Subjects

Attorney general

151 bills across 7 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.

• AB 35 Relating to: withdrawal of candidacy for certain offices filled at the general election and providing a penalty. (FE) Became law 2025
• AB 50 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 45 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Became law 2025
• SB 55 Relating to: prohibiting the Department of Justice from using the legal services of nongovernmental employees. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 170 Relating to: prohibiting the Department of Justice from using the legal services of nongovernmental employees. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 207 Relating to: information provided to voters concerning proposed constitutional amendments and other statewide referenda. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 344 Relating to: pursuing liens on federal property if federal aid to the state is withheld under certain circumstances. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 392 Relating to: creating a Task Force on Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 396 Relating to: appointment of legal counsel by the legislature. Died at session end 2025
• AB 633 Relating to: the rights of Devil’s Lake State Park and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 662 Relating to: prohibiting state contracting with certain business entities and providing a penalty. (FE) Vetoed 2025
• AB 673 Relating to: banning the use of genetic software from foreign adversaries in medical and research facilities, the storage of any human genome sequencing data within the borders of a foreign adversary, and providing a penalty. (FE) Vetoed 2025
• AB 807 Relating to: office of county board counsel in certain counties. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 205 Relating to: information provided to voters concerning proposed constitutional amendments and other statewide referenda. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 354 Relating to: pursuing liens on federal property if federal aid to the state is withheld under certain circumstances. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 397 Relating to: appointment of legal counsel by the legislature. Died at session end 2025
• SB 404 Relating to: creating a Task Force on Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 613 Relating to: the rights of Devil’s Lake State Park and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 648 Relating to: prohibiting state contracting with certain business entities and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 649 Relating to: banning the use of genetic software from foreign adversaries in medical and research facilities, the storage of any human genome sequencing data within the borders of a foreign adversary, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 800 Relating to: office of county board counsel in certain counties. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1195 Relating to: creating an Office of Civil Legal Aid to be overseen by a Civil Legal Aid Board, providing a right to the appointment of counsel at state expense for residential tenants in eviction actions, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1208 Relating to: attorney general enforcement authority for civil rights violations and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1219 Relating to: campaign contribution limits. Died at session end 2025
• AB 1237 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1086 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1153 Relating to: campaign contribution limits. Died at session end 2025
• SB 1160 Relating to: attorney general enforcement authority for civil rights violations and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1165 Relating to: creating an Office of Civil Legal Aid to be overseen by a Civil Legal Aid Board, providing a right to the appointment of counsel at state expense for residential tenants in eviction actions, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 43 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 70 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Became law 2023
• AB 334 Relating to: pen registers and trap and trace devices. Died at session end 2023
• AB 349 Relating to: limitations on ownership of agricultural or forestry land in this state by foreign persons. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 459 Relating to: temporary employee interchanges between the Department of Justice and an office of the district attorney. Died at session end 2023
• AB 466 Relating to: consumer data protection and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 476 Relating to: filling vacancies in elective state offices in the executive branch. Vetoed 2023
• AB 615 Relating to: creating a task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 691 Relating to: attorney general enforcement authority for civil rights violations and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 733 Relating to: campaign contribution limits. Died at session end 2023
• AB 895 Relating to: creating a civil cause of action against the owner or operator of a social media website that restricts religious or political speech. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 331 Relating to: pen registers and trap and trace devices. Died at session end 2023
• SB 348 Relating to: limitations on ownership of agricultural or forestry land in this state by foreign persons. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 459 Relating to: temporary employee interchanges between the Department of Justice and an office of the district attorney. Died at session end 2023
• SB 465 Relating to: filling vacancies in elective state offices in the executive branch. Died at session end 2023
• SB 466 Relating to: prohibiting firearms merchant category codes in payment card transactions, prohibiting government lists of firearm owners, and providing a penalty. Vetoed 2023
• SB 568 Relating to: creating a task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 604 Relating to: campaign contribution limits. Died at session end 2023
• SB 642 Relating to: consumer data protection and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 678 Relating to: attorney general enforcement authority for civil rights violations and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1090 Relating to: prohibiting state contracting with certain business entities and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1186 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1192 Relating to: firearm transfers and possession, law enforcement and prosecution, victims and witnesses, obstruction of justice, mental health and substance use services, hate crimes reporting portal, fraud, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 1000 Relating to: prohibiting state contracting with certain business entities and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 1092 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 1094 Relating to: firearm transfers and possession, law enforcement and prosecution, victims and witnesses, obstruction of justice, mental health and substance use services, hate crimes reporting portal, fraud, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SR 6 Relating to: directing the attorney general to seek to join the state as a plaintiff in State of West Virginia, et al., v. US Department of the Treasury, et al. Passed one chamber 2021
