Every Bill Led or Signed

258 in total, newest first. Signing on adds a name to a bill; it is not the same as leading it. Showing 1–200.

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 56 Proclaiming February 7 to 14, 2010, as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 55 Declaring 2010 as the Year of John Muir. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 51 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 47 The second anniversary of WisconsinEye's commencement of broadcast operations. Cosponsor 2009
SJR 43 The life and public service of Linda Farley. Cosponsor 2009
SB 97 Authorizing temporary permits to practice dentistry or dental hygiene without compensation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 80 The Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. Cosponsor 2009
SB 77 Changes to economic development tax benefit programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Cosponsor 2009
SB 692 An income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 690 Establishment of a Wisconsin conservation corps program, authorizing a transfer of moneys appropriated to one or more state agencies, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 686 Providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiocerebral resuscitation, and the use of an automated external defibrillator to high school pupils. Cosponsor 2009
SB 681 Adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 656 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 655 Safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 640 Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 627 Special distinguishing registration plate decals for certain vehicles owned by certain members of special groups associated with the armed services. Cosponsor 2009
SB 621 Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 617 Creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors. Cosponsor 2009
SB 603 The school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment. Cosponsor 2009
SB 599 Grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 598 The procedure for school district consolidations. Cosponsor 2009
SB 596 Transportation aid to school districts. Cosponsor 2009
SB 595 Transportation of private school pupils. Cosponsor 2009
SB 593 Student achievement guarantee in education program contracts. Cosponsor 2009
SB 582 Public, educational, and governmental access channel requirements for video service providers and interim cable operators. Cosponsor 2009
SB 579 Designation of a corporation to receive funding for electronic health information exchange, creation of a corporation, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 550 A food processing plant and food warehouse investment tax credit, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 545 Payment by the Department of Transportation of the costs of relocating utilities beneath or adjacent to a highway in the village of Sauk City. Cosponsor 2009
SB 542 Encouraging the purchase of food produced in this state, creating goals and a preference in state procurement for food produced in this state, and creating a council. Cosponsor 2009
SB 536 Promoting the use of locally grown food in school meals and snacks and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 523 Unfair labor practices in violation of collective bargaining rights. Cosponsor 2009
SB 515 Authorization for final disposition of a decedent's remains. Cosponsor 2009
SB 504 Professional employer organizations. Cosponsor 2009
SB 5 Restrictions on the use and sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus and other turf fertilizer and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 461 An income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 460 Prescriptions for antimicrobial drugs for treatment of chlamydial infections, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis. Cosponsor 2009
SB 448 A utility terrain vehicle pilot program and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 447 State contractual services and false claims submitted to state and local governments, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 434 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. Cosponsor 2009
SB 432 The use of metal detectors on certain land and in lakes and the removal of items found on that land or in those lakes. Cosponsor 2009
SB 43 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Cosponsor 2009
SB 427 Expanding the types of governmental units that may participate in a joint local governmental self-insured health insurance plan. Cosponsor 2009
SB 425 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. Cosponsor 2009
SB 419 Requiring the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to establish standards for products sold as honey, prohibiting the labeling as Wisconsin certified honey of a product that has not been determined to meet the standards, prohibiting the labeling as honey of a product that does not meet the standards, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 418 Disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 410 Designating and marking a portion of I 43 in the city of Milwaukee as the Jeannetta Simpson-Robinson Memorial Highway. Cosponsor 2009
SB 41 Indoor environmental quality in public and private schools. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 40 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 399 Authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds. Cosponsor 2009
SB 388 Changes to the regulation of massage therapy and bodywork, creating the Massage Therapy and Bodywork Therapy Examining Board, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 368 Medical use of marijuana, the regulation of marijuana distribution organizations, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 362 Health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems. Cosponsor 2009
SB 355 Prohibiting electronic text messaging while driving and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 341 Reckless bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 323 Requiring newborn hearing screening. Cosponsor 2009
SB 322 Information concerning independent candidates for partisan office that appears on the ballot at elections. Cosponsor 2009
SB 3 Health insurance coverage of treatment for autism spectrum disorders. Cosponsor 2009
SB 288 Indian child welfare. Cosponsor 2009
SB 287 Transferring ownership and jurisdiction of a municipality's highways to an American Indian tribe or agency of the United States government. Cosponsor 2009
SB 282 Local government property insurance fund premiums. Cosponsor 2009
SB 275 Employment discrimination based on credit history. Cosponsor 2009
SB 271 Prohibiting the manufacture and sale at wholesale of certain baby bottles and cups for children that contain bisphenol A, creating labeling requirements, making an appropriation, and providing penalties. Cosponsor 2009
SB 27 Requiring health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under 18 years of age. Cosponsor 2009
SB 261 Deployment of high-speed Internet services. Cosponsor 2009
