Born Louisville, KY, November 4, 1969; married; 3 children. Graduate Oak Creek H.S. 1987; graduate Trans-American School of Broadcasting (Madison) 1989; attended UW-Parkside 1987-88. Owner, communications consulting company. Former radio morning show host, news anchor; communications director, assembly speaker Jeff Fitzgerald. Member: Down Syndrome Association of Wisconsin; Wisconsin Upside Down; Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels; Watertown Elks Club. Former member: RTNDA – Radio TV News Directors Assn.; Milwaukee Press Club.
Elected to Assembly 2012; reelected 2014.
(first or second author, first sponsor)
2/1/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 694
Relating to: dementia training grants for mobile crisis teams and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 790
Relating to: dementia training grants for mobile crisis teams and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 615
Relating to: special needs scholarship program. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 614
Relating to: capturing and distributing a representation of a nude child and providing a criminal penalty.
1/20/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 751
Relating to: special needs scholarship program. (FE)
1/5/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 630
Relating to: capturing and distributing a representation of a nude child and providing a criminal penalty.
1/5/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 631
Relating to: the maximum height of pole traps.
1/4/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 625
Relating to: the 2015-17 Authorized State Building Program, providing a grant for the construction of a medical school campus in the city of Jefferson, granting bonding authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
12/18/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 470
Relating to: reporting crimes and other incidents that occur on school property, on school transportation, and at school sanctioned events and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
12/18/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 458
Relating to: information required on building permit forms and reporting requirements for municipalities that issue building permits. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 571
Relating to: information required on building permit forms and reporting requirements for municipalities that issue building permits. (FE)
12/3/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 413
Relating to: social and financial impact reports. (FE)
11/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 543
Relating to: social and financial impact reports. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 517
Relating to: reporting crimes and other incidents that occur on school property, on school transportation, and at school sanctioned events and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 510
Relating to: health care aid for certain veterans and their family members. (FE)
10/26/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 455
Relating to: registration of special interest, reconstructed, replica, or street modified vehicles and providing a penalty. (FE)
5/20/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 236
Relating to: tax-exempt accounts for qualified expenses incurred by individuals with disabilities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
4/1/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 147
Relating to: battery and threats to a judge, a prosecutor, or a law enforcement officer and providing a criminal penalty. (FE)
3/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 77
Relating to: lighting underneath motorcycles.
3/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 100
Relating to: lighting underneath motorcycles.
2/27/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 59
Relating to: University of Wisconsin System reports regarding remedial courses in English and mathematics.
2/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 56
Relating to: University of Wisconsin System reports regarding remedial courses in English and mathematics.
2/5/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 873
Relating to: participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations.
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 786
Relating to: report on dementia crisis unit pilot program and placement of individuals with dementia. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 792
Relating to: referrals for subjects of alerts for missing adults and operator's license review. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 784
Relating to: funding for the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 785
Relating to: dementia specialist certification program. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 783
Relating to: funding for a virtual dementia tour license and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 787
Relating to: funding for respite care under the Alzheimer's Family and Caregiver Support Program and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 788
Relating to: funding for dementia care specialists in aging and disability resource centers and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 789
Relating to: continuing legal and judicial education on elder law-related issues. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 768
Relating to: rules regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
1/19/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 99
Relating to: proclaiming Friday, February 5, 2016, to be National Wear Red Day in recognition of heart disease awareness and prevention.
1/13/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 707
Relating to: official logotypes for Wisconsin veteran-owned businesses and disabled veteran-owned businesses. (FE)
1/11/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 673
Relating to: creating a program to protect the confidentiality of addresses for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 659
Relating to: opioid treatment programs. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 657
Relating to: treatment and diversion programs and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 651
Relating to: mounting a motor vehicle monitoring device to the front windshield of a vehicle.
1/5/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 633
Relating to: copies of certain vital records. (FE)
12/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 614
Relating to: creating a procedure for granting certificates of qualification for employment. (FE)
12/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 563
Relating to: authorizing towns located in populous counties to withdraw from county zoning; requiring certain towns to enact a zoning ordinance and a comprehensive plan; removing plat and certified survey map approval authority from a county if the town in which the subdivision or land is located has withdrawn from county zoning; farmland preservation ordinances of towns that withdraw from county zoning and eligibility in those towns for the farmland preservation tax credit; and prohibiting restrictions on land that is not shoreland or that is not within a floodplain. (FE)
12/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 562
Relating to: expenditures relating to the operation of a rail fixed guideway transportation system in a first class city.
