Senate

Crime prevention organizations: court ordered payments by local ordinance violators authorized  - AB15

Emergency response teams: grants and immunity from civil liability for local sponsoring agencies  - AB145

Emergency response teams: grants and immunity from civil liability for local sponsoring agencies  - SB75

Employe trip reduction program revisions; DNR to set reasonable limits on employer expenses re program implementation - SB137

Employer's duty to furnish safe place and employment: subsequent remedial measures made inadmissible as evidence of violation -  SB532

Fishing seasons in urban areas: DNR may establish for certain persons -  AB168

Gas pipeline safety: provisions expanded to cover facilities not owned by public utilities -  AB966

Gas utility: individual contract provisions revised re sunset date - SB388

Gasoline labeling requirement re identity of oxygenate -  SB87

Great lakes: drilling to explore for or produce oil or gas prohibited -  SB569

Green Bay Packers: accomplishments and 1995-96 season commended -  SJR47

Hanaway, Donald: life and public service -  SJR36

Hydroelectric dams: DNR to standardize warning signs, buoys and lights in restricted areas - AB949

Hydroelectric dams: DNR to standardize warning signs, buoys and lights in restricted areas - SB554

Individual income tax liens: DOR notice revised -  SB141

Liquid petroleum gas sales: measurement revision -  AB184

Midwest interstate low-level radioactive waste compact revised - AB559

Midwest interstate low-level radioactive waste compact revised - SB332

Mining waste facility long-term care: time period for proof of financial responsibility modified - AB919

Municipal utilities: local government authority to fix service limits modified -  SB500

Newspapers: recycled paper content requirement expanded -  SB250

Nonprofit conservation organization grant provided; DNR to administer -  AB859

Nonprofit conservation organization grant provided; DNR to administer -  SB521

Nuclear fuel: President and Congress urged to develop federal repository and accept civilian waste  - SJR45

Nuisance aquatic plant removal on the Great Lakes: acquisition of equipment for cutting and removal  - SB52

One day of rest in seven law: revision re manufacture of certain dairy products; voluntary agreement provision; DILHR duties - SB672

PECFA program revisions re awards, adjacent sites and emergency rule procedures; DNR, Department of commerce and DILHR duties set -  AB1089

Pesticide license fees: industrial category created; agricultural chemical clean-up reimbursement and management fund fees revised -  SB555

Pesticide license fees: industrial category created; certain fees deposited in agrichemical management fund reduced  - AB869

Polygraph testing of prospective employes of a law enforcement agency permitted -  SB213

Price misrepresentation in sales using electronic scanners: information refund policy required - AB428

Private detectives, security persons and alarm contractors, armored transport services and locksmiths: regulations revised; convicted felon exclusions; dangerous weapons provision  - SB597

PSC hearing requirements re river improvement tolls repealed - AB185

Recycling market development board: list of materials eligible for assistance -  SB63

Reformulated gasoline containing methyl tertiary butyl ether or ethyl tertiary butyl ether prohibited in certain months; gasoline labeling re identity of oxygenate - SB89

Reformulated gasoline sale in certain parts of the state: DNR may waive prohibition on sale of other gasoline if federal restrictions revised -  AB281

Reformulated gasoline: winter use requirement waiver for certain Wisconsin counties (memorial to Congress)  - SJR39

Rental unit energy efficiency program eliminated; citation procedure created for enforcing stipulations  - SB567

Restaurant definition exception created re food stands at auctions -  AB879

Restaurant definition exception created re food stands at auctions -  SB528

Sales and use tax documents: timely filing revision -  SB124

Shining of wild animals on certain types of animal farms prohibited -  SB128

Special observance days in schools: requirements revised -  AB203

State forest management revisions - AB575

Submerged land conveyance to Brown county re 1985 WisAct 185: provisions revised -  SB133

Transmission facility excavation and damage procedures revised -  SB64

Trash dumped illegally: town ordinance area broadened; publicaiton of names permitted -  AB899