SB 259 The homestead exemption and increases in the value of the exemption for various property that is exempt from execution. Cosponsor 2009
SB 25 The use of race-based names, nicknames, logos, and mascots by school boards, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 240 Restoring the right to vote to certain persons barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction and changing the information required on voter registration forms. Cosponsor 2009
SB 24 Creating an individual income tax checkoff for Wisconsin food banks that are members of Feeding America and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 223 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Cosponsor 2009
SB 216 Professional employer organizations and professional employer groups. Cosponsor 2009
SB 215 A personal property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 214 A real property tax exemption for snowmobile clubs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 209 Increasing the tax on fermented malt beverages to fund law enforcement grants and alcohol and drug abuse treatment and prevention programs, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. 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 200 Products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 20 Authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment to pay compensatory and punitive damages and a surcharge and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 195 Adding a member to the council on veterans programs. Cosponsor 2009
SB 190 Renewals and extensions of business contracts. Cosponsor 2009
SB 185 Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 181 Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 178 Requiring persons who violate certain restraining orders or injunctions to be monitored by a global positioning system, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Cosponsor 2009
SB 172 Limiting a city's and village's use of direct annexation and authorizing limited town challenges to an annexation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 17 Special distinguishing registration plates for certain vehicles owned by members of the national guard and making an appropriation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 163 Requiring health insurance coverage of colorectal cancer screening and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
SB 16 Permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be. Cosponsor 2009
SB 159 The issuance of motor vehicle operator's licenses and identification cards by the Department of Transportation. Cosponsor 2009
SB 135 Requiring instruction in public schools on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 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. Cosponsor 2009
SB 113 The appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Cosponsor 2009
SB 111 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 11 A requirement that all employers in this state grant a paid leave of absence on Veterans Day to employees who are veterans. Cosponsor 2009
SB 109 Commencement of the school term in public schools. Cosponsor 2009
SB 1 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. Cosponsor 2009
AR 16 Urging and authorizing the attorney general to pursue every legal means available to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. Coauthor 2009
AR 13 Proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 98 Declaring 2010 as the Year of John Muir. Coauthor 2009
AJR 83 The life and public service of Tommy T. Tradewell. Coauthor 2009
AJR 82 Proclaiming October 2009 as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 76 The second anniversary of WisconsinEye's commencement of broadcast operations. Coauthor 2009
AJR 72 The life and public service of Edward Moore Kennedy. Coauthor 2009
AJR 71 The H1N1 virus and its impact on Wisconsin. Coauthor 2009
AJR 64 The life and public service of Linda Farley. Coauthor 2009
AJR 60 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. Coauthor 2009
AJR 57 The public service of Anthony D. Hardie. Coauthor 2009
AJR 33 Proclaiming April as Autism Awareness Month. Coauthor 2009
AJR 29 Establishing a competitive election criteria for redistricting the legislature (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 28 Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway. Coauthor 2009
AJR 24 Providing property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state (first consideration). Coauthor 2009
AJR 102 Proclaiming February 7 to 14, 2010, as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week. Lead author 2009
AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. Coauthor 2009
AB 948 An income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution and granting rule-making authority. Lead author 2009
AB 946 Health insurance coverage of smoking cessation treatment and medications. Coauthor 2009
AB 943 Adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 912 Construction of a rural dental education outreach facility in Marshfield, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 910 Establishment of a Wisconsin conservation corps program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
AB 903 Safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 9 A requirement that all employers in this state grant a paid leave of absence on Veterans Day to employees who are veterans. Coauthor 2009
AB 895 Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 859 Semiannual meetings of small winery cooperative wholesalers. Coauthor 2009
AB 855 Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to waive fishing license requirements for a weekend fishing event. Coauthor 2009
AB 853 Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 851 Special distinguishing registration plate decals for certain vehicles owned by certain members of special groups associated with the armed services. Coauthor 2009
AB 840 The school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment. Coauthor 2009
AB 810 Creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors. Coauthor 2009
AB 809 Transportation of private school pupils. Coauthor 2009
AB 808 Student achievement guarantee in education program contracts. Coauthor 2009
AB 807 Transportation aid to school districts. Coauthor 2009
AB 806 The procedure for school district consolidations. Coauthor 2009
AB 805 Grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 792 State contractual services and false claims submitted to state and local governments, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing penalties. Coauthor 2009
AB 789 Insurance coverage of the services of behavior analysts for autism treatment. Coauthor 2009
AB 786 Payment by the Department of Transportation of the costs of relocating utilities beneath or adjacent to a highway in the village of Sauk City. Lead author 2009
AB 782 Encouraging the purchase of food produced in this state, creating goals and a preference in state procurement for food produced in this state, and creating a council. Coauthor 2009