12/1/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 557
Relating to: including a heroin metabolite in the definition of a restricted controlled substance for the purpose of chemical testing for intoxication.
11/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 497
Relating to: residency requirements for sexually violent persons on supervised release.
11/9/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 487
Relating to: animals believed to have been involved in crimes against animals, when a stray or abandoned animal may be considered unclaimed, and a court order relating to an animal taken into or held in custody. (FE)
10/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 433
Relating to: interfering with hunting, fishing, and trapping and providing criminal penalties.
10/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 435
Relating to: registration of vehicles defined as autocycles. (FE)
10/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 415
Relating to: back tag requirements. (FE)
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 408
Relating to: behavioral health care coordination pilot projects, psychiatric consultation reimbursement pilot project, access to information on availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, and making appropriations. (FE)
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 394
Relating to: review of proposed changes to public employee group health insurance programs.
10/9/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 388
Relating to: reorganizing the Government Accountability Board, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
10/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 384
Relating to: requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants and changes to the state's energy priorities policy.
10/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 373
Relating to: the state civil service and making an appropriation. (FE)
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 360
Relating to: persons charged with locating persons who abscond from parole, probation, and extended supervision and going armed with a firearm.
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 364
Relating to: reporting, disclosure, and practitioner review requirements under the prescription drug monitoring program; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 366
Relating to: pain clinic certification and requirements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 367
Relating to: reporting by treatment programs using methadone and requiring review of prescription drug monitoring database.
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 365
Relating to: duty of law enforcement officers to report to the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program controlled-substance violations, opioid-related drug overdoses or deaths, and reports of stolen prescription drugs. (FE)
9/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 339
Relating to: eligibility for monthly subsidized guardianship payments of a person who develops a familial relationship with a child or the child's family during the child's placement in out-of-home care, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
9/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 57
Relating to: congratulating Whistling Straits, the Kohler Company, and Herbert Kohler Jr. on the 97th Annual PGA Championship.
9/3/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 326
Relating to: requiring approval by a municipal governing body before construction of highway roundabouts. (FE)
8/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 310
Relating to: family planning and preventive health services grants and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
6/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 253
Relating to: ratification of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and making appropriations. (FE)
6/2/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 43
Relating to: the life and public service of Representative Thomas Archer Lothian.
5/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 222
Relating to: photo identification cards for FoodShare recipients. (FE)
5/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 212
Relating to: acts of concealment and misrepresentations in filing for or claiming unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
5/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 32
Relating to: honoring the life and contributions of former Secretary of Administration and Chairman of the BMO Harris Bradley Center, Marc Marotta.
4/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 193
Relating to: the notification of relatives when a child is removed from the custody of the child's parent and placement of a child with a parent of a sibling of the child who has custody of the sibling.
4/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 192
Relating to: requiring certain unemployment insurance claimants to submit to drug tests, eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits following a drug test, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
4/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 191
Relating to: requiring drug testing and treatment for eligibility for certain work experience programs; requiring the Department of Health Services to request a waiver to screen and, if indicated, test and provide treatment to FoodShare employment and training participants for illegal use of a controlled substance; and making an appropriation. (FE)
3/31/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 143
Relating to: regulation of transportation network companies, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
3/26/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 114
Relating to: falsely claiming military service or honors, and providing a penalty. (FE)
3/26/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 113
Relating to: operating implements of husbandry and agricultural commercial motor vehicles on highways and transporting implements of husbandry by trailer on highways. (FE)
3/20/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 111
Relating to: inspection of certain renovations of one-family and two-family dwellings and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
3/20/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 110
Relating to: renaming the Dwelling Code Council the Uniform Dwelling Code Council and renaming the Building Code Council the Commercial Building Code Council.
3/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Resolution 6
Relating to: celebrating Saint Patrick's Day on March 17, 2015.
