Every Bill Led or Signed
362 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1–200.
- 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. Coauthor 2009
- SR 8 Urging and authorizing the attorney general to pursue every legal means available to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. Coauthor 2009
- SR 4 Commending Krystal Ellis on her remarkable athletic career. Lead author 2009
- SR 3 Commending Jerel McNeal on his remarkable athletic career. Lead author 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. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 7 Providing property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
- SJR 67 Honoring the life and public service of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and others. Lead author 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 53 Honoring the life and public service of Joseph P. Mettner. Lead author 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. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 4 Recognizing February 2009 as American Heart Month and February 6, 2009, as Wear Red For Women Day. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 33 The life and military service of United States Army Sergeant Steven J. Christofferson. Lead author 2009
- SJR 25 The commemoration of The Progressive magazine's 100th anniversary. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 24 Proclaiming May as American Stroke Month. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 21 Celebrating March 25, 2009, as the 188th anniversary of Greek independence. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 19 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 18 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
- SJR 17 Proclaiming March of every year as Irish-American Heritage Month. Lead author 2009
- SJR 15 Commending Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan on his appointment as archbishop of New York. Lead author 2009
- SJR 13 The Professional Ambulance Association of Wisconsin. Coauthor 2009
- SJR 12 Recognizing and supporting national Minority Cancer Awareness Week. Coauthor 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). Lead author 2009
- SB 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 90 The registration of antique snowmobiles. Coauthor 2009
- SB 89 Requirements for pupils enrolled in five-year-old kindergarten. Coauthor 2009
- SB 88 Purchase of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces. Coauthor 2009
- SB 86 School conference and activities leave. Coauthor 2009
- SB 85 Eligibility for tuition fee remission for certain veterans and their spouses, surviving spouses, and children. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Coauthor 2009
- SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Coauthor 2009
- SB 700 The sale of lead acid batteries and acceptance of used lead acid batteries. Lead author 2009
- SB 679 Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
- SB 668 The naming of Whitefish Dunes State Park. Lead author 2009
- SB 663 Requiring bittering agents in certain engine coolants and antifreeze and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
- SB 66 Operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 647 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. Coauthor 2009
- SB 639 Failing to provide a biological specimen for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 63 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2009
- SB 607 Terminating a tenancy on the basis that certain crimes or other activities are being committed on or near the premises. Lead author 2009
- SB 606 Age restrictions, headgear requirements, and safety certificate requirements regarding the operation of an all-terrain vehicle. Lead author 2009
- SB 6 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. Coauthor 2009
- SB 592 A biometric fingerprint identification system for enrollment and monitoring child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares. Coauthor 2009
- SB 587 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 579 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
- SB 575 Meals that a bed and breakfast establishment may serve. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2009
- SB 543 Registration plates for certain disabled veterans. Lead author 2009
- SB 535 Licensing anesthesiologist assistants and creating the Council on Anesthesiologist Assistants and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
- SB 533 An integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation. Lead author 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. Lead author 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. Lead author 2009
- SB 514 Additions to the 2009-11 Authorized State Building Program. Lead author 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 506 Vehicle towing and storage liens. Lead author 2009
- SB 503 Requiring certain county agencies to petition a court to freeze accounts of certain individuals being financially exploited. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 49 Changing the procedures for filling vacant civil service positions in the city of Milwaukee. Coauthor 2009
- SB 481 Wild turkey hunting approvals; the regulation of the hunting of wild turkey; and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2009
- SB 458 The local regulation of ticket selling and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 456 Special distinguishing registration plates supporting motorcycle safety and making appropriations. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 443 Theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. Lead author 2009
- SB 442 Requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts. Lead author 2009
- SB 439 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes. Coauthor 2009
- SB 433 Child in need of protection or services jurisdiction over a child based on another child from the child's home being placed outside the home under a juvenile court order and involuntary termination of parental rights on the grounds of three or more prior voluntary or involuntary terminations of parental rights. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 424 Regulating certain sport shooting ranges. Coauthor 2009
- SB 416 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Coauthor 2009
- SB 412 Changing certain administrative procedures under the tax incremental financing program. Coauthor 2009
- SB 411 Disclosure of adoption records for purposes of determining the availability of a placement for a child with an adoptive parent or proposed adoptive parent of a sibling of the child. Coauthor 2009
- SB 409 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
