Every Bill Led or Signed

330 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 201–330.

AB 27 Requiring political subdivisions to pay health insurance premiums for survivors of a law enforcement officer who dies, or has died, in the line of duty. Cosponsor 2011
AB 18 Collection and analysis of motor vehicle traffic stop information and law enforcement training standards. Cosponsor 2011
AB 167 Waiver for prescription drug assistance for elderly program, use of excess moneys in prescription drug assistance for elderly program, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 133 Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2011
AB 12 The restoration of information from an original birth certificate after adoption. Cosponsor 2011
AB 119 Special distinguishing registration plates expressing support for the family members of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty. Cosponsor 2011
SJR 82 Commemorating the 40th Earth Day celebration. Coauthor 2009
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. Coauthor 2009
SJR 65 Lead poisoning hazards, lead abatement, and requesting a study. Coauthor 2009
SJR 58 Honoring the service and safe return of Wisconsin's 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team from its deployment in Iraq. Coauthor 2009
SJR 53 Honoring the life and public service of Joseph P. Mettner. Coauthor 2009
SJR 50 The life and military service of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jeremy Dale Vrooman. Lead author 2009
SJR 49 Eliminating the spring election (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
SJR 47 The second anniversary of WisconsinEye's commencement of broadcast operations. Lead author 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. Coauthor 2009
SJR 40 The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Lead author 2009
SJR 20 Proclaiming the Week of the Young Child. Lead author 2009
SB 656 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 653 Trial job program and transitional jobs demonstration project and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 629 The sale, disposal, collection, and recycling of mercury-added lamps and making an appropriation. Lead author 2009
SB 625 Streamlined sales and use tax agreement changes. Lead author 2009
SB 620 Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 6 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. Lead author 2009
SB 587 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. Coauthor 2009
SB 584 Mutual assistance between tribal and county or municipal law enforcement agencies. Lead author 2009
SB 562 Weight limitations for vehicles transporting raw forest products. Coauthor 2009
SB 555 Crimes against animals and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
SB 553 Assessment on critical access hospitals; payments to critical access hospitals under the Medical Assistance Program; creating a rural physician residency assistance program; the physician, dentist, and health care provider loan assistance programs; and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
SB 531 Annual or consecutive month permits for vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting loads near the Wisconsin-Michigan border. Lead author 2009
SB 517 The Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. Lead author 2009
SB 5 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 484 The BadgerCare Plus Basic Plan, Benchmark Plan benefits, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 483 Prohibiting health insurance policies and self-insured health plans from excluding coverage for injuries based on the use of alcohol or controlled substances. Lead author 2009
SB 482 The practice of athletic trainers and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
SB 47 Designating portions of the Totogatic River as a wild river. Lead author 2009
SB 467 Using an electronic signature on a criminal complaint. Lead author 2009
SB 448 A utility terrain vehicle pilot program and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
SB 439 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes. Coauthor 2009
SB 409 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. Coauthor 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. Lead author 2009
SB 402 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Coauthor 2009
SB 381 Notice of firearm prohibition when served with notice of an injunction hearing and process for surrendering firearms following the granting of certain injunctions. Coauthor 2009
SB 380 The possession of a firearm by a person who has committed a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 361 The monthly rates that are paid for foster care; the levels of care that a foster home may provide; licensing of kinship care relatives to operate foster homes and, subject to certain exceptions, time limits on the receipt of kinship care payments; and licensing of foster homes across county lines. Lead author 2009
SB 35 The distribution of the first dollar property tax credit. Coauthor 2009
SB 348 Declarations creating marina condominiums and technical corrections to the laws governing marina condominiums. Lead author 2009
