Every Bill Led or Signed

2,187 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 2,001–2,187.

SB 659 Review by the Joint Committee on Finance of the expenditure of certain federal funds by the Department of Natural Resources. Coauthor 2009
SB 641 Collection of deoxyribonucleic acid samples and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 631 Submission of biological specimens for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis. Coauthor 2009
SB 629 The sale, disposal, collection, and recycling of mercury-added lamps and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 626 Modifications to platting requirements. Coauthor 2009
SB 618 Raffles. Coauthor 2009
SB 611 Providing information to a firearms dealer when purchasing a handgun, authorizing the Department of Justice to prosecute violations of certain laws regulating firearms, receiving a stolen firearm, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
SB 610 Employment eligibility verification requirements for state and local government employees and state procurement and construction contracts. Coauthor 2009
SB 605 Allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically. Coauthor 2009
SB 6 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. Coauthor 2009
SB 587 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. Coauthor 2009
SB 58 Permitting third-party testers to administer driving skills tests for certain noncommercial motor vehicle drivers. Coauthor 2009
SB 576 The requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. Coauthor 2009
SB 566 Requiring the University of Wisconsin System to obtain the approval of the Joint Committee on Finance in order to acquire property by condemnation. Coauthor 2009
SB 562 Weight limitations for vehicles transporting raw forest products. Coauthor 2009
SB 557 Notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 547 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Coauthor 2009
SB 533 An integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 502 Exempting wellness programs from unfair trade or marketing practices. Coauthor 2009
SB 500 Requiring suspected drug activity on the part of a caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider to be reported to an immediate supervisor and to the sheriff and suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect on the part of such an individual to be reported under the child abuse and neglect reporting law and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 5 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 499 Prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing a drug-related felony or who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a drug-related felony from showing that he or she has been rehabilitated for purposes of being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, of being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or of being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided. Coauthor 2009
SB 48 Catch and release bass and muskellunge fishing. Coauthor 2009
SB 471 Health care plans operated by cooperative associations. Coauthor 2009
SB 465 The safe-ride grant program administered by the Department of Transportation. Coauthor 2009
SB 43 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Coauthor 2009
SB 418 Disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 406 Snowmobile registration, trail use sticker requirements, intoxicated snowmobiling, snowmobile speed limits, calculating the estimated snowmobile gas tax payment, funding for alcohol education programs and state trails, providing penalties, and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
SB 402 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Coauthor 2009
SB 400 Operation of all-terrain vehicles to remove snow. Coauthor 2009
SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. Coauthor 2009
SB 385 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Coauthor 2009
SB 355 Prohibiting electronic text messaging while driving and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 343 The rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. Lead author 2009
SB 34 Eligibility for an occupational license. Coauthor 2009
SB 333 Prohibiting a person who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing certain serious crimes, who is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition for committing a serious crime, or who has had entered against him or her a domestic abuse, child abuse, individual-at-risk abuse, or harassment temporary restraining order or injunction in the preceding 15 years from being licensed, certified, or contracted with to provide child care, from being employed or contracted as a caregiver of a child care provider, or from being permitted to reside at a premises where child care is provided; requiring suspected fraudulent activity on the part of a participant in the Wisconsin Works Program, including a person receiving a child care subsidy under that program, to be reported to the district attorney; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 321 Operation of neighborhood electric vehicles. Coauthor 2009
SB 31 The Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, as approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Coauthor 2009
SB 302 Powersports vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 293 Directing the governor to annually proclaim March 25 as Medal of Honor Day. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
SB 288 Indian child welfare. Coauthor 2009
SB 280 Personal liability of officers, directors, and employees of child care providers. Coauthor 2009
SB 273 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 267 The definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work. Coauthor 2009
SB 254 Privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements. Coauthor 2009
SB 236 Electronic filing of campaign finance reports. Coauthor 2009
SB 235 Limiting disclosure of information gathered by news persons. Coauthor 2009
SB 23 Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials and committees. Coauthor 2009
SB 217 Ineligibility of convicted felons for licensure as lobbyists. Coauthor 2009
SB 208 Regulation of persons who sell dogs or operate animal shelters or animal control facilities, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 206 Recording and filing documents with the register of deeds. Coauthor 2009
SB 200 Products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 198 Donating drugs and dispensing donated drugs. Coauthor 2009
SB 194 Professional land surveyors, the practice of professional land surveying, surveying land abutting navigable waters, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 169 Use of a facsimile firearm and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 162 Requiring that personal flotation devices be worn by certain underage persons in certain boats. Coauthor 2009
