Senate

Housing facilities: any county may build, furnish, and rent to residents of the county -  SB333

Human growth and development curriculum in schools modified; emergency services provided to sexual assault victim at a hospital re unbiased information and emergency contraception; pharmaceutical service re contraceptive articles  - SB544

Human growth and development programs: school board may include instruction in the benefits of abstinance, STDs, and legal consequences of certain sex crimes; assignments for parents to communicate with their children provided  - AB387

Injured patients and families compensation fund: purpose modified -  AB983

Insurance policy: insurer may not cancel or refuse to issue or renew on the basis that the person is not insured under another policy issued by the insurer -  SB332

Kleczka, Jerry: public service commended and well wishes in his retirement -  SJR59

Law enforcement bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification  - AB225

Lease of school property: limit on the term eliminated -  SB60

Marriage as a civil contract between two people of the same or opposite sex permitted; ``husband" and ``wife" changed to ``spouse" -  AB992

Medical malpractice claim re state officer, employee, or agent: notice to AG revised -  SB70

Medication for purpose of ending life: certain individuals permitted to make written requests for  - AB348

Medication for purpose of ending life: certain individuals permitted to make written requests for  - SB169

Motor vehicle safety belt violations: enforcement revised - SB37

Motor vehicles that use certain energy-efficient fuels: sales and use tax exemption created -  SB432

NATO urged to admit Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and other qualified candidate nations -  SJR32

NATO urged to admit Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and other qualified candidate nations -  SR9

Off-premises outdoor advertising signs: erection of new signs prohibited -  SB165

One day of rest in seven law revision re production of certain cheese products; voluntary agreement provision  - SB94

Physician order entry record system for medical services: incentive MA payment to hospitals that establish authorized  - AB450

Prescription drug assistance for elderly persons: eligibility expanded; DHFS directed to negotiate with drug manufacturers for supplemental rebates; cigarette tax increased to fund - SB114

Primary elections: voting for more than one political party authorized -  AB47

Private attorneys retained to represent the state: compensation modified; JCF provision -  AB959

Professional education bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification -  AB218

Professional engineering bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification -  AB220

Professional fiscal and staff services bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification -  AB219

Professional patient care bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification -  AB214

Professional patient treatment bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification -  AB226

Professional science bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification -  AB217

Properties owned by benevolent associations and certain nonprofit organizations and used for specified residental housing: property tax exemption; leased property also exempt  - SB527

Properties owned by benevolent associations and used for specified residential housing: property tax exemption; leased property also exempt -  AB947

PSC duties revised re strategic energy assessments, certain certificates of public convenience and necessity (CPCNs), power purchase contracts, and prohibiting electric utilities from recovering certain costs in rates; strategic energy assessment name changed to strategic energy plan - AB854

PSC duties revised re strategic energy assessments, certain certificates of public convenience and necessity (CPCNs), power purchase contracts, and prohibiting electric utilities from recovering certain costs in rates; strategic energy assessment name changed to strategic energy plan - SB476

Public defenders bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification  - AB216

Renewable resource energy requirement for electric utilities and cooperatives: additional deadline created  - AB698

Renewable resource usage at state-owned office buildings, educational institutions, and correctional institutions: DOA to establish target, report required - SB554

School bus on public road: stopping requirements extended to include private roads and driveways  - AB457

Security and public safety bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification -  AB224

SHSW operation of the state historic sites revised -  SB201

Smoking cessation treatment and medications: health insurance coverage required -  AB708

Smoking in building owned or leased by the state prohibited; exception and forfeiture provisions  - SB411

State minimum wage: DWD to calculate for certain employees using formula based on federal poverty line for a family of four - SB307

Technical employee bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification -  AB223

Thompson, Carl W.: life and public service -  SJR3

TPR proceeding: right to a jury trial eliminated -  SB400

2003-05 authorized building program: addition of four U.W. System projects -  SB474

Uniform Prudent Investor Act replaces the prudent person rule - SB492

Universal health plan for Wisconsin established; Department of Health Planning and Finance and Health Policy Board created; LRB provision -  SB90

U.W. Madison and Extension program, project, and teaching assistants bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification - AB215

U.W. Milwaukee program, project, and teaching assistants bargaining unit: 2001-03 contract ratification  - AB227

U.W. System teaching assistants and project assistants: participation in WRS -  SB166

Vehicle admission receipt re state parks and certain recreational lands: friends groups appointed by DNR may collect and retain a surcharge -  AB479

