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Democratic Former Representative · Assembly District 88

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Bills they led · 19

Bills where James Soletski 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 19 bills they led: 3 became law, 0 were vetoed, 1 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

Became law 3 bills
  • AB 857 Exemption for interstate natural gas companies from certain requirements regarding real estate transactions and court actions, creation and powers of municipal electric companies, and exemption from certificate of public convenience and necessity for certain electric transmission line projects. 2009
  • AB 600 Authority of the Public Service Commission regarding fuel costs of certain electric public utilities and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 292 Recording and filing documents with the register of deeds. 2009
Adopted 2 bills
  • AJR 88 The life and public service of Jay W. Johnson. 2009
  • AJR 53 The life and public service of former Congressman Reverend Robert J. Cornell. 2009
Died at session end 14 bills
  • AJR 24 Providing property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state (first consideration). 2009
  • AB 942 The operation of motor vehicles on the exposed beds of outlying waters to control Phragmites australis. 2009
  • AB 925 Discharging a firearm within 100 yards of a building devoted to human occupancy while in waters adjacent to land owned by another person and providing a penalty. 2009
  • AB 856 Raffles. 2009
  • AB 727 Changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program. 2009
  • AB 459 The model academic standards for personal financial literacy. 2009
  • AB 398 Granting police authority to technical college district boards. 2009
  • AB 397 The definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work. 2009
  • AB 35 The use of race-based names, nicknames, logos, and mascots by school boards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
  • AB 304 Ineligibility of convicted felons for licensure as lobbyists. 2009
  • AB 256 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 215 Determining the value of billboards for personal property tax purposes. 2009
  • AB 115 Directing school boards to provide instruction about the recent history of the Hmong people. 2009
  • AB 105 Arbitration and fair-share agreements during collective bargaining negotiations under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. 2009

Coauthored · 120

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that James Soletski 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 120 coauthored bills
  • AR 16 Urging and authorizing the attorney general to pursue every legal means available to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. 2009
  • AR 13 Proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 2009
  • AR 11 Recognizing and proclaiming Hispanic Heritage Month, a month-long celebration of the culture and traditions of United States residents who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico, and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. 2009
  • AJR 90 The life and public service of Rev. P. Harvey Stower. 2009
  • AJR 82 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 2009
  • AJR 81 Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Wisconsin Nurses Association. 2009
  • AJR 77 Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. 2009
  • AJR 72 The life and public service of Edward Moore Kennedy. 2009
  • AJR 56 The 100 year anniversary of Peninsula State Park. 2009
  • AJR 46 Declaring May 2009 as Drug Court Month. 2009
  • AJR 44 Declaring May 3 to May 9, 2009, to be Vasculitis Awareness Week. 2009
  • AJR 43 Proclaiming April 22, 2009, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff. 2009
  • AJR 39 Age of qualified electors for state and local elections (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 2 Eliminating the spring election (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 103 Recognizing February 2010 as American Heart Month. 2009
  • AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
  • AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
  • AB 95 Preparation time as a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. 2009
  • AB 916 Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System. 2009
  • AB 906 Modifications to platting requirements. 2009
  • AB 895 Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
  • AB 882 Accessible instructional materials for students with disabilities enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or the Technical College System. 2009
  • AB 88 Allowing electric utilities and retail electric cooperatives to include energy derived from garbage and certain waste in satisfying renewable portfolio standards. 2009
  • AB 876 Expanding the authority of political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans, and authorizing political subdivisions to make water efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans. 2009
  • AB 873 Liens by commercial real estate brokers. 2009
  • AB 864 Authorizing the Department of Commerce to certify for tax benefits a business located in an enterprise zone and having a Wisconsin supply chain. 2009
  • AB 859 Semiannual meetings of small winery cooperative wholesalers. 2009
  • AB 853 Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 846 Allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically. 2009
  • AB 844 Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 832 Maximum amount of funeral and burial expenses under the funeral, burial, and cemetery expenses program. 2009
  • AB 827 The use of traffic control photographic systems to monitor intersections, imposing liability on the owners of vehicles involved in traffic control signal violations, and providing a penalty. 2009
  • AB 821 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. 2009
  • AB 815 Physical examinations and discovery of patients' records in civil actions. 2009
  • AB 781 Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college. 2009
  • AB 778 Weight limitations for vehicles transporting raw forest products. 2009
  • AB 768 Authorizing the Department of Commerce to designate two additional enterprise zones. 2009
  • AB 755 Allowing certain utilities to administer investment programs for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy applications, creating requirements for political subdivision loans for similar improvements and applications, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 752 Members of the Board of Veterans Affairs and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 749 An income and franchise tax credit for equipment used to harvest or process woody biomass. 2009
  • AB 729 Residential mortgage loan foreclosures. 2009
  • AB 725 Providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiocerebral resuscitation, and the use of an automated external defibrillator to high school pupils. 2009
  • AB 709 Requiring access to toilet facilities in a retail establishment, immunity from civil liability related to use of the toilet facilities, and providing penalties. 2009
  • AB 699 Exempting wellness programs from unfair trade or marketing practices. 2009
  • AB 693 The practice of athletic trainers and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 665 Requiring an insurer to make payment directly to a provider who provides the insurer with an assignment of benefits. 2009
  • AB 660 Certification of ironworkers, maximum and minimum numbers of certain individuals performing ironwork at construction sites, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
  • AB 657 Theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. 2009
  • AB 651 The wholesale distribution of prescription drugs. 2009
  • AB 649 Goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty. 2009