- SB 406 Snowmobile registration, trail use sticker requirements, intoxicated snowmobiling, snowmobile speed limits, calculating the estimated snowmobile gas tax payment, funding for alcohol education programs and state trails, providing penalties, and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
- SB 405 The powers and duties of the board of school directors and the superintendent of schools in a first class city school district, awarding a grant to a nonprofit corporation, requiring a referendum, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
- SB 404 Registration of former military vehicles. Coauthor 2009
- SB 400 Operation of all-terrain vehicles to remove snow. Coauthor 2009
- SB 399 Authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds. Coauthor 2009
- SB 394 Designating the Harley-Davidson as the Wisconsin state motorcycle. Coauthor 2009
- SB 39 Cash value of life insurance regarding eligibility for the veterans assistance program. Coauthor 2009
- SB 387 Special distinguishing registration plates associated with Marquette University. Lead author 2009
- SB 37 Payment of judgments in traffic courts and municipal courts by installments and the suspension of operating privileges. Coauthor 2009
- SB 36 Motor vehicle operating privilege suspensions for controlled substance violations. Coauthor 2009
- SB 359 Directing school boards to provide instruction about the recent history of the Hmong people. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2009
- SB 339 Certification and licensure of real estate appraisers and requirements for appraisal reports and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
- SB 336 Requiring a person arrested for a felony or a juvenile taken into custody for certain sexual assault offenses to provide a biological specimen for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis, inclusion of the analysis results in the Department of Justice deoxyribonucleic acid data bank, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 334 Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
- SB 333 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
- SB 332 Submitting custody study reports to the parties and offering custody study reports in accordance with the rules of evidence. Coauthor 2009
- SB 331 Prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing certain serious crimes or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a serious crime 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 and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
- SB 330 Exposure to a minor and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
- SB 324 Providing instruction in human growth and development. Coauthor 2009
- SB 31 The Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, as approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 298 State building contracting and construction procedures and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
- SB 294 Municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses. Lead author 2009
- SB 290 Changes in the regulation of boxing contests, regulating mixed martial arts fighting contests, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 288 Indian child welfare. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2009
- SB 278 U-turns on highways and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 276 Requiring governmental bodies of school districts and certain political subdivisions to post meeting notices and minutes on their Web sites. Coauthor 2009
- SB 273 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
- SB 267 The definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work. Lead author 2009
- SB 263 Criteria for determining indigency for purposes of representation by the State Public Defender and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
- SB 260 Granting police authority to technical college district boards. Lead author 2009
- SB 242 Creating separate regulatory requirements for certain future service contracts. Coauthor 2009
- SB 224 Notice of proposed vacation of certain highways. Coauthor 2009
- SB 219 Causing injury to a law enforcement officer while resisting or obstructing an officer or while attempting to flee and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 215 A personal property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Coauthor 2009
- SB 214 A real property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 207 Possession and use of a firearm by a person under the age of 12 years. Coauthor 2009
- SB 204 Prohibiting discrimination in housing because of domestic abuse victim status and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 203 Claims for loss of society and companionship in medical malpractice cases. Lead author 2009
- SB 2 The filing of a wage claim or the bringing of a wage claim action by a collective bargaining representative on behalf of an employee and the priority of a wage claim lien over a prior lien of a commercial lending institution and over the rights of a purchaser of any property of the employer. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
- SB 193 Raffle licenses. Coauthor 2009
- SB 191 Podiatrist-patient privilege, immunity exemption for podiatrists providing emergency care at athletic events, allowing podiatrists to determine an illness or injury and complete forms for the purpose of granting assistance to needy veterans, allowing podiatrists to determine disability for the purpose of issuing certain hunting permits, cooperatives organized to provide sickness care, the Podiatrists Affiliated Credentialing Board, allowing podiatrists to certify driver school instructors' physical fitness, allowing Medical Assistance recipients to freely choose among podiatrists, and giving equal weight to certifications of disability by podiatrists for insurance purposes. Coauthor 2009
- SB 185 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
- SB 182 Statute of limitations for intentional torts. Coauthor 2009
- SB 18 Fee remissions for certain University of Wisconsin System and technical college students. Coauthor 2009
- SB 176 A sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs. Lead author 2009
- SB 175 The issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. Lead author 2009
- SB 173 The removal of nonconforming outdoor advertising signs. Coauthor 2009
- SB 166 Creating an individual income tax deduction for any amount of interest paid on certain loans that are used for educational expenses. Coauthor 2009
- SB 164 Increasing the maximum claim under the school property tax credit for older claimants. Coauthor 2009
- SB 163 Requiring health insurance coverage of colorectal cancer screening and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
