Senate

Actions in which sole defendant is the state, a state board or commission, or certain state officers, employees, or agents: 2011 WisAct 61 provisions revised so an action may be brought in Dane County, plaintiff's county of residence, or county plaintiff's place of business or registered agent is located; appeal of judgment or order provision -  SB505

Agricultural enterprise areas: DATCP allowed to use emergency rule-making procedures to designate  - SB497

Aquaculture regulation revisions re use of natural bodies of water, wastewater discharge permits, record-keeping, and importing fish -  AB655

Aquaculture regulation revisions re use of natural bodies of water, wastewater discharge permits, record-keeping, and importing fish -  SB537

ATV operation by persons under age 12 restrictions revised, safety certificate provision -  SB235

Badger Health Benefit Authority created and must establish and operate a Wisconsin Health Benefit Exchange in this state; JRCCP report -  SB273

Bicycle law revisions re definition, use of hand signals, lighting, overtaking and passing by vehicles, and metal or studded tires; motor bicycle and EPAMD provisions; moped treated like a bicycle for local ordinance parking purposes  - AB265

Biennial budget bill: process for removal of nonfiscal policy items established; LFB and JCF provisions  - AB382

Birth certificates may be obtained for free for a limited time to obtain ID card or driver's license for voting purposes  - SB323

Broadband service infrastructure costs re certain areas of the state: income and franchise tax credit created  - AB359

Commercial radio or television station personal property: property, sales, and use tax exemptions created under certain conditions; JSCTE appendix report -  SB527

Community development financial institution (CDFI) credit created, Comm.Dept duties; dairy manufacturing facility, meat processing facility, and food processing plant and food warehouse investment credits revised - SB120

Conservation patron license issued to certain disabled veterans at a lower fee -  SB513

County ordinance governing certain land divisions re extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction prohibited  - SB130

County shoreland zoning ordinance does not apply to unincorporated areas under set conditions  - SB36

Dental services: fee restrictions re insurers -  SB186

Disqualification of a judge or justice: adding when a reasonable person would question whether the judge or justice could act in an impartial manner -  AB687

DWD required to notify local workforce development boards of UI benefit applicants in their area  - AB412

DWD required to notify local workforce development boards of UI benefit applicants in their area  - SB424

Electronically prerecorded message to telephone number in the nonsolicitation directory prohibited; exceptions and DATCP duties -  SB16

Energy-efficient products for residential use purchased around April 21st (Earth Day): sales and use tax exemptions created, unfair trade practice for contractor to claim an exemption; JSCTE appendix report -  SB554

Farm tractor may be operated on highway without being registered with DOT for special occasions such as a parade  - SB434

Federal funding or moneys accepted or received by the state: recognizing the legislature is the appropriate branch of government to budget these funds and the governor may not return the money without the approval of the legislature by law; employment increase provision -  SJR67

Federal moneys accepted by the state may not be returned to the federal government without the approval of the legislature by law if the expenditure may increase employment in this state - SB495

Firearms, bows, or crossbows: restrictions on placing, possessing, or transporting in a vehicle, ATV, or motorboat revised - SB228

Gubernatorial approval of proposed administrative rules: prior law restored re rules considered at the joint annual spring fish and wildlife rule hearing of the DNR and county meeting of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, economic impact analysis provision -  SB319

Highway on a boundary line may be considered in the jurisdiction of only one municipality for general transportation aid purposes, plat provision -  SB558

Individual income tax checkoffs limited; breast and prostate cancer research checkoffs changed to a cancer research checkoff -  SB321

Job creation tax benefit created; limitations, Comm.Dept duties, and emergency rule provision -  AB17

Judge required to disqualify him or herself from an action if he or she received campaign financial support from a party to the action -  AB685

Legislative member records and correspondence subject to public records management and preservation program  - AB361

Legislative member records and correspondence subject to public records management and preservation program  - SB248

Local room tax revisions re tourism entity, tax collection, report requirements, and circuit court action  - SB438

Lumber manufacturing facility: income and franchise tax credits created re modernization and expansion  - AB360

