Subjects

Governor — Appointments

88 bills across 6 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.

• 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
• AB 248 Relating to: vacancies in appointive state offices. Vetoed 2025
• SB 249 Relating to: vacancies in appointive state offices. 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 438 Relating to: baseball park district administration and funding for improvement of professional baseball park facilities. (FE) Became law 2023
• AB 476 Relating to: filling vacancies in elective state offices in the executive branch. Vetoed 2023
• SB 465 Relating to: filling vacancies in elective state offices in the executive branch. Died at session end 2023
• SR 10 Relating to: advice and consent of senate. Died at session end 2021
• AJR 92 Relating to: providing for gubernatorial appointment of the secretary of state, state treasurer, and state superintendent of public instruction and requiring the creation of the Department of Revenue under the direction and supervision of the state treasurer (first consideration). Died at session end 2021
• SJR 78 Relating to: providing for gubernatorial appointment of the secretary of state, state treasurer, and state superintendent of public instruction and requiring the creation of the Department of Revenue under the direction and supervision of the state treasurer (first consideration). Died at session end 2021
• AB 64 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Became law 2017
• AB 157 Relating to: the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Died at session end 2017
• AB 547 Relating to: permitting and mitigation requirements for nonfederal and artificial wetlands and state assumption of the federal regulatory program governing the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters. (FE) Became law 2017
• AB 636 Relating to: removal of certain county officers. (FE) Became law 2017
• AB 992 Relating to: the appointment of the student members of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Died at session end 2017
• SB 139 Relating to: membership of the Prison Industries Board. Died at session end 2017
• SB 171 Relating to: the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. 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 582 Relating to: removal of certain county officers. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 822 Relating to: the appointment of the student members of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. 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 1061 Relating to: policies and reports concerning workloads of the governor, full-time executive branch appointees of the governor, and legislators and making an appropriation. (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
• AR 4 Relating to: recognizing, and apologizing to, the members of Wisconsin's public sector who came to protest Act 10. Died at session end 2015
• AR 5 Relating to: recognizing, and apologizing to, the members of Wisconsin's public sector who came to protest Act 10. Died at session end 2015
• AB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Died at session end 2015
• AB 52 Relating to: creating the criminal justice coordinating council, providing grants to certain county or tribal criminal justice projects, home detention for probation, and making appropriations. Died at session end 2015
• AB 66 Relating to: creating the Wisconsin Renewable Energy Development Authority to participate in and guarantee certain energy-related loans, implement other energy-related programs, and make certain grants and making an appropriation. (FE) 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
• SB 48 Relating to: the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Died at session end 2015
• AB 185 Relating to: directing the governor to annually proclaim Veteran Education Awareness Week. Died at session end 2015
• AB 227 Relating to: merger of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority and, as the successor of those entities, creation of the Forward Wisconsin Development Authority, establishment of the Wisconsin housing finance fund, accounting and reporting requirements for recipients of economic development grants or loans, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 272 Relating to: student loans, the individual income tax subtract modification for tuition and student fees, creating an authority to be known as the Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 388 Relating to: reorganizing the Government Accountability Board, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 405 Relating to: exemptions from certain taxes and other requirements for work performed by persons from outside the state during a state of emergency declared by the governor. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 441 Relating to: establishing the Wisconsin Veterans Employment Initiative. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 470 Relating to: operation of off-highway motorcycles, granting rule-making authority, making appropriations, and providing penalties. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 529 Relating to: creating an Office of Civil Service. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 594 Relating to: retaliation against a public employee by the governor or a legislator and providing a criminal penalty. Died at session end 2015
• AB 617 Relating to: creating the Department of Economic Opportunity and the Economic Development Policy Board, requiring the creation of a nonstock, nonprofit corporation to be known as the Badger Innovation Corporation, providing for the elimination of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the transfer its functions to the Department of Economic Opportunity and the Badger Innovation Corporation, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 726 Relating to: renaming, changing the membership of, and eliminating certain professional licensure boards and transferring certain functions to the Department of Safety and Professional Services and the Medical Therapy Examining Board; eliminating certain councils under the Department of Safety and Professional Services; creating the Medical Assistants Council; authorizing removal by the governor, for excessive absenteeism and other infractions, of certain members of boards under the Department of Safety and Professional Services; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 850 Relating to: the appointment of the student members of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Died at session end 2015
• AJR 84 Relating to: appointment of the state superintendent of public instruction by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate (first consideration). Died at session end 2015
• AJR 87 Relating to: limiting the number of terms permitted for members of the state legislature and the governor and lieutenant governor (first consideration). Died at session end 2015
• SB 148 Relating to: merger of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority and, as the successor of those entities, creation of the Forward Wisconsin Development Authority, establishment of the Wisconsin housing finance fund, accounting and reporting requirements for recipients of economic development grants or loans, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 189 Relating to: directing the governor to annually proclaim Veteran Education Awareness Week. Died at session end 2015
• SB 194 Relating to: student loans, the individual income tax subtract modification for tuition and student fees, creating an authority to be known as the Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 245 Relating to: the return of federal funds to the federal government. Died at session end 2015
