Every Bill Led or Signed

533 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 201–400.

SB 551 External review process of health benefit plan decisions. Cosponsor 2011
SB 538 Changes to BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core programs by the department of health services and by waiver, disallowing certain carry-forward amounts for combined reporting purposes, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
SB 511 Allocation of national mortgage foreclosure settlement proceeds and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2011
SB 494 Grants for dental students, and loan assistance for dentists, who agree to practice in dental health shortage areas, or to provide services to Medical Assistance recipients, in this state, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2011
SB 479 Establishing an assistant state public defender pay progression plan. Cosponsor 2011
SB 468 Prohibiting the expenditure of moneys from the national mortgage settlement without legislative approval. Cosponsor 2011
SB 437 Licensing of taxicabs by a 1st class city. Cosponsor 2011
SB 436 Funding for the urban mass transit operating assistance program and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
SB 394 Establishing an assistant district attorney pay progression plan. Cosponsor 2011
SB 380 Removing cap on enrollment of Family Care and other long-term care programs. Cosponsor 2011
SB 360 The minimum sale price of prescription drugs. Cosponsor 2011
SB 346 Eligibility of certain employees who are affected by labor disputes for unemployment compensation benefits. Cosponsor 2011
SB 345 The statute of limitations for sexual contact with a child. Cosponsor 2011
SB 343 Requiring certain medical loss ratios for health benefit plans. Cosponsor 2011
SB 342 Awards of punitive damages. Cosponsor 2011
SB 320 Requiring an ignition interlock device for first drunken driving offenses. Cosponsor 2011
SB 305 Notice of eligibility and benefit changes in Medical Assistance. Cosponsor 2011
SB 282 Family planning services and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
SB 279 Family planning services under the Medical Assistance waiver program. Cosponsor 2011
SB 258 Credit cards issued to underage customers, higher education institutions and the marketing of credit cards, financial literacy requirements for higher education students, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
SB 248 Management and preservation of records and correspondence of members of the legislature. Cosponsor 2011
SB 244 Arbitration agreements used by long-term care facilities, civil and criminal actions against health care providers and long-term care providers, use in civil and criminal actions and confidentiality of incident and occurrence reports, use as evidence of records given to a regulatory agency, use in criminal actions of records of reviews and evaluations of health care providers, limits on noneconomic damages, limits on punitive damages, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
SB 233 Collective bargaining for public employees, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2011
SB 232 Eliminating the ability for the Department of Health Services to alter Medical Assistance eligibility, provider payment methods, and other Medical Assistance program procedures by policy and eliminating the requirement to request a waiver regarding Medical Assistance program eligibility. Cosponsor 2011
SB 229 Inclusion in the economic impact analysis for a proposed rule an assessment of the impact that the proposed rule will have on public health and the environment. Cosponsor 2011
SB 206 Implementing federal health insurance law changes. Cosponsor 2011
SB 173 The disclosure of electronic juvenile court records to law enforcement agencies and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
SB 101 Copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for oral chemotherapy and injected or intravenous chemotherapy. Cosponsor 2011
AR 8 Assistant district attorneys. Coauthor 2011
AR 6 Commemorating the Bay View labor strike and massacre. Coauthor 2011
AR 14 Public notice for meetings of assembly committees. Lead author 2011
AR 13 The removal of the portrait of Jeremiah Rusk from the assembly chamber. Lead author 2011
AJR 96 Honoring the Wisconsin Wetlands Association and congratulating them on being awarded the 2012 Wetland Conservation Award. Coauthor 2011
AJR 92 The life and public service of Nathan A. Fishbach. Coauthor 2011
AJR 84 A Wisconsin children's outdoor bill of rights. Coauthor 2011
AJR 83 Honoring Wisconsin's retiring teachers for their years of service and contributions to our state's educational system and its students. Coauthor 2011
AJR 72 Recognizing October 2011 as Comprehensive Women's Health Month. Coauthor 2011
AJR 71 Commending Michael R. Lovell as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Coauthor 2011
AJR 70 Recognizing October 6 as German-American Day. Coauthor 2011
AJR 62 Public notice for assembly, senate, and joint committee meetings. Lead author 2011
AJR 60 The life and public service of Judge Terence T. Evans. Lead author 2011
AJR 52 Requiring the legislature to enact laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to meetings of governmental bodies, including the legislature, and making members of the legislature subject to citations and civil penalties for violations of such laws (first consideration). Lead author 2011
AJR 50 Expenditure of funds for legal and consulting services relating to the redistricting of congressional and legislative districts. Lead author 2011
AJR 45 Commending State Auditor Janice Mueller on the occasion of her retirement. Coauthor 2011