SB 16 Permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be. Coauthor 2009
SB 157 Driver education instruction. Coauthor 2009
SB 145 Determining the value of billboards for personal property tax purposes. Coauthor 2009
SB 136 The requirement to build and maintain partition fences. Coauthor 2009
SB 128 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Coauthor 2009
SB 126 Changes to and extension of the Environmental Results Program, extension of the Environmental Improvement Program and the length of a compliance schedule under that program, and reporting requirements for certain environmental programs. Coauthor 2009
SB 118 Prohibiting an insurer from requiring a certain vendor for repairing a motor vehicle, requiring adjusters to inspect motor vehicle damage, and insurance payments for motor vehicle repair costs. Coauthor 2009
SB 113 The appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Coauthor 2009
SB 105 Payment card network fees for merchants and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 103 Restrictions on the operation of motor vehicles by persons using electronic text messaging devices and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AJR 92 Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the symbolic end of the Cold War. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 90 The life and public service of Rev. P. Harvey Stower. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 88 The life and public service of Jay W. Johnson. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 83 The life and public service of Tommy T. Tradewell. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 82 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 80 Commemorating the achievements and contributions of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on the occasion of its centennial. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 77 Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 67 Commending MAG Giddings and Lewis on its sesquicentennial. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 60 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 57 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 56 The 100 year anniversary of Peninsula State Park. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 53 The life and public service of former Congressman Reverend Robert J. Cornell. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 43 Proclaiming April 22, 2009, as Undergraduate Research Day and commending University of Wisconsin System students, faculty, and staff. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 42 Recognizing April 8 as Wellness Day in Wisconsin. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 35 Commending the Gundersen Lutheran Health System on being recognized as the first medical facility in the nation to achieve a top rating from the National Quality Measures for Breast Centers. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 33 Proclaiming April as Autism Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 32 Public officer salary changes (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
AJR 31 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 23 Declaring May as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 20 Declaring March 2009 American Red Cross Month. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 18 The life and public service of Rebecca Young. Cosponsor 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). Cosponsor 2009
AJR 14 The life and public service of Frank H. Urban, M.D. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 137 The life and public service of Paul E. Hassett. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 118 Proclaiming May 14, 15, and 16, 2010, Syttende Mai Weekend. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 115 Expressing the sense of the legislature that Congress should return State of Wisconsin Nuclear Waste Fund contributions. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 106 Proclaiming February 5, 2010, as Go Red for Women Day. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 104 The life and military service of Sergeant Nickolas A. Mueller. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 100 Congratulating the Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 10 Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 1 Proclaiming Niagara Escarpment year and month. Cosponsor 2009
AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Cosponsor 2009
AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Cosponsor 2009
AB 958 Review by the Joint Committee on Finance of the expenditure of certain federal funds by the Department of Natural Resources. Cosponsor 2009
AB 917 Elimination of sick leave for legislators, justices and judges, and all other state elected officials. Cosponsor 2009
AB 906 Modifications to platting requirements. Cosponsor 2009
AB 896 Collection of deoxyribonucleic acid samples and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 893 Submission of biological specimens for deoxyribonucleic acid analysis. Cosponsor 2009
AB 888 Employment eligibility verification requirements for state and local government employees and state procurement and construction contracts. Cosponsor 2009
AB 873 Liens by commercial real estate brokers. Cosponsor 2009
AB 870 The requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. Cosponsor 2009
AB 859 Semiannual meetings of small winery cooperative wholesalers. Cosponsor 2009
AB 856 Raffles. Cosponsor 2009
AB 846 Allowing required condominium disclosures to be made electronically. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 821 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. Cosponsor 2009
AB 818 Notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 796 The rail passenger service assistance and promotion program. Cosponsor 2009
AB 785 An integrated crime alert network and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 778 Weight limitations for vehicles transporting raw forest products. Cosponsor 2009
AB 762 Informing correctional officers about inmates with contagious diseases. Cosponsor 2009
AB 753 Providing information to a firearms dealer when purchasing a handgun, authorizing the Department of Justice to prosecute violations of certain laws regulating firearms, receiving a stolen firearm, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
AB 752 Members of the Board of Veterans Affairs and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 748 Suspension of the requirement that certain milk contractors pay an assessment into the agricultural producer security fund. Cosponsor 2009
AB 733 The deadlines, for applying for assistance and closing loans under the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program. Cosponsor 2009
