Every Bill Led or Signed

582 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 401–582.

SB 130 The authority of a county to enact ordinances governing certain land divisions. Cosponsor 2011
SB 129 Authorizing towns to challenge certain city or village annexation procedures. Cosponsor 2011
SB 117 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. Cosponsor 2011
AR 3 Honoring the victims of the Arizona shootings. Coauthor 2011
AJR 5 Commending Reince Priebus on his election as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Coauthor 2011
AJR 117 The life and public service of Jim Irwin. Coauthor 2011
AJR 109 Commending the University of Wisconsin Badgers football team on an outstanding 2011 season. Coauthor 2011
AB 87 Expanding the number of tax incremental financing districts that may be designated as distressed or severely distressed. Lead author 2011
AB 86 Corrections and sentencing. Coauthor 2011
AB 7 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 2011
AB 653 Elimination of sick leave for state senators and representatives to the assembly. Coauthor 2011
AB 597 Certain shoreland zoning standards and ordinances that regulate the repair and expansion of nonconforming structures. Coauthor 2011
AB 581 Setback requirements for wind energy systems. Lead author 2011
AB 502 Hunting and trapping of wolves, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
AB 4 Automobile insurance coverage limits, permissible policy provisions, and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2011
AB 33 Creating an individual income tax deduction for certain residents of this state who graduate from a college or university. Lead author 2011
AB 311 Creating a sporting recruitment and retention council, programs to encourage recruitment of hunters and trappers, restrictions on expenditures under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship program, reduced fees for certain first-time hunting and trapping approvals, high school credit under and administration of the hunter and trapper education programs, waiving fishing license requirements for a weekend ice fishing event, and sturgeon spearing license age requirements. Coauthor 2011
AB 294 Small business loan guarantees by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. Coauthor 2011
AB 24 Privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements. Coauthor 2011
AB 233 An exemption from the prevailing wage law for a public works project that is not less than 85 percent privately funded in which the completed facility is dedicated to the state or a local governmental unit for conservation, recreational, or educational purposes. Coauthor 2011
AB 23 Disinfection of municipal water supplies. 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. Lead author 2011
AB 214 Sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 183 Applicability of the prevailing wage law; the thresholds for applicability of that law; calculation of the prevailing wage rate; the treatment of volunteers, truck drivers, subjourneypersons, and incidental work under that law; 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 2011
AB 181 Authorizing towns to challenge certain city or village annexation procedures. Coauthor 2011
AB 178 The authority of a county to enact ordinances governing certain land divisions. Coauthor 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 132 Motor vehicle dealers. Coauthor 2011
AB 126 Carrying a concealed weapon; licenses authorizing persons to carry concealed weapons; possessing or transporting a firearm, bow, or crossbow under certain circumstances; disorderly conduct limitations; photographic identification cards for former law enforcement officers; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties. 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
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 18 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
SJR 17 Proclaiming March of every year as Irish-American Heritage Month. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 16 Limiting the provisions that may be considered by the committee of conference. 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 92 Preparation and legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill; making all meetings of the Joint Committee on Finance relating to the biennial budget bill available in real time for viewing by the public on the legislature's Internet Web site; and reporting of certain information by lobbying principals. Cosponsor 2009
SB 84 Ineligibility for state financial assistance of a postsecondary student who has been convicted of possessing, with intent to manufacture, distribute, or deliver, or of manufacturing, distributing, or delivering, a controlled substance or controlled substance analog based on conduct that occurred during a period of enrollment for which the postsecondary student was receiving any state financial assistance and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 82 Access to employment records of candidates for law enforcement positions. Cosponsor 2009
SB 80 The Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 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 69 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 688 Bonding authority for major interstate bridge projects and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 680 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Cosponsor 2009
SB 65 Expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement plan income received by an individual. Cosponsor 2009
SB 64 Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 608 Requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota. Cosponsor 2009
SB 588 Records concerning certain telephone and facsimile solicitations and a private action against certain senders of unsolicited facsimile solicitations. Cosponsor 2009
SB 58 Permitting third-party testers to administer driving skills tests for certain noncommercial motor vehicle drivers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 56 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 553 Assessment on critical access hospitals; payments to critical access hospitals under the Medical Assistance Program; creating a rural physician residency assistance program; the physician, dentist, and health care provider loan assistance programs; and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2009
SB 547 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Cosponsor 2009
