Every Bill Led or Signed

1,774 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1,401–1,600.

SB 143 The Wisconsin on indicator for unemployment insurance extended benefit purposes. Coauthor 2011
SB 136 A disclosure report for sellers of vacant land. Coauthor 2011
SB 121 Requiring the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to create and implement a business retention program, increasing the funding for skills enhancement grants, advanced manufacturing skills grants for technical colleges, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2011
SB 119 The appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Coauthor 2011
SB 104 Requiring persons who violate certain restraining orders or injunctions to be monitored by a global positioning system, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
SB 101 Copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for oral chemotherapy and injected or intravenous chemotherapy. Coauthor 2011
AJR 99 Honoring Barbara A. Bitters. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 95 Honoring the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 91 Commending the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team for winning a fourth national championship. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 89 Commending Ralph Bruno, the creator of the cheesehead hat. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 88 Commemorating the achievements and contributions of Western Technical College on the occasion of its centennial. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 84 A Wisconsin children's outdoor bill of rights. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 83 Honoring Wisconsin's retiring teachers for their years of service and contributions to our state's educational system and its students. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 76 Commending the Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry and their emergency response personnel. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 73 Proclaiming November 2011 as pancreatic cancer awareness month. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 70 Recognizing October 6 as German-American Day. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 7 Recognizing American Heart Month and Wear Red Day. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 69 Declaring October 2011 as Co-op Month. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 67 National Adoption Month. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 66 Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 65 Commending Major General Marcia Anderson. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 62 Public notice for assembly, senate, and joint committee meetings. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 6 The life and service of General Vang Pao. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 59 Proclaiming Diabetes Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 45 Commending State Auditor Janice Mueller on the occasion of her retirement. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 40 Proclaiming May 2011 as Mental Health Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 37 Proclaiming May 2011 as Mental Health Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 2 The life and public service of Dismas P. Becker. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 18 Recognizing 2011 as World Veterinary Year. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 133 Proclaiming women's history month. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 126 Commending Cambridge native Matt Kenseth on his second win of the Daytona 500. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 125 Commending Milwaukee Area Technical College on the occasion of its 100th year of service. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 123 Honoring the members of Bon Iver and Justin Vernon on their 2012 Grammy Awards. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 121 Amending the U.S. Constitution via congressional action or constitutional convention to establish that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights of natural persons and that money is not speech. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 120 Proclaiming May 18, 19, and 20, 2012, Syttende Mai Weekend. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 117 The life and public service of Jim Irwin. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 108 Declaring December 12, 2012, Aaron Rodgers Day. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 102 The life and public service of Jean Lucey. Cosponsor 2011
AB 97 Advanced manufacturing skills grants for technical colleges. Cosponsor 2011
AB 91 The cost threshold for applicability of the prevailing wage law to a highway, road, street, bridge, sanitary sewer, or water main project contracted by a town. Cosponsor 2011
AB 738 Mobile examining stations operated by the Department of Transportation for processing operator's license and identification card applications and use of an affidavit by certain electors as proof of identification for voting. Cosponsor 2011
AB 724 Use of veterans identification cards as proof of identification for voting. Cosponsor 2011
AB 722 Changing the computation order for the dairy and livestock farm investment credit. Cosponsor 2011
AB 701 Reporting requirements regarding economic development programs of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 700 Posting of gubernatorial appointment vacancies on the Internet Web site of the Office of the Governor. Cosponsor 2011
AB 699 Prohibiting promulgation or enforcement of certain rules or policies relating to public access to the state capitol building. Cosponsor 2011
AB 695 Compensation for loss of fermented malt beverages distribution rights. Cosponsor 2011
AB 69 The privilege of self-defense. Cosponsor 2011
AB 606 Brucellosis testing of milk, cream, and cattle and restrictions on moving or sale of American bison and other animal species. Cosponsor 2011
AB 577 Funding for the urban mass transit operating assistance program and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 564 A pupil's possession and use of an epinephrine auto-injector. Cosponsor 2011
AB 559 Authorizing the creation of regional transit authorities and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2011
AB 55 Vehicle failure-to-yield violations. Cosponsor 2011
AB 535 Exception to local levy limits for the village of Warrens. Cosponsor 2011
AB 489 Financial assistance for the livestock premises registration program, a tax credit for livestock identification tags and tag-reading equipment, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 48 Information about land acquired with stewardship funding. Cosponsor 2011
AB 474 Changing the deadline for approval of a certain federal law waiver request affecting the Medical Assistance program. Cosponsor 2011
AB 473 Delaying the restrictions on participation by the University of Wisconsin System in selling or providing telecommunications services. Cosponsor 2011
