Wisconsin Legislature: Erpenbach, Sen. Jon (27th Sen.Dist.; Dem.)

Academic excellence higher education scholarship eligibility revised re alternates - SB76

Alvarez, Barry: achievements as coach of the U.W. Badgers football team commended - SJR56

Anderson, Lyman F.: life and public service - AJR65

Business engaged in retail sales and has more than 100 employees: Comm.Dept prohibited from awarding certain grants and loans or certifying to receive tax benefits; municipalities and counties prohibited from using general transportation aids for access routes to highways abutting lands owned or occupied by retail business - AB1152

Campaign finance law revisions re filing reports, disbursement limitations and independent disbursements, contribution limitations and restrictions, legislative campaign committees, conduits, disposition of residual or excess funds, WECF, penalties for violations, and public broadcasting television stations and public access channels; Elections Board and nonseverability provisions (deletes changes made by 2001 WisAct 109) - AB392

Dane County Regional Airport: state aviation facilities named the ``Fritz E. Wolf Aviation Center" - SB306

Dredged materials that contain PCBs: solid waste disposal facility prohibited from accepting; municipal liability re materials from Great Lakes basin contaminated with PCBs provision - AB34

Economic development programs Web site: Comm.Dept directed to create; chamber of commerce provision - AB845

Epilepsy drugs: pharmacist prohibited from substituting a drug product equivalent without prescribing practitioner and patient consent; certain health insurers prohibited from penalizing a participating provider, pharmacist, or enrollee for requesting specific epilepsy drugs - AB1210

Ethanol in automotive gasoline: minimum specifications set and exemptions provided - SB15

Gasoline consisting of at least 85 percent ethanol: motor vehicle fuel tax formula established; charging an excessive price prohibited, DATCP provision; discrimination against retailer by refiner or wholesaler of motor vehicle fuel prohibited; penalty provisions - SB723

Higher education grants for U.W. System students and Lawton grants: formula to calculate appropriation amounts changed; HEAB and technical college and tribal college student tuition grants provisions - AB743

Homestead tax credit may be claimed by persons living in tax-exempt housing and aged 65 or older - SB92

Human growth and development instruction: school board may offer a scientifically based program, topics specified; school board required to notify parents and guardians if it elects not to offer such instruction - SB340

Human stem cell or embryonic cell research: it is the policy of the state to permit; approval by an institutional review board and national oversight committee required if state funds or resources are used - SB603

Hybrid motor vehicle: sales and use tax exemptions created - SB252

Incumbent partisan elective state official or campaign or support committees prohibited from accepting political contributions for reelection during certain period, exception for recall election; disbursement for promoting official's candidacy for a different state, local, or national office prohibited prior to filing a registration statement - AB452

Instructional materials: publishers required to provide in an electronic format upon request from nonprofit or public institutions of higher education, conditions and formats specified; TCS Board and U.W. Board of Regents duties specified; public accommodations law provision - AB1142

Licensed drug manufacturer and distributor conduct regulated re certain professional conferences, giving anything of value to a health care provider, and entering into a consulting agreement with a health care provider; exceptions provided - AB1067

Monroe, City of, authorized to transfer tax increments from an existing TID to a specific TID - AB1008

Monroe, City of, authorized to transfer tax increments from an existing TID to a specific TID - SB589

Motor vehicle title loan: maximum finance charge set; definition provided; DFI license required - SB236

Nelson, Gaylord: service to the state and the environment commended - SJR17

Nonprobate transfer of real property on death: new mechanism created - SB255

Petition for recall of a city, village, town, or school district officer modified re required percentage of electors who must sign and latest date it may be circulated - AB1150

Prescription drug assistance program for the elderly: property taxes deducted from person's annual household income re determining eligibility; DHFS provision - SB235

Public financing of campaigns for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court, fund raising during state budget consideration, representation by former state officials, and service by former legislators or legislative employees as lobbyists: laws revised - AB1212

Public works subject to the prevailing wage law: DWD to charge for frivolous payroll inspection requests re contractor, subcontractor, or agent - SB545