WHEFA bonding authority re cultural facility or institution; definitions provided -  AB176

Wisconsin Consumer Credit Act and Uniform Commercial Code: amount covered revised; penalties modified  - AB982

Worthless check violations: use of deferred prosecution agreements revised; DA and collection agency provisions  - SB457

WRS annuitants employed by the state: employer contributions toward payment of health insurance premiums permitted  - AB638

WRS annuitants employed by the state: employer contributions toward payment of health insurance premiums permitted  - AB674

Other proposals coauthored or cosponsored by Sen. Risser:

Senate Bills: 12, 13, 20, 26, 32, 111, 130, 154, 155, 157, 170, 177, 178, 196, 199, 204, 209, 226, 227, 232, 234, 235, 243, 274, 278, 290, 309, 336, 365, 388, 395, 404, 413, 460, 480, 512, 514, 518, 519, 528

Senate Joint Resolutions: 17, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 54, 58, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72

Senate Resolutions: 7, 12, 13, 28, 29

Senate Petitions:

Assembly Bills: 2, 13, 19, 30, 33, 42, 46, 51, 52, 76, 83, 90, 91, 95, 103, 155, 165, 207, 229, 262, 269, 279, 295, 318, 328, 332, 333, 345, 351, 391, 403, 416, 418, 438, 439, 441, 447, 451, 456, 461, 464, 470, 477, 489, 490, 499, 500, 510, 515, 529, 533, 536, 559, 565, 590, 606, 616, 620, 644, 649, 700, 707, 724, 751, 755, 757, 760, 771, 773, 786, 857, 859, 887, 929, 950, 952, 977, 979, 981

Assembly Joint Resolutions: 8, 10, 14, 19, 20, 23, 31, 34, 36, 44, 47, 50, 54, 57, 59, 62, 67

S15 Robson, Sen. Judith (15th Sen.Dist.; Dem.)

Business subsidies awarding and reporting requirements created; LAB, DOA, Comm.Dept, and development and technology zone tax credits provisions  - SB199

Cigarette fire safety standards: Comm.Dept to establish; sale of uncertified cigarettes prohibited - SB519

Contractual services purchased by executive branch agencies to be performed within the U.S. when available  - AB761

Contractual services purchased by executive branch agencies to be performed within the U.S. when available  - SB389

``Cover the Uninsured Week" declared March 10-16, 2003 -  AJR26

Credit reporting agency requirements re free written disclosure report requested by customer -  SB39

Diabetes treatment: health insurance required to cover prescription medications in addition to insulin, exceptions provided - AB362

Driver's license of persons at least 75 years old: expiration and renewal requirements revised; fee provision  - AB575

Employment discrimination: action in circuit court to recover damages permitted, assessment provision; committee to study wage disparities between men and women and minority group and nonminority group members -  SB130

Health care plan must allow any provider to participate, conditions set; 30-day period when pharmacists elect to participate for at least one year extended to certain other health care professionals -  AB690

Health care provider service rates and insurer health care services reimbursement rates re MA: DHFS to post certain MA information on its website and may post certain information that providers and insurers are required to report  - AB895

Health care workers employed by health care facilities: requiring overtime without worker's consent prohibited; definition and employment discrimination provisions  - AB451

Health care workers employed by health care facilities: requiring overtime without worker's consent prohibited; definition and employment discrimination provisions  - SB177

Historic preservation and downtown development revisions; federal historic rehabilitation credit and SHSW provisions - AB499

Housing facilities: any county may build, furnish, and rent to residents of the county -  SB333

Invasive nonnative aquatic species: releasing, possessing, controlling, storing, selling, or transporting prohibited; DNR authority specified -  SB413

Loss of society and companionship in medical malpractice cases re adult children and parents -  SB467

Mercury fever thermometer prohibition created re sale, offer for sale, or give away of; exception provided  - AB277

Mercury thermometer prohibition created re sale and give away of; exceptions provided -  AB23

Mercury thermometer prohibition created re sale and give away of; exceptions provided -  SB10

Nursing homes not primarily serving the developmentally disabled: minimum staffing requirements revised re ratios; DHFS reports required; LAB duty specified  - AB192

``On-the-waterfront Program" and council created re revitalization of areas adjacent to lakes or streams  - AB105

Open-end credit plan: certain deceptive advertising practices prohibited and disclosures on billing statements required - AB981

Payday loan providers: requirements and prohibitions created; reports required -  SB345

Person with a disability or animal trainer accompanied by a service animal: laws re access to public accommodations modified - AB332