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Republican Former Representative · Assembly District 32

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Bills they led · 5

Bills where Thomas Lothian 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 5 bills they led: 2 became law, 0 were vetoed, 1 died without a public hearing. Statuses come from each bill's official history.

Became law 2 bills
  • AB 347 The Internet sale of unclaimed personal property by a sheriff. 2009
  • AB 335 The consumption of alcohol beverages in public places. 2009
Died at session end 3 bills
  • AB 581 Use of lamps on vehicles when visibility is limited by climatic conditions and providing a penalty. 2009
  • AB 522 Veterans records with the register of deeds. 2009
  • AB 394 The color and design of special distinguishing registration plates for fire fighters and emergency medical technicians. 2009

Coauthored · 169

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

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  • AR 25 Requiring the Committee on Rules to offer a resolution calling for a special order of business on 2009 Assembly Resolution 14. 2009
  • AR 21 Authorizing the attorney general to file or join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or any part thereof, and the federal Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, or any part thereof. 2009
  • AR 13 Proclaiming October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. 2009
  • AJR 92 Recognizing the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the symbolic end of the Cold War. 2009
  • AJR 65 Different property tax levy rates for parts of cities, villages, towns, counties, and school districts added by attachments to school districts, consolidations, and boundary changes under cooperative agreements (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 58 Accounting and expenditure of state funds (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 55 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 51 State sovereignty. 2009
  • AJR 36 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 32 Public officer salary changes (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 31 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. 2009
  • AJR 3 Creating the Joint Committee on Economic Stimulus Accountability. 2009
  • AJR 23 Declaring May as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month. 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). 2009
  • AJR 138 The right of the people to contract privately for health care services and health care coverage, and prohibiting requiring a person to obtain or maintain health insurance coverage or to participate in any health care system or plan (first consideration). 2009
  • AJR 126 Commending the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point men's basketball team. 2009
  • AJR 121 Proclaiming May 2010 as Motorcycle Awareness Month. 2009
  • AJR 12 Renaming the decorated tree on display in the capitol rotunda during the Christmas holiday season as the Wisconsin State Christmas Tree. 2009
  • AJR 100 Congratulating the Boy Scouts of America on its 100th anniversary. 2009
  • AB 99 Adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. 2009
  • AB 98 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
  • AB 97 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
  • AB 967 Expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement income received by an individual. 2009
  • AB 960 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. 2009
  • AB 96 Operating a motor vehicle after revocation. 2009
  • AB 947 Requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
  • AB 941 Creating an income and franchise tax credit for businesses that contribute to a scholarship-granting organization or to an educational improvement organization and a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for education expenses paid for dependents who attend elementary and secondary schools. 2009
  • AB 937 Distributing one-half of general school aid using an income equalization formula. 2009
  • AB 931 Rule making that increases costs or regulatory burdens. 2009
  • AB 93 Prohibiting certain automated telephone solicitations. 2009
  • AB 926 Creating the Department of Environmental Quality and transferring some of the authority and duties of the Department of Natural Resources to the Department of Environmental Quality and to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, granting rule-making authority, providing a penalty, and making appropriations. 2009
  • AB 92 The regulation, preservation, and restoration of historic buildings; the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit and the state historic rehabilitation tax credit; requiring the certification of downtowns; promoting certain downtown areas in this state; highway projects involving business and downtown areas; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
  • AB 919 Creating a qualified economic offer for school district professional employees in the arbitration process and school board selection of the group health benefits provider for school district employees. 2009
  • AB 917 Elimination of sick leave for legislators, justices and judges, and all other state elected officials. 2009
  • AB 91 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 907 Funding postretirement health care benefits of local government employees. 2009
  • AB 89 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. 2009
  • AB 879 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
  • AB 871 An income and franchise tax credit for providing broadband service. 2009
  • AB 87 Disposal of ash resulting from the burning of a structure. 2009
  • AB 866 Restoring the treatment of the exclusion of capital gains for individuals and certain other persons that existed before the enactment of 2009 Wisconsin Act 28. 2009
  • AB 865 The limit on the number of pupils who may attend a private school under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. 2009
  • AB 863 Eliminating the requirement to pay a conversion fee for having land rezoned out of a farmland preservation zoning district. 2009
  • AB 862 Distribution of the Wisconsin Blue Book to certain newspapers. 2009
  • AB 855 Authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to waive fishing license requirements for a weekend fishing event. 2009
  • AB 85 Temporary alcohol beverage retail licenses. 2009
  • AB 84 Membership of the Natural Resources Board. 2009
  • AB 838 Creating a refundable individual income tax credit for property taxes paid on a principal dwelling that is destroyed by a natural or man-made disaster and making an appropriation. 2009
  • AB 83 Issuing annual fishing licenses to certain resident disabled veterans. 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. 2009