Managed forest land program: yield tax due date extension and annual per acreage amount modified re catastrophic event - SB126

Medicare supplement policies: special enrollment periods created -  SB510

``Municipality" definition revised re certifying debt to DOR - SB465

Neighborhood Business Revitalization Loan Guarantee program created in WHEDA -  AB532

NRB nominates DNR Secretary with advice and consent of the Senate, term of office provisions; filling an NRB member vacancy modified -  AB218

NRB nominates DNR Secretary with advice and consent of the Senate, term of office provisions; filling an NRB member vacancy modified -  SB119

Otte, Carl: life and public service -  SJR18

Ozone-depleting refrigerant substitute re mobile air conditioners: DATCP rule authority revised re sale and noncommercial use of -  SB370

Partial veto of an appropriation bill: Governor may not reject part of a bill section without rejecting the entire bill section. Constitutional amendment (2nd consideration)  - SJR60

Political communication: requirements on identifying the source revised, penalty provisions  - SB281

Political contributions: acceptance by incumbent partisan elective state official or support committee prohibited between specified dates, additional provisions for governor and lieutenant governor; penalty provisions; JRCCP report  - AB264

Prevailing wage applied to highway, road, street, bridge, sanitary sewer, or water main public works project for a town: statutory threshold for applicability raised; DWD duties  - AB91

Prevailing wage applied to highway, road, street, bridge, sanitary sewer, or water main public works project for a town: statutory threshold for applicability raised; DWD duties  - SB46

Property tax credit for veterans and surviving spouses: definition of ``principal dwelling" revised - SB512

PSC revisions re notices, orders, determinations, firm sale of electricity to affiliates, contracts or arrangements between public utilities and affiliated interests, certificate of approval, removal of certain electric and steam lines, renewable portfolio standards, prohibiting commissioners from certain political activities, and penalties for tampering or interfering with utility equipment; JRCCP report -  SB428

Public notice of Senate committee meetings revisions [Senate rules 25 (1)(b), (c), 93 (2)] -  SR21

Purchasing preference for Wisconsin-based businesses revision re out-of-state vendors that have or will have 50% of their operations in Wisconsin -  SB303

Residential mortgage loan foreclosure procedures created - AB137

Rough fish: definition expanded to include Asian carp and taking with a crossbow permitted -  SB301

Scenic byways: DOT may designate local highways as -  SB401

School state aid revisions re guaranteed percentage, parental choice programs, school aid formula, counting low-income pupils, delayed payments, per pupil adjustment under the levy limit, independent charter schools, grants for study to improve efficiency, and transporting pupils to private schools; eliminates first dollar and school levy property tax credits and categorical state aid for high-poverty school districts; DPI, DOA, LFB, and JCF duties specified -  AB677

Snowmobile registration, trail use sticker fee and supplemental aids, and gas tax formula revisions  - SB365

Special charge under the property assessed clean energy (PACE) program: third party allowed to collect installment payments, lien provision, written guarantee of certain savings-to-investment ratio under set conditions, and third party technical review - SB425

State Trails Council membership modified -  SB77

State Trails Council membership modified, some nonvoting members and representation from specific interest groups required -  AB166

Student information system: State Superintendent to develop request for proposal procedures and criteria for selecting vendors, fee and compatible software provisions  - SB556

Tax credits awarded by WEDC or the former Comm.Dept and related to economic development: creating a program for sale or transfer of re counties with persistent high unemployment - SB291

Telephone solicitations: state's nonsolicitation directory eliminated in favor of the national do-not-call registry maintained by the FTC; DATCP duties -  AB634

Thermal biomass heating system: creating nonrefundable individual and corporate income and franchise tax credits for the purchase and installation of -  AB358

Time-share estates and licenses: nonjudicial foreclosure -  SB241

Trailer or semitrailer of certain weight and designed to be towed by a motor vehicle other than a truck tractor: new registration category created, fee provision - SB215

Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act; LRB, LC, and JRCCP duties -  SB304