3/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 88
Relating to: vehicle admission receipts issued to certain members of the U.S. armed forces and to certain members of the national guard. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 78
Relating to: pupil assessments, evaluation of educator effectiveness, and school accountability reports. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 82
Relating to: instruments filed or recorded with, and fees charged by, the register of deeds. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 68
Relating to: John Doe proceedings and providing a penalty. (FE)
2/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 46
Relating to: off-duty law enforcement officers and former law enforcement officers going armed with firearms on or near school grounds.
2/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 32
Relating to: elimination of the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage. (FE)
2/9/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 27
Relating to: the maximum speed limit on freeways and expressways. (FE)
2/2/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 7
Relating to: congratulating Melvin Gordon III on his remarkable college football career with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers.
1/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 4
Relating to: honoring the service of all military working dogs.
1/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 10
Relating to: jurisdiction in matters relating to domestic abuse restraining orders and injunctions, child and at-risk adult abuse restraining orders and injunctions, and harassment restraining orders and injunctions. (FE)
2/23/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 760
Relating to: referrals for subjects of alerts for missing adults and operator's license review. (FE)
2/17/2016: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 109
Relating to: commending the ardent and remarkable service of Justice Antonin Scalia.
2/17/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 749
Relating to: report on dementia crisis unit pilot program and placement of individuals with dementia. (FE)
2/17/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 750
Relating to: dementia specialist certification program. (FE)
2/3/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 704
Relating to: participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations.
2/1/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 671
Relating to: continuing legal and judicial education on elder law-related issues. (FE)
1/27/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 643
Relating to: including a heroin metabolite in the definition of a restricted controlled substance for the purpose of chemical testing for intoxication.
1/22/2016: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 84
Relating to: proclaiming February 2016 as Black History Month.
1/15/2016: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 81
Relating to: proclaiming Friday, February 5, 2016, to be National Wear Red Day in recognition of heart disease awareness and prevention.
1/15/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 575
Relating to: official logotypes for Wisconsin veteran-owned businesses and disabled veteran-owned businesses. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 522
Relating to: opioid treatment programs. (FE)
1/6/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 507
Relating to: copies of certain vital records. (FE)
1/5/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 496
Relating to: mounting a motor vehicle monitoring device to the front windshield of a vehicle.
12/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 482
Relating to: creating a procedure for granting certificates of qualification for employment. (FE)
12/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 488
Relating to: creating a program to protect the confidentiality of addresses for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
12/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 479
Relating to: authorizing towns located in populous counties to withdraw from county zoning; requiring certain towns to enact a zoning ordinance and a comprehensive plan; removing plat and certified survey map approval authority from a county if the town in which the subdivision or land is located has withdrawn from county zoning; farmland preservation ordinances of towns that withdraw from county zoning and eligibility in those towns for the farmland preservation tax credit; and prohibiting restrictions on land that is not shoreland or that is not within a floodplain. (FE)
12/11/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 450
Relating to: animals believed to have been involved in crimes against animals, when a stray or abandoned animal may be considered unclaimed, and a court order relating to an animal taken into or held in custody. (FE)
12/3/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 409
Relating to: residency requirements for sexually violent persons on supervised release.
11/12/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 374
Relating to: registration of special interest, reconstructed, replica, or street modified vehicles and providing a penalty. (FE)
10/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 348
Relating to: registration of vehicles defined as autocycles. (FE)
10/15/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 338
Relating to: interfering with hunting, fishing, and trapping and providing criminal penalties.
10/13/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 312
Relating to: review of proposed changes to public employee group health insurance programs.
10/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 294
Relating to: reorganizing the Government Accountability Board, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (FE)
10/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 293
Relating to: behavioral health care coordination pilot projects, psychiatric consultation reimbursement pilot project, access to information on availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, and making appropriations. (FE)
10/6/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 288
Relating to: requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants and changes to the state's energy priorities policy.
10/6/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 289
Relating to: back tag requirements. (FE)
10/1/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 285
Relating to: the state civil service and making an appropriation. (FE)
9/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 268
Relating to: reporting, disclosure, and practitioner review requirements under the prescription drug monitoring program; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
9/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 269
Relating to: duty of law enforcement officers to report to the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program controlled-substance violations, opioid-related drug overdoses or deaths, and reports of stolen prescription drugs. (FE)
9/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 271
Relating to: reporting by treatment programs using methadone and requiring review of prescription drug monitoring database.
