Every Bill Led or Signed

2,410 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 2,001–2,200.

AB 461 The statute of limitations for sexual contact with a child. Cosponsor 2011
AB 46 Eliminating the World Dairy Center Authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 455 The use of seclusion and physical restraint on pupils in public schools. Cosponsor 2011
AB 449 Increased penalty for repeated domestic abuse offenses and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 447 Authorizing a school board to grant a vocational high school diploma. Cosponsor 2011
AB 44 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. Cosponsor 2011
AB 439 Intoxicated operation of all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, motorboats, and motor vehicles, snowmobile safety instruction for persons under 16 years of age, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 42 Presumption and conclusive determination of paternity on basis of genetic test results and orders that may be granted on the basis of genetic test results. Cosponsor 2011
AB 416 Collection of money owed for failure to pay for gasoline or diesel fuel and obtaining information with personal identifiers from the Department of Transportation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 415 Use of law enforcement or juvenile court records to take disciplinary action against a pupil under a school district's athletic code. Cosponsor 2011
AB 397 Failing to report the death of a child or to report a missing child, moving the corpse of a child, hiding a corpse to collect public benefits, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 396 Relinquishing custody of a newborn child. Cosponsor 2011
AB 39 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Cosponsor 2011
AB 387 A sales and use tax exemption for coins, currency, and commemorative medallions. Cosponsor 2011
AB 379 Keeping certain name changes confidential. Cosponsor 2011
AB 377 The definition of rough fish and taking rough fish with a crossbow. Cosponsor 2011
AB 363 Regulating sales of plastic bulk merchandise containers to scrap plastic dealers and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 357 Allowing members of a dairy cooperative to claim the dairy manufacturing facility investment credit in the next taxable year. Cosponsor 2011
AB 328 Nonjudicial foreclosure of time-share estates and licenses. Cosponsor 2011
AB 324 Preaccreditation and accreditation of private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and the choice program for eligible school districts, certificates of occupancy for participating private school buildings, verification of income eligibility for pupils to participate in the programs, fees and tuition charged to pupils attending participating private schools, and standards of conduct for administrators of participating private schools. Cosponsor 2011
AB 314 Closing the parental choice program for eligible school districts to additional school districts. Cosponsor 2011
AB 300 Registration plates for dealers, distributors, manufacturers, and transporters of motor vehicles. Cosponsor 2011
AB 3 Tax incentives for job creation, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 291 Restrictions on the operation of motor vehicles by persons holding instruction permits or probationary licenses and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 29 Collective bargaining unit assignments under the State Employment Labor Relations Act. Cosponsor 2011
AB 284 Eliminating the right to refuse probation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 279 Excluding from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments expenditures made pursuant to a purchasing agreement with a school district. Cosponsor 2011
AB 277 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 276 Allowing certain pupils to possess and use an epinephrine auto-injector. Cosponsor 2011
AB 274 Requiring motorists to yield to railroad track equipment trains at railroad crossings and requiring a railroad to maintain its right-of-way. Cosponsor 2011
AB 269 Prohibitions against contacting certain persons and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 266 The sale of lead acid batteries and acceptance of used lead acid batteries. Cosponsor 2011
AB 262 Excluding permits and licenses from the definition of real property for property tax purposes. Cosponsor 2011
AB 261 The rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. Cosponsor 2011
AB 241 Differential tuition at certain institutions and colleges of the University of Wisconsin System. Cosponsor 2011
AB 240 The disclosure of electronic juvenile court records to law enforcement agencies and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 24 Privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements. Cosponsor 2011
AB 232 Rights of crime victims and witnesses. Cosponsor 2011
AB 23 Disinfection of municipal water supplies. Cosponsor 2011
AB 217 Impersonating certain officials and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 216 Maintenance and removal of vegetation obstructing the view of outdoor advertising signs along highways under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 209 Mandatory minimum sentences for certain child sex offenses. Cosponsor 2011
AB 205 A tax credit for hospitality business advertising. Cosponsor 2011
AB 201 Regulation of geothermal well drillers and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 190 Carrying a concealed weapon if prohibited from possessing a firearm, purchasing a firearm for a person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 174 Designating and marking a bridge on STH 33 in the city of Portage as the Pierre Pauquette Memorial Bridge. Cosponsor 2011
AB 163 A disclosure report for sellers of vacant land. Cosponsor 2011