- SB 161 Administration of certain public assistance programs in Milwaukee County, removing county civil service protections from certain employees, required provisions in certain collective bargaining agreements under the Municipal Employment Relations Act, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
- SB 158 Vehicle stops at railroad crossings. Lead author 2009
- SB 157 Driver education instruction. Lead author 2009
- SB 156 Eliminating the penalty for participating in an office sports pool. Lead author 2009
- SB 145 Determining the value of billboards for personal property tax purposes. Lead author 2009
- SB 144 Authorizing sharing of tax increments by certain environmental remediation tax incremental districts. Lead author 2009
- SB 142 Slaughter of equine animals. Lead author 2009
- SB 141 Requiring certain vehicles that transport children to and from a child care provider to have child safety alarms installed, granting rule-making authority, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 140 Posttermination of parental rights contact between a child and a birth relative of the child and disclosure of the report of an investigation of the home of a proposed adoptive parent on the request of the proposed adoptive parent. Coauthor 2009
- SB 14 The definition of sexual intercourse for the crime of incest. Coauthor 2009
- SB 136 The requirement to build and maintain partition fences. Coauthor 2009
- SB 135 Requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process. Coauthor 2009
- SB 134 Motor vehicle operating privileges, seizures by courts or law enforcement officers of operator's licenses, and reinstatement of canceled identification cards. Coauthor 2009
- SB 133 Operating a motor vehicle while suspended, revoked, or disqualified. Coauthor 2009
- SB 132 Expanding the life of a tax incremental district in the city of Racine. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2009
- SB 129 The privilege of self-defense. Coauthor 2009
- SB 128 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Lead author 2009
- SB 126 Changes to and extension of the Environmental Results Program, extension of the Environmental Improvement Program and the length of a compliance schedule under that program, and reporting requirements for certain environmental programs. Coauthor 2009
- SB 123 Regulating the transportation of aquatic plants and aquatic animals, the administration of federal funds for the control and eradication of noxious weeds, the placement of vehicles, seaplanes, watercraft, and other objects in navigable waters, the regulation of noxious weeds by municipalities, the disposal of invasive species, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
- SB 115 Licensure of dietitians and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2009
- SB 108 Mandatory overtime hours and on-call time worked by health care workers and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
- SB 106 Allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent to his or her child's college savings account or college tuition and expenses program and limiting the deduction that may be claimed by a married person who files separately. Coauthor 2009
- SB 10 The income and franchise tax credit that supplements the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit. Coauthor 2009
- SB 1 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
- AJR 9 Proclaiming May 15, 16, and 17, 2009, Syttende Mai Weekend. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 87 The life and public service of Reuben K. Harpole, Jr. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 8 Taxation of principal homesteads of individuals (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 7 The life and public service of Judge Ted E. Wedemeyer, Jr. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 60 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 57 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 56 The 100 year anniversary of Peninsula State Park. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 5 The life and public service of Jerome J. Kleczka. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 49 The life and military service of United States Army Sergeant Steven J. Christofferson. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 46 Declaring May 2009 as Drug Court Month. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 44 Declaring May 3 to May 9, 2009, to be Vasculitis Awareness Week. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 41 Declaring June as Scoliosis Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 40 The commemoration of The Progressive magazine's 100th anniversary. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 36 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 34 The life and public service of James A. McCann. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 33 Proclaiming April as Autism Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 31 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 27 Proclaiming June 6, 2009, as Proper Drug Disposal Day. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 24 Providing property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 22 Commending Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan on his appointment as archbishop of New York. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 18 The life and public service of Rebecca Young. Cosponsor 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). Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 127 The life and public service of Erwin Bessler. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 12 Renaming the decorated tree on display in the capitol rotunda during the Christmas holiday season as the Wisconsin State Christmas Tree. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 118 Proclaiming May 14, 15, and 16, 2010, Syttende Mai Weekend. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 100 Congratulating the Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary. Cosponsor 2009
- AJR 10 Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. Cosponsor 2009
- AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Cosponsor 2009
- AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Cosponsor 2009
- AB 965 An income and franchise tax credit for the sales tax paid on certain products. Cosponsor 2009
- AB 956 The naming of Whitefish Dunes State Park. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
- AB 911 Designating and marking a portion of STH 241 in the city of Milwaukee as Historic U.S. Highway 41. Cosponsor 2009
- AB 899 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. Cosponsor 2009