SB 347 Requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in making reasonable efforts to place a child in a permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring notice to relatives when a child is removed from the home; requiring reasonable efforts to place siblings together or to provide for visitation between siblings; requiring agencies to assist children in developing a plan for transition to independent living; requiring health care providers to report cases of infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings; specifying certain placements for purposes of calculating how long a child has been placed outside the home for purposes of filing a termination of parental rights petition; and permitting disclosure of information to a relative of a child for purposes of facilitating placement of the child with the relative or to a public or private agency in this state or any other state for purposes of investigating a proposed foster or adoptive placement. Lead author 2009
SB 346 Required judicial findings and orders when a child is placed outside the home, termination of parental rights warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters, the confidentiality of social services records, changing from day care to child care the term used to describe care and supervision for children for less than 24 hours a day, and renumbering the definition of neglect. Lead author 2009
SB 341 Reckless bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty. Lead author 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. Lead author 2009
SB 328 Allowing a school district to carry over unused revenue limit authority to the following school year. Lead author 2009
SB 301 The application of shoreland zoning ordinances to certain unincorporated areas. Coauthor 2009
SB 3 Health insurance coverage of treatment for autism spectrum disorders. Coauthor 2009
SB 288 Indian child welfare. Lead author 2009
SB 284 Designating and marking USH 63 as the Gaylord Nelson Highway. Coauthor 2009
SB 280 Personal liability of officers, directors, and employees of child care providers. Lead author 2009
SB 261 Deployment of high-speed Internet services. Coauthor 2009
SB 257 Emergency assistance grants. Lead author 2009
SB 251 Costs of transporting by ferry an arrested person. Lead author 2009
SB 200 Products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
SB 2 The filing of a wage claim or the bringing of a wage claim action by a collective bargaining representative on behalf of an employee and the priority of a wage claim lien over a prior lien of a commercial lending institution and over the rights of a purchaser of any property of the employer. Coauthor 2009
SB 181 Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
SB 125 Establishing a charter school in conjunction with an Indian tribe. Lead author 2009
SB 123 Regulating the transportation of aquatic plants and aquatic animals, the administration of federal funds for the control and eradication of noxious weeds, the placement of vehicles, seaplanes, watercraft, and other objects in navigable waters, the regulation of noxious weeds by municipalities, the disposal of invasive species, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
SB 12 The operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake. Lead author 2009
SB 107 The sale, disposal, collection, and recycling of electronic devices, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AJR 90 The life and public service of Rev. P. Harvey Stower. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 8 Taxation of principal homesteads of individuals (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
AJR 78 Recall of enrolled 2009 Assembly Bill 8. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 76 The second anniversary of WisconsinEye's commencement of broadcast operations. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 62 The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 30 Proclaiming the Week of the Young Child. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 2 Eliminating the spring election (first consideration). Cosponsor 2009
AJR 136 Commemorating the 40th Earth Day celebration. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 111 Declaring May 29, 2010, as Wisconsin Canoe Heritage Day. Cosponsor 2009
AJR 108 Commending the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 32nd Brigade, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry, for receiving the Walter T. Kerwin Jr. Award. Cosponsor 2009
AB 912 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 905 Streamlined sales and use tax agreement changes. Cosponsor 2009
AB 90 The operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake. Cosponsor 2009
AB 898 Trial job program and transitional jobs demonstration project and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 88 Allowing electric utilities and retail electric cooperatives to include energy derived from garbage and certain waste in satisfying renewable portfolio standards. Cosponsor 2009
AB 873 Liens by commercial real estate brokers. Cosponsor 2009
AB 87 Disposal of ash resulting from the burning of a structure. Cosponsor 2009
AB 858 The restoration of information from an original birth certificate after adoption. Cosponsor 2009
AB 844 Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 821 Commercial real estate liens and recording a correction instrument and a lis pendens. Cosponsor 2009
AB 8 Municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses. Cosponsor 2009
AB 778 Weight limitations for vehicles transporting raw forest products. Cosponsor 2009
AB 770 Assessment on critical access hospitals; payments to critical access hospitals under the Medical Assistance Program; creating a rural physician residency assistance program; the physician, dentist, and health care provider loan assistance programs; and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 761 Annual or consecutive month permits for vehicles or combinations of vehicles transporting loads near the Wisconsin-Michigan border. Cosponsor 2009
