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Republican Representative · Assembly District 59

Source: Wisconsin Legislature , Wisconsin Ethics Commission · pulled · record through

Floor votes missed
0 of 1,113
Bills led
91 · 15 became law
Votes with their party
100% · 243 votes, 2025
Committees
5

Bills they led · 91

Bills where Rob Brooks is the lead author, the first name on the bill. Sponsoring a bill means putting it forward: the text itself is drafted by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau. Bills they signed onto behind another member are listed below, and bills they only voted on are in Vote history. What these roles mean

Of the 91 bills they led: 15 became law, 1 were vetoed, 25 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

Became law 15 bills
  • AB 45 Ratification of the Dietitian Licensure Compact. (FE) 2025
  • AB 253 Independence accounts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 140 Limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Port Washington. (FE) 2025
  • AB 62 Assignment of dental benefits under health insurance. 2023
  • AB 439 Funding for improvement of baseball park facilities and making an appropriation. (FE) 2023
  • AB 438 Baseball park district administration and funding for improvement of professional baseball park facilities. (FE) 2023
  • AB 86 Changing the official bond requirements for town municipal judges. (FE) 2019
  • AB 691 Prohibiting an assessor from changing the valuation of property based solely on a recent sale of the property. (FE) 2019
  • AB 771 The authority of political subdivisions to regulate rental properties and historic properties and of municipalities to inspect dwellings, public utility service to rental dwelling units, landlord and tenant regulations, fees imposed by a political subdivision, certain levy limit reductions, certain procedural changes in eviction actions, information available on the consolidated court automated Internet site, discrimination in housing against individuals who keep certain animals, falsely claiming an animal to be a service animal, municipal administrative procedure, enforcement of the rental unit energy efficiency program, and providing penalties. (FE) 2017
  • AB 770 Workforce housing development tax incremental districts; local fees and charges; local levy limits; subdivision approval conditions; plat approval conditions; expiration of certain project approvals; division of land by certified survey map; erosion control and storm water management; limiting certain local regulatory authority; relocation benefits in condemnation proceedings; and zoning ordinance amendments. (FE) 2017
  • AB 636 Removal of certain county officers. (FE) 2017
  • AB 450 Retail sales of alcohol beverages at the Ozaukee County fairgrounds. 2017
  • AB 695 Creating the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. 2015
  • AB 568 Terminating a tenancy for criminal activity or drug-related criminal activity; disposition of personal property left in rental property by a trespasser; preexisting sprinkler ordinances that are stricter than the multifamily dwelling code; towing vehicles illegally parked on private property; terminating certain tenancies for breaches other than failure to pay rent; limitations on the authority of political subdivisions to regulate rental units, historic properties, and signs; prohibiting local governmental units from imposing real property purchase or residential real property occupancy requirements; creating a criminal penalty; and making an appropriation. (FE) 2015
  • AB 362 Multiple county health departments. (FE) 2015
Vetoed 1 bills
  • AB 495 Possession of a firearm in a vehicle on school grounds by a person with a license to carry a concealed weapon. 2021
Died at session end 75 bills
  • AB 864 Various changes to the state lottery. (FE) 2025
  • AB 799 A health professional assistance program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 313 The minimum net worth requirement for licensed mortgage brokers. 2025
  • AB 262 Findings of fact when the court grants less than equal physical placement of a child. 2025
  • AB 252 The notice of an investigation of child abuse or neglect or unborn child abuse provided to appropriate authorities of the U.S. Department of Defense. (FE) 2025
  • AB 251 Jurisdiction over juveniles on federal enclaves. (FE) 2025
  • AB 188 Reduction of penalty surcharge when certain fines or forfeitures reduced. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1033 The regulation of wakesurfing and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 1014 Ratification of the Interstate Massage Compact. (FE) 2025