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Cosponsored · 100

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

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  • 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. 2009
  • SJR 68 Commending the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point men's basketball team. 2009
  • SJR 62 The right of the people to contract privately for health care services and health care coverage, and prohibiting requiring a person to obtain or maintain health insurance coverage or to participate in any health care system or plan (first consideration). 2009
  • SJR 37 Accounting and expenditure of state funds (first consideration). 2009
  • SJR 36 Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration). 2009
  • SJR 21 Celebrating March 25, 2009, as the 188th anniversary of Greek independence. 2009
  • SJR 19 Declaring April 2009 Donate Life Month. 2009
  • SJR 18 Creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (first consideration). 2009
  • SJR 13 The Professional Ambulance Association of Wisconsin. 2009
  • SJR 11 Veto power of county executive over appropriations (first consideration). 2009
  • SJR 10 The dissolution of state funds and accounts and prohibiting the state from changing the purpose of any state fund or program revenue appropriation account (first consideration). 2009
  • SB 93 Partially exempting an assessor and an assessor's staff from liability for trespassing, creating immunity from civil liability, and changing the notice requirements related to the revaluation of property by an assessor. 2009
  • SB 92 Preparation and legislative consideration of a biennial budget bill; making all meetings of the Joint Committee on Finance relating to the biennial budget bill available in real time for viewing by the public on the legislature's Internet Web site; and reporting of certain information by lobbying principals. 2009
  • SB 88 Purchase of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces. 2009
  • SB 85 Eligibility for tuition fee remission for certain veterans and their spouses, surviving spouses, and children. 2009
  • SB 80 The Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. 2009
  • SB 76 The designation of Vietnam Veterans Day. 2009
  • SB 75 The designation of Korean War Armistice Day. 2009
  • SB 699 Providing the public with information on state agency and school district operations expenditures and state agency and school district contracts and grants. 2009
  • SB 697 Sentencing, revocation of parole or extended supervision, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 696 Applicability of the prevailing wage law to publicly funded private construction projects and to regional transit authorities, the threshold for applicability of that law to a project of public works, the submission to the Department of Workforce Development of payroll records of persons performing work that is subject to that law, the inspection of those records, and the remedies for a violation of that law. 2009
  • SB 69 Adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. 2009
  • SB 680 Requiring that certain rail passenger service extension projects be enumerated by the legislature. 2009
  • SB 679 Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 652 Special identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation providing parking privileges for persons with physical disabilities and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 65 Expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement plan income received by an individual. 2009
  • SB 64 Increasing the amount of the individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers. 2009
  • SB 581 Prohibiting social security numbers on instruments under the corporate registration system and on records under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. 2009
  • SB 56 An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 2009
  • SB 554 Qualifications of the secretary of natural resources and qualifications of members of the Natural Resources Board. 2009
  • SB 55 The regulation, preservation, and restoration of historic buildings; the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit and the state historic rehabilitation tax credit; requiring the certification of downtowns; promoting certain downtown areas in this state; highway projects involving business and downtown areas; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations. 2009
  • SB 543 Registration plates for certain disabled veterans. 2009
  • SB 54 Prohibiting the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements on teachers. 2009
  • SB 519 The issuance by the Department of Transportation of Eagle Scout decals to be affixed to motor vehicle registration plates and making an appropriation. 2009
  • SB 507 Changing the fees collected by a register of deeds, the redaction of social security numbers from electronic documents, and changes to the land information program. 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. 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. 2009
  • SB 495 Operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license or after suspension or revocation of an operating privilege and providing penalties. 2009
  • SB 45 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. 2009
  • SB 44 Adjudications for involuntary commitment, appointment of a guardian of the person, and protective placement or protective services, background checks for the purchase of handguns, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. 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. 2009
  • SB 421 Underage persons under the influence of alcohol beverages on school premises. 2009
  • SB 416 Adopting Internal Revenue Code provisions related to individual retirement accounts. 2009
  • SB 404 Registration of former military vehicles. 2009
  • SB 389 Licensing sign language interpreters, creating an evidentiary privilege for communications with those interpreters, creating a Sign Language Interpreter Council, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 386 Automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility. 2009
  • SB 385 Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. 2009
  • SB 383 Municipal court elections, judges, and procedure, and providing penalties. 2009
  • SB 382 Use of lamps on vehicles when visibility is limited by climatic conditions and providing a penalty. 2009
  • SB 374 Creating a commercial driver license exception for law enforcement officers operating commercial motor vehicles. 2009

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Vote history · 0