Every Bill Led or Signed

197 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1–197.

SB 23 Various duties of the Department of Revenue, including issuing declaratory judgments, conducting audits and assessments, asserting liability, allowing claims for refunds, awarding the costs of litigation, prohibiting browsing of returns and claims, imposing penalties related to a taxpayer's negligence, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011s-sep
SB 22 The duty of care owed to trespassers. Coauthor 2011s-sep
SB 14 Interest rates on judgments in certain civil actions. Coauthor 2011s-sep
SB 13 Providing immunity from liability to drug and device manufacturers and sellers under certain circumstances. Coauthor 2011s-sep
SB 12 Factors for determining the reasonableness of attorney fees. Coauthor 2011s-sep
AB 23 Various duties of the Department of Revenue, including issuing declaratory judgments, conducting audits and assessments, asserting liability, allowing claims for refunds, awarding the costs of litigation, prohibiting browsing of returns and claims, imposing penalties related to a taxpayer's negligence, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011s-sep
AB 22 The duty of care owed to trespassers. Cosponsor 2011s-sep
AB 14 Interest rates on judgments in certain civil actions. Cosponsor 2011s-sep
AB 13 Providing immunity from liability to drug and device manufacturers and sellers under certain circumstances. Cosponsor 2011s-sep
AB 12 Factors for determining the reasonableness of attorney fees. Cosponsor 2011s-sep
SB 13 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities; telecommunications provider of last-resort obligations; telecommunications intrastate switched access rates; interconnected voice over Internet protocol service; and use of transmission equipment and property by video service providers. Coauthor 2011s-jan
SB 1 Limiting noneconomic damages awarded in actions against long-term care providers; actions against manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and promoters of certain products; confidentiality of health care services reviews; use as evidence of information regarding health care providers; reporting of quality indicators identifying individual hospitals; homicide or injury by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire; criminal abuse of individuals at risk; criminal abuse and neglect of patients and residents; evidence of lay and expert witnesses; damages for frivolous claims; and punitive damage awards. Coauthor 2011s-jan
AB 14 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities; telecommunications provider of last-resort obligations; telecommunications intrastate switched access rates; interconnected voice over Internet protocol service; and use of transmission equipment and property by video service providers. Cosponsor 2011s-jan
AB 1 Limiting noneconomic damages awarded in actions against long-term care providers; actions against manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and promoters of certain products; confidentiality of health care services reviews; use as evidence of information regarding health care providers; reporting of quality indicators identifying individual hospitals; homicide or injury by negligent handling of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire; criminal abuse of individuals at risk; criminal abuse and neglect of patients and residents; evidence of lay and expert witnesses; damages for frivolous claims; and punitive damage awards. Cosponsor 2011s-jan
SJR 73 Commending Timothy Michael Dolan on his elevation to the cardinalate. Lead author 2011
SJR 36 Election of chief justice. Lead author 2011
SJR 12 Commending the Green Bay Packers. Coauthor 2011
SB 93 Going armed with weapons, possessing or transporting a firearm, bow, or crossbow under certain circumstances, disorderly conduct limitations, and electric weapons. Coauthor 2011
SB 92 Prohibiting coverage of abortions through health plans sold through exchanges. Lead author 2011
SB 90 Carrying a concealed weapon; licenses authorizing persons to carry concealed weapons; possessing or transporting a firearm, bow, or crossbow under certain circumstances; disorderly conduct limitations; photographic identification cards for former law enforcement officers; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties. Coauthor 2011
SB 85 Theft of certain services and providing a penalty. Lead author 2011
SB 83 Various changes to the eminent domain laws. Coauthor 2011
SB 79 The privilege of self-defense. Coauthor 2011
SB 74 Eliminating substitution of judges in criminal matters. Lead author 2011
SB 6 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 2011
SB 59 The deadline for registering certain piers and wharves with the Department of Natural Resources. Coauthor 2011
SB 57 Corrections and sentencing. Coauthor 2011
SB 540 Unlawful use of a global positioning device and providing a penalty. Lead author 2011
SB 488 Regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities, procedures for obtaining approvals from the Department of Natural Resources for the construction of utility facilities, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2011
SB 457 Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Lead author 2011
SB 451 Default judgments in certain civil claims, counterclaims, and cross claims. Lead author 2011
SB 428 Commissioners of the Public Service Commission; notices, orders, and determinations of the commission; certificates of authority issued by the commission; approval of contracts by the commission; electricity sales from certain wholesale merchant plants; public utility removal of certain electric service lines; renewable resource credits; tampering or interfering with utility equipment; granting rule-making authority; and providing penalties. Lead author 2011
SB 376 Creation and coverage of certain positions of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation under the code of ethics for state public officials and employees. Coauthor 2011
SB 366 State building contracting and construction procedures and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2011
SB 3 Tax incentives for job creation, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2011
SB 210 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts paid for amino acid-based elemental formula. Lead author 2011
SB 21 Authorizing the town of Brookfield in Waukesha County to create a tax incremental district for a retail project. Lead author 2011
SB 207 Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to bar or terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony and preempting cities, villages, towns, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law. Coauthor 2011
SB 205 The manufacture of wine and fermented malt beverages not offered for sale. Lead author 2011
SB 202 Elimination of compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing. Coauthor 2011
SB 182 Excluding permits and licenses from the definition of real property for property tax purposes. Lead author 2011