  • AB 1013 Licensure and regulation of establishments providing massage therapy or bodywork therapy, the practice of massage therapy or bodywork therapy, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2025
  • AB 808 Supervision of local bridge projects funded under certain local bridge maintenance programs. (FE) 2023
  • AB 723 Local government competitive bidding thresholds and requiring school districts to utilize competitive bidding. (FE) 2023
  • AB 338 Price transparency in hospitals and providing a penalty. (FE) 2023
  • AB 31 Preparing an additional executive budget bill or bills according to generally accepted accounting principles. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1164 Expenditure of $213,302.77 from the general fund in payment of a claim against the state made by JRT Top Notch Roofs, LLC. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1153 Ratification of the Dietitian Licensure Compact. (FE) 2023
  • AB 1 Establishing a flat individual income tax rate. (FE) 2023
  • AB 917 Regulating homeowners' associations and requiring the Department of Financial Institutions to create a filing system for notices filed by homeowners' associations. (FE) 2021
  • AB 671 Administrative rules relating to hunting wild turkeys. (FE) 2021
  • AB 670 Satisfying the hunter education field testing requirement with a mentored hunt. 2021
  • AB 669 Right to carry a weapon in this state. (FE) 2021
  • AB 610 Prohibiting certain property tax assessment practices. (FE) 2021
  • AB 608 Local approvals of workforce housing projects; zoning for certain residential uses; and a requirement that street addresses be assigned at the time of subdivision plat approval. (FE) 2021
  • AB 605 Municipal workforce housing incentive program. (FE) 2021
  • AB 57 Regulation of home inspectors, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2021
  • AB 542 Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits in the case of an unwillingness to receive a vaccine. (FE) 2021
  • AB 431 Sale of surplus real property owned by the Department of Transportation. (FE) 2021
  • AB 399 Interest on claims of excessive assessment and for recovery of unlawful property taxes. (FE) 2021
  • AB 37 The presumption of riparian rights on navigable waterways and required real estate disclosures. 2021
  • AB 205 Preparing an additional executive budget bill or bills according to generally accepted accounting principles. (FE) 2021
  • AB 194 Actions for violations of elections laws. 2021
  • AB 129 The environmental compliance audit program. 2021
  • AB 124 Dentists administering certain vaccines. 2021
  • AB 107 Factors relating to the physical placement of a child. 2021
  • AB 105 Exclusion of certain military allowances in determining gross income for purposes of child support. 2021
  • AB 104 Calculating the child support obligation and elimination of family support. 2021
  • AB 103 A Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act. 2021
  • AB 102 Judicial notice of certain court records relating to domestic violence or child abuse. 2021
  • AB 101 Proposed parenting plans in certain actions affecting the family. 2021
  • AJR 136 Honoring the life and public service of Representative Warren A. Grady. 2019
  • AB 89 Vacancies in elective offices in cities and villages. 2019
  • AB 859 Making changes related to mixed-use tax incremental financing districts, increasing the amount of time a city or village may extend the life of a tax incremental district to improve its affordable and workforce housing, allowing a reduction in the amount of certain impact fees, and authorizing local units of government to implement workforce housing initiatives. (FE) 2019
  • AB 82 Adopting revisions to the state's uniform athlete agents act and providing a penalty. (FE) 2019
  • AB 793 Priorities and criteria for the municipal flood control and riparian restoration program and amending administrative rules. (FE) 2019
  • AB 717 Increasing the net capital loss deduction. (FE) 2019
  • AB 705 Attorney assistance in the preparation of certain court documents. 2019
  • AB 655 Regulation of home inspectors, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) 2019
  • AB 654 Expanding telehealth mental health treatment to offenders under community supervision. (FE) 2019
  • AB 653 Providing medication and a valid prescription to a prisoner upon release. (FE) 2019
  • AB 490 Changes to the local levy limit calculation for a political subdivision that transfers responsibility to provide a governmental service to another governmental unit. (FE) 2019

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Coauthored · 851

Bills led by another member of the Assembly that Rob Brooks signed onto. Signing on adds their name to the bill; it is not the same as leading it. From each bill's official history.