• AB 68 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Became law 2021
• AB 82 Relating to: information about sudden cardiac arrest during youth athletic activities. Became law 2021
• AR 16 Relating to: directing the attorney general to seek to join the state as a plaintiff in State of West Virginia, et al., v. US Department of the Treasury, et al. Passed one chamber 2021
• SB 95 Relating to: information about sudden cardiac arrest during youth athletic activities. Died at session end 2021
• AB 226 Relating to: playing or singing the national anthem at certain sporting events. Died at session end 2021
• AB 253 Relating to: pen registers and trap and trace devices. Died at session end 2021
• AB 318 Relating to: attorney general enforcement authority for civil rights violations and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• AB 374 Relating to: settlement of the multidistrict opiate litigation. Became law 2021
• AB 531 Relating to: campaign contribution limits. Died at session end 2021
• AB 591 Relating to: creating a civil cause of action against the owner or operator of a social media Internet site that restricts religious or political speech. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• AB 652 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• AB 886 Relating to: creating a task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• AB 957 Relating to: consumer data protection and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 111 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 241 Relating to: pen registers and trap and trace devices. Died at session end 2021
• SB 244 Relating to: playing or singing the national anthem at certain sporting events. Died at session end 2021
• SB 330 Relating to: attorney general enforcement authority for civil rights violations and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 386 Relating to: settlement of the multidistrict opiate litigation. Died at session end 2021
• SB 526 Relating to: campaign contribution limits. Died at session end 2021
• SB 583 Relating to: creating a civil cause of action against the owner or operator of a social media Internet site that restricts religious or political speech. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 652 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 825 Relating to: creating a task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 957 Relating to: consumer data protection and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SJR 87 Relating to: limiting the number of terms permitted for members of the state legislature and constitutional officers (first consideration). Died at session end 2021
• AJR 105 Relating to: limiting the number of terms permitted for members of the state legislature and constitutional officers (first consideration). Died at session end 2021
• AJR 111 Relating to: calling for the resignation of the administrator, assistant administrator, and several members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Died at session end 2021
• AB 56 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Became law 2019
• AB 58 Relating to: service of notice of claim against state officer, employee, or agent. Became law 2019
• SB 59 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Died at session end 2019
• SB 62 Relating to: service of notice of claim against state officer, employee, or agent. Died at session end 2019
• SB 76 Relating to: decreasing individual and candidate committee contributions for statewide officeholders. Died at session end 2019
• AB 138 Relating to: prohibiting local ordinances, resolutions, and policies that prohibit the enforcement of federal or state law relating to illegal aliens or immigration status, authorizing certain elective officeholders to commence an enforcement action, providing a reduction in shared revenue payments, and creating governmental liability for damages caused by illegal aliens. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 420 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 496 Relating to: powers of the attorney general. Died at session end 2019
• AB 548 Relating to: creating a task force on missing and murdered tribal women and girls and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 833 Relating to: pen registers and trap and trace devices. Died at session end 2019
• AB 862 Relating to: opioid settlement moneys and creation of opioid settlement trust fund and opioid settlement foundation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 870 Relating to: consumer access to personal data processed by a controller and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2019
• AB 871 Relating to: deletion of consumer personal data by controllers and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2019
• AB 872 Relating to: restricting controllers from using consumer personal data and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2019
• AB 917 Relating to: mining, wetlands, shoreland zoning, and scientist and educator positions and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AJR 86 Relating to: limiting the number of terms permitted for members of the state legislature and constitutional officers (first consideration). Died at session end 2019
• SB 151 Relating to: prohibiting local ordinances, resolutions, and policies that prohibit the enforcement of federal or state law relating to illegal aliens or immigration status, authorizing certain elective officeholders to commence an enforcement action, providing a reduction in shared revenue payments, and creating governmental liability for damages caused by illegal aliens. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 374 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 449 Relating to: powers of the attorney general. Died at session end 2019
• SB 493 Relating to: creating a task force on missing and murdered tribal women and girls and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 740 Relating to: pen registers and trap and trace devices. Died at session end 2019
• SJR 68 Relating to: limiting the number of terms permitted for members of the state legislature and constitutional officers (first consideration). Died at session end 2019
• AB 64 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Became law 2017
• SB 30 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Died at session end 2017
• AB 127 Relating to: prohibiting local ordinances, resolutions, and policies that prohibit immigration status inquiries and reports to, and cooperation with, other units of government about the presence of illegal aliens, authorizing a resident of this state to commence an enforcement action, and providing a reduction in shared revenue payments. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 190 Relating to: prohibiting local ordinances, resolutions, and policies that prohibit the enforcement of federal or state law relating to illegal aliens or immigration status, authorizing certain elective officeholders to commence an enforcement action, providing a reduction in shared revenue payments, and creating governmental liability for damages caused by illegal aliens. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 217 Relating to: reducing the annual salary of the attorney general. Died at session end 2017