9/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 272
Relating to: pain clinic certification and requirements, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
9/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 253
Relating to: eligibility for monthly subsidized guardianship payments of a person who develops a familial relationship with a child or the child's family during the child's placement in out-of-home care, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
9/9/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 48
Relating to: congratulating Whistling Straits, the Kohler Company, and Herbert Kohler Jr. on the 97th Annual PGA Championship.
8/26/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 242
Relating to: requiring approval by a municipal governing body before construction of highway roundabouts. (FE)
8/24/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 237
Relating to: family planning and preventive health services grants and granting rule-making authority.
6/17/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 196
Relating to: ratification of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and making appropriations. (FE)
6/5/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 41
Relating to: recognizing the nineteenth day of June, 2015, as Juneteenth Day.
5/20/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 165
Relating to: tax-exempt accounts for qualified expenses incurred by individuals with disabilities and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
5/1/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 141
Relating to: the notification of relatives when a child is removed from the custody of the child's parent and placement of a child with a parent of a sibling of the child who has custody of the sibling.
5/1/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 143
Relating to: ambulance staffing by emergency medical technicians and first responders. (FE)
4/28/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 140
Relating to: acts of concealment and misrepresentations in filing for or claiming unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
4/20/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 31
Relating to: honoring the life and contributions of former Secretary of Administration and Chairman of the BMO Harris Bradley Center, Marc Marotta.
4/8/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 117
Relating to: battery and threats to a judge, a prosecutor, or a law enforcement officer and providing a criminal penalty. (FE)
3/31/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 106
Relating to: regulation of transportation network companies, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)
3/27/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 95
Relating to: falsely claiming military service or honors, and providing a penalty. (FE)
3/27/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 86
Relating to: renaming the Dwelling Code Council the Uniform Dwelling Code Council and renaming the Building Code Council the Commercial Building Code Council.
3/27/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 87
Relating to: inspection of certain renovations of one-family and two-family dwellings and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
3/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 83
Relating to: operating implements of husbandry and agricultural commercial motor vehicles on highways and transporting implements of husbandry by trailer on highways. (FE)
3/10/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 73
Relating to: instruments filed or recorded with, and fees charged by, the register of deeds. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 67
Relating to: pupil assessments, evaluation of educator effectiveness, and school accountability reports. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 70
Relating to: off-duty law enforcement officers and former law enforcement officers going armed with firearms on or near school grounds.
2/27/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 49
Relating to: elimination of the requirement that laborers, workers, mechanics, and truck drivers employed on the site of a project of public works be paid the prevailing wage. (FE)
2/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 44
Relating to: prohibiting as a condition of employment membership in a labor organization or payments to a labor organization and providing a penalty.
2/19/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 43
Relating to: John Doe proceedings and providing a penalty. (FE)
2/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 26
Relating to: the maximum speed limit on freeways and expressways. (FE)
1/30/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 7
Relating to: the life and service of Annette Polly Williams.
1/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 9
Relating to: jurisdiction in matters relating to domestic abuse restraining orders and injunctions, child abuse restraining orders and injunctions, and harassment restraining orders and injunctions. (FE)
2/16/2016: 2015 AA1-ASA1-AB517
2/11/2016: 2015 ASA1-AB517
Relating to: reporting certain crimes and other incidents that occur on school property or school transportation.
1/19/2016: 2015 AA1-ASA1-AB571
1/13/2016: 2015 ASA1-AB571
Relating to: information required on building permit forms, requiring the establishment of an electronic system for building permits, and granting rule-making authority.
1/5/2016: 2015 AA1-AB517
5/13/2015: 2015 AA1-AB111
4/7/2015: 2015 AA1-AB100
3/17/2015: 2015 ASA2-AB56
Relating to: University of Wisconsin System reports regarding remedial courses in English and mathematics.
3/10/2015: 2015 ASA1-AB56
Relating to: University of Wisconsin System reports regarding remedial courses in English and mathematics.