Show all 851 coauthored bills
  • AJR 91 Recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • AJR 125 Congratulating the Grafton Black Hawks football team for winning the 2025 Wisconsin State Football Championship. 2025
  • AJR 10 The freedom to gather in places of worship during a state of emergency (second consideration). 2025
  • AJR 1 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • AB 994 Review by state agencies of administrative rules and enactments; an expedited process for repealing rules an agency no longer has the authority to promulgate; and the rule-making authority of certain agencies. (FE) 2025
  • AB 992 Requirements for proposed administrative rules that impose costs. (FE) 2025
  • AB 910 The amounts of fines and fees state agencies are authorized or required to impose by law. (FE) 2025
  • AB 894 Terms and conditions of gift certificates, gift cards, and other gift obligations and providing a penalty. 2025
  • AB 840 Certain requirements related to data centers. 2025
  • AB 8 Agreements for direct primary care. 2025
  • AB 74 Parental notification of alleged sexual misconduct by a school staff member. (FE) 2025
  • AB 73 Statutory recognition of specialized treatment court and commercial court dockets. 2025
  • AB 704 Fees for snowmobile registration and trail use stickers. (FE) 2025
  • AB 659 Tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE) 2025
  • AB 627 Fees related to animal markets, animal dealers, animal truckers, and animal transport vehicles. (FE) 2025
  • AB 606 Regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, renaming the Division of Alcohol Beverages as the Division of Intoxicating Products, creating an occupational tax on hemp-derived cannabinoid products, alcohol beverage warehouses and production arrangements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 599 Allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election, eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status for receiving absentee ballots, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 587 Selling and reselling entertainment tickets and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 58 Flags flown, hung, or displayed from a flagpole or the exterior of state and local buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule. 2025
  • AB 572 The definition of bingo. 2025
  • AB 560 Prohibiting the use of absentee ballot drop boxes for any election. 2025
  • AB 559 Providing utility aid payments for certain energy storage facilities. (FE) 2025
  • AB 556 Zero-based biennial budget requests by executive branch agencies. (FE) 2025
  • AB 525 Repeal of obsolete tax credits and tax provisions. (FE) 2025
  • AB 519 The appointment of a guardian ad litem in a proceeding to grant reasonable visitation rights to a nonparent. (FE) 2025
  • AB 518 Allowing individuals who hold a substitute teaching permit to substitute teach at private schools participating in a parental choice program. 2025
  • AB 51 Participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations. 2025
  • AB 46 Flags flown at state and local government buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule. 2025
  • AB 456 Changes regarding the laws governing real estate practice. (FE) 2025
  • AB 455 A condominium conversion reimbursement grant program. (FE) 2025
  • AB 454 A workforce home loan program. (FE) 2025
  • AB 453 Required approvals of rezoning requests related to residential development, contents of and consistency of local ordinances with local comprehensive plans, certain tax incremental district project costs related to residential development, and tax incremental district lifespan extension. (FE) 2025
  • AB 452 Subdivision plat approvals. (FE) 2025
  • AB 451 Residential tax incremental districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 450 Applicability of the commercial building code to certain buildings. (FE) 2025
  • AB 449 Local regulation of accessory dwelling units. (FE) 2025
  • AB 442 The first date on which nomination papers may be circulated for the spring election. 2025
  • AB 418 Visitation of a long-term care facility resident or hospital patient during a communicable disease outbreak. 2025
  • AB 392 Creating a Task Force on Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • AB 377 Establishing English as the official state language, use of artificial intelligence or other machine-assisted translation tools in lieu of appointing English language interpreters, and use of English for governmental oral and written communication and for nongovernmental purposes. (FE) 2025
  • AB 371 The use of speed safety camera systems and traffic control photographic systems in a first class city and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 368 Prior authorization for coverage of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, chiropractic services, and other services under health plans. 2025
  • AB 367 Exemptions from minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping requirements for minor league baseball players. 2025
  • AB 363 Establishing a dairy cattle innovation program. (FE) 2025
  • AB 354 The timing of equalization aid payments to school districts. (FE) 2025
  • AB 353 Price transparency in hospitals, restricting certain debt collection actions against patients, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 351 Virtual credit card payments in health insurance policies. 2025
  • AB 350 The regulation of family and group child care centers. (FE) 2025
  • AB 35 Withdrawal of candidacy for certain offices filled at the general election and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • AB 349 Allowing certified child care operators to provide care to up to six children. (FE) 2025

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Cosponsored · 850

Bills from the other house that Rob Brooks signed onto. Signing on adds their name to the bill; it is not the same as leading it. From each bill's official history.

