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Democratic Former Senator · Senate District 7

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Bills they led · 48

Bills where Jeffrey Plale 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 48 bills they led: 10 became law, 0 were vetoed, 18 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

Became law 10 bills
  • 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 533 An integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation. 2009
  • SB 514 Additions to the 2009-11 Authorized State Building Program. 2009
  • SB 506 Vehicle towing and storage liens. 2009
  • SB 349 The employment of minors 12 years of age or older by nonprofit organizations in and around the homes of elderly persons and persons with disabilities to perform snow shoveling, lawn mowing, leaf raking, and other similar work usual to those homes. 2009
  • SB 273 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 267 The definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work. 2009
  • SB 185 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 158 Vehicle stops at railroad crossings. 2009
  • SB 157 Driver education instruction. 2009
Adopted 1 bills
  • SJR 33 The life and military service of United States Army Sergeant Steven J. Christofferson. 2009
Passed one chamber 6 bills
  • SR 4 Commending Krystal Ellis on her remarkable athletic career. 2009
  • SR 3 Commending Jerel McNeal on his remarkable athletic career. 2009
  • SJR 67 Honoring the life and public service of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and others. 2009
  • SJR 53 Honoring the life and public service of Joseph P. Mettner. 2009
  • SJR 17 Proclaiming March of every year as Irish-American Heritage Month. 2009
  • SJR 15 Commending Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan on his appointment as archbishop of New York. 2009
Died at session end 31 bills
  • 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). 2009
  • SB 700 The sale of lead acid batteries and acceptance of used lead acid batteries. 2009
  • SB 679 Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 668 The naming of Whitefish Dunes State Park. 2009
  • SB 663 Requiring bittering agents in certain engine coolants and antifreeze and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 607 Terminating a tenancy on the basis that certain crimes or other activities are being committed on or near the premises. 2009
  • SB 606 Age restrictions, headgear requirements, and safety certificate requirements regarding the operation of an all-terrain vehicle. 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. 2009
  • SB 543 Registration plates for certain disabled veterans. 2009
  • SB 532 Additional municipal aid payments based on the amount of all municipal aid payments compared to total general fund expenditures and on regional factors and making an appropriation. 2009
  • SB 521 A sales and use tax exemption for extended-range electric vehicles; a property tax exemption for tangible personal property used to recharge electric vehicles; the motor vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program, extended-range electric vehicle grants; an income and franchise tax credit for research conducted in this state by a corporation; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
  • SB 469 Authority of the Public Service Commission over certain telecommunications utilities, telecommunications access charges, universal service fund contributions based on interconnected voice over Internet protocol service, tandem switching provider electronic call records, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 2009
  • SB 443 Theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. 2009
  • SB 442 Requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts. 2009
  • SB 387 Special distinguishing registration plates associated with Marquette University. 2009
  • SB 339 Certification and licensure of real estate appraisers and requirements for appraisal reports and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 334 Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 330 Exposure to a minor and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 294 Municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses. 2009
  • SB 281 The prohibition against making, reproducing, or possessing a nude depiction of a person without the person's consent and the sex offender registry. 2009
  • SB 260 Granting police authority to technical college district boards. 2009
  • SB 203 Claims for loss of society and companionship in medical malpractice cases. 2009
  • SB 176 A sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs. 2009
  • SB 175 The issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. 2009
  • SB 156 Eliminating the penalty for participating in an office sports pool. 2009
  • SB 145 Determining the value of billboards for personal property tax purposes. 2009
  • SB 144 Authorizing sharing of tax increments by certain environmental remediation tax incremental districts. 2009
  • SB 142 Slaughter of equine animals. 2009
  • SB 131 Authorizing the cities of Cudahy and Oak Creek to use environmental remediation tax increments generated by one environmental tax incremental district to benefit another environmental remediation tax incremental district. 2009
  • SB 128 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. 2009
  • SB 111 Adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. 2009

Coauthored · 116

Bills led by another member of the Senate that Jeffrey Plale signed onto. Signing on adds their name to the bill; it is not the same as leading it. From each bill's official history.

