Every Bill Led or Signed

553 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 401–553.

AB 377 The definition of rough fish and taking rough fish with a crossbow. Coauthor 2011
AB 37 Authorizing the City of Milwaukee to sell city-owned property used for school purposes. Coauthor 2011
AB 36 Eliminating authorization to create a regional transit authority, dissolving any existing regional transit authority and the Southeastern Regional Transit Authority, and eliminating the Southeast Wisconsin transit capital assistance program. Coauthor 2011
AB 353 Membership of technical college district boards. Coauthor 2011
AB 35 Culling of bass in a fishing tournament. Coauthor 2011
AB 346 The licensing requirement for animal control facilities. Coauthor 2011
AB 34 Eliminating the fee for having land rezoned out a farmland preservation zoning district and eliminating the program for purchasing agricultural conservation easements. Coauthor 2011
AB 337 Providing instruction in human growth and development. Coauthor 2011
AB 318 Post-retirement employment of annuitants under the Wisconsin Retirement System and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2011
AB 30 Delegation by a parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child of powers regarding the care and custody of the child by a power of attorney. Coauthor 2011
AB 3 Tax incentives for job creation, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2011
AB 29 Collective bargaining unit assignments under the State Employment Labor Relations Act. Coauthor 2011
AB 289 Elimination of compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing. Coauthor 2011
AB 286 Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to bar or terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony and preempting cities, villages, towns, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law. Coauthor 2011
AB 283 Designation of an official state automotive museum. Lead author 2011
AB 276 Allowing certain pupils to possess and use an epinephrine auto-injector. Coauthor 2011
AB 26 The use of race-based nicknames, logos, mascots, and team names by school boards. Coauthor 2011
AB 251 Fees for dental services. Coauthor 2011
AB 245 Procurement of prescription drugs by a faculty member at an institution of higher education for the purpose of lawful research, teaching, or testing. Coauthor 2011
AB 220 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2011
AB 214 Sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 202 Issuance of a bear license to the U.S. Army Wounded Warrior Program. Coauthor 2011
AB 188 Delaying the date by which school districts must comply with certain orders related to terminating the use of a race-based nickname, logo, mascot, or team name. Coauthor 2011
AB 181 Authorizing towns to challenge certain city or village annexation procedures. Coauthor 2011
AB 177 Procedures for applications and hearings relating to permits and contracts for structures, deposits, and other activities in or near navigable waters. Coauthor 2011
AB 173 Local ordinances, determining the lawful presence of a person arrested for or charged with a crime or certain civil violations, and providing a penalty. Lead author 2011
AB 172 Increasing the reduction in Wisconsin Works benefits based on a positive drug test, paying the amount of the reduction to dependent children in the group, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2011
AB 171 An income and franchise tax credit for qualified production activities income. Coauthor 2011
AB 170 Creation of a task force on the elections process and election technology. Lead author 2011
AB 169 Residency of election officials. Lead author 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 154 Prohibiting coverage of abortions through health plans sold through exchanges. Coauthor 2011
AB 153 Absence without leave from a legislative session and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 124 Theft of certain services and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 122 Permitting an educational agency to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an unpardoned felon. Coauthor 2011
AB 121 Expanding the eligibility of an unremarried surviving spouse of a veteran to claim the veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit. Coauthor 2011
AB 112 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for tuition expenses paid for dependents who attend private elementary and secondary schools. Coauthor 2011
AB 110 Creating the Special Needs Scholarship Program for disabled pupils, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
AB 103 Receiving a stolen firearm and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
SJR 79 Single-subject rule for appropriation bills (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
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 71 Prohibiting the state and local governments from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, an individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ancestry, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting (first consideration). 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 37 Accounting and expenditure of state funds (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
SJR 36 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
SJR 10 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). Cosponsor 2009
SB 79 Public disclosure of certain information when abuse or neglect results in a child dying or being placed in serious or critical condition. Cosponsor 2009
SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 703 Content of executive budget bills and requiring a supermajority approval for certain bills in the state legislature, preparation of results-based biennial budget requests by executive branch state agencies, and state agency base budget review reports. 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 685 The terms of teacher employment contracts. Cosponsor 2009
SB 683 Transfer of Class A bear licenses to persons awarded a purple heart medal. Cosponsor 2009
SB 592 A biometric fingerprint identification system for enrollment and monitoring child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares. 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 554 Qualifications of the secretary of natural resources and qualifications of members of the Natural Resources Board. Cosponsor 2009
SB 544 Equalizing physical placement to the highest degree, requiring the court to state the reasons for ordering sole legal custody or not equalizing physical placement, and standards for modifying legal custody or physical placement. Cosponsor 2009
SB 543 Registration plates for certain disabled veterans. Cosponsor 2009
SB 54 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 539 Tax incentives for job creation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 519 The issuance by the Department of Transportation of Eagle Scout decals to be affixed to motor vehicle registration plates and making an appropriation. 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 495 Operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 434 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. Cosponsor 2009
SB 422 Designation of an official state automotive museum. Cosponsor 2009
SB 402 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Cosponsor 2009
