Senate

Whitefish Dunes State Park renamed ``Governor John W. Reynolds Whitefish Dunes State Park"  - AB473

Whitefish Dunes State Park renamed ``Governor John W. Reynolds Whitefish Dunes State Park"  - SB241

Witness exclusion order: law enforcement officer may be ordered to testify before other witnesses in criminal or delinquency cases -  AB373

Zimmerman, (Sgt) Luke J.: life and military service commended  - AJR21

Zimmerman, (Sgt) Luke J.: life and military service commended  - SJR11

Other proposals coauthored or cosponsored by Sen. Lasee:

Senate Bills: 3, 4, 8, 18, 25, 34, 42, 55, 56, 59, 66, 68, 83, 86, 87, 92, 107, 119, 122, 124, 127, 159, 177, 181, 183, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 196, 197, 198, 200, 206, 207, 218, 230, 250, 260, 261, 270, 276, 363, 393, 409, 416, 421, 428, 432, 433, 436, 437, 439, 443, 473, 500, 506, 552, 553

Senate Joint Resolutions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 41, 42, 49, 52, 53, 56, 57, 62, 63, 64, 66, 68, 72, 74, 77, 78, 79, 81, 85, 86, 91, 93, 100

Senate Resolutions: 5, 12

Senate Petitions:

Assembly Bills: 18, 22, 28, 30, 47, 48, 61, 63, 77, 83, 129, 147, 149, 167, 172, 186, 194, 201, 202, 207, 211, 232, 234, 239, 241, 264, 265, 282, 296, 306, 333, 339, 350, 353, 360, 365, 369, 375, 388, 394, 396, 397, 401, 415, 423, 424, 427, 460, 470, 499, 513, 521, 527, 538, 549, 558, 560, 565, 566, 569, 571, 572, 581, 624, 640, 650, 652, 660, 677, 689, 692, 698, 699, 701, 710, 719, 721, 725, 731, 744, 745, 756, 783, 787, 804, 805, 806, 839, 915

Assembly Joint Resolutions: 1, 6, 8, 10, 11, 17, 26, 28, 30, 53, 56, 67, 68, 76, 82, 88, 105, 106, 110, 113, 120

S24 Lassa, Sen. Julie M. (24th Sen.Dist.; Dem.)

Academic Excellence Higher Education Scholarship Program: maximum amount eliminated -  AB389

Architect, landscape architect, professional engineer, designer of engineering systems, and land surveyor: examining board may establish continuing education requirements  - AB181

Barber or cosmetologist apprentices: supervision of modified -  SB504

Base budget review reports of state agencies: once an agency uses a certain format it must be used for all future reports - AB50

Biennial budget bill prepared according to GAAP required; legislation to reduce state budget deficit provision  - SB34

Birth certificate copy re participation in organized youth sports: exception from penalty for copying a vital record created - SB207

Birth defect prevention and surveillance system revisions; state registrar and DHFS duties specified; stillborn human provision - AB185

Building permit: continuing education requirements for applicants revised -  AB227

Building permit: continuing education requirements for applicants revised -  SB131

``Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin" program created in DATCP to increase awareness and consumption of locally produced foods and related products; ``Buy Local" grant program provision - SB89

Cemetery associations and cemetery authorities law revisions re deposits and investments of and trustees of care funds and preneed trust funds, licensure and registration of certain cemeteries, reporting requirements, sale or encumbrance of cemetery land, and regulation of warehouses  - SB288

Child abuse, vulnerable adult, and harassment injunctions: conditions of when it becomes effective revised  - AB242

Child abuse, vulnerable adult, and harassment injunctions: conditions of when it becomes effective revised  - SB124

Child care worker loan repayment assistance program created -  AB867

Child may be placed for adoption prior to TPR finalization; DHFS not required to pay preadoptive preparation re child welfare agency; Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) provision -  AB769

Child may be placed for adoption prior to TPR finalization; DHFS not required to pay preadoptive preparation re child welfare agency; Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) provision -  SB464

Children's products: sale by commercial suppliers regulated re unsafe products; DATCP duties specified; recall, baby crib, injunction, and forfeiture provisions; residential care center for children and youth, foster home, group home, day care center or provider, or shelter care facility prohibitions and inspection requirements -  SB37

College tuition and expenses program and college savings program: income tax deduction claimed by divorced or legally separated parent allowed and deduction limited for married couple who file separately -  SB254

Commercial mobile radio service providers: overcharge refunds and failure to make timely refunds; DATCP authority specified - SB320

Community action agencies providing skills enhancement programs: DCF to distribute grants - AB850

Community action agencies providing skills enhancement programs: DCF to distribute grants - SB505

Computerized communication that invites harassment or sends obscene, lewd, or profane language made a misdemeanor  - AB51

Corn used for fuel for residential use: individual income tax credit created re sales and use taxes paid on purchase of - AB171

Corr.Dept classified supervisors with specific duties entitled to collective bargaining re SELRA - SB427

County constitutional officers: county board must adjust compensation level annually -  SB533

County fair association employee wages: income tax withholding exemption revised -  AB232

Death reporting, inquests, and disposition of bodies revisions; coroner and medical examiner authority re jurisdiction to investigate, notification of death, autopsies and other diagnostic procedures, investigation and mental health treatment records, and handling of personal property; Board on Medicolegal Investigations created in DOJ -  AB783

Death reporting, inquests, and disposition of bodies revisions; coroner and medical examiner authority re jurisdiction to investigate, notification of death, autopsies and other diagnostic procedures, investigation and mental health treatment records, and handling of personal property; Board on Medicolegal Investigations created in DOJ -  SB428

Dental services to MA recipients under a managed care system: DHFS to establish a pilot project, sunset provision  - SB573