AJR 30 The life and public service of John E. McCormick. Lead author 2011
AJR 22 The life and public service of Steven J. Hilgenberg. Coauthor 2011
AJR 129 A panel of court of appeals judges in disciplinary proceedings involving a supreme court justice (first consideration). Coauthor 2011
AJR 128 Temporary service by a court of appeals judge in the supreme court in judicial disciplinary proceedings (first consideration). Coauthor 2011
AJR 102 The life and public service of Jean Lucey. Lead author 2011
AJR 1 Honoring the life and achievements of Hank Raymonds. Coauthor 2011
AB 93 Prohibiting purchase of tobacco products on behalf of, or to provide to, a minor and providing penalties. Coauthor 2011
AB 9 Marketing assistance program for Wisconsin Tier II and Tier III manufacturers and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
AB 699 Prohibiting promulgation or enforcement of certain rules or policies relating to public access to the state capitol building. Coauthor 2011
AB 697 Changes to BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core programs by the department of health services and by waiver, disallowing certain carry-forward amounts for combined reporting purposes, and making an appropriation. Lead author 2011
AB 696 External review process of health benefit plan decisions. Lead author 2011
AB 687 An objective standard for the disqualification of a judge or justice. Coauthor 2011
AB 686 Disqualification of a judge or justice. Coauthor 2011
AB 685 Judicial disqualification based on campaign financial support. Coauthor 2011
AB 684 Notice of certain political contributions made to a judge or justice. Coauthor 2011
AB 683 Equally divided determinations of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on matters of judicial discipline or permanent disability. Coauthor 2011
AB 682 Authority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to review a decision of a justice to deny a motion to disqualify the justice. Coauthor 2011
AB 680 Creating a property tax exemption for a nonprofit youth baseball association. Coauthor 2011
AB 672 Allocation of national mortgage foreclosure settlement proceeds and making appropriations. Coauthor 2011
AB 648 Establishing an assistant state public defender pay progression plan. Lead author 2011
AB 636 Prohibiting the expenditure of moneys from the national mortgage settlement without legislative approval. Lead author 2011
AB 622 Requiring pulse oximetry in newborns. Coauthor 2011
AB 619 Grants for dental students, and loan assistance for dentists, who agree to practice in dental health shortage areas, or to provide services to Medical Assistance recipients, in this state, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. Coauthor 2011
AB 58 State finances, compensation and fringe benefits of public employees, the Medical Assistance program, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
AB 577 Funding for the urban mass transit operating assistance program and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
AB 537 The disclosure of electronic juvenile court records to other juvenile courts, municipal courts, courts of criminal jurisdiction, district attorneys and other prosecutors, and law enforcement agencies and providing a penalty. Lead author 2011
AB 529 Licensing of taxicabs by a 1st class city. Coauthor 2011
AB 514 Addition of crimes that qualify a juvenile for the Serious Juvenile Offender Program. Lead author 2011
AB 488 Establishing an assistant district attorney pay progression plan. Coauthor 2011
AB 477 Removing cap on enrollment of Family Care and other long-term care programs. Coauthor 2011
AB 462 Eligibility of certain employees who are affected by labor disputes for unemployment compensation benefits. Coauthor 2011
AB 461 The statute of limitations for sexual contact with a child. Coauthor 2011
AB 459 Awards of punitive damages. Lead author 2011
AB 458 Requiring certain medical loss ratios for health benefit plans. Lead author 2011
AB 433 Requiring an ignition interlock device for first drunken driving offenses. Coauthor 2011
AB 424 Battery to or threatening a court employee or threatening damage to a courthouse and providing penalties. Coauthor 2011
AB 423 Intentionally causing bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 409 Notice of eligibility and benefit changes in Medical Assistance. Coauthor 2011
AB 405 Making fourth offense operating while intoxicated a felony and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
AB 361 Management and preservation of records and correspondence of members of the legislature. Lead author 2011
AB 349 Family planning services under the Medical Assistance waiver program. Coauthor 2011
AB 348 Family planning services and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
AB 345 Arbitration agreements used by long-term care facilities, civil and criminal actions against health care providers and long-term care providers, use in civil and criminal actions and confidentiality of incident and occurrence reports, use as evidence of records given to a regulatory agency, use in criminal actions of records of reviews and evaluations of health care providers, limits on noneconomic damages, limits on punitive damages, and providing a penalty. Lead author 2011
AB 340 Credit cards issued to underage customers, higher education institutions and the marketing of credit cards, financial literacy requirements for higher education students, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Lead author 2011
AB 339 Eliminating the ability for the Department of Health Services to alter Medical Assistance eligibility, provider payment methods, and other Medical Assistance procedures by policy. Coauthor 2011
