Every Bill Led or Signed

146 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1–146.

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 53 Honoring the life and public service of Joseph P. Mettner. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 45 Calling on the Wisconsin congressional delegation to take action to grandfather preexisting highway weight limits upon the designation of USH 41 as part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower system of interstate and defense highways. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 19 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 18 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
SJR 12 Recognizing and supporting national Minority Cancer Awareness Week. Cosponsor 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). Cosponsor 2009
SB 92 Preparation and legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill; making all meetings of the Joint Committee on Finance relating to the biennial budget bill available in real time for viewing by the public on the legislature's Internet Web site; and reporting of certain information by lobbying principals. Cosponsor 2009
SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 697 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 680 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Cosponsor 2009
SB 547 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Cosponsor 2009
SB 521 A sales and use tax exemption for extended-range electric vehicles; a property tax exemption for tangible personal property used to recharge electric vehicles; the motor vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program, extended-range electric vehicle grants; an income and franchise tax credit for research conducted in this state by a corporation; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2009
SB 502 Exempting wellness programs from unfair trade or marketing practices. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 497 Creating a food animal veterinarian loan assistance program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 443 Theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 420 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to contributions to individual retirement accounts and retirement plans. Cosponsor 2009
SB 416 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Cosponsor 2009
SB 408 The exception to the assessment of withdrawal taxes and fees against a landowner who transfers ownership of managed forest land for siting a public safety communications tower. Cosponsor 2009
SB 402 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Cosponsor 2009
SB 397 General purpose revenue funding for the veterans trust fund and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 396 Fishing and trolling in boats with electric motors. Cosponsor 2009
SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Cosponsor 2009
SB 385 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Cosponsor 2009
SB 377 Carrying concealed weapons by law enforcement officers and by retired law enforcement officers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 376 Fees from retired law enforcement officers seeking to carry concealed weapons and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 360 Sale of a parcel of land located in Marinette County to the Wied Trust. Cosponsor 2009
SB 357 Awarding grants to school districts for pupil academic achievement, allowing the results of pupil examinations to be used to evaluate teacher performance, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 343 The rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 340 Requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants. Cosponsor 2009
SB 338 Maximum amount of funeral and burial expenses under the funeral, burial, and cemetery expenses program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 334 Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 273 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 27 Requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. Cosponsor 2009
SB 258 Using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 24 Creating an individual income tax checkoff for Wisconsin food banks that are members of Feeding America and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 223 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. 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 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 198 Donating drugs and dispensing donated drugs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 188 The use of golf carts in Governor Tommy G. Thompson Centennial State Park and Peshtigo River State Forest and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 185 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 181 Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 169 Use of a facsimile firearm and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 158 Vehicle stops at railroad crossings. Cosponsor 2009
SB 157 Driver education instruction. Cosponsor 2009
SB 145 Determining the value of billboards for personal property tax purposes. Cosponsor 2009
SB 128 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Cosponsor 2009
SB 127 Notification to the state and certain public agencies regarding a medical malpractice claim and limits on liability. Cosponsor 2009
SB 104 Requiring a license to engage in the practice of landscape architecture. Cosponsor 2009
AR 25 Requiring the Committee on Rules to offer a resolution calling for a special order of business on 2009 Assembly Resolution 14. Coauthor 2009
AR 21 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
AR 13 Proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 88 The life and public service of Jay W. Johnson. Coauthor 2009
AJR 56 The 100 year anniversary of Peninsula State Park. Coauthor 2009
AJR 53 The life and public service of former Congressman Reverend Robert J. Cornell. Coauthor 2009
AJR 36 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 31 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 3 Creating the Joint Committee on Economic Stimulus Accountability. Coauthor 2009
AJR 16 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
AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 972 Creation of the Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Oversight Commission to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse in state government and make recommendations to the Joint Committee on Finance. Coauthor 2009
AB 971 Development zone tax credits for providing full-time jobs to veterans of the U.S. armed forces. Coauthor 2009
AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 965 An income and franchise tax credit for the sales tax paid on certain products. Coauthor 2009
AB 960 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Coauthor 2009
AB 947 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, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 88 Allowing electric utilities and retail electric cooperatives to include energy derived from garbage and certain waste in satisfying renewable portfolio standards. Coauthor 2009
AB 879 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 832 Maximum amount of funeral and burial expenses under the funeral, burial, and cemetery expenses program. Coauthor 2009
AB 829 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
AB 796 The rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. Coauthor 2009
AB 79 Release of persons who commit operating-while-intoxicated offenses and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 775 Throwing or expelling a bodily substance at a public safety worker and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 762 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Coauthor 2009
AB 752 Members of the Board of Veterans Affairs and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 74 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