SB 52 An education tax credit for businesses. 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 45 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 44 Adjudications for involuntary commitment, appointment of a guardian of the person, and protective placement or protective services, background checks for the purchase of handguns, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 430 Collective bargaining over health care coverage for municipal employees, allowing municipal employers to change health care coverage plan providers, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 42 A report on food safety programs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 397 General purpose revenue funding for the veterans trust fund and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Cosponsor 2009
SB 343 The rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. 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 28 Excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. Cosponsor 2009
SB 267 The definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work. Cosponsor 2009
SB 26 Allowing dairy cooperatives to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 252 The duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. Cosponsor 2009
SB 248 Penalty enhancers for committing domestic abuse in the presence of a child and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 243 Hunting of deer during the open bow hunting season. Cosponsor 2009
SB 241 Modifying the definition of all-terrain vehicle. Cosponsor 2009
SB 239 The Internet sale of unclaimed personal property by a sheriff. Cosponsor 2009
SB 23 Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials and committees. Cosponsor 2009
SB 223 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. 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 166 Creating an individual income tax deduction for any amount of interest paid on certain loans that are used for educational expenses. Cosponsor 2009
SB 165 Changing the type of income that may be used to calculate the married persons tax credit. Cosponsor 2009
SB 164 Increasing the maximum claim under the school property tax credit for older claimants. Cosponsor 2009
SB 156 Eliminating the penalty for participating in an office sports pool. Cosponsor 2009
SB 128 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Cosponsor 2009
SB 118 Prohibiting an insurer from requiring a certain vendor for repairing a motor vehicle, requiring adjusters to inspect motor vehicle damage, and insurance payments for motor vehicle repair costs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 116 The method by which the Department of Revenue makes certain calculations regarding tax incremental financing district number 4 in the village of Elmwood. Cosponsor 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 90 The life and public service of Rev. P. Harvey Stower. Coauthor 2009
AJR 9 Proclaiming May 15, 16, and 17, 2009, Syttende Mai Weekend. Coauthor 2009
AJR 65 Different property tax levy rates for parts of cities, villages, towns, counties, and school districts added by attachments to school districts, consolidations, and boundary changes under cooperative agreements (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 37 Proclaiming the Wisconsin Centennial of Flight. Coauthor 2009
AJR 36 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). 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 108 Commending the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 32nd Brigade, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry, for receiving the Walter T. Kerwin Jr. Award. Lead author 2009
AB 99 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 960 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Coauthor 2009
AB 952 Bonding authority for major interstate bridge projects and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 937 Distributing one-half of general school aid using an income equalization formula. Coauthor 2009
AB 91 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
AB 881 Creating an individual income tax deduction for certain residents of this state who graduate from a college or university. Lead author 2009
AB 879 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 87 Disposal of ash resulting from the burning of a structure. Coauthor 2009
AB 866 Restoring the treatment of the exclusion of capital gains for individuals and certain other persons that existed before the enactment of 2009 Wisconsin Act 28. Coauthor 2009
AB 86 Authorizing hunting of certain game with a crossbow by nonresidents who have attained the age of 65 years. Coauthor 2009
AB 85 Temporary alcohol beverage retail licenses. 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 80 An education tax credit for businesses. Coauthor 2009
AB 799 Changes to the membership of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, notification to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board of bills with an economic impact on small businesses, and the role of the Office of the Small Business Advocate in the Department of Commerce. Coauthor 2009
AB 796 The rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. Coauthor 2009
AB 784 Reporting the results of a religious organization's investigation of sexual contact with a child and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 783 Requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota. Coauthor 2009
AB 774 Prohibiting the acquisition of land using stewardship funding if the acquisition results in adjacent landowners being denied access to their land. Coauthor 2009
AB 770 Assessment on critical access hospitals; payments to critical access hospitals under the Medical Assistance Program; creating a rural physician residency assistance program; the physician, dentist, and health care provider loan assistance programs; and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
AB 77 Increasing the amount of the early stage seed and angel investment credits. Coauthor 2009
AB 762 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Coauthor 2009
AB 74 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
AB 738 Limiting nonallocable segregated fee and resident tuition increases at the University of Wisconsin System. Lead author 2009
AB 71 Contacting, harming, or threatening to harm a juror and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