AB 157 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Cosponsor 2011
AB 151 Copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance for oral chemotherapy and injected or intravenous chemotherapy. Cosponsor 2011
AB 148 Changes affecting state finances in the 2010-11 fiscal year and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 14 County and municipal expenditures for emergency services. Cosponsor 2011
AB 132 Motor vehicle dealers. Cosponsor 2011
AB 130 Granting high school credit for extracurricular sports; services provided by a special education program; transportation aid paid to school districts; the use of moneys received by a school district from the common school fund; using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate, discharge, suspend, or discipline a teacher or for the nonrenewal of a teacher's contract; the number of teaching days scheduled in the Milwaukee Public Schools; permitting a school district to limit the grades in which to reduce class size under the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education Program; permitting a school board to deny enrollment to a pupil who has been expelled from an out-of-state school or from an independent charter school in this state and permitting an independent charter school to expel a pupil; use of law enforcement records to take disciplinary action against a pupil under a school district's athletic code; and changing the date by which a school district must certify the amount of its property tax levy. Cosponsor 2011
AB 129 Creation of the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, creation of the badger jobs fund and the jobs now fund certification program, both of which are to be administered by the Wisconsin Venture Capital Authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 128 The amount of the exemption from income tax withholding requirements for employees of a county fair association. Cosponsor 2011
AB 124 Theft of certain services and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 12 The restoration of information from an original birth certificate after adoption. Cosponsor 2011
AB 118 Aiding a felon and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 113 Changing the boundaries of Marquette County and Green Lake County. Cosponsor 2011
AB 103 Receiving a stolen firearm and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 102 Crimes against children committed by certain persons and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
SR 8 Urging and authorizing the attorney general to pursue every legal means available to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. Coauthor 2009
SR 11 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
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 56 Proclaiming February 7 to 14, 2010, as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. Coauthor 2009
SJR 55 Declaring 2010 as the Year of John Muir. Lead author 2009
SJR 53 Honoring the life and public service of Joseph P. Mettner. Coauthor 2009
SJR 52 The life and public service of Ernest Paul Sobotta. Coauthor 2009
SJR 51 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 4 Recognizing February 2009 as American Heart Month and February 6, 2009, as Wear Red For Women Day. Coauthor 2009
SJR 30 Memorializing Congress to not enact the Employee Free Choice Act. 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 24 Proclaiming May as American Stroke Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 23 The life and military service of Sergeant Daniel James Thompson. Lead author 2009
SJR 20 Proclaiming the Week of the Young Child. Coauthor 2009
SJR 19 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 18 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SJR 17 Proclaiming March of every year as Irish-American Heritage Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 14 Declaring March 2009 American Red Cross Month. Coauthor 2009
SJR 13 The Professional Ambulance Association of Wisconsin. Coauthor 2009
SJR 10 The dissolution of state funds and accounts and prohibiting the state from changing the purpose of any state fund or program revenue appropriation account (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SB 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Coauthor 2009
SB 94 The licensing and regulation of thermal system insulation mechanics; creating a thermal system insulation council; requiring the employment of a state inspector; establishing standards for installing and maintaining thermal system insulation; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 91 The use of cellular telephones and other devices while operating certain motor vehicles transporting children and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 90 The registration of antique snowmobiles. Coauthor 2009
SB 9 A tort action for intentional misrepresentation in a residential real estate transaction. Coauthor 2009
SB 88 Purchase of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces. Coauthor 2009
SB 83 Strip searches. Coauthor 2009
SB 82 Access to employment records of candidates for law enforcement positions. Coauthor 2009
SB 80 The Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. Coauthor 2009
SB 79 Public disclosure of certain information when abuse or neglect results in a child dying or being placed in serious or critical condition. Coauthor 2009
SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Coauthor 2009
SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 685 The terms of teacher employment contracts. Coauthor 2009
SB 681 Adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 680 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Coauthor 2009
SB 68 Reporting of information by nonresident registrants under the campaign finance law. Coauthor 2009