AB 728 The safe-ride grant program administered by the Department of Transportation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 7 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. Cosponsor 2009
AB 699 Exempting wellness programs from unfair trade or marketing practices. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 683 Health care plans operated by cooperative associations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 630 Enforcement of the citizenship qualification for voting in elections in this state. Cosponsor 2009
AB 63 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Cosponsor 2009
AB 614 Disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 603 Operation of all-terrain vehicles to remove snow. Cosponsor 2009
AB 599 A speed limit for the operation of snowmobiles during the hours of darkness. Cosponsor 2009
AB 598 Snowmobile registration, trail use sticker requirements, intoxicated snowmobiling, snowmobile speed limits, calculating the estimated snowmobile gas tax payment, funding for alcohol education programs and state trails, providing penalties, and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 597 Requiring the University of Wisconsin System to obtain the approval of the Joint Committee on Finance in order to acquire property by condemnation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 591 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Cosponsor 2009
AB 58 The Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, as approved by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Cosponsor 2009
AB 57 Permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be. Cosponsor 2009
AB 517 Highway maps published by the Department of Transportation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 496 Prohibiting electronic text messaging while driving and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 482 The minimum sale price of prescription drugs. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 441 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. Cosponsor 2009
AB 439 Powersports vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 425 Directing the governor to annually proclaim March 25 as Medal of Honor Day. Cosponsor 2009
AB 42 Acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials, officials elect, and committees and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 415 Designating and marking a portion of USH 12 in the city of Whitewater as the Stephen Ambrose Memorial Highway. Cosponsor 2009
AB 402 The operation of neighborhood electric vehicles on county trunk highways. Cosponsor 2009
AB 401 Creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 4 Catch and release bass and muskellunge fishing. Cosponsor 2009
AB 397 The definition of plumbing and classifying plumbers to do certain work. Cosponsor 2009
AB 394 The color and design of special distinguishing registration plates for fire fighters and emergency medical technicians. Cosponsor 2009
AB 371 Privileges under a Class A or Class B bear hunting license, and bear carcass tag and back tag requirements. Cosponsor 2009
AB 362 Designating and marking the bridge on USH 41 across the Peshtigo River in the city of Peshtigo as the Steven Drees Memorial Bridge. Cosponsor 2009
AB 345 Accepting prisoners or detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Cosponsor 2009
AB 337 Payment of employee required contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System. Cosponsor 2009
AB 333 Limiting disclosure of information gathered by news persons. Cosponsor 2009
AB 324 Impersonating certain officials and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 312 Authorizing cities and towns, and expanding the authority of villages, to create combined protective services departments. Cosponsor 2009
AB 304 Ineligibility of convicted felons for licensure as lobbyists. Cosponsor 2009
AB 3 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 299 Products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 292 Recording and filing documents with the register of deeds. Cosponsor 2009
AB 272 Donating drugs and dispensing donated drugs. Cosponsor 2009
AB 271 Professional land surveyors, the practice of professional land surveying, surveying land abutting navigable waters, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 233 Use of a facsimile firearm and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 220 Regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements. Cosponsor 2009
AB 219 Requiring that personal flotation devices be worn by certain underage persons in certain boats. Cosponsor 2009
AB 216 Permitting third-party testers to administer driving skills tests for certain noncommercial motor vehicle drivers. Cosponsor 2009
AB 215 Determining the value of billboards for personal property tax purposes. Cosponsor 2009
AB 191 Drunken driving and creating a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 180 Changes to and extension of the Environmental Results Program, extension of the Environmental Improvement Program and the length of a compliance schedule under that program, and reporting requirements for certain environmental programs. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 158 Driver education instruction. Cosponsor 2009
AB 138 The appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Cosponsor 2009
AB 121 Prohibiting an insurer from requiring a certain vendor for repairing a motor vehicle, requiring adjusters to inspect motor vehicle damage, and insurance payments for motor vehicle repair costs. Cosponsor 2009
AB 120 Providing the public with information on state agency operations expenditures and state agency contracts and grants. Cosponsor 2009
AB 117 Withholding of pay of certain state elected officials and prohibiting the reimbursement of certain legislator expenses; acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials and committees; deadlines for the transmittal of the Building Commission's long-range state building program recommendations and the delivery of the governor's biennial budget message; submission of a report on the timeliness of the submittal of agency biennial budget requests; legislative consideration of biennial budget bill; operation of legislature before passage of biennial budget bill; and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 113 Changes to economic development tax benefit programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 110 Access to employment records of candidates for law enforcement positions. Cosponsor 2009
AB 104 Reporting of information by nonresident registrants under the campaign finance law. Cosponsor 2009
AB 103 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 101 The registration of antique snowmobiles. Cosponsor 2009