AB 70 Adjudications for involuntary commitment, appointment of a guardian of the person, and protective placement or protective services, background checks for the purchase of handguns, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 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 630 Enforcement of the citizenship qualification for voting in elections in this state. 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 523 The sales and use tax exemption for electricity and natural gas. Coauthor 2009
AB 505 The Department of Revenue's interpretation of the law. Coauthor 2009
AB 478 Ending combined reporting. Coauthor 2009
AB 477 The effective date of the jobs tax credit. Coauthor 2009
AB 476 Requiring the Department of Commerce to study and report on methods to retain businesses at risk of relocating or expanding outside the state and to encourage business relocations and expansions in the state and to create an emergency response team. 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 44 The Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. Coauthor 2009
AB 42 Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials, officials elect, and committees and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 397 The definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work. Coauthor 2009
AB 394 The color and design of special distinguishing registration plates for fire fighters and emergency medical technicians. Coauthor 2009
AB 38 Excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. Coauthor 2009
AB 376 Restitution for misappropriation from a cemetery of certain objects that relate to a veteran. Coauthor 2009
AB 371 Privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements. Coauthor 2009
AB 356 Modifying the definition of all-terrain vehicle. Coauthor 2009
AB 355 Hunting of deer during the open bow hunting season. Coauthor 2009
AB 351 The duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. Coauthor 2009
AB 350 Sales and use tax exemption for motorboats. Coauthor 2009
AB 347 The Internet sale of unclaimed personal property by a sheriff. Coauthor 2009
AB 342 Operation of lightweight utility vehicles on certain highways by persons with disabilities to access hunting and fishing areas. Coauthor 2009
AB 34 Allowing dairy cooperatives to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 339 A sales and use tax exemption for building materials used to construct or remodel single-family residences. Lead author 2009
AB 338 Retaining the real estate transfer fee. Lead author 2009
AB 329 Conditions of extended supervision, probation, and parole for persons convicted of certain sex offenses. Coauthor 2009
AB 324 Impersonating certain officials and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 276 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. 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 243 Delaying the implementation date of the comprehensive planning statute for certain local governmental units. Coauthor 2009
AB 230 Electronic access by law enforcement agencies to photographs on motor vehicle operators licenses and identification cards. Coauthor 2009
AB 226 Increases in undergraduate resident tuition and nonallocable segregated fees at the University of Wisconsin System. Coauthor 2009
AB 225 Mandatory minimum sentences for certain child sex offenses. Coauthor 2009
AB 220 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Coauthor 2009
AB 216 Permitting third-party testers to administer driving skills tests for certain noncommercial motor vehicle drivers. Coauthor 2009
AB 208 An individual income tax credit for the sales and use taxes paid on self-service laundry services. Coauthor 2009
AB 201 The date of pupil counts in second semester of school year. Coauthor 2009
AB 200 The number of school days required each school term. Coauthor 2009
AB 184 Increasing expense deductions for income and franchise tax purposes. Coauthor 2009
AB 173 The method by which the Department of Revenue makes certain calculations regarding tax incremental financing district number 4 in the village of Elmwood. Lead author 2009
AB 168 Preparation and legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill; making executive sessions of the Joint Committee on Finance relating to the biennial budget bill available in real time for viewing by the public on the legislature's Internet Web site; and reporting of certain information by lobbying principals. Coauthor 2009
AB 167 The inapplicability of the prevailing wage law to projects in which the construction is contracted for by a private owner or developer and the completed projected is acquired by a local governmental unit or state agency. Coauthor 2009
AB 161 Reimbursement for damages caused by dogs and the use of funds derived from the licensing of dogs. Coauthor 2009
AB 149 The interest rate on delinquent property taxes. Coauthor 2009
AB 148 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Coauthor 2009
AB 141 Requiring distribution of autism-related information, requiring a referral when certain diagnoses are made, providing funding for the Medical Assistance autism benefit, licensure of autism paraprofessionals, creating an autism paraprofessional board, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 134 The extension for objecting to property tax assessments. Coauthor 2009
AB 132 A requirement that an employer grant an unpaid leave of absence to allow an employee to participate in an emergency service operation of the Civil Air Patrol and prohibiting discrimination in employment based on Civil Air Patrol membership. Coauthor 2009
AB 13 Creating an individual income tax subtract modification for amounts received from the well contamination and abandonment compensation program. Coauthor 2009
AB 129 Battery or threat to witnesses and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 127 Preparation of zero-based biennial budget requests by executive branch agencies, preparation and passage of biennial budget bill or bills, state budget deficit, and generally accepted accounting principles. Coauthor 2009
AB 121 Prohibiting an insurer from requiring a certain vendor for repairing a motor vehicle, requiring adjusters to inspect motor vehicle damage, and insurance payments for motor vehicle repair costs. Coauthor 2009
AB 120 Providing the public with information on state agency operations expenditures and state agency contracts and grants. Coauthor 2009
AB 110 Access to employment records of candidates for law enforcement positions. Coauthor 2009
AB 11 Eliminating the World Dairy Center Authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 10 A report on food safety programs. Coauthor 2009