SB 172 Sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2011
SB 164 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2011
SB 14 Adopting federal bonus depreciation tax provisions for state income and franchise tax purposes. Coauthor 2011
SB 117 Venue for actions and appeals in which the sole defendant is the state, a state board or commission, or certain state officers, employees, or agents. Coauthor 2011
SB 114 Legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill. Lead author 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. Lead author 2011
SB 10 Restoring the treatment of the exclusion of capital gains for individuals and certain other persons that existed before the enactment of 2009 Wisconsin Act 28, and phasing out the taxation of capital gains. Coauthor 2011
AJR 49 Election of chief justice (first consideration). Cosponsor 2011
AJR 29 Commending the Saint Norbert College men's hockey team. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 11 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 2011
AJR 105 The life and public service of Darin Arthur Renner. Cosponsor 2011
AJR 100 Accounting and expenditure of state funds and reduction of deficit (first consideration). Cosponsor 2011
AB 94 The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. Cosponsor 2011
AB 86 Corrections and sentencing. Cosponsor 2011
AB 80 Operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 732 Research and research facilities tax credits related to internal combustion engines. Cosponsor 2011
AB 73 The deadline for registering certain piers and wharves with the Department of Natural Resources. Cosponsor 2011
AB 701 Reporting requirements regarding economic development programs of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 7 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. Cosponsor 2011
AB 690 Unlawful use of a global positioning device and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 671 Legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill. Cosponsor 2011
AB 620 Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 600 Default judgments in certain civil claims, counterclaims, and cross claims. Cosponsor 2011
AB 6 Restoring the treatment of the exclusion of capital gains for individuals and certain other persons that existed before the enactment of 2009 Wisconsin Act 28, and phasing out the taxation of capital gains. Cosponsor 2011
AB 527 Commissioners of the Public Service Commission; notices, orders, and determinations of the commission; certificates of authority issued by the commission; approval of contracts by the commission; electricity sales from certain wholesale merchant plants; public utility removal of certain electric service lines; renewable resource credits; tampering or interfering with utility equipment; granting rule-making authority; and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 38 Authorizing the town of Brookfield in Waukesha County to create a tax incremental district for a retail project. Cosponsor 2011
AB 33 Creating an individual income tax deduction for certain residents of this state who graduate from a college or university. Cosponsor 2011
AB 3 Tax incentives for job creation, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 290 The manufacture of wine and fermented malt beverages not offered for sale. Cosponsor 2011
AB 289 Elimination of compensatory and punitive damages for acts of employment discrimination or unfair honesty or genetic testing. Cosponsor 2011
AB 286 Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to bar or terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony and preempting cities, villages, towns, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law. Cosponsor 2011
AB 283 Designation of an official state automotive museum. Cosponsor 2011
AB 278 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 and payments to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation related to extended-range electric vehicles; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 262 Excluding permits and licenses from the definition of real property for property tax purposes. Cosponsor 2011
AB 220 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2011
AB 214 Sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a penalty. 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 156 Venue for actions and appeals in which the sole defendant is the state, a state board or commission, or certain state officers, employees, or agents. Cosponsor 2011
AB 154 Prohibiting coverage of abortions through health plans sold through exchanges. Cosponsor 2011
AB 126 Carrying a concealed weapon; licenses authorizing persons to carry concealed weapons; possessing or transporting a firearm, bow, or crossbow under certain circumstances; disorderly conduct limitations; photographic identification cards for former law enforcement officers; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2011
AB 124 Theft of certain services and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 109 Eliminating substitution of judges in criminal matters. Cosponsor 2011
AB 108 Costs of administering tests for intoxication. Cosponsor 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 62 The right of the people to contract privately for health care services and health care coverage, and prohibiting requiring a person to obtain or maintain health insurance coverage or to participate in any health care system or plan (first consideration). 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 16 Limiting the provisions that may be considered by the committee of conference. 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 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. 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 699 Providing the public with information on state agency and school district operations expenditures and state agency and school district contracts and grants. 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 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 680 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. Cosponsor 2009
SB 679 Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 65 Expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement plan income received by an individual. Cosponsor 2009
SB 64 Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 63 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 539 Tax incentives for job creation. 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 52 An education tax credit for businesses. 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 495 Operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 442 Requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts. Cosponsor 2009
SB 430 Collective bargaining over health care coverage for municipal employees, allowing municipal employers to change health care coverage plan providers, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 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 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Cosponsor 2009