Trespass signs or markings: use of blaze orange restricted - SB7

Vapor recovery grants for school bus companies -  SB58

Youth and athlete facility at state fair park: use restricted  - SB593

Zero discharge wastewater treatment system: regulation and construction of -  AB729

Other proposals coauthored or cosponsored by Sen. Cowles:

Senate Bills: 1, 4, 11, 24, 34, 45, 46, 50, 66, 80, 82, 84, 97, 102, 105, 111, 112, 131, 145, 151, 182, 215, 246, 252, 260, 269, 272, 274, 276, 289, 309, 313, 351, 376, 401, 417, 460, 494, 512, 523, 527, 548, 553, 558, 589, 591, 600, 602, 639, 657

Senate Joint Resolutions: 2, 5, 14, 24, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 48, 49, 56, 59

Senate Resolutions:

Senate Petitions:

Assembly Bills: 14, 21, 26, 40, 54, 67, 109, 117, 118, 134, 138, 166, 167, 221, 222, 244, 263, 275, 317, 384, 385, 386, 424, 426, 441, 487, 495, 497, 498, 516, 547, 560, 569, 588, 593, 621, 639, 648, 666, 707, 709, 785, 808, 861, 871, 872, 921, 923, 954, 962, 973, 999, 1017, 1034, 1050, 1076

Assembly Joint Resolutions: 1, 3, 6, 12, 15, 17, 18, 29, 33, 39, 42, 44, 48, 55, 58, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 86, 92

S8 Darling, Sen. Alberta (8th Sen.Dist.; Rep.)

Adoption assistance under DHSS -  AB647

Adoption regulations revised re nonmarital child, readoption of foreign adoptive child, county adoption services and state adoption center -  AB470

Arrest and conviction records as prohibited bases of discrimination in employment: exception expanded  - SB572

Attorney general's opinions: sheriff allowed to request -  SB525

Banking laws revised re regional interstate banking, in-state banks and in-state bank holding companies, contracting with depository institutions, board and committee meetings, customer bank communication terminals  - AB554

Banking laws revised re regional interstate banking, in-state banks and in-state bank holding companies, contracting with depository institutions, board and committee meetings, customer bank communication terminals  - SB318

Battery definition expanded re harm to emergency room worker - AB83

Battery in violation of harassment injunction made a felony -  SB588

Battery or threat of battery to DA: prohibition created -  AB840

Bicycle operation by law enforcement officer: emergency vehicle definition expanded to include  - SB118

Boat repair and storage costs: lien provision created -  SB120

Cemetery care funds: deposit and investment requirements revised; DORL approval eliminated - AB805

Charter school establishment by U.W. Regents and CESAs; pupil transportation and pioneering partners grants provisions - AB950

Charter school establishment by U.W. Regents and CESAs; pupil transportation and pioneering partners grants provisions - SB560

Child care worker loan repayment assistance program created -  AB236

Child placement: automatic stay of court order pending final disposition of appeal -  SB209

Child support revision by affidavit -  AB476

Child welfare services transferred from Milwaukee county to DHFS: planning required; Milwaukee child welfare partnership council created; TPR and adoption resource pool; MA coverage provided; DOA duties set - SB615

Children at risk programs operated by MPS: contract provisions revised -  AB539

Children at risk programs operated by MPS: contract provisions revised -  SB290

CHIPS determination procedure revised -  SB68

Cigarette and tobacco products: local ordinances to regulate purchase, possession, sale or distribution to minors revised - AB516

Cigarette and tobacco products: local ordinances to regulate purchase, possession, sale or distribution to minors revised - SB512

College tuition prepayment program created in DOA; segregated fund created -  AB1011

Compulsory school attendance, alternative education and high school equivalency revisions -  SB300

Consumer act revisions re transactions for agricultural purposes and loan origination fees -  AB834

Corporations as investment companies: revisions re shares, filing fees and the corporate name - AB867

Corporations as investment companies: revisions re shares, filing fees and the corporate name - SB529

Disarming a peace officer: crime broadened to include container of oleoresin of capsicum -  SB215

Domestic abuse arrests: no-contact period increased -  AB229