SB 647 Payments to hospitals for HIV-related services provided to Medical Assistance recipients. 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 605 Allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically. Coauthor 2009
SB 599 Grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 598 The procedure for school district consolidations. Coauthor 2009
SB 596 Transportation aid to school districts. Coauthor 2009
SB 593 Student achievement guarantee in education program contracts. Coauthor 2009
SB 59 Seizure of a computer used to commit a crime and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 577 Limiting eligibility for public assistance programs to U.S. citizens and qualifying aliens, requiring documentary proof of citizenship or satisfactory immigration status, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 576 The requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. Coauthor 2009
SB 573 Public access to certain shared law enforcement records. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 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 547 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Coauthor 2009
SB 539 Tax incentives for job creation. Coauthor 2009
SB 533 An integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 53 Extending the employer notification program administered by the Department of Transportation to noncommercial motor vehicle drivers. Coauthor 2009
SB 510 Allowing a village in Waushara County to exceed its retail liquor license quota by issuing one additional retail license. Lead author 2009
SB 501 Disclosure of the identity of a foster parent or treatment foster parent of a child; the rights of a foster parent, treatment foster parent, or other physical custodian of a child on removal of the child from the person's home; and placement of a child for adoption with a foster parent, treatment foster parent, or other physical custodian of the child. Coauthor 2009
SB 500 Requiring suspected drug activity on the part of a caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider to be reported to an immediate supervisor and to the sheriff and suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect on the part of such an individual to be reported under the child abuse and neglect reporting law and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 50 Legislative oversight of expenditure of federal economic stimulus funds. 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 499 Prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing a drug-related felony or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a drug-related felony from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, of being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or of being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided. Coauthor 2009
SB 497 Creating a food animal veterinarian loan assistance program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 464 Temporary restraining orders and injunctions. Coauthor 2009
SB 458 The local regulation of ticket selling and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 456 Special distinguishing registration plates supporting motorcycle safety and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
SB 452 A sales and use tax exemption for food sold by child welfare facilities. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 449 Possession of a firearm at school or under the supervision of a school authority. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 428 Seasonal weight limitations for certain vehicles transporting agricultural crops. Coauthor 2009
SB 42 A report on food safety programs. Coauthor 2009
SB 416 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Coauthor 2009
SB 41 Indoor environmental quality in public and private schools. 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 403 Authorizing the release of certain personal identifying information collected by the Department of Regulation and Licensing. Coauthor 2009
SB 401 Requiring the Department of Natural Resources to issue one-day fishing licenses. Coauthor 2009
SB 400 Operation of all-terrain vehicles to remove snow. Coauthor 2009
SB 399 Authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds. Coauthor 2009
SB 397 General purpose revenue funding for the veterans trust fund and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 389 Licensing sign language interpreters, creating an evidentiary privilege for communications with those interpreters, creating a Sign Language Interpreter Council, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 388 Changes to the regulation of massage therapy and bodywork, creating the Massage Therapy and Bodywork Therapy Examining Board, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2009
SB 385 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Coauthor 2009
SB 384 Defense to criminal prosecutions for parent or guardian for using spiritual treatment in lieu of medical treatment on a child and the election of Christian Science treatment for a child in lieu of medical or surgical treatment for the cure of disease. Coauthor 2009
SB 382 Use of lamps on vehicles when visibility is limited by climatic conditions and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 374 Creating a commercial driver license exception for law enforcement officers operating commercial motor vehicles. Coauthor 2009
SB 358 Creating new grounds for discipline of hearing instrument specialists, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists, changing licensing requirements for audiologists, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 355 Prohibiting electronic text messaging while driving and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 353 Federalizing the treatment of capital losses. Coauthor 2009