Show all 850 cosponsored bills
  • SJR 86 Recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday. 2025
  • SJR 4 The freedom to gather in places of worship during a state of emergency (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 2 Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration). 2025
  • SJR 118 Congratulating the Grafton Black Hawks football team for winning the 2025 Wisconsin State Football Championship. 2025
  • SB 981 Review by state agencies of administrative rules and enactments; an expedited process for repealing rules an agency no longer has the authority to promulgate; and the rule-making authority of certain agencies. (FE) 2025
  • SB 979 Requirements for proposed administrative rules that impose costs. (FE) 2025
  • SB 92 Theft crimes and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 900 Terms and conditions of gift certificates, gift cards, and other gift obligations and providing a penalty. 2025
  • SB 861 Various changes to the state lottery. (FE) 2025
  • SB 843 Certain requirements related to data centers. 2025
  • SB 802 A health professional assistance program and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 80 Statutory recognition of specialized treatment court and commercial court dockets. 2025
  • SB 71 Ratification of the Dietitian Licensure Compact. (FE) 2025
  • SB 700 Fees for snowmobile registration and trail use stickers. (FE) 2025
  • SB 681 Regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, renaming the Division of Alcohol Beverages as the Division of Intoxicating Products, creating an occupational tax on hemp-derived cannabinoid products, alcohol beverage warehouses and production arrangements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 640 Tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE) 2025
  • SB 622 Fees related to animal markets, animal dealers, animal truckers, and animal transport vehicles. (FE) 2025
  • SB 597 Allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election, eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status for receiving absentee ballots, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 580 Selling and reselling entertainment tickets and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 573 The definition of bingo. 2025
  • SB 556 Providing utility aid payments for certain energy storage facilities. (FE) 2025
  • SB 555 Zero-based biennial budget requests by executive branch agencies. (FE) 2025
  • SB 554 Prohibiting the use of absentee ballot drop boxes for any election. 2025
  • SB 529 Repeal of obsolete tax credits and tax provisions. (FE) 2025
  • SB 526 Allowing individuals who hold a substitute teaching permit to substitute teach at private schools participating in a parental choice program. 2025
  • SB 522 The appointment of a guardian ad litem in a proceeding to grant reasonable visitation rights to a nonparent. (FE) 2025
  • SB 51 Flags flown at state and local government buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule. 2025
  • SB 481 A condominium conversion reimbursement grant program. (FE) 2025
  • SB 480 Residential tax incremental districts. (FE) 2025
  • SB 479 Subdivision plat approvals. (FE) 2025
  • SB 478 Changes regarding the laws governing real estate practice. (FE) 2025
  • SB 476 A workforce home loan program. (FE) 2025
  • SB 475 Applicability of the commercial building code to certain buildings. (FE) 2025
  • SB 473 Local regulation of accessory dwelling units. (FE) 2025
  • SB 472 Required approvals of rezoning requests related to residential development, contents of and consistency of local ordinances with local comprehensive plans, certain tax incremental district project costs related to residential development, and tax incremental district lifespan extension. (FE) 2025
  • SB 453 The first date on which nomination papers may be circulated for the spring election. 2025
  • SB 417 Visitation of a long-term care facility resident or hospital patient during a communicable disease outbreak. 2025
  • SB 404 Creating a Task Force on Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls and making an appropriation. (FE) 2025
  • SB 40 Flags flown, hung, or displayed from a flagpole or the exterior of state and local buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule. 2025
  • SB 4 Agreements for direct primary care. 2025
  • SB 383 Price transparency in hospitals, restricting certain debt collection actions against patients, and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 375 The use of speed safety camera systems and traffic control photographic systems in a first class city and providing a penalty. (FE) 2025
  • SB 374 Exemptions from minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping requirements for minor league baseball players. 2025
  • SB 373 Prior authorization for coverage of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, chiropractic services, and other services under health plans. 2025
  • SB 367 Virtual credit card payments in health insurance policies. 2025
  • SB 364 The regulation of family and group child care centers. (FE) 2025
  • SB 363 Allowing certified child care operators to provide care to up to six children. (FE) 2025
  • SB 359 The minimum age of assistant child care teachers. 2025
  • SB 357 Establishing English as the official state language, use of artificial intelligence or other machine-assisted translation tools in lieu of appointing English language interpreters, and use of English for governmental oral and written communication and for nongovernmental purposes. (FE) 2025
  • SB 341 The timing of equalization aid payments to school districts. (FE) 2025

