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Republican Representative · Assembly District 5

Source: Wisconsin Legislature , Wisconsin Ethics Commission · pulled · record through

Floor votes missed
1 of 429
Bills led
50 · 1 became law
Votes with their party
98% · 242 votes, 2025
Committees
8

Bills they led · 50

Bills where Joy Goeben 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 50 bills they led: 1 became law, 3 were vetoed, 11 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

1 became law 3 vetoed 2 passed one chamber 44 died at session end
Became law 1 bills
  • AB 123 Calculation of miles for purposes of relocation of a child 100 miles or more from the other parent in an action affecting the family. 2025
Vetoed 3 bills
  • AB 614 A teacher’s authority to manage the teacher’s class, parental notification of disruptive or violent behavior at school, and a school district’s code of conduct. (FE) 2025
  • AB 502 Outdoor advertising signs that do not conform to local ordinances and that are affected by certain transportation-related projects; compensation for takings of signs, and appraisals upon which jurisdictional offers are based. (FE) 2025
  • AB 105 The distribution of certain material on the Internet. 2025
Passed one chamber 2 bills
  • AR 11 Declaring January as Blood Donor Month in the State of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 47 Declaring May as Eye Health Awareness Month. 2025
Died at session end 44 bills
  • AB 963 Social media accounts for minors and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 962 App stores and app developers and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 961 Warning labels for explicit content, creating an explicit content label warning surcharge, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 806 Parental access to health records of minors. 2025
  • AB 665 Subtraction of charitable contributions by non-itemizers. (FE) 2025
  • AB 660 Refundable individual income tax credit for premarital counseling and making an appropriation. 2025
  • AB 613 Notifying parents if a pupil is removed from the classroom. (FE) 2025
  • AB 603 Providing written notice of tax assessor entry upon property. (FE) 2025
  • AB 56 Requiring the display of the national motto in public schools and on public buildings. (FE) 2025
  • AB 546 Limitations on the definition of abortion. 2025
  • AB 53 Special circumstances battery to a community service officer and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 463 Eligibility for an occupational license for individuals with four or more convictions of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. 2025
  • AB 449 Local regulation of accessory dwelling units. (FE) 2025
  • AB 421 Prohibiting rights of nature ordinances. (FE) 2025
  • AB 420 Teacher preparatory programs. 2025
  • AB 40 School safety grants and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 382 Requirements for children born alive following abortion or attempted abortion and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 350 The regulation of family and group child care centers. (FE) 2025
  • AB 349 Allowing certified child care operators to provide care to up to six children. (FE) 2025
  • AB 348 The minimum age of assistant child care teachers. 2025
  • AB 323 Ratification of the Cosmetology Licensure Compact. (FE) 2025
  • AB 230 Requiring retail sellers to accept cash and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 229 The law enforcement officers’ bill of rights. 2025
  • AB 191 Requiring a subpoena to a law enforcement officer or tribal law enforcement officer served in official capacity to be served at the officer’s work address. 2025
  • AB 152 Bid requirement for publication and printing of county board proceedings, notices, and advertisements in counties having a population of 250,000 or more and at least two English newspapers published daily. 2025
  • AB 124 Prohibiting persons who have been convicted of a violent crime from changing their name and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 11 Pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients. 2025
  • AB 1094 Dissemination of personally identifying information of an officer and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 999 Labeling food as a type of dairy product or as a dairy ingredient and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2023
  • AB 955 Prohibiting discrimination in organ transplantation and donation on the basis of an individual's vaccination status. 2023
  • AB 851 License requirement exemption for retail food establishments that sell or process cotton candy. 2023
  • AB 577 An election official's personal information; battery against election officials; whistleblower protection for municipal clerks, county clerks, and election officials who witness and report election fraud or irregularities; harassing election officials; and providing a penalty. 2023
  • AB 486 Outdoor advertising signs that do not conform to local ordinances and that are affected by certain transportation-related projects. (FE) 2023
  • AB 392 Allowing certified child care operators to provide care to up to six children. (FE) 2023
  • AB 391 Modifying administrative rules regarding the number of child care workers and children in group child care centers. 2023
  • AB 390 Modifying administrative rules relating to assistant child care teachers. 2023
  • AB 389 The regulation of large family child care centers. (FE) 2023
  • AB 387 Creating a child care reimbursement account program, providing an income tax subtraction for certain contributions to a child care reimbursement account, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2023
  • AB 329 Child sex dolls and providing a penalty. 2023
  • AB 300 An election official's personal information, battery against election officials, whistleblower protection for municipal clerks, county clerks, and election officials who witness and report election fraud or irregularities, and providing a penalty. 2023
  • AB 162 Notification of certain facility closures, change in type or level of services or means of reimbursement accepted, and care management organization notification of contract termination with a provider that is a nursing home or community-based residential facility. 2023
  • AB 160 Requiring allowance for health care providers to refer individuals to aging and disability resource centers for options counseling. 2023
  • AB 144 Preliminary health care credentials granted to previously unlicensed individuals. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1035 Requiring the community approach to four-year-old kindergarten. (FE) 2023