AB 736 Agreements relating to motor carrier liability. Coauthor 2009
AB 712 A sales and use tax exemption for extended-range electric vehicles; a property tax exemption for tangible personal property used to recharge electric vehicles; the motor vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program, extended-range electric vehicle grants; an income and franchise tax credit for research conducted in this state by a corporation; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
AB 709 Requiring access to toilet facilities in a retail establishment, immunity from civil liability related to use of the toilet facilities, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 708 Creating a food animal veterinarian loan assistance program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 699 Exempting wellness programs from unfair trade or marketing practices. Coauthor 2009
AB 695 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
AB 694 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
AB 69 Creating an individual income tax checkoff for Wisconsin food banks that are members of Feeding America and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 657 Theft of communication and video services, civil damages resulting from the theft of certain services, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 631 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Coauthor 2009
AB 608 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. Coauthor 2009
AB 600 Authority of the Public Service Commission regarding fuel costs of certain electric public utilities and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 591 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Coauthor 2009
AB 539 Disclosure of information by health care providers, insurers, and governmental self-insured plans; requiring acceptance by a health care provider of a payment amount in certain circumstances; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 538 Awarding grants to school districts for pupil academic achievement, allowing the results of pupil examinations to be used to evaluate teacher performance, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 531 The exception to the assessment of withdrawal taxes and fees against a landowner who transfers ownership of managed forest land for siting a public safety communications tower. Coauthor 2009
AB 528 The regulation of traveling sales crews that solicit contributions for advocacy or political organizations. Coauthor 2009
AB 525 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2009
AB 520 Participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations. Coauthor 2009
AB 516 Requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants. Coauthor 2009
AB 507 Voting at meeting's of the conservation congress. Coauthor 2009
AB 505 The Department of Revenue's interpretation of the law. Coauthor 2009
AB 493 Vehicle admission receipt fees for certain members of the armed forces. Coauthor 2009
AB 479 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
AB 478 Ending combined reporting. Coauthor 2009
AB 476 Requiring the Department of Commerce to study and report on methods to retain businesses at risk of relocating or expanding outside the state and to encourage business relocations and expansions in the state and to create an emergency response team. Coauthor 2009
AB 474 Carrying concealed weapons by law enforcement officers and by retired law enforcement officers. Coauthor 2009
AB 473 Fees from retired law enforcement officers seeking to carry concealed weapons and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 441 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Coauthor 2009
AB 404 Prohibiting municipal electric or water utilities from collecting certain utility arrearages from owners of rental properties as property liens. Coauthor 2009
AB 401 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 393 Using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers. Coauthor 2009
AB 350 Sales and use tax exemption for motorboats. Coauthor 2009
AB 345 Accepting prisoners or detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Coauthor 2009
AB 337 Payment of employee required contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Coauthor 2009
AB 326 Committing fraud on certain service providers and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 312 Authorizing cities and towns, and expanding the authority of villages, to create combined protective services departments. Coauthor 2009
AB 300 An income and franchise credit for property taxes paid on restaurant kitchen machinery and equipment. Coauthor 2009
AB 276 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Coauthor 2009
AB 272 Donating drugs and dispensing donated drugs. Coauthor 2009
AB 264 The use of golf carts in Governor Tommy G. Thompson Centennial State Park and Peshtigo River State Forest and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 263 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
AB 256 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 253 Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 252 Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, and in public conveyances and providing a penalty. Coauthor 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 237 Prohibiting the Department of Commerce from promulgating rules requiring registration of certain persons engaged in the construction business. Coauthor 2009
AB 233 Use of a facsimile firearm and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 230 Electronic access by law enforcement agencies to photographs on motor vehicle operators licenses and identification cards. Coauthor 2009
AB 220 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Coauthor 2009
AB 218 Penalty surcharges, court fees, drivers' records, and drug and alcohol assessment for persons who commit certain offenses relating to driving while intoxicated. Coauthor 2009
AB 215 Determining the value of billboards for personal property tax purposes. Coauthor 2009
AB 205 Adopting changes to the Internal Revenue Code for state income tax purposes related to deductions for energy efficient commercial buildings. Coauthor 2009
AB 201 The date of pupil counts in second semester of school year. Coauthor 2009
AB 199 Classifying members of the Parole Commission; psychologists and corrections classification specialists employed by the Department of Corrections who perform duties related to sexually violent person commitments; clerical employees employed at probation, extended supervision, and parole offices; and state employees who are employed at state correctional institutions, juvenile correctional facilities, the mental health institutes at Mendota and Winnebago, the Wisconsin Resource Center, and secure mental health units or facilities for sexually violent persons as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Coauthor 2009
AB 168 Preparation and legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill; making executive sessions of the Joint Committee on Finance relating to the biennial budget bill available in real time for viewing by the public on the legislature's Internet Web site; and reporting of certain information by lobbying principals. Coauthor 2009
AB 167 The inapplicability of the prevailing wage law to projects in which the construction is contracted for by a private owner or developer and the completed projected is acquired by a local governmental unit or state agency. Coauthor 2009
AB 16 Requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. Coauthor 2009
AB 142 Requiring a license to engage in the practice of landscape architecture. Coauthor 2009
AB 130 Costs of administering tests for intoxication. Coauthor 2009
AB 129 Battery or threat to witnesses and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 120 Providing the public with information on state agency operations expenditures and state agency contracts and grants. Coauthor 2009