SB 350 An optional identification requirement for voting in elections. Cosponsor 2009
SB 340 Requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants. 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 294 Municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses. Cosponsor 2009
SB 28 Excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. Cosponsor 2009
SB 273 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 258 Using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers. Cosponsor 2009
SB 225 The designation of smoking rooms in lodging establishments. Cosponsor 2009
SB 220 Eliminating the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. 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 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 177 Reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into eight school districts and creating a Milwaukee Public Schools Redistricting and Implementation Commission. Cosponsor 2009
SB 129 The privilege of self-defense. Cosponsor 2009
AR 7 Requiring a two-thirds majority vote in the assembly for passage, concurrence, and adoption of proposals that increase the rate of the state sales tax, increase any of the rates of the income tax or franchise tax, or increase a fee. Coauthor 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 93 Recognizing November as National Adoption Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 65 Different property tax levy rates for parts of cities, villages, towns, counties, and school districts added by attachments to school districts, consolidations, and boundary changes under cooperative agreements (first consideration). 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 32 Public officer salary changes (first consideration). 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
AJR 138 The right of the people to contract privately for health care services and health care coverage, and prohibiting requiring a person to obtain or maintain health insurance coverage or to participate in any health care system or plan (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 134 Proclaiming May 6, 2010, as Wisconsin Day of Prayer. Coauthor 2009
AJR 125 Requiring a photographic identification to vote, or register to vote, at the polls on election day (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AB 99 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
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 931 Rule making that increases costs or regulatory burdens. Coauthor 2009
AB 918 Offers of settlement. Lead author 2009
AB 917 Elimination of sick leave for legislators, justices and judges, and all other state elected officials. Coauthor 2009
AB 91 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 881 Creating an individual income tax deduction for certain residents of this state who graduate from a college or university. Coauthor 2009
AB 879 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 874 Increasing the reduction in Wisconsin Works benefits based on a positive drug test, paying the amount of the reduction to dependent children in the group, and granting rule-making authority. 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 814 An optional identification requirement for voting in elections. Coauthor 2009
AB 802 A sales and use tax exemption for snowmaking and snow-grooming machines and equipment. Coauthor 2009
AB 801 A sales and use tax exemption for electricity used to make snow. Coauthor 2009
AB 800 A sales and use tax exemption for tangible personal property and taxable services purchased by a skiing facility and used to make the facility more energy efficient. Coauthor 2009
AB 80 An education tax credit for businesses. Lead author 2009
AB 79 Release of persons who commit operating-while-intoxicated offenses and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 77 Increasing the amount of the early stage seed and angel investment credits. 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 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 654 Requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts. 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 576 Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain dependents. Coauthor 2009
AB 540 Allowing out-of-state insurers to offer health care plans that are exempt from certain laws to employers and individuals in this state. 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 525 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2009
AB 517 Highway maps published by the Department of Transportation. Coauthor 2009
AB 516 Requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants. Coauthor 2009
AB 505 The Department of Revenue's interpretation of the law. Lead author 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. Lead author 2009
AB 477 The effective date of the jobs tax credit. 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 466 Municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses. Coauthor 2009
AB 437 Reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into eight school districts and creating a Milwaukee Public Schools Redistricting and Implementation Commission. Coauthor 2009
AB 415 Designating and marking a portion of USH 12 in the city of Whitewater as the Stephen Ambrose Memorial Highway. 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 380 State agency fiscal and operations reports and quarterly hearings of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Coauthor 2009
AB 38 Excluding from taxable income gains from a Wisconsin business. Coauthor 2009
AB 350 Sales and use tax exemption for motorboats. 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. Lead author 2009
AB 321 Requiring the enactment of legislation for setting the salaries of the governor, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, the state treasurer, the attorney general, the superintendent of public instruction, state senators and representatives to the assembly, supreme court justices, court of appeals judges, and circuit court judges. Coauthor 2009
AB 306 Eliminating the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. Coauthor 2009
AB 300 An income and franchise credit for property taxes paid on restaurant kitchen machinery and equipment. Coauthor 2009
AB 285 Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 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. 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 196 Providing the public with information on state agency and school district operations expenditures and state agency and school district contracts and grants. Coauthor 2009
AB 193 The privilege of self-defense. Coauthor 2009
AB 181 Operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 169 The number of nomination paper signatures required for school board candidates in certain school districts. Lead author 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. Lead author 2009
AB 103 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Coauthor 2009