• SB 294 Relating to: reorganizing the Government Accountability Board, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 334 Relating to: exemptions from certain taxes and other requirements for work performed by persons from outside the state during a state of emergency declared by the governor. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 339 Relating to: establishing the Wisconsin Veterans Employment Initiative. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 395 Relating to: operation of off-highway motorcycles, granting rule-making authority, making appropriations, and providing penalties. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 468 Relating to: creating the Department of Economic Opportunity and the Economic Development Policy Board, requiring the creation of a nonstock, nonprofit corporation to be known as the Badger Innovation Corporation, providing for the elimination of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the transfer its functions to the Department of Economic Opportunity and the Badger Innovation Corporation, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 568 Relating to: renaming, changing the membership of, and eliminating certain professional licensure boards and transferring certain functions to the Department of Safety and Professional Services and the Medical Therapy Examining Board; eliminating certain councils under the Department of Safety and Professional Services; creating the Medical Assistants Council; authorizing removal by the governor, for excessive absenteeism and other infractions, of certain members of boards under the Department of Safety and Professional Services; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 598 Relating to: elimination of the requirement that the governor approve a proposed rule that is considered at the joint annual spring fish and wildlife rule hearing of the Department of Natural Resources and county meeting of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress and limitation of the scope of the requirements that an economic impact analysis and statement of scope be prepared for such a proposed rule. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 635 Relating to: the appointment of the student members of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Died at session end 2015
• SJR 75 Relating to: limiting the number of terms permitted for members of the state legislature and the governor and lieutenant governor (first consideration). Died at session end 2015
• AB 40 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 97 Relating to: the creation of a state 911 council. Died at session end 2013
• SB 37 Relating to: creation of an independent pardon council. Died at session end 2013
• AB 125 Relating to: creation of an independent pardon council. Died at session end 2013
• AB 225 Relating to: various changes in the campaign finance laws; exemption of certain electors from the requirement to present proof of identification when voting in an election; identifying documentation to establish proof of residency for voter registration; recording the type of identifying document provided as proof of residence; limiting the times for voting by absentee ballot in person; the method of reporting election returns by municipalities; fees for election recounts; the method of recounting votes cast with automatic tabulating equipment; residency of election officials; recall petition requirements; the procedure for recounting ballots when electors voting in person are required to sign the poll list and fail to do so; challenging an elector's registration during recount proceedings; witness addresses on absentee ballot certificates; nominees submitted by the Government Accountability Board candidate committee; securing ballot containers; party representation for election officials serving at polling places; and scheduling of referendums. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 228 Relating to: board of directors, powers and duties, including reporting requirements, and financial audits of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 498 Relating to: student loans, the individual income tax subtract modification for tuition and student fees, creating an authority, to be known as the Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 517 Relating to: the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Died at session end 2013
• AB 590 Relating to: board of directors of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Died at session end 2013
• AB 694 Relating to: operation of off-highway motorcycles, granting rule-making authority, providing penalties, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 718 Relating to: Milwaukee County mental health functions, programs, and services, creation of the Milwaukee County Mental Health Board, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 779 Relating to: state 911 telecommunications services, police and fire protection fee imposed on certain communications services, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 782 Relating to: ordinances, variances, and rules relating to the constructing or altering of, or adding to, public buildings and buildings that are places of employment, the creation of a building code council, and inspections of public buildings and buildings that are places of employment, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 789 Relating to: the criminal justice coordinating council. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 902 Relating to: creating the Wisconsin Renewable Energy Development Authority to participate in and guarantee certain energy-related loans, implement other energy-related programs, and make certain grants and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 157 Relating to: the appointment of the student members of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Died at session end 2013
• SB 187 Relating to: term limits for certain members of the board of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Died at session end 2013
• SB 205 Relating to: board of directors, powers and duties, including reporting requirements, and financial audits of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 214 Relating to: board of directors of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Died at session end 2013
• SB 268 Relating to: nominees submitted by the Government Accountability Board candidate committee. Died at session end 2013
• SB 376 Relating to: student loans, the individual income tax subtract modification for tuition and student fees, creating an authority, to be known as the Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 388 Relating to: the appointment and term of service of the secretary of natural resources and vacancies on the Natural Resources Board. Died at session end 2013
• SB 565 Relating to: Milwaukee County mental health functions, programs, and services, creation of the Milwaukee County Mental Health Board, and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2013
• SB 566 Relating to: state 911 telecommunications services, police and fire protection fee imposed on certain communications services, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 617 Relating to: ordinances, variances, and rules relating to the constructing or altering of, or adding to, public buildings and buildings that are places of employment, the creation of a building code council, and inspections of public buildings and buildings that are places of employment, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Became law 2013
• SB 619 Relating to: creating a model academic standards board. Died at session end 2013
• SJR 86 Relating to: the appointment of supreme court justices (first consideration). Died at session end 2013