Rebate and refund offers by retailers: time period to satisfy conditions set - AB948

Renewable resource energy requirement for electric utilities and cooperatives: additional deadline created - SB110

Telecommunications cooperative: retained earnings include patronage capital - SB111

Telephone solicitation regulations revised re commercial mobile service, certain nonprofit organizations, customer notice to solicitor against telephone solicitations, penalties, and DATCP registration fee - SB116

Telephone solicitation regulations revised re commercial mobile service, definition, customer notice to solicitor against telephone solicitations, penalties, and DATCP registration fee - AB416

TID creation simultaneous with subtracting territory from an existing TID without adopting a resolution containing the 12-percent test: city or village authority granted under set conditions; DOR provisions - SB596

Traveling sales crews: regulations created; exceptions and penalty provisions - SB251

Tuition and fee remissions for veteran, spouse, surviving spouse, and children of certain veterans re U.W. and TCS boards: eligibility expanded re certain service-connected disability - SB427

Tuition and fee remissions for veteran, spouse, surviving spouse, and children of certain veterans re U.W. and TCS boards: eligibility expanded to include veterans with certain residency prior to registering as a student - AB916

Unauthorized acquisition of computerized personal information: entity that possesses the information required to notify individuals affected; definitions, DOJ and DA authority, and civil action provisions - AB621

U.W. Madison and Professor James Thomson commended for accomplishments in stem cell research - SJR57

U.W. Men's Basketball Team and Head Coach Bo Ryan congratulated on their season achievements - AJR28

Vegetation obstructing view of outdoor advertising signs: DOT permit system created for maintenance and removal of vegetation by sign owners; LAB report required - SB541

Wisconsin First Program created re promoting a Wisconsin identity for farm-raised food products; DATCP to administer - SB665

WRS creditable service re the Commissioned Corps of the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the federal Environmental Science Services Administration - SB314

Other proposals coauthored or cosponsored by Sen. Erpenbach:

Senate Bills: 17, 19, 37, 40, 73, 79, 87, 98, 106, 107, 109, 115, 121, 136, 141, 157, 160, 166, 186, 195, 196, 221, 232, 245, 249, 254, 260, 267, 274, 281, 288, 292, 296, 328, 341, 343, 348, 354, 367, 368, 370, 371, 373, 376, 379, 384, 388, 391, 412, 416, 423, 429, 432, 437, 441, 456, 466, 468, 472, 477, 479, 481, 502, 517, 532, 578, 582, 584, 591, 595, 598, 600, 613, 615, 622, 624, 645, 653, 658, 663, 667, 689, 720, 721

Senate Joint Resolutions: 3, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 29, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 85

Senate Resolutions: 4, 6, 7, 12, 16

Senate Petitions:

Assembly Bills: 6, 15, 16, 22, 61, 65, 77, 81, 145, 146, 153, 158, 161, 168, 171, 180, 186, 192, 195, 197, 201, 204, 205, 223, 227, 228, 235, 245, 283, 295, 305, 306, 307, 314, 327, 332, 334, 351, 352, 377, 387, 406, 410, 419, 433, 435, 445, 446, 480, 491, 532, 535, 537, 542, 546, 565, 583, 590, 602, 617, 622, 626, 627, 650, 673, 674, 682, 683, 688, 690, 707, 709, 715, 720, 721, 723, 726, 728, 745, 771, 774, 786, 789, 791, 792, 793, 795, 796, 802, 803, 807, 811, 826, 827, 828, 830, 832, 834, 840, 863, 873, 879, 912, 926, 930, 932, 959, 961, 967, 972, 976, 984, 992, 993, 1003, 1007, 1009, 1014, 1015, 1027, 1028, 1030, 1034, 1086, 1087, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1115, 1130, 1131, 1141, 1144, 1151, 1171, 1186

Assembly Joint Resolutions: 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 19, 22, 23, 27, 30, 38, 47, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 58, 60, 66, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75, 81, 82, 91, 100, 101, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110

S13 Fitzgerald, Sen. Scott (13th Sen.Dist.; Rep.)