• AB 447 Relating to: decreasing individual and candidate committee contributions for statewide officeholders. Died at session end 2017
• AB 519 Relating to: service of notice of claim against state officer, employee, or agent. Died at session end 2017
• AB 634 Relating to: administrative subpoenas for the investigation of human trafficking crimes and Internet crimes against children. Died at session end 2017
• AB 657 Relating to: medically accurate information. Died at session end 2017
• AB 843 Relating to: open enrollment and repealing outdated or expired reporting requirements and tuberculosis screening (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Public Instruction). Became law 2017
• AB 879 Relating to: coercive conditions attached to federal funding. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 275 Relating to: prohibiting local ordinances, resolutions, and policies that prohibit the enforcement of federal or state law relating to illegal aliens or immigration status, authorizing certain elective officeholders to commence an enforcement action, providing a reduction in shared revenue payments, and creating governmental liability for damages caused by illegal aliens. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 342 Relating to: health care coverage for certain state elected and appointed officials under plans administered by the Group Insurance Board. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 353 Relating to: decreasing individual and candidate committee contributions for statewide officeholders. Died at session end 2017
• SB 433 Relating to: service of notice of claim against state officer, employee, or agent. Died at session end 2017
• SB 541 Relating to: administrative subpoenas for the investigation of human trafficking crimes and Internet crimes against children. Became law 2017
• SB 567 Relating to: medically accurate information. Died at session end 2017
• SB 710 Relating to: coercive conditions attached to federal funding. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 874 Relating to: price restrictions for certain off-patent or generic drugs and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 882 Relating to: notifying victims of felonies and petitioners in certain injunction actions when the perpetrator of the felony or the subject of the injunction attempts to illegally purchase a handgun. Died at session end 2017
• SB 884 Relating to: legislative powers and duties, state agency and authority composition and operations, and administrative rule-making process. (FE) Became law 2017
• SB 887 Relating to: legislative power and duties, state agency and authority composition and operations, administrative rule-making process, federal government waivers and approvals, unemployment insurance work search and registration requirements, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 1021 Relating to: restoring private individual authority to bring a qui tam claim against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, actions by the attorney general against a person for making a false claim for medical assistance, and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2017
• AB 1025 Relating to: notifying victims of felonies and petitioners in certain injunction actions when the perpetrator of the felony or the subject of the injunction attempts to illegally purchase a handgun. Died at session end 2017
• AB 1046 Relating to: price restrictions for certain off-patent or generic drugs and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 1070 Relating to: legislative powers and duties, state agency and authority composition and operations, and administrative rule-making process. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 1073 Relating to: legislative power and duties, state agency and authority composition and operations, administrative rule-making process, federal government waivers and approvals, unemployment insurance work search and registration requirements, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Died at session end 2015
• SB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Became law 2015
• AB 147 Relating to: battery and threats to a judge, a prosecutor, or a law enforcement officer and providing a criminal penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 201 Relating to: the duty to stop at the scene of a motor vehicle accident. Became law 2015
• AB 347 Relating to: battery and threats to a judge, a prosecutor, a public defender, or a law enforcement officer and providing a criminal penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 450 Relating to: prohibiting local ordinances, resolutions, and policies that prohibit immigration status inquiries and reports to, and cooperation with, other units of government about the presence of illegal aliens, authorizing certain elective officeholders to commence an enforcement action, and providing a reduction in shared revenue payments. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 666 Relating to: administrative subpoena for investigating Internet crimes against children, creating an Internet crimes against children surcharge, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 961 Relating to: disclosure to law enforcement of attempted purchases of handguns by persons prohibited from possessing a firearm. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 117 Relating to: battery and threats to a judge, a prosecutor, or a law enforcement officer and providing a criminal penalty. (FE) Became law 2015
• SB 369 Relating to: prohibiting local ordinances, resolutions, and policies that prohibit immigration status inquiries and reports to, and cooperation with, other units of government about the presence of illegal aliens, authorizing certain elective officeholders to commence an enforcement action, and providing a reduction in shared revenue payments. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 546 Relating to: administrative subpoena for investigating Internet crimes against children, creating an Internet crimes against children surcharge, and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2015
• SB 758 Relating to: disclosure to law enforcement of attempted purchases of handguns by persons prohibited from possessing a firearm. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AR 6 Relating to: authorizing and requesting the participation of the attorney general as amicus curiae in a certain case before the United States Supreme Court. Died at session end 2013
• AB 18 Relating to: appointment and residency of election officials. Died at session end 2013
• AB 40 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 616 Relating to: prohibiting the collection of a pupil's biometric data and the use of any device to assess a pupil's physiological or emotional state. Died at session end 2013
• AB 656 Relating to: notifications concerning the assertion of rights under a patent or pending patent and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AJR 85 Relating to: deleting from the constitution the office of secretary of state (first consideration). Died at session end 2013
• SB 294 Relating to: access to presentence investigation report by an assistant attorney general. Became law 2013
• SB 498 Relating to: notifications concerning the assertion of rights under a patent or pending patent and providing a penalty. (FE) Became law 2013