Coauthored · 358

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Joy Goeben 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 358 coauthored bills
  • AJR 97 Proclaiming October 2025 as Careers in Construction Month. 2025
  • AJR 83 Recognizing September 15 to October 15, 2025, as Hispanic Heritage Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 8 Restricting the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an appropriation bill that are capable of separate enactment and reducing appropriations in a bill (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 59 Proclaiming June as Dairy Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 4 Honoring the life and public service of Justice David T. Prosser Jr. 2025
  • AJR 3 Proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 29 Celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 133 Legislative suspension of rules promulgated by state agencies (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 127 Prohibiting the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee (second consideration). 2025
  • AJR 122 Recognizing December 25 as the celebration of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 2025
  • AJR 112 The right to keep and bear arms (first consideration). 2025
  • AJR 102 Prohibiting governmental entity discrimination (second consideration). 2025
  • AJR 101 Honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. 2025
  • AJR 100 Recognizing October as Vaccine Injury Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • AJR 10 The freedom to gather in places of worship during a state of emergency (second consideration). 2025
  • AJR 1 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • AB 990 Personal financial literacy high school graduation requirement. 2025
  • AB 974 A public affairs network trust fund, grants to the WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network, and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 97 Extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) 2025
  • AB 965 Artificial intelligence systems that simulate humanlike relationships with children and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 964 Internet crimes against children administrative subpoenas for the crime of sexual extortion when the crime victim is a child. (FE) 2025
  • AB 958 Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE) 2025
  • AB 957 Internet crimes against children law enforcement and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 955 The rule-making authority of agencies. (FE) 2025
  • AB 913 Subtraction for certain income of members of the National Guard and Reserves. (FE) 2025
  • AB 912 An audiovisual recording of a child’s statement admitted as evidence. 2025
  • AB 901 Net metering for rooftop solar energy systems. 2025
  • AB 89 Theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 88 Civil action for injury or damages resulting from riot or vandalism, participation in a riot, prohibiting certain limitations or restrictions on law enforcement responses to riot or vandalism activity, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 865 The use of live animals in medical training and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 86 Imposing the penalty of life imprisonment for the crime of child trafficking and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 842 Remote dispensing sites under the pharmacy practice law. 2025
  • AB 831 Recording and taxation of real property containing a building, improvement, or fixture and consisting of no land. (FE) 2025
  • AB 83 Governmental restrictions based on the energy source of a motor vehicle or other device. 2025
  • AB 820 The practice of audiology, licensure of audiologists, the composition of the Hearing and Speech Examining Board, and repealing an administrative rule related to the practical examination of audiologists. (FE) 2025
  • AB 817 Reimbursement for the provision of military funeral honors. (FE) 2025
  • AB 810 Recess in public schools. (FE) 2025
  • AB 808 A wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 795 Including information about investigations of license holders in an online licensing portal maintained by the Department of Public Instruction. (FE) 2025
  • AB 792 Excluding costs funded by referenda from shared costs for the purpose of determining general equalization aids for school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 791 Intentionally sending false text messages to 911 and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 77 Registration plate concealment devices and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 749 Instruction in blood and organ donation in high school grades. (FE) 2025
  • AB 732 Prohibiting noncommercial uses of neonicotinoid pesticides. (FE) 2025
  • AB 71 School district operating referenda. 2025
  • AB 709 Alternative methods of providing pupil transportation services. (FE) 2025
  • AB 701 Adopting the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act. 2025
  • AB 7 Requiring local approval for certain wind and solar projects before Public Service Commission approval. 2025
  • AB 69 The sales and use tax exemption for electricity and natural gas sold for residential use. (FE) 2025
  • AB 674 Prohibiting knowingly covering organ transplantation and related care under health insurance policies and the Medical Assistance program if the organ is transplanted in or originates from a country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting. (FE) 2025