AB 338 Collective bargaining for public employees, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. Coauthor 2011
AB 332 Inclusion in the economic impact analysis for a proposed rule an assessment of the impact that the proposed rule will have on public health and the environment. Coauthor 2011
AB 313 Unclassified division administrators in the state civil service system. Coauthor 2011
AB 312 Implementing federal health insurance law changes. Lead author 2011
AB 278 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 and payments to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation related to extended-range electric vehicles; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
AB 230 Deletion of the waiting period for collection of unemployment insurance benefits. Coauthor 2011
AB 167 Waiver for prescription drug assistance for elderly program, use of excess moneys in prescription drug assistance for elderly program, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
AB 151 Copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for oral chemotherapy and injected or intravenous chemotherapy. Coauthor 2011
AB 10 Requiring the Department of Commerce to organize trade and marketing forums for Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III manufacturers and making an appropriation. 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 46 Proclaiming Juror Appreciation Month. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 43 The life and public service of Linda Farley. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 35 Encouraging the purchase and use of American goods and services with federal economic renewal grants. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 12 Recognizing and supporting national Minority Cancer Awareness Week. Cosponsor 2009
SB 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 9 A tort action for intentional misrepresentation in a residential real estate transaction. Cosponsor 2009
SB 89 Requirements for pupils enrolled in five-year-old kindergarten. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 8 State procurement of contractual services. Cosponsor 2009
SB 78 Protections for tenants in foreclosure actions. Cosponsor 2009
SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 72 Portability under group health benefit plans and independent review of insurance policy rescissions and preexisting condition exclusion denials under group and individual health benefit plans. Cosponsor 2009
SB 71 Preexisting condition exclusions, modifications at renewal, and establishing a standard application for individual health benefit plans and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 70 Coverage of dependents under health care plans. Cosponsor 2009
SB 692 An income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 690 Establishment of a Wisconsin conservation corps program, authorizing a transfer of moneys appropriated to one or more state agencies, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. 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 650 Requiring sellers of residential real property and landlords of residential rental property to disclose that methamphetamine has been manufactured on the property. Cosponsor 2009
SB 647 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. Cosponsor 2009
SB 643 Sales and transfers of firearms, records from sales of firearms, possession of firearms by persons convicted of violent offenses that are not felonies, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 635 Duties of physicians and of the Medical Examining Board and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 628 Physical examinations and discovery of patients' records in civil actions. Cosponsor 2009
SB 621 Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 608 Requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota. Cosponsor 2009
SB 6 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. Cosponsor 2009
SB 587 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. Cosponsor 2009
SB 579 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 525 Prohibiting institutions of higher education from engaging in certain activity regarding student credit cards, requiring such institutions to provide financial literacy information to students, creating requirements for credit cards issued to underage customers, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 524 Subpoenas and warrants requiring providers of electronic communications services or of remote computing services to provide customer information or disclose contents of wire or electronic communications. Cosponsor 2009
SB 523 Unfair labor practices in violation of collective bargaining rights. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 514 Additions to the 2009-11 Authorized State Building Program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 513 Life settlements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 50 Legislative oversight of expenditure of federal economic stimulus funds. Cosponsor 2009
SB 5 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 49 Changing the procedures for filling vacant civil service positions in the city of Milwaukee. Cosponsor 2009
SB 484 The BadgerCare Plus Basic Plan, Benchmark Plan benefits, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 471 Health care plans operated by cooperative associations. 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 434 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. Cosponsor 2009
SB 423 Library boards of public libraries established in a first class city. Cosponsor 2009