AB 781 Remission of fees for veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or in a technical college. Lead author 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 768 Authorizing the Department of Commerce to designate two additional enterprise zones. Coauthor 2009
AB 767 Changes to the membership of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, notification to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board of bills with an economic impact on small businesses, and the role of the Office of the Small Business Advocate in the Department of Commerce. Coauthor 2009
AB 760 Ambulatory surgical facilities. Coauthor 2009
AB 757 A food processing plant and food warehouse investment tax credit, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 756 The dairy and livestock investment tax credits. Coauthor 2009
AB 752 Members of the Board of Veterans Affairs and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 749 An income and franchise tax credit for equipment used to harvest or process woody biomass. Coauthor 2009
AB 746 Promoting the use of locally grown food in school meals and snacks and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 725 Providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiocerebral resuscitation, and the use of an automated external defibrillator to high school pupils. Coauthor 2009
AB 721 Public, educational, and governmental access channel requirements for video service providers and interim cable operators. Coauthor 2009
AB 72 Grants for providing shelter for homeless individuals and families in the vicinity of the state capitol building and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 716 Professional employer organizations. Lead author 2009
AB 700 Authorization for final disposition of a decedent's remains. Lead author 2009
AB 69 Creating an individual income tax checkoff for Wisconsin food banks that are members of Feeding America and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 664 Requiring certain chain restaurants to post or provide nutritional information, providing immunity for restaurants that provide inaccurate nutritional information, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 653 Prescriptions for antimicrobial drugs for treatment of chlamydial infections, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis. Coauthor 2009
AB 65 Public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 642 An income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 640 Expanding the types of governmental units that may participate in a joint local governmental self-insured health insurance plan. Coauthor 2009
AB 639 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. Coauthor 2009
AB 637 Regulating chemicals in children's products and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 636 The use of metal detectors on certain land and in lakes and the removal of items found on that land or in those lakes. Coauthor 2009
AB 63 The scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. Coauthor 2009
AB 628 The sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream. Coauthor 2009
AB 62 The prosecution and venue for trial of certain offenses by certain state residents. Coauthor 2009
AB 614 Disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 606 The regulation of video service providers and interim cable operators, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 605 Authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 591 Authorizing certain optometrists to dispense contact lenses that deliver a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent. Coauthor 2009
AB 588 Changes to the regulation of massage therapy and bodywork, creating the Massage Therapy and Bodywork Therapy Examining Board, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 575 Requiring the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to establish standards for products sold as honey, prohibiting the labeling as Wisconsin certified honey of a product that has not been determined to meet the standards, prohibiting the labeling as honey of a product that does not meet the standards, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 574 Lightweight utility vehicles and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 57 Permitting a mother to breast-feed in any public or private location where she is otherwise authorized to be. Coauthor 2009
AB 554 Medical use of marijuana, the regulation of marijuana distribution organizations, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, making appropriations, and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 551 Furlough of executive branch state employees during the 2009-11 fiscal biennium and making an appropriation. Coauthor 2009
AB 545 Residency of election officials. Coauthor 2009
AB 529 Violations of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law and providing a penalty. Lead author 2009
AB 515 Reckless bodily harm to a child and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 513 The amounts appropriated for tuition grants and for Wisconsin higher education grants for University of Wisconsin system students, technical college students, and tribal college students; grants to technical college districts to reduce unemployment; grants to businesses to make capital expenditures; increasing the total amount of angel investment credits; creating a new individual income tax upper bracket; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. Coauthor 2009
AB 512 Health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems. Coauthor 2009
AB 496 Prohibiting electronic text messaging while driving and providing a penalty. Coauthor 2009
AB 488 Requiring newborn hearing screening. Coauthor 2009
AB 467 Creating an optional holiday for state employees to observe the birthday of Cesar E. Chavez. Coauthor 2009
AB 464 A requirement that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, emergency medical technician, first responder, or ambulance driver for a volunteer fire department or fire company, a public agency, or a nonprofit corporation to be late for or absent from work if the lateness or absence is due to the employee responding to an emergency that begins before the employee is required to report to work. Coauthor 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. Coauthor 2009
AB 454 Information concerning independent candidates for partisan office that appears on the ballot at elections. Coauthor 2009
AB 44 The Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. Coauthor 2009
AB 430 Making October 10, William D. Hoard Day, a legal holiday. Coauthor 2009
AB 424 Transferring ownership and jurisdiction of a municipality's highways to an American Indian tribe or agency of the United States government. Coauthor 2009
AB 421 Indian child welfare. Coauthor 2009
AB 41 A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority. Coauthor 2009
AB 403 Local government property insurance fund premiums. Coauthor 2009
AB 402 The operation of neighborhood electric vehicles on county trunk highways. Coauthor 2009