AB 747 Crimes against animals and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 730 Prohibiting health insurance policies and self-insured health plans from excluding coverage for injuries based on the use of alcohol or controlled substances. Cosponsor 2009
AB 713 Mutual assistance between tribal and county or municipal law enforcement agencies. Cosponsor 2009
AB 705 The Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children. Cosponsor 2009
AB 7 Designating a portion of the Brunsweiler River as a wild river. Cosponsor 2009
AB 697 The BadgerCare Plus Basic Plan, Benchmark Plan benefits, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
AB 693 The practice of athletic trainers and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 685 Using an electronic signature on a criminal complaint. Cosponsor 2009
AB 68 The distribution of the first dollar property tax credit. Cosponsor 2009
AB 648 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts and adopting provisions of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 for state income and franchise tax purposes. Cosponsor 2009
AB 641 A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. Cosponsor 2009
AB 591 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Cosponsor 2009
AB 559 Notice of firearm prohibition when served with notice of an injunction hearing and process for surrendering firearms following the granting of certain injunctions. Cosponsor 2009
AB 558 The possession of a firearm by a person who has committed a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
AB 515 Reckless bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 510 The monthly rates that are paid for foster care; the levels of care that a foster home may provide; licensing of kinship care relatives to operate foster homes and, subject to certain exceptions, time limits on the receipt of kinship care payments; and licensing of foster homes across county lines. Cosponsor 2009
AB 486 Requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in making reasonable efforts to place a child in a permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring notice to relatives when a child is removed from the home; requiring reasonable efforts to place siblings together or to provide for visitation between siblings; requiring agencies to assist children in developing a plan for transition to independent living; requiring health care providers to report cases of infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings; specifying certain placements for purposes of calculating how long a child has been placed outside the home for purposes of filing a termination of parental rights petition; and permitting disclosure of information to a relative of a child for purposes of facilitating placement of the child with the relative or to a public or private agency in this state or any other state for purposes of investigating a proposed foster or adoptive placement. Cosponsor 2009
AB 485 Required judicial findings and orders when a child is placed outside the home, termination of parental rights warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters, the confidentiality of social services records, changing from day care to child care the term used to describe care and supervision for children for less than 24 hours a day, and renumbering the definition of neglect. 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 461 Allowing a school district to carry over unused revenue limit authority to the following school year. Cosponsor 2009
AB 43 Designating portions of the Totogatic River as a wild river. Cosponsor 2009
AB 421 Indian child welfare. Cosponsor 2009
AB 412 Personal liability of officers, directors, and employees of child care providers. Cosponsor 2009
AB 392 Finance charges for licensed lenders. Cosponsor 2009
AB 391 Deployment of high-speed Internet services. Cosponsor 2009
AB 374 Emergency assistance grants. Cosponsor 2009
AB 344 Costs of transporting by ferry an arrested person. Cosponsor 2009
AB 332 Authorizing the use of airguns and crossbows under certain hunting licenses. 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 295 The designation of smoking rooms in lodging establishments. Cosponsor 2009
AB 253 Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 252 Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, and in public conveyances and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 228 Awarding state procurements to certified disabled veteran-owned businesses, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 227 Directing the Pharmacy Examining Board to create a program to monitor the dispensing of prescription drugs and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AB 209 Authorizing a county to provide assistance to a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to certain individuals. Cosponsor 2009
AB 204 Establishing a charter school in conjunction with an American Indian tribe. Cosponsor 2009
AB 162 Regulating the transportation of aquatic plants and aquatic animals, the administration of federal funds for the control and eradication of noxious weeds, the placement of vehicles, seaplanes, watercraft, and other objects in navigable waters, the regulation of noxious weeds by municipalities, the disposal of invasive species, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
AB 15 Health insurance coverage of treatment for autism spectrum disorders. Cosponsor 2009