SB 418 Disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 40 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 4 The regulation of traveling sales crews, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 393 Restoring the Minority Business Development Board and the Minority Business Grant and Loan Program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 39 Cash value of life insurance regarding eligibility for the veterans assistance program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 381 Notice of firearm prohibition when served with notice of an injunction hearing and process for surrendering firearms following the granting of certain injunctions. Cosponsor 2009
SB 367 Requiring a person to report a stolen or lost firearm, creating a database for stolen and lost firearms, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 362 Health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems. Cosponsor 2009
SB 345 Allowing an individual without a qualifying child to claim the earned income tax credit. Cosponsor 2009
SB 339 Certification and licensure of real estate appraisers and requirements for appraisal reports and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 329 Municipal court fees. Cosponsor 2009
SB 324 Providing instruction in human growth and development. Cosponsor 2009
SB 319 The statute of limitations for sexual contact with a child. Cosponsor 2009
SB 297 The immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal of motor vehicles for multiple nonmoving traffic violations. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 289 Factors for setting premium rates for motor vehicle insurance. Cosponsor 2009
SB 271 Prohibiting the manufacture and sale at wholesale of certain baby bottles and cups for children that contain bisphenol A, creating labeling requirements, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 27 Requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. Cosponsor 2009
SB 263 Criteria for determining indigency for purposes of representation by the State Public Defender and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 259 The homestead exemption and increases in the value of the exemption for various property that is exempt from execution. Cosponsor 2009
SB 255 Notification of default and mediation regarding residential real property subject to foreclosure and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 24 Creating an individual income tax checkoff for Wisconsin food banks that are members of Feeding America and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 213 Notification of alternative dispute resolution in foreclosure actions. Cosponsor 2009
SB 208 Regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 203 Claims for loss of society and companionship in medical malpractice cases. Cosponsor 2009
SB 202 School policies on bullying. Cosponsor 2009
SB 200 Products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 20 Authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment to pay compensatory and punitive damages and a surcharge and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 192 The possession and consumption of alcohol beverages on retail licensed premises in a park in a 1st class city. Cosponsor 2009
SB 185 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 182 Statute of limitations for intentional torts. Cosponsor 2009
SB 181 Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 179 Deceptive election practices; voter intimidation, suppression, and protection; granting rule-making authority; and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 176 A sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 174 Creating a microstamping requirement for certain handguns, certification of compliance with the microstamping requirement, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 144 Authorizing sharing of tax increments by certain environmental remediation tax incremental districts. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 138 Creating an income and franchise tax credit for motor vehicles that use gasoline and ethanol mixtures as fuel and for fuel efficient hybrid motor vehicles. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 127 Notification to the state and certain public agencies regarding a medical malpractice claim and limits on liability. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 121 Requiring the Center on Education and Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to establish a career conversations program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 12 The operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake. Cosponsor 2009
SB 115 Licensure of dietitians and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 113 The appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 108 Mandatory overtime hours and on-call time worked by health care workers and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 107 The sale, disposal, collection, and recycling of electronic devices, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 10 The income and franchise tax credit that supplements the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit. Cosponsor 2009
AR 28 Commemorating the Bay View labor strike and massacre. Coauthor 2009
AR 16 Urging and authorizing the attorney general to pursue every legal means available to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. Lead author 2009
AJR 87 The life and public service of Reuben K. Harpole, Jr. Lead author 2009
AJR 64 The life and public service of Linda Farley. Coauthor 2009
AJR 60 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. Coauthor 2009
AJR 57 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. Coauthor 2009