Actions against health care provider by person under age 18: time limit clarified; disability provision - AB1071

Appropriation revisions: Corr.Dept and U.W. System re energy and utility expenses, prescription drug assistance for elderly persons program, MA trust fund, and supplemental MA payments to nursing homes; rule prohibiting a structural imbalance in the general fund does not apply [budget adjustment bill] - AB438

Attorney fee limits in medical malpractice cases revised - AB1074

Badger Care, prescription drug assistance, and MA: 2004-05 GPR appropriations revised; MA trust fund provision - AB102

Badger Care, prescription drug assistance, and MA: 2004-05 GPR appropriations revised; MA trust fund provision - SB64

Black History Month and the men of Company F of the 29th Infantry of U.S. Colored Troops (re the Civil War) honored - SR3

Child Survival Week declared the week of October 31 - SJR43

Cigarettes sold to consumers in this state: direct marketing regulations created; definition and DOR provisions - AB411

College savings program: income tax deduction expanded to include contributions to qualified tuition program (section 529 plan) of any state - SB293

College tuition program account (section 529 plan) of any state: nonrefundable individual income tax credit for contributions created - SB336

Concealed weapon licensing system created; active duty or retired law enforcement officer permitted to carry a concealed firearm, ID card provision; DOJ to consider mental health status re background checks for handgun purchases; grants for shooting ranges - SB403

Driver education schools and instructors: standards for licensing, testing, and regulating revised - SB640

DVA may transfer funds from institutional operations to veterans trust fund under certain conditions; U.W. System and technical college district board may grant full remission of academic fees to certain veterans; tuition and academic fee remission for surviving spouses and children and certain disabled veterans revised re residency and death as a result of a service-connected disability; FTE positions for DVA - AB1034

Ecstasy: penalty for possession revised - AB989

Employment discrimination based on creed expanded re pharmacist refusal to dispense drugs used for abortion, assisted suicide, or euthanasia; definition, disciplinary action, and damages provisions - SB155

Family planning demonstration project re MA: minimum age requirement increased - SB552

Fire fighters memorial: individual income tax checkoff created; net donations provision - SB453

Fire hose (unprotected): penalty for driving a vehicle over expanded - SB85

Fireworks sales to nonresident person, regardless of person's location, for use outside the state; issuing fireworks user's permit to an individual - AB833

Graduate medical education program may elect to be subject to the statutory health care liaiblity insurance requirements, definition created; temporary educational permit to practice medicine and surgery modified and expanded to include first year medical residents - AB765

Human cloning and parthenogenesis prohibited; definitions provided - SB243

Hunting or trapping permits: deferral for qualified, active members of the armed forces created - AB178

Illegal drug transferred from a pregnant woman to her unborn child: delivery of illegal drugs and intentional and reckless homicide crimes expanded to include - AB994

Local levy limits applied to political subdivisions and technical college districts with exceptions; debt service, annexed territory, and first class city levies for school purposes provisions; school district revenue limit per pupil adjustment set; sunset - SB28

MA GPR appropriation decreased; transfer of certain amount from general fund to MA trust fund - AB981

MA GPR appropriation decreased; transfer of certain amount from general fund to MA trust fund - SB535

Marriage between one man and one woman only shall be valid or recognized; constitutional amendment (2nd consideration) - AJR67

Marriage between one man and one woman only shall be valid or recognized; constitutional amendment (2nd consideration) - SJR53

Medical malpractice case: introduction of collateral source payments and evidence of the injured or dead person's obligations of subrogation or reimbursement resulting from collateral source payments allowed; damage award provision - AB764

Medical malpractice case: introduction of collateral source payments and evidence of the injured person's obligations of subrogation or reimbursement resulting from collateral source payments allowed; damage award provision - AB1072

Medical malpractice: limit on noneconomic damages created; report from board of governors of the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund required - AB1073

Medical malpractice: limit on noneconomic damages created; report from board of governors of the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund required - AB766

Medical malpractice: limit on noneconomic damages created; report from board of governors of the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund required - SB393

Meningococcal disease: DPI and all schools required to provide information to parents or guardians of pupils in grades 6 to 12 - AB589