SB 343 The rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. Coauthor 2009
SB 340 Requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants. Coauthor 2009
SB 34 Eligibility for an occupational license. Coauthor 2009
SB 335 Using county jail funds for costs related to providing educational and medical services to county jail inmates. Lead author 2009
SB 333 Prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing certain serious crimes, who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a serious crime, or who has had entered against him or her a domestic abuse, child abuse, individual-at-risk abuse, or harassment temporary restraining order or injunction in the preceding 15 years from being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, from being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or from being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided; requiring suspected fraudulent activity on the part of a participant in the Wisconsin Works Program, including a person receiving a child care subsidy under that program, to be reported to the district attorney; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 328 Allowing a school district to carry over unused revenue limit authority to the following school year. Coauthor 2009
SB 319 The statute of limitations for sexual contact with a child. Coauthor 2009
SB 308 A requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work. Coauthor 2009
SB 305 Allowing a member of a group fishing party to catch a fish using the bag limit of another member. Coauthor 2009
SB 304 The veterans tuition reimbursement program. Coauthor 2009
SB 303 Requesting a person who operates a vehicle that is involved in an accident that causes death or injury to submit to a test for intoxication. Coauthor 2009
SB 301 The application of shoreland zoning ordinances to certain unincorporated areas. Coauthor 2009
SB 294 Municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses. 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 28 Excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. Coauthor 2009
SB 273 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. 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 258 Using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers. Coauthor 2009
SB 256 The method by which the Department of Revenue makes certain calculations regarding tax incremental financing district number 8 in the city of Ripon. Lead author 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 247 Information about land purchased with stewardship funding and approval by the Joint Committee on Finance of certain activities and projects that receive stewardship funding. Coauthor 2009
SB 23 Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials and committees. Coauthor 2009
SB 220 Eliminating the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. Lead author 2009
SB 215 A personal property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Coauthor 2009
SB 214 A real property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Coauthor 2009
SB 208 Regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 199 Requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, and the fee for an identification card issued by the Department of Transportation. Coauthor 2009
SB 198 Donating drugs and dispensing donated drugs. Coauthor 2009
SB 197 Damages for frivolous claims. Coauthor 2009
SB 184 Licenses and limited X-ray machine operator permits to engage in the practice of radiography, creating a radiography examining board, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 176 A sales tax and use tax exemption for nonprescription drugs. Coauthor 2009
SB 175 The issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. Coauthor 2009
SB 173 The removal of nonconforming outdoor advertising signs. Coauthor 2009
SB 169 Use of a facsimile firearm and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 158 Vehicle stops at railroad crossings. Coauthor 2009
SB 140 Posttermination of parental rights contact between a child and a birth relative of the child and disclosure of the report of an investigation of the home of a proposed adoptive parent on the request of the proposed adoptive parent. Coauthor 2009
SB 14 The definition of sexual intercourse for the crime of incest. Coauthor 2009
SB 136 The requirement to build and maintain partition fences. Coauthor 2009
SB 128 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Coauthor 2009
SB 126 Changes to and extension of the Environmental Results Program, extension of the Environmental Improvement Program and the length of a compliance schedule under that program, and reporting requirements for certain environmental programs. Coauthor 2009
SB 121 Requiring the Center on Education and Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to establish a career conversations program. Coauthor 2009
SB 117 Extraterritorial plat approval on basis of land's use. Coauthor 2009
SB 114 The use of pesticides by veterinarians and veterinary technicians. Coauthor 2009
SB 112 The possession of green skins of fur-bearing animals, the tagging of traps, and the sale, purchase, bartering, and trade of wild animals and their carcasses. Coauthor 2009
SB 111 Adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. Coauthor 2009
SB 106 Allowing an individual income tax deduction for certain amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent to his or her child's college savings account or college tuition and expenses program and limiting the deduction that may be claimed by a married person who files separately. Coauthor 2009
SB 103 Restrictions on the operation of motor vehicles by persons using electronic text messaging devices and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009