Every Bill Led or Signed

367 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 201–367.

AB 192 Provision of police or fire protection services by a county sheriff or municipality. Lead author 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 117 An addition to the 2009-11 Authorized State Building Program and granting bonding authority. 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 73 The life and public service of Harriet Shetler. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 72 The life and public service of Robert D. Goodman. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 7 Providing property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
SJR 55 Declaring 2010 as the Year of John Muir. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 47 The second anniversary of WisconsinEye's commencement of broadcast operations. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 43 The life and public service of Linda Farley. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 31 The life and public service of Marjorie Midge Cavins Leeper Miller. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 25 The commemoration of The Progressive magazine's 100th anniversary. Cosponsor 2009
SB 86 School conference and activities leave. 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 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 67 Preparation time as a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. Cosponsor 2009
SB 669 Willful misclassification of an employee as a nonemployee by a person engaged in the painting or drywall finishing of buildings or other structures with intent to evade the laws related to income tax withholding, worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, or employment discrimination and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 664 Financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 656 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 640 Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 620 Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 6 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. Cosponsor 2009
SB 588 Records concerning certain telephone and facsimile solicitations and a private action against certain senders of unsolicited facsimile solicitations. Cosponsor 2009
SB 585 Prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters. Cosponsor 2009
SB 580 Animals taken into custody. 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 549 Entering into an agreement among the states to elect the president of the United States by means of a national popular vote. 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 523 Unfair labor practices in violation of collective bargaining rights. 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 479 Public Service Commission intervenor grants and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 468 The use of positive behavioral interventions and supports and aversive interventions in schools and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 466 Regulation by the office of the commissioner of insurance of self-insured health plans offered by a city, town, village, county, or school district, providing a penalty, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 453 Requiring an insurer to make payment directly to a provider who provides the insurer with an assignment of benefits. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 43 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 41 Indoor environmental quality in public and private schools. 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 390 Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Cosponsor 2009
SB 368 Medical use of marijuana, the regulation of marijuana distribution organizations, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations, 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 359 Directing school boards to provide instruction about the recent history of the Hmong people. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 324 Providing instruction in human growth and development. Cosponsor 2009
SB 3 Health insurance coverage of treatment for autism spectrum disorders. 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 29 Passing parked motor vehicles and opening motor vehicle doors on highways and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 274 Requiring landlords to change locks. Cosponsor 2009
SB 27 Requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. Cosponsor 2009
SB 261 Deployment of high-speed Internet services. Cosponsor 2009
SB 252 The duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. Cosponsor 2009
SB 25 The use of race-based names, nicknames, logos, and mascots by school boards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 240 Restoring the right to vote to certain persons barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction and changing the information required on voter registration forms. Cosponsor 2009
SB 235 Limiting disclosure of information gathered by news persons. Cosponsor 2009
SB 232 The payment of state school aid in June 2009. 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 204 Prohibiting discrimination in housing because of domestic abuse victim status and providing a penalty. 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 19 Liability of the state for a violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Fair Labor Standards Act, or Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 or of Title I of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Cosponsor 2009
SB 189 Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and payment of extended benefits; excluding recovery and reinvestment act moneys from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments; eligibility for participation in the programs of a community action agency; financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; the confidentiality of pupil records provided to the Department of Public Instruction; financial assistance for criminal justice programs; authorizing political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; definition of low-income household under energy and weatherization assistance programs; eligibility and notice changes for state continuation of coverage for health insurance; changes to enterprise zone jobs credits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 185 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 16 Permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be. Cosponsor 2009
SB 159 The issuance of motor vehicle operator's licenses and identification cards by the Department of Transportation. 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 139 Environmental regulation of mining and notice to transferees of interests in mining sites. Cosponsor 2009
SB 135 Requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process. 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 113 The appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Cosponsor 2009
SB 108 Mandatory overtime hours and on-call time worked by health care workers and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 1 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AR 13 Proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
AR 11 Recognizing and proclaiming Hispanic Heritage Month, a month-long celebration of the culture and traditions of United States residents who trace their roots to Spain, Mexico, and the Spanish-speaking nations of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Coauthor 2009
AJR 98 Declaring 2010 as the Year of John Muir. Coauthor 2009
AJR 9 Proclaiming May 15, 16, and 17, 2009, Syttende Mai Weekend. Coauthor 2009
AJR 86 The life and public service of Rudy John Kuzel. Coauthor 2009
AJR 84 The life and public service of Velma Hamilton. Coauthor 2009
AJR 8 Taxation of principal homesteads of individuals (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 76 The second anniversary of WisconsinEye's commencement of broadcast operations. Coauthor 2009
AJR 75 The life and public service of John Stanley. Coauthor 2009
AJR 72 The life and public service of Edward Moore Kennedy. Coauthor 2009
AJR 7 The life and public service of Judge Ted E. Wedemeyer, Jr. Coauthor 2009
AJR 64 The life and public service of Linda Farley. Coauthor 2009
AJR 40 The commemoration of The Progressive magazine's 100th anniversary. Lead author 2009
AJR 33 Proclaiming April as Autism Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 24 Providing property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 17 Declaring March 10, 2009, Tibet Day. Coauthor 2009