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Campaign money

$4,020 reported receipts across 22 records

Jan 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2026. Includes collected receipts before taking office. Latest reported transaction: Jun 30, 2026. Earliest collected receipt in this view: Jan 31, 2025. Filings and amendments may be missing; totals cover collected records.

2025
Receipts by quarter in the selected period. Gold bars with a tick under them are election quarters; peak $4,003 in 2026 Q2.
Quarter by quarter
  • 2025 Q1: $4
  • 2025 Q2: $4
  • 2025 Q3: $3
  • 2025 Q4: $3
  • 2026 Q1: $3
  • 2026 Q2: $4,003

Where it came from

  • Political committees: $3,000 (75%)
  • Businesses & other entities: $1,020 (25%)

Source types exactly as the committee reported each receipt to CFIS.

Top contributing committees

PACs, party and other political committees

Source: Wisconsin Ethics Commission campaign finance filings (campaignfinance.wi.gov), refreshed nightly. Wisconsin law bars corporations from contributing to candidates; money comes from individuals and political committees. Totals cover verified candidate committees, including runs for other offices. Receipts can include loans, transfers, refunds, and in-kind support. All available history starts no earlier than July 2008 and may have gaps. Full methodology

Key votes · 440

Selected by rule, not judgment: the final recorded passage vote of every bill that became law, any floor vote decided by five or fewer, and every veto-override vote. Each row links to the official roll call.

Showing the 300 most recent; the full record is in Vote history below.

Votes against their party · 9

Roll calls where Rob Brooks voted opposite the majority of Republicans casting an Aye or Nay on that roll call. Ties within the party are excluded; absences never count. Each row links to the official roll call.

Show all 9 party-break votes
  • Sep 28, 2021 AB 435 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 58 Aye–2 Nay roll call
  • Nov 7, 2019 AB 304 PASSAGE Voted Nay; Republicans split 49 Aye–13 Nay roll call
  • Jun 14, 2017 AJR 21 ADOPTION Voted Nay; Republicans split 54 Aye–7 Nay roll call
  • Feb 18, 2016 SB 462 Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 87, Noes 8 Voted Nay; Republicans split 54 Aye–8 Nay roll call
  • Feb 18, 2016 SB 546 Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 87, Noes 7, Paired 2 Voted Nay; Republicans split 55 Aye–6 Nay roll call
  • Feb 16, 2016 SB 517 Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 88, Noes 10 Voted Nay; Republicans split 53 Aye–10 Nay roll call
  • Feb 16, 2016 AB 740 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 36, Paired 2 Voted Nay; Republicans split 61 Aye–1 Nay roll call
  • Feb 16, 2016 AB 741 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 61, Noes 36, Paired 2 Voted Nay; Republicans split 61 Aye–1 Nay roll call
  • Feb 16, 2016 AB 743 Read a third time and passed, Ayes 57, Noes 40, Paired 2 Voted Nay; Republicans split 57 Aye–5 Nay roll call

Floor attendance

Only days the chamber held recorded floor votes are shown, on every tile below, they either voted or missed: 1,113 votes across 138 voting days, none missed.

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Vote history · 1,113

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