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Cosponsored · 99

Bills from the other house that James Soletski 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 99 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 78 The retirement of John Stolzenberg, chief of research services, Legislative Council staff, following a long and distinguished career in nonpartisan service to the Wisconsin legislature. 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. 2009
  • SJR 7 Providing property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state (first consideration). 2009
  • SJR 53 Honoring the life and public service of Joseph P. Mettner. 2009
  • SJR 51 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 2009
  • SJR 49 Eliminating the spring election (first consideration). 2009
  • SJR 45 Calling on the Wisconsin congressional delegation to take action to grandfather preexisting highway weight limits upon the designation of USH 41 as part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower system of interstate and defense highways. 2009
  • SJR 3 Proclaiming Data Privacy Day. 2009
  • SJR 28 Proclaiming April 22, 2009, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff. 2009
  • SB 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. 2009
  • SB 9 A tort action for intentional misrepresentation in a residential real estate transaction. 2009
  • SB 89 Requirements for pupils enrolled in five-year-old kindergarten. 2009
  • SB 86 School conference and activities leave. 2009
  • SB 78 Protections for tenants in foreclosure actions. 2009
  • SB 77 Changes to economic development tax benefit programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
  • SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
  • SB 701 The foreclosure and sale of residential property. 2009
  • SB 686 Providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiocerebral resuscitation, and the use of an automated external defibrillator to high school pupils. 2009
  • SB 67 Preparation time as a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. 2009
  • SB 640 Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
  • SB 638 Accessible instructional materials for students with disabilities enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or the Technical College System. 2009
  • SB 628 Physical examinations and discovery of patients' records in civil actions. 2009
  • SB 626 Modifications to platting requirements. 2009
  • SB 624 Expanding the authority of political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans, and authorizing political subdivisions to make water efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans. 2009
  • SB 621 Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 620 Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 618 Raffles. 2009
  • SB 615 Exemption for interstate natural gas companies from certain requirements regarding real estate transactions and court actions, creation and powers of municipal electric companies, and exemption from certificate of public convenience and necessity for certain electric transmission line projects. 2009
  • SB 614 The operation of motor vehicles on the exposed beds of outlying waters to control Phragmites australis. 2009
  • SB 605 Allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically. 2009
  • SB 587 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. 2009
  • SB 566 Requiring the University of Wisconsin System to obtain the approval of the Joint Committee on Finance in order to acquire property by condemnation. 2009
  • SB 562 Weight limitations for vehicles transporting raw forest products. 2009
  • SB 523 Unfair labor practices in violation of collective bargaining rights. 2009
  • SB 513 Life settlements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 512 The transfer of moneys from the general fund to the utility public benefits fund and the calculation of the low-income assistance fee for the 2010-11 fiscal year. 2009
  • SB 507 Changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program. 2009
  • SB 502 Exempting wellness programs from unfair trade or marketing practices. 2009
  • SB 5 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 482 The practice of athletic trainers and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 476 Certification of ironworkers, maximum and minimum numbers of certain individuals performing ironwork at construction sites, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. 2009
  • SB 47 Designating portions of the Totogatic River as a wild river. 2009
  • SB 46 Arbitration and fair-share agreements during collective bargaining negotiations under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. 2009
  • SB 455 The wholesale distribution of prescription drugs. 2009
  • SB 453 Requiring an insurer to make payment directly to a provider who provides the insurer with an assignment of benefits. 2009
  • SB 450 Goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 443 Theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. 2009
  • SB 434 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. 2009
  • SB 425 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. 2009

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Vote history · 0