 Honoring the service of members of the U.S. Armed Forces in Afghanistan. 2021
  • AB 993 Battery or threat to jurors and providing a penalty. 2021
  • AB 97 Designating the Bart Starr Memorial Bridge. 2021
  • AB 721 The number of independent charter schools authorized by the College of Menominee Nation or the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College. (FE) 2021
  • AB 69 Expungement of records of certain crimes and discrimination based on expunged conviction. (FE) 2021
  • AB 67 Storage and processing of sexual assault kits and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) 2021
  • AB 580 Grants for small businesses and downtown development. (FE) 2021
  • AB 577 Access to a deceased adoptee's original birth certificate and information about birth parents by an adult child of the adoptee. (FE) 2021
  • AB 573 Broadband mapping and the use of certain federal funds for wireless broadband and cellular service expansion grants. (FE) 2021
  • AB 511 Relocating the offices of the Elections Commission. (FE) 2021
  • AB 474 Public funds for substantially identical materials distributed by state senators and representatives to the assembly prior to a general election and providing a penalty. 2021
  • AB 389 Grants for the relocation of coal piles in the city of Green Bay. (FE) 2021
  • AB 255 The regulation and licensure of genetic counselors, creating a genetic counselors affiliated credentialing board, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2021
  • AB 178 Applications for absentee ballots. (FE) 2021
  • AB 177 Returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk. 2021
  • AB 145 Vaccination of incarcerated persons against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. 2021
  • AB 1076 Testing audible devices of fire alarm systems in the state capitol building on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. 2021
  • AJR 146 Calling for action to protect Christians in Nigeria. 2019
  • AJR 10 Congratulating the Green Bay Packers on the occasion of their 100th anniversary and declaring August 11, 2019, Green Bay Packers Day. 2019
  • AB 90 The applicability of the Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law. 2019
  • AB 844 Creating a sexual assault victim bill of rights; collection and reporting of data regarding sexual assault kits; storage and processing of sexual assault kits; tracking of sexual assault kits in sexual assault cases; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE) 2019
  • AB 837 Purchase and renovation of a center for the employment of blind and visually impaired individuals, sale of the existing center, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2019
  • AB 686 The regulation and licensure of genetic counselors, creating a genetic counselors affiliated credentialing board, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2019
  • AB 620 Distribution of the aid payment for personal property upon termination of a tax incremental district. (FE) 2019

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Coauthored · 985

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that David Steffen 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 985 coauthored bills
  • AJR 95 Designating October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 92 Recognizing the United States Marine Corps’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 91 Recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 50 Recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 32 Designating the first full week in May as Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week. 2025
  • AJR 3 Proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 25 Proclaiming April 24, 2025, to be Holocaust Remembrance Day and April 27, 2025, to May 4, 2025, as Holocaust Days of Remembrance in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 140 Celebrating the Wisconsin athletes competing in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games in Italy. 2025
  • AJR 127 Prohibiting the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee (second consideration). 2025
  • AJR 12 Honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller. 2025
  • AJR 11 Honoring the life and public service of Representative Jim Soletski. 2025
  • AJR 101 Honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. 2025
  • AJR 1 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • AB 990 Personal financial literacy high school graduation requirement. 2025
  • AB 983 Surplus property held by the Department of Transportation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 97 Extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) 2025
  • AB 963 Social media accounts for minors and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 923 Creating a civil cause of action for sexual extortion. 2025
  • AB 912 An audiovisual recording of a child’s statement admitted as evidence. 2025
  • AB 908 Government service delivery improvements. (FE) 2025
  • AB 907 Requirements for state lottery drawings. (FE) 2025
  • AB 906 Expressly prohibiting a foreign national from making a contribution to a referendum committee. 2025
  • AB 895 Sentencing for crimes committed by a person who is under the age of 18. 2025
  • AB 861 The civil causes of action for human trafficking and trafficking a child. 2025
  • AB 832 Required human trafficking and sextortion prevention instruction in certain grades and teacher training related to identifying victims of child trafficking and sextortion. (FE) 2025
  • AB 817 Reimbursement for the provision of military funeral honors. (FE) 2025
  • AB 808 A wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 794 Independent contractor healthcare workers and healthcare worker platforms. 2025
  • AB 79 Prosecuting or adjudicating delinquent a person under the age of 18 for committing an act of prostitution. 2025
  • AB 78 Impoundment of vehicles used in certain reckless driving offenses. (FE) 2025
  • AB 778 Eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE) 2025
  • AB 752 Using an absentee ballot drop box or the U.S. mail or a commercial carrier to commit election fraud and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 74 Parental notification of alleged sexual misconduct by a school staff member. (FE) 2025
  • AB 715 Nonrecourse civil litigation advances, prohibiting certain foreign persons from financing civil litigation, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 714 Plan sponsors’ right to access claims data. 2025
  • AB 711 Funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program and making an appropriation. (FE) 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 675 Noncompete clauses for medical practitioners. 2025
  • AB 670 Exempting persons engaged in certain contract research services from the sales and use tax. (FE) 2025
  • AB 659 Tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE) 2025
  • AB 657 A sales and use tax exemption for nuclear fusion technology projects. (FE) 2025
  • AB 648 Supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts. (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 64 An income tax subtraction for certain expenses paid by a school teacher. (FE) 2025
  • AB 61 Injuring or killing a police or fire animal and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 606 Regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, renaming the Division of Alcohol Beverages as the Division of Intoxicating Products, creating an occupational tax on hemp-derived cannabinoid products, alcohol beverage warehouses and production arrangements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025