UTV regulations established and pilot program eliminated; age restrictions, ATV trails, registration decals and plates, commercial ATV and UTV certificate, nonresident trail pass, and public-use registration certificate provisions  - SB354

Vehicles transporting raw forest products: overweight permit revision re certain thawing or frozen highways  - SB322

Veterans and surviving spouses property tax credit: eligibility of unremarried surviving spouse expanded  - AB121

``Veterans Memorial Bridge": DOT to designate and mark bridge on USH 141 across the Menominee River in Marinette County as; contributions from interested parties provision - AB270

``Veterans Memorial Bridge": DOT to designate and mark bridge on USH 141 across the Menominee River in Marinette County as; contributions from interested parties provision - SB197

Voluntary contributions in addition to fees for specified DNR approvals authorized; memorandum of agreement between DNR and Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin on use of funds -  SB441

Vote on bills during first 21 days after introduction prohibited unless members of the house vote to suspend the waiting period - SB193

WHEDA small business loan guarantee and agricultural production loan guarantee programs revised; Wisconsin development reserve fund limit increased -  AB375

Wild rivers: informational signs along highways permitted under certain conditions -  SB483

Wisconsin conservation corps (WCC) program established and WCC Board created in DOA, finance and project criteria provisions; National and Community Service Board duties, public works exceptions, and annual report required  - AB616

Wisconsin Downtown Development Program created re WEDC providing business area revitalization services to municipalities not in the State Main Street Program; number of participants in State Main Street Program increased; funding provisions  - AB533

Wolf harvesting licenses: DNR authorized to issue if the wolf is removed from endangered and threatened species lists; wolf depredation program created re damage to livestock, hunting dogs, and pets -  SB411

Work-share programs: employers permitted to implement with DWD approval, conditions specified; UI benefits provisions - SB559

Other proposals coauthored or cosponsored by Sen. Holperin:

Senate Bills: 4, 6, 14, 17, 19, 39, 40, 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 67, 78, 79, 81, 84, 85, 89, 90, 93, 96, 101, 103, 108, 121, 122, 129, 132, 137, 143, 155, 162, 182, 191, 192, 198, 203, 206, 209, 211, 212, 217, 226, 233, 236, 238, 242, 244, 247, 272, 274, 278, 289, 299, 305, 313, 314, 343, 352, 358, 362, 375, 376, 377, 380, 384, 407, 410, 413, 414, 427, 430, 444, 446, 481, 511, 518, 519, 538, 542, 549

Senate Joint Resolutions: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 35, 38, 41, 43, 44, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 68, 70, 71

Senate Resolutions: 19

Senate Petitions:

Assembly Bills: 2, 6, 15, 16, 23, 28, 57, 60, 69, 70, 90, 93, 97, 114, 124, 125, 126, 128, 132, 133, 147, 151, 158, 167, 178, 181, 186, 187, 189, 191, 200, 205, 213, 223, 226, 230, 242, 251, 260, 261, 262, 266, 275, 277, 299, 300, 302, 304, 307, 311, 312, 316, 323, 327, 328, 334, 335, 338, 341, 343, 345, 363, 368, 369, 374, 376, 377, 378, 380, 388, 396, 397, 398, 409, 416, 450, 452, 453, 458, 464, 465, 471, 473, 477, 484, 498, 501, 502, 503, 505, 508, 511, 518, 526, 527, 542, 548, 563, 565, 573, 575, 576, 586, 589, 591, 602, 626, 630, 635, 639, 666, 672, 697, 701, 710, 738, 742

Assembly Joint Resolutions: 1, 1, 2, 7, 11, 12, 19, 22, 30, 33, 35, 44, 45, 48, 52, 57, 62, 63, 67, 74, 76, 78, 84, 91, 96, 98, 102, 104, 107, 111, 113, 114, 126, 127, 130

S18 Hopper, Sen. Randy (18th Sen.Dist.; Rep.)

(Recalled in August 9, 2011 recall election.)

American Heart Month recognized February 2011; Wear Red Day recognized February 4, 2011 - AJR7