Development zones, enterprise development zones, agricultural development zones, technology zones, and airport development zones consolidated; reports and LAB audit provisions - AB794

Development zones, enterprise development zones, agricultural development zones, technology zones, and airport development zones consolidated; reports and LAB audit provisions - SB480

Diabetes Awareness Month: November recognized as; work of the Wisconsin Diabetes Prevention and Control Program recognized -  SJR65

Diesel engines that emit lower levels of nitrogen oxide and used in certain commercial motor vehicles: income and franchise tax credits created; airport development zone program credits provision -  SB538

DNR and Conservation Congress required to provide a method for persons with disabilities to vote from home on issues under consideration by the Conservation Congress  - AB323

Drainage board public contract minimum bid requirements: amount increased -  AB116

Drainage board public contract minimum bid requirements: amount increased -  SB445

Drainage district: local governmental units required to consider relationship with re comprehensive plans, notification provision; requiring disclosure to potential buyer or transferee of land located in -  AB118

Drainage district: local governmental units required to consider relationship with re comprehensive plans; real estate condition report must disclose if property is near a military base or drainage district -  AB120

Dreyfus, (Gov.) Lee Sherman: life and public service of the former governor commended -  SJR81

``Elastic yo-yo": sale or distribution of prohibited -  AB148

``Elastic yo-yo": sale or distribution of prohibited -  SB79

Electric weapon prohibition inapplicable to on-duty county correctional personnel -  AB759

Electric weapon prohibition inapplicable to on-duty county correctional personnel -  SB498

Employment discrimination: action in circuit court to recover damages permitted, surcharge provision; committee to study wage disparities between men and women and minority group and nonminority group members -  SB165

Employment discrimination because of military status revised and expanded; exception if the individual has been less than honorably discharged -  AB32

Energy efficient products for residential use re federal Energy Star program purchased during specified dates: sales and use tax exemptions created; exceptions and unfair trade practice provisions -  SB421

Equine animals: slaughter for human consumption prohibited - SB262

``Europe Day" observed May 9, 2007 -  SJR39

Family and medical leave law (state): time limits for filing a complaint revised; appeal of DWD determination to LIRC; commencement of civil action against employer modified  - AB868

Fibromyalgia Awareness Day: May 12, 2008 recognized as -  SJR104

Film production company income and franchise tax credits: beginning taxable date modified - SB24

Fire fighter injury or death due to heart or respiratory disease or stroke: presumption for WC purposes that the condition is related to employment created; criteria specified  - AB275

Fishing license for nonresident veteran with certain military-related disability: annual fee set - SB361

Forfeiture of computers used in committing a serious child sex offense permitted, conditions and innocent security interest holders provisions; use of computer by child sex offender on parole, probation, or extended supervision restricted, Corr.Dept required to monitor -  AB22

Foster youth scholarship fund: individual income tax checkoff created; DHFS duty set -  AB573

Foster youth scholarship fund: individual income tax checkoff created; DHFS duty set -  SB312

Fraud, waste, and mismanagement in state government: LAB to maintain a toll-free telephone number with voice mail to receive reports -  SB86

Government procurement preferences to minority-owned businesses modified and expanded to include women- and veteran-owned businesses; adding women-owned businesses to the Counsel on Small Business, Veteran-Owned Business, and Minority Business Opportunities; Comm.Dept to maintain Web site listing these types of businesses  - AB811

Grimm, (CPL) Matthew: life and military service commended - SJR14

Harboring or aiding a felon: family members are not exempt from prohibition against destroying, altering, hiding, or disguising physical evidence -  AB338

Health care provider statement or gesture of apology or condolence is inadmissible in a civil action or administrative hearing - AB53

Health professional shortage area: loan program through HEAB for U.W. Madison Medical School or Medical College of Wisconsin graduates willing to serve in  - AB90

Healthy lifestyles: employers and employees encouraged to develop programs; health care providers encouraged to endorse and adopt certain initiatives; schools encouraged to examine curricula and programming; economic incentives encouraged - SR3

Hearing aids or cochlear implants for infants and young children: health insurance policies and plans required to cover; exceptions provided -  AB133

Hearing aids or cochlear implants for infants and young children: health insurance policies and plans required to cover; exceptions provided -  SB88

Historic buildings and downtown development: revisions re State Historic Building Code, multifamily dwellings, historic rehabilitation tax credit, certification and promotion of downtowns, DOT highway projects in downtown business areas, and certain state office buildings - AB599

Historic buildings and downtown development: revisions re State Historic Building Code, multifamily dwellings, historic rehabilitation tax credit, certification and promotion of downtowns, DOT highway projects in downtown business areas, and certain state office buildings - SB331

Homeless public school pupils: appropriation created to provide services to and professional development programs for school personnel -  AB832

Homeless public school pupils: appropriation created to provide services to and professional development programs for school personnel -  SB495

Invasive fish species or eggs: possessing, releasing, controlling, storing, selling, or transporting prohibited; exceptions and definition provisions -  AB96

Joint fire department debts re fire station: local levy limits exception expanded to include -  AB869

Joint fire department debts re fire station: local levy limits exception expanded to include -  SB528

Late or delinquent payment on transactions subject to the Wisconsin Consumer Act: merchant prohibited from imposing; conditions specified -  AB314

Living will and health care power of attorney: DOT to establish procedure to provide space on back of operator's license for identity of individual with custody of or designated as agent of; certain forms provided on DOT Web site  - SB184

Lobbying by former legislators prohibited for 12 months following their last day in office; penalty provisions  - AB74

Lobbying by former legislators prohibited for 12 months following their last day in office; penalty provisions  - SB23