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Cosponsored · 988

Bills from the other house that David Steffen 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 988 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 95 Designating October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 88 Honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. 2025
  • SJR 87 Recognizing the United States Marine Corps’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 86 Recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 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 58 Urging support for a constitutional amendment to provide states with authority to regulate campaign financing. 2025
  • SJR 55 Recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 32 Designating the first full week in May as Tardive Dyskinesia Awareness Week. 2025
  • SJR 3 Proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 27 Proclaiming April 24, 2025, to be Holocaust Remembrance Day and April 27, 2025, to May 4, 2025, as Holocaust Days of Remembrance in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 20 Honoring the life and public service of Representative Jim Soletski. 2025
  • SJR 2 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 130 Celebrating the Wisconsin athletes competing in the 2026 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games in Italy. 2025
  • SJR 13 Honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller. 2025
  • SJR 116 Prohibiting the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee (second consideration). 2025
  • SB 999 The voluntary surrender of a license issued by the Department of Public Instruction during an investigation of immoral conduct, prohibited agreements related to information related to an investigation of immoral conduct, and records related to an investigation of immoral conduct. 2025
  • SB 986 Requirements for state lottery drawings. (FE) 2025
  • SB 984 Surplus property held by the Department of Transportation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 98 Conversion of cooperative associations organized to establish and operate nonprofit plans or programs for health care into service insurance corporations. 2025
  • SB 97 Parental notification of alleged sexual misconduct by a school staff member. (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 954 Requiring the Department of Justice to conduct a public awareness campaign. (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 936 Social media accounts for minors and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 921 Personal financial literacy high school graduation requirement. 2025
  • SB 899 Expressly prohibiting a foreign national from making a contribution to a referendum committee. 2025
  • SB 884 An audiovisual recording of a child’s statement admitted as evidence. 2025
  • SB 882 Sentencing for crimes committed by a person who is under the age of 18. 2025
  • SB 849 The civil causes of action for human trafficking and trafficking a child. 2025
  • SB 839 Required human trafficking and sextortion prevention instruction in certain grades and teacher training related to identifying victims of child trafficking and sextortion. (FE) 2025
  • SB 83 Utilization management controls for antipsychotic prescription drugs under the Medical Assistance program. (FE) 2025
  • SB 810 Reimbursement for the provision of military funeral honors. (FE) 2025
  • SB 798 A wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 768 Independent contractor healthcare workers and healthcare worker platforms. 2025
  • SB 767 Eligibility for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program. (FE) 2025
  • SB 75 Venue for actions in which there is a governmental party. 2025
  • SB 738 Using an absentee ballot drop box or the U.S. mail or a commercial carrier to commit election fraud and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 73 Prosecuting or adjudicating delinquent a person under the age of 18 for committing an act of prostitution. 2025
  • SB 705 Nonrecourse civil litigation advances, prohibiting certain foreign persons from financing civil litigation, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 703 Plan sponsors’ right to access claims data. 2025
  • SB 701 Funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 7 Prohibiting a foreign adversary from acquiring agricultural or forestry land in this state. 2025
  • SB 69 An income tax subtraction for certain expenses paid by a school teacher. (FE) 2025
  • SB 681 Regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, renaming the Division of Alcohol Beverages as the Division of Intoxicating Products, creating an occupational tax on hemp-derived cannabinoid products, alcohol beverage warehouses and production arrangements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 680 The offering of deer to a meat processing facility for provision to a food pantry. 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

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Campaign money

Jan 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2026. Includes collected receipts before taking office. No receipts collected for this selection. Missing records do not establish zero fundraising. Filings and amendments may be missing; totals cover collected records.

Key votes · 440

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 · 11

Roll calls where David Steffen 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 11 party-break votes
  • Feb 19, 2025 AB 3 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 51 Aye–3 Nay roll call
  • Oct 17, 2023 AB 438 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 46 Aye–16 Nay roll call
  • Oct 17, 2023 AB 439 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 46 Aye–16 Nay roll call
  • Oct 27, 2021 AB 604 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 55 Aye–2 Nay roll call
  • Sep 28, 2021 AB 435 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 58 Aye–2 Nay roll call
  • Jun 22, 2021 AB 371 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 59 Aye–1 Nay roll call
  • Jan 28, 2021 SJR 3 CONCURRENCE Voted Nay; Republicans split 52 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Feb 18, 2016 SB 503 Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 60, Noes 34, Paired 2 Voted Nay; Republicans split 60 Aye–1 Nay roll call
  • Feb 18, 2016 AB 885 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 55, Noes 40 Voted Nay; Republicans split 49 Aye–13 Nay roll call
  • Feb 16, 2016 AB 873 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 34, Paired 4 Voted Nay; Republicans split 58 Aye–4 Nay roll call
  • Jul 28, 2015 SB 209 Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 52, Noes 34, Paired 8 Voted Nay; Republicans split 35 Aye–20 Nay roll call

Floor attendance

Only days the chamber held recorded floor votes are shown, on every tile below, they either voted or missed: 1,113 votes across 138 voting days, none missed.

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Vote history · 1,113

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