AB 471 Changing terminology for those with an intellectual disability. Cosponsor 2011
AB 468 The authority of credit unions to make donations and grants. Cosponsor 2011
AB 462 Eligibility of certain employees who are affected by labor disputes for unemployment compensation benefits. Cosponsor 2011
AB 458 Requiring certain medical loss ratios for health benefit plans. Cosponsor 2011
AB 454 The performance of highway improvement projects by a county and private construction projects by a political subdivision. Cosponsor 2011
AB 409 Notice of eligibility and benefit changes in Medical Assistance. Cosponsor 2011
AB 4 Automobile insurance coverage limits, permissible policy provisions, and proof of financial responsibility. Cosponsor 2011
AB 341 The eligibility for relocation tax benefits. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2011
AB 338 Collective bargaining for public employees, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2011
AB 331 Authorizing the village of Stockholm to become a premier resort area. Cosponsor 2011
AB 322 Accessible instructional materials for students with disabilities enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or the Technical College System. Cosponsor 2011
AB 316 Financial assistance for local recycling programs and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 313 Unclassified division administrators in the state civil service system. Cosponsor 2011
AB 302 Regulation of nursing homes, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 281 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 276 Allowing certain pupils to possess and use an epinephrine auto-injector. Cosponsor 2011
AB 251 Fees for dental services. Cosponsor 2011
AB 230 Deletion of the waiting period for collection of unemployment insurance benefits. Cosponsor 2011
AB 228 Exemptions from securities registration requirements. Cosponsor 2011
AB 226 Notice of the fee for identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 221 Veteran preference points. Cosponsor 2011
AB 218 The appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Cosponsor 2011
AB 213 Adopting federal law as it relates to excluding from an employee's income certain payments from an employer related to medical care. Cosponsor 2011
AB 175 Requiring persons who violate certain restraining orders or injunctions to be monitored by a global positioning system, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2011
AB 151 Copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for oral chemotherapy and injected or intravenous chemotherapy. Cosponsor 2011
AB 133 Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
SR 5 Memorializing Congress to enact the Employee Free Choice Act. Coauthor 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 70 Recognizing Aquaculture Day. Lead author 2009
SJR 52 The life and public service of Ernest Paul Sobotta. Lead author 2009
SJR 51 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 43 The life and public service of Linda Farley. Coauthor 2009
SJR 4 Recognizing February 2009 as American Heart Month and February 6, 2009, as Wear Red For Women Day. Coauthor 2009
SJR 28 Proclaiming April 22, 2009, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff. Coauthor 2009
SJR 20 Proclaiming the Week of the Young Child. Coauthor 2009
SJR 19 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 17 Proclaiming March of every year as Irish-American Heritage Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 15 Commending Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan on his appointment as archbishop of New York. Coauthor 2009
SJR 14 Declaring March 2009 American Red Cross Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 13 The Professional Ambulance Association of Wisconsin. Coauthor 2009
SJR 12 Recognizing and supporting national Minority Cancer Awareness Week. Coauthor 2009
SB 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Lead author 2009
SB 91 The use of cellular telephones and other devices while operating certain motor vehicles transporting children and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 89 Requirements for pupils enrolled in five-year-old kindergarten. Coauthor 2009
SB 87 Increasing the maximum annual loan amount under the property tax deferral loan program of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 77 Changes to economic development tax benefit programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Lead author 2009
SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Lead author 2009
SB 74 Health insurance coverage denials for eligibility under the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan. Lead author 2009
SB 73 The lifetime limit under the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan. Lead author 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. Lead author 2009
SB 71 Preexisting condition exclusions, modifications at renewal, and establishing a standard application for individual health benefit plans and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
SB 707 The small business health options program authority, health benefit plan exchange for small employers and certain individuals, and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
SB 70 Coverage of dependents under health care plans. Lead author 2009
SB 684 Agreements between political subdivisions to operate a nursing home or intermediate care facility. Lead author 2009
SB 675 Reducing the tax incremental base of tax incremental district number 3 in the city of Durand. Lead author 2009
SB 67 Preparation time as a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. Coauthor 2009
SB 667 Licensure and regulation of behavior analysts, insurance coverage of the services of behavior analysts for autism treatment, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 66 Operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 657 Abuse and neglect of patients and residents. Coauthor 2009
SB 656 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 651 Loans to manufacturing businesses for energy improvements, job creation, retooling, or clean energy production; the administration of energy utility programs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of emergency rule-making procedures; and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
SB 647 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. Coauthor 2009
SB 646 Motor vehicle insurance and proof of financial responsibility. Lead author 2009
SB 642 The period for which a person who has been convicted, sanctioned, or adjudicated delinquent for committing certain serious crimes is prohibited 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, permitting a person who is not permanently barred from residing at such a premises to demonstrate that he or she is not a threat to the safety of the children receiving care at the premises, and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
SB 633 A grant for providing assistance to individuals to obtain and maintain health care benefits and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 623 Processing certain applications for farmland preservation agreements. Coauthor 2009