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  • SR 9 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
  • SR 8 Urging and authorizing the attorney general to pursue every legal means available to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. 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 60 Proclaiming that the ancient Macedonians were Hellenes and that the inhabitants of the northern province of Greece, Macedonia, are their Hellenic descendants. 2009
  • SJR 6 Opposing a federal mandate requiring the suspension or revocation of driver's licenses in all circumstances in which a person has been convicted of a drug or other controlled substances violation and exercising the state's option to opt out of this federal mandate. 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 4 Recognizing February 2009 as American Heart Month and February 6, 2009, as Wear Red For Women Day. 2009
  • SJR 25 The commemoration of The Progressive magazine's 100th anniversary. 2009
  • SJR 24 Proclaiming May as American Stroke Month. 2009
  • SJR 21 Celebrating March 25, 2009, as the 188th anniversary of Greek independence. 2009
  • SJR 19 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. 2009
  • SJR 18 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). 2009
  • SJR 13 The Professional Ambulance Association of Wisconsin. 2009
  • SJR 12 Recognizing and supporting national Minority Cancer Awareness Week. 2009
  • SB 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. 2009
  • SB 94 The licensing and regulation of thermal system insulation mechanics; creating a thermal system insulation council; requiring the employment of a state inspector; establishing standards for installing and maintaining thermal system insulation; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 93 Partially exempting an assessor and an assessor's staff from liability for trespassing, creating immunity from civil liability, and changing the notice requirements related to the revaluation of property by an assessor. 2009
  • SB 90 The registration of antique snowmobiles. 2009
  • SB 89 Requirements for pupils enrolled in five-year-old kindergarten. 2009
  • SB 88 Purchase of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces. 2009
  • SB 86 School conference and activities leave. 2009
  • SB 85 Eligibility for tuition fee remission for certain veterans and their spouses, surviving spouses, and children. 2009
  • SB 81 Authorizing a city or village to extend the life of a tax incremental district for one year to benefit housing in the city or village. 2009
  • SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
  • SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
  • SB 66 Operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 647 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. 2009
  • SB 639 Failing to provide a biological specimen for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 63 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses. 2009
  • SB 6 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. 2009
  • SB 592 A biometric fingerprint identification system for enrollment and monitoring child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares. 2009
  • SB 587 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. 2009
  • SB 581 Prohibiting social security numbers on instruments under the corporate registration system and on records under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. 2009
  • SB 579 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. 2009
  • SB 575 Meals that a bed and breakfast establishment may serve. 2009
  • SB 55 The regulation, preservation, and restoration of historic buildings; the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit and the state historic rehabilitation tax credit; requiring the certification of downtowns; promoting certain downtown areas in this state; highway projects involving business and downtown areas; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
  • SB 535 Licensing anesthesiologist assistants and creating the Council on Anesthesiologist Assistants and granting rule-making authority. 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 511 The southeastern regional transit authority, the creation of interim regional transit authorities in southeast Wisconsin, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 2009
  • SB 503 Requiring certain county agencies to petition a court to freeze accounts of certain individuals being financially exploited. 2009
  • SB 501 Disclosure of the identity of a foster parent or treatment foster parent of a child; the rights of a foster parent, treatment foster parent, or other physical custodian of a child on removal of the child from the person's home; and placement of a child for adoption with a foster parent, treatment foster parent, or other physical custodian of the child. 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. 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. 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. 2009
  • SB 49 Changing the procedures for filling vacant civil service positions in the city of Milwaukee. 2009
  • SB 481 Wild turkey hunting approvals; the regulation of the hunting of wild turkey; and granting rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 458 The local regulation of ticket selling and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 456 Special distinguishing registration plates supporting motorcycle safety and making appropriations. 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

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Cosponsored · 198

Bills from the other house that Jeffrey Plale 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 198 cosponsored bills
  • AJR 9 Proclaiming May 15, 16, and 17, 2009, Syttende Mai Weekend. 2009
  • AJR 87 The life and public service of Reuben K. Harpole, Jr. 2009
  • AJR 8 Taxation of principal homesteads of individuals (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 7 The life and public service of Judge Ted E. Wedemeyer, Jr. 2009
  • AJR 60 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. 2009
  • AJR 57 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. 2009
  • AJR 56 The 100 year anniversary of Peninsula State Park. 2009
  • AJR 5 The life and public service of Jerome J. Kleczka. 2009
  • AJR 49 The life and military service of United States Army Sergeant Steven J. Christofferson. 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 41 Declaring June as Scoliosis Awareness Month. 2009
  • AJR 40 The commemoration of The Progressive magazine's 100th anniversary. 2009
  • AJR 36 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 35 Commending the Gundersen Lutheran Health System on being recognized as the first medical facility in the nation to achieve a top rating from the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers. 2009
  • AJR 34 The life and public service of James A. McCann. 2009
  • AJR 33 Proclaiming April as Autism Awareness Month. 2009
  • AJR 31 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. 2009
  • AJR 27 Proclaiming June 6, 2009, as Proper Drug Disposal Day. 2009
  • AJR 24 Providing property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 22 Commending Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan on his appointment as archbishop of New York. 2009
  • AJR 18 The life and public service of Rebecca Young. 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). 2009
  • AJR 15 Opposing a federal mandate requiring the suspension or revocation of driver's licenses in all circumstances in which a person has been convicted of a drug or other controlled substances violation and exercising the state's option to opt out of this federal mandate. 2009
  • AJR 127 The life and public service of Erwin Bessler. 2009
  • AJR 12 Renaming the decorated tree on display in the capitol rotunda during the Christmas holiday season as the Wisconsin State Christmas Tree. 2009
  • AJR 118 Proclaiming May 14, 15, and 16, 2010, Syttende Mai Weekend. 2009
  • AJR 100 Congratulating the Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary. 2009
  • AJR 10 Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. 2009
  • AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
  • AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
  • AB 965 An income and franchise tax credit for the sales tax paid on certain products. 2009
  • AB 956 The naming of Whitefish Dunes State Park. 2009
  • AB 92 The regulation, preservation, and restoration of historic buildings; the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit and the state historic rehabilitation tax credit; requiring the certification of downtowns; promoting certain downtown areas in this state; highway projects involving business and downtown areas; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
  • AB 911 Designating and marking a portion of STH 241 in the city of Milwaukee as Historic U.S. Highway 41. 2009
  • AB 899 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. 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 873 Liens by commercial real estate brokers. 2009
  • 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 845 A biometric fingerprint identification system for enrollment and monitoring child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares. 2009
  • AB 842 Requiring bittering agents in certain engine coolants and antifreeze and providing a penalty. 2009
  • AB 837 Age restrictions, headgear requirements, and safety certificate requirements regarding the operation of an all-terrain vehicle. 2009
  • AB 833 Additional municipal aid payments based on the amount of all municipal aid payments compared to total general fund expenditures and on regional factors and making an appropriation. 2009
  • AB 821 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. 2009
  • AB 819 Prohibiting social security numbers on instruments under the corporate registration system and on records under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. 2009
  • AB 813 Registration plates for certain disabled veterans. 2009
  • AB 81 Changing the procedures for filling vacant civil service positions in the city of Milwaukee. 2009
  • AB 785 An integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation. 2009
  • AB 779 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. 2009
  • AB 775 Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty. 2009

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Vote history · 0