SB 397 General purpose revenue funding for the veterans trust fund and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 394 Designating the Harley-Davidson as the Wisconsin state motorcycle. Cosponsor 2009
SB 387 Special distinguishing registration plates associated with Marquette University. Cosponsor 2009
SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. 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 332 Submitting custody study reports to the parties and offering custody study reports in accordance with the rules of evidence. Cosponsor 2009
SB 330 Exposure to a minor 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 305 Allowing a member of a group fishing party to catch a fish using the bag limit of another member. Cosponsor 2009
SB 304 The veterans tuition reimbursement program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 208 Regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. 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
SB 156 Eliminating the penalty for participating in an office sports pool. Cosponsor 2009
AR 9 Congratulating Milwaukee Lutheran High School's graduating class of 2009. Coauthor 2009
AR 7 Requiring a two-thirds majority vote in the assembly for passage, concurrence, and adoption of proposals that increase the rate of the state sales tax, increase any of the rates of the income tax or franchise tax, or increase a fee. 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 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. Lead author 2009
AJR 58 Accounting and expenditure of state funds (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 55 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 51 State sovereignty. Coauthor 2009
AJR 3 Creating the Joint Committee on Economic Stimulus Accountability. Coauthor 2009
AJR 16 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 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 125 Requiring a photographic identification to vote, or register to vote, at the polls on election day (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 12 Renaming the decorated tree on display in the capitol rotunda during the Christmas holiday season as the Wisconsin State Christmas Tree. Coauthor 2009
AJR 115 Expressing the sense of the legislature that Congress should return State of Wisconsin Nuclear Waste Fund contributions. Coauthor 2009
AJR 103 Recognizing February 2010 as American Heart Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 100 Congratulating the Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary. Coauthor 2009
AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 967 Expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement income received by an individual. Coauthor 2009
AB 947 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 2009
AB 926 Creating the Department of Environmental Quality and transferring some of the authority and duties of the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Environmental Quality and to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, granting rule-making authority, providing a penalty, and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
AB 89 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. Coauthor 2009
AB 879 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 874 Increasing the reduction in Wisconsin Works benefits based on a positive drug test, paying the amount of the reduction to dependent children in the group, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 845 A biometric fingerprint identification system for enrollment and monitoring child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares. 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 813 Registration plates for certain disabled veterans. Coauthor 2009
AB 804 Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college. Coauthor 2009
AB 77 Increasing the amount of the early stage seed and angel investment credits. Coauthor 2009
AB 735 The display of historical registration plates on special interest vehicles that are 20 or more years old and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 702 The veterans tuition reimbursement program. 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 667 Changing the calculation of the married persons tax credit. Coauthor 2009
AB 628 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. Coauthor 2009
AB 596 Designating the Harley-Davidson as the Wisconsin state motorcycle. Coauthor 2009
AB 591 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Coauthor 2009
AB 579 Special distinguishing registration plates associated with Marquette University. Coauthor 2009
AB 576 Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain dependents. Coauthor 2009
AB 540 Allowing out-of-state insurers to offer health care plans that are exempt from certain laws to employers and individuals in this state. Coauthor 2009
AB 539 Disclosure of information by health care providers, insurers, and governmental self-insured plans; requiring acceptance by a health care provider of a payment amount in certain circumstances; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 525 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2009
AB 517 Highway maps published by the Department of Transportation. Coauthor 2009
AB 508 Submitting custody study reports to the parties and offering custody study reports in accordance with the rules of evidence. Coauthor 2009
AB 505 The Department of Revenue's interpretation of the law. Coauthor 2009
AB 503 Exposure to a minor and providing a penalty. 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 477 The effective date of the jobs tax credit. 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 404 Prohibiting municipal electric or water utilities from collecting certain utility arrearages from owners of rental properties as property liens. Coauthor 2009
AB 384 Operation of neighborhood electric vehicles. Coauthor 2009
AB 382 Fishing licenses issued to disabled veterans. Coauthor 2009
AB 369 Social and financial impact reports. Coauthor 2009
AB 359 Creating a refundable individual income tax credit for certain married couples. Lead author 2009
AB 357 Receiving a stolen firearm and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 345 Accepting prisoners or detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Coauthor 2009
AB 336 Immunity from liability for, and disclosure of patient information by, a health care provider, health care facility, or employee of a health care provider or health care facility that, in good faith, reports or provides information about a violation of the law or of a clinical or ethical standard, unprofessional conduct, or negligence in treating a patient by a health care provider, health care facility, or employee or former employee of a health care provider or health care facility. Lead author 2009
AB 313 Licensure fee for an emergency medical technician. 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 250 Regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 230 Electronic access by law enforcement agencies to photographs on motor vehicle operators licenses and identification cards. 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 181 Operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 128 Authorizing a sheriff to depute certain security officers who are employed by the Department of Military Affairs. Coauthor 2009