Showing 50 of 358, see the full record

Cosponsored · 382

Bills from the other house that Joy Goeben 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 382 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 99 Recognizing October 14, 2025, as First Responders Appreciation Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 96 Proclaiming October 2025 as Careers in Construction Month. 2025
  • SJR 94 Prohibiting governmental entity discrimination (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 9 Honoring the life and public service of Justice David T. Prosser Jr. 2025
  • SJR 89 Recognizing October as Vaccine Injury Awareness Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 88 Honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. 2025
  • SJR 63 Proclaiming June as Dairy Month in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 51 Declaring May as Eye Health Awareness Month. 2025
  • SJR 4 The freedom to gather in places of worship during a state of emergency (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 3 Proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 26 Celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin. 2025
  • SJR 2 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 124 Legislative suspension of rules promulgated by state agencies (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 116 Prohibiting the governor from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 114 Recognizing December 25 as the celebration of the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ. 2025
  • SJR 11 Restricting the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an appropriation bill that are capable of separate enactment and reducing appropriations in a bill (first consideration). 2025
  • SJR 105 The right to keep and bear arms (first consideration). 2025
  • SB 999 The voluntary surrender of a license issued by the Department of Public Instruction during an investigation of immoral conduct, prohibited agreements related to information related to an investigation of immoral conduct, and records related to an investigation of immoral conduct. 2025
  • SB 983 The definition of “veteran” for purposes of certain state veterans benefits. 2025
  • SB 956 Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE) 2025
  • SB 955 Internet crimes against children law enforcement and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 953 Internet crimes against children administrative subpoenas for the crime of sexual extortion when the crime victim is a child. (FE) 2025
  • SB 940 The rule-making authority of agencies. (FE) 2025
  • SB 94 Civil action for injury or damages resulting from riot or vandalism, participation in a riot, prohibiting certain limitations or restrictions on law enforcement responses to riot or vandalism activity, and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 939 Artificial intelligence systems that simulate humanlike relationships with children and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 938 Warning labels for explicit content, creating an explicit content label warning surcharge, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 937 App stores and app developers and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 936 Social media accounts for minors and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 929 Subtraction for certain income of members of the National Guard and Reserves. (FE) 2025
  • SB 921 Personal financial literacy high school graduation requirement. 2025
  • SB 92 Theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 91 Imposing the penalty of life imprisonment for the crime of child trafficking and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 90 The sales and use tax exemption for electricity and natural gas sold for residential use. (FE) 2025
  • SB 892 Net metering for rooftop solar energy systems. 2025
  • SB 884 An audiovisual recording of a child’s statement admitted as evidence. 2025
  • SB 860 The practice of audiology, licensure of audiologists, the composition of the Hearing and Speech Examining Board, and repealing an administrative rule related to the practical examination of audiologists. (FE) 2025
  • SB 851 The use of live animals in medical training and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 832 Remote dispensing sites under the pharmacy practice law. 2025
  • SB 82 Governmental restrictions based on the energy source of a motor vehicle or other device. 2025
  • SB 813 Recording and taxation of real property containing a building, improvement, or fixture and consisting of no land. (FE) 2025
  • SB 810 Reimbursement for the provision of military funeral honors. (FE) 2025
  • SB 81 School district operating referenda. 2025
  • SB 805 Recess in public schools. (FE) 2025
  • SB 8 Repair and replacement of implements of husbandry under warranty. 2025
  • SB 799 Parental access to health records of minors. 2025
  • SB 798 A wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • SB 785 Including information about investigations of license holders in an online licensing portal maintained by the Department of Public Instruction. (FE) 2025
  • SB 782 Intentionally sending false text messages to 911 and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 781 Excluding costs funded by referenda from shared costs for the purpose of determining general equalization aids for school districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 75 Venue for actions in which there is a governmental party. 2025