AJR 112 Declaring March 10, 2010, Tibet Day. Coauthor 2009
AJR 106 Proclaiming February 5, 2010, as Go Red for Women Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 978 A property tax exemption for a nonprofit theater located in the city of Madison. Lead author 2009
AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 95 Preparation time as a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. Coauthor 2009
AB 949 Financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. Lead author 2009
AB 929 Willful misclassification of an employee as a nonemployee by a person engaged in the painting or drywall finishing of buildings or other structures with intent to evade the laws related to income tax withholding, worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, or employment discrimination and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
AB 916 Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Coauthor 2009
AB 912 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Lead author 2009
AB 910 Establishment of a Wisconsin conservation corps program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
AB 895 Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 844 Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 831 Prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters. Coauthor 2009
AB 793 Animals taken into custody. Lead author 2009
AB 792 State contractual services and false claims submitted to state and local governments, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 779 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 751 Entering into an agreement among the states to elect the president of the United States by means of a national popular vote. Coauthor 2009
AB 745 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 7 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. Coauthor 2009
AB 689 Public Service Commission intervenor grants and making an appropriation. Lead author 2009
AB 682 The use of positive behavioral interventions and supports and aversive interventions in schools and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 665 Requiring an insurer to make payment directly to a provider who provides the insurer with an assignment of benefits. Lead author 2009
AB 65 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 647 Miscellaneous modifications to the condominium laws. Coauthor 2009
AB 644 Establishing a presumption for employment-connected communicable diseases for fire fighters, emergency medical service providers, law enforcement officers, and certain correctional employees. Coauthor 2009
AB 63 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Coauthor 2009
AB 619 County, city, town, and village authority to create local elections boards and to regulate the financing of campaigns for county, city, town, and village offices; duties of municipal and county boards of election commissioners; and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
AB 606 The regulation of video service providers and interim cable operators, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 59 Passing parked motor vehicles and opening motor vehicle doors on highways and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 57 Permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be. Coauthor 2009
AB 554 Medical use of marijuana, the regulation of marijuana distribution organizations, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations, and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
AB 512 Health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems. Coauthor 2009
AB 467 Creating an optional holiday for state employees to observe the birthday of Cesar E. Chavez. Coauthor 2009
AB 462 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
AB 458 Providing instruction in human growth and development. Coauthor 2009
AB 438 Changes in the regulation of boxing contests, regulating mixed martial arts fighting contests, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 41 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 400 Requiring landlords to change locks. Coauthor 2009
AB 392 Finance charges for licensed lenders. Coauthor 2009
AB 391 Deployment of high-speed Internet services. Coauthor 2009
AB 39 Authorization for municipalities to establish satellite stations for purposes of conducting voter registration and absentee voting and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 360 Discharges of ballast water and related substances into the waters of the state, aquatic nuisance species, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 36 Liability of the state for a violation of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, Fair Labor Standards Act, or Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 or of Title I of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Coauthor 2009
AB 358 Indoor environmental quality in public and private schools. Coauthor 2009
AB 353 Restoring the right to vote to certain persons barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction and changing the information required on voter registration forms. Coauthor 2009
AB 351 The duty to stop at the scene of, and to report, a motor vehicle accident. Coauthor 2009
AB 35 The use of race-based names, nicknames, logos, and mascots by school boards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 333 Limiting disclosure of information gathered by news persons. Coauthor 2009
AB 31 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 3 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 299 Products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 278 The sale, disposal, collection, and recycling of electronic devices, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 277 Prohibiting discrimination in housing because of domestic abuse victim status and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 261 Soliciting purchases of goods or services using unsolicited checks or money orders and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 256 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 255 Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and payment of extended benefits; excluding recovery and reinvestment act moneys from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments; eligibility for participation in the programs of a community action agency; financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; the confidentiality of pupil records provided to the Department of Public Instruction; financial assistance for criminal justice programs; authorizing political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; definition of low-income household under energy and weatherization assistance programs; eligibility and notice changes for state continuation of coverage for health insurance; changes to enterprise zone jobs credits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. Lead author 2009
AB 250 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
AB 245 Service by a former member of the legislature as a lobbyist. Coauthor 2009
AB 214 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
AB 206 Creating a committee to study the uses of industrial hemp. Coauthor 2009
AB 203 The governor's duty to review national guard federalization orders. Coauthor 2009
AB 2 State procurement of contractual services. Lead author 2009
AB 185 Prohibiting the use of information in credit reports for issuing or setting premiums for motor vehicle or property insurance. Coauthor 2009
AB 172 Requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process. Coauthor 2009
AB 162 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 16 Requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. Coauthor 2009
AB 152 Mandatory overtime hours and on-call time worked by health care workers and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 15 Health insurance coverage of treatment for autism spectrum disorders. Coauthor 2009
AB 14 The regulation of traveling sales crews, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 138 The appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Coauthor 2009
AB 137 The issuance of motor vehicle operator's licenses and identification cards by the Department of Transportation. Coauthor 2009
AB 116 School conference and activities leave. Coauthor 2009
AB 115 Directing school boards to provide instruction about the recent history of the Hmong people. Coauthor 2009
AB 107 Protections for tenants in foreclosure actions. Coauthor 2009