SB 611 Providing information to a firearms dealer when purchasing a handgun, authorizing the Department of Justice to prosecute violations of certain laws regulating firearms, receiving a stolen firearm, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 608 Requiring the Department of Revenue to study income tax reciprocity with the state of Minnesota. Coauthor 2009
SB 603 The school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment. Lead author 2009
SB 599 Grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Lead author 2009
SB 598 The procedure for school district consolidations. Lead author 2009
SB 596 Transportation aid to school districts. Coauthor 2009
SB 595 Transportation of private school pupils. Coauthor 2009
SB 593 Student achievement guarantee in education program contracts. Coauthor 2009
SB 584 Mutual assistance between tribal and county or municipal law enforcement agencies. Coauthor 2009
SB 582 Public, educational, and governmental access channel requirements for video service providers and interim cable operators. Lead author 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 574 Exemption from execution for payments made to certain family farm businesses. Coauthor 2009
SB 559 The dairy and livestock investment tax credits. Lead author 2009
SB 556 The term of office of the commissioner of insurance. Lead author 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. 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 536 Promoting the use of locally grown food in school meals and snacks and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 527 The agricultural producer security program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
SB 526 Authorizing the village of Stockholm to become a premier resort area. Lead author 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. Lead author 2009
SB 523 Unfair labor practices in violation of collective bargaining rights. Coauthor 2009
SB 513 Life settlements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 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 51 Judicial discretion in certain John Doe proceedings and the provision of attorney representation of state employees at John Doe proceedings. Coauthor 2009
SB 507 Changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program. Coauthor 2009
SB 5 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 48 Catch and release bass and muskellunge fishing. Coauthor 2009
SB 471 Health care plans operated by cooperative associations. Coauthor 2009
SB 467 Using an electronic signature on a criminal complaint. Coauthor 2009
SB 465 The safe-ride grant program administered by the Department of Transportation. Lead author 2009
SB 46 Arbitration and fair-share agreements during collective bargaining negotiations under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Coauthor 2009
SB 454 Establishing a deer hunting season for certain persons serving on active duty in the U.S. armed forces or national guard. Lead author 2009
SB 451 Hospital staff privileges for and written agreements required for nurse-midwives and allowing nurse-midwives to elect to be covered under the injured patients and families compensation fund. Coauthor 2009
SB 447 State contractual services and false claims submitted to state and local governments, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 440 Waiving certain federal bond limitations allocated to cities and counties and requiring the Department of Commerce to develop a system for reallocating the bond limitations to other state and local units of government. Coauthor 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 431 The use of the terms college, university, state, and Wisconsin in the name of a school; the issuing, manufacture, or use of a false academic credential; the false use of a legitimate academic credential; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 43 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Coauthor 2009
SB 429 Establishing a presumption for employment-connected communicable diseases for fire fighters, emergency medical service providers, law enforcement officers, and certain correctional employees. 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 42 A report on food safety programs. Lead author 2009
SB 419 Requiring the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to establish standards for products sold as honey, prohibiting the labeling as Wisconsin certified honey of a product that has not been determined to meet the standards, prohibiting the labeling as honey of a product that does not meet the standards, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
SB 418 Disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 41 Indoor environmental quality in public and private schools. 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 402 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Lead author 2009
SB 40 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. 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 390 Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Coauthor 2009
SB 39 Cash value of life insurance regarding eligibility for the veterans assistance program. Coauthor 2009
SB 378 Exempting certain capital expenditures made by a technical college district from the requirement for a referendum. Coauthor 2009
SB 362 Health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems. Coauthor 2009
SB 35 The distribution of the first dollar property tax credit. Lead author 2009
SB 345 Allowing an individual without a qualifying child to claim the earned income tax credit. Coauthor 2009
SB 344 Making crimes based on gender of victim subject to a penalty enhancer and providing a penalty. Coauthor 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 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 327 Designating Wisconsin cheese as the Wisconsin state snack. Coauthor 2009
SB 321 Operation of neighborhood electric vehicles. Lead author 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. Lead author 2009
SB 291 Authorizing the designation of a tax incremental district as distressed and expanding the use of donor tax incremental districts. Coauthor 2009
SB 288 Indian child welfare. Coauthor 2009
SB 287 Transferring ownership and jurisdiction of a municipality's highways to an American Indian tribe or agency of the United States government. Lead author 2009
SB 282 Local government property insurance fund premiums. Lead author 2009
SB 280 Personal liability of officers, directors, and employees of child care providers. Coauthor 2009
SB 27 Requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. Coauthor 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 262 An exemption from recording for time-share licenses. Coauthor 2009
SB 259 The homestead exemption and increases in the value of the exemption for various property that is exempt from execution. Coauthor 2009
SB 254 Privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements. Coauthor 2009
SB 243 Hunting of deer during the open bow hunting season. Coauthor 2009