Showing 50 of 382, see the full record

Campaign money

$24,010 reported receipts across 119 records

Jan 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2026. Includes collected receipts before taking office. Latest reported transaction: Jul 2, 2026. Earliest collected receipt in this view: Apr 26, 2025. Filings and amendments may be missing; totals cover collected records.

2025
Receipts by quarter in the selected period. Gold bars with a tick under them are election quarters; peak $18,270 in 2026 Q2.
Quarter by quarter
  • 2025 Q2: $100
  • 2025 Q3: $3,750
  • 2025 Q4: $450
  • 2026 Q1: $200
  • 2026 Q2: $18,270
  • 2026 Q3: $1,240

Where it came from

  • Individuals: $15,260 (64%)
  • Political committees: $7,500 (31%)
  • Unregistered: $1,250 (5%)

Source types exactly as the committee reported each receipt to CFIS.

Top contributing committees

PACs, party and other political committees

Top individual donors

within the selected period, grouped by CFIS donor identity

  • Chad Hertler 1 receipts $1,000
  • Matthew Haefs 2 receipts $1,000
  • Joseph Bast 1 receipts $1,000
  • Richard Heidel Trust 2 receipts $500
  • Sara Wang 1 receipts $500

Top occupations of individual donors

as reported by donors; individuals gave $15,260 in total

  • Retired $3,250
  • Realtor $1,000
  • pastor $1,000
  • consultant $650
  • Village President $500

Source: Wisconsin Ethics Commission campaign finance filings (campaignfinance.wi.gov), refreshed nightly. Wisconsin law bars corporations from contributing to candidates; money comes from individuals and political committees. Totals cover verified candidate committees, including runs for other offices. Receipts can include loans, transfers, refunds, and in-kind support. All available history starts no earlier than July 2008 and may have gaps. Full methodology

Key votes · 153

Selected by rule, not judgment: the final recorded passage vote of every bill that became law, any floor vote decided by five or fewer, and every veto-override vote. Each row links to the official roll call.

Votes against their party · 18

Roll calls where Joy Goeben voted opposite the majority of Republicans casting an Aye or Nay on that roll call. Ties within the party are excluded; absences never count. Each row links to the official roll call.

Show all 18 party-break votes
  • Jan 22, 2026 AB 472 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 52 Aye–1 Nay roll call
  • Jan 15, 2026 AB 226 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 49 Aye–3 Nay roll call
  • May 13, 2025 AB 43 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 43 Aye–10 Nay roll call
  • Feb 19, 2025 AB 3 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 51 Aye–3 Nay roll call
  • Feb 19, 2025 AB 4 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 52 Aye–2 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 55 Aye–9 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 57 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 56 Aye–8 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 57 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND Voted Nay; Republicans split 57 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Jan 25, 2024 AB 975 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 53 Aye–11 Nay roll call
  • Nov 9, 2023 AB 493 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 52 Aye–10 Nay roll call
  • Nov 9, 2023 AB 552 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 53 Aye–9 Nay roll call
  • Nov 9, 2023 SB 166 CONCURRENCE Voted Nay; Republicans split 57 Aye–5 Nay roll call
  • Oct 17, 2023 AB 438 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 46 Aye–16 Nay roll call
  • Oct 17, 2023 AB 439 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 46 Aye–16 Nay roll call
  • Jun 21, 2023 AB 321 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 59 Aye–2 Nay roll call
  • Jun 21, 2023 AB 176 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 48 Aye–11 Nay roll call

Floor attendance

Only days the chamber held recorded floor votes are shown, on every tile below, they either voted or missed: 429 votes across 50 voting days, 1 missed.

voted all present, not voting missed votes (striped)
2026
Missed-vote days in 2026 · 1
  • Jan 20: missed 1 of 10
2025
2024
2023

Vote history · 428

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