Born St. Paul, Minn., November 10, 1978; married; 2 children. Graduate Clear Lake H.S. 1997; B.S. finance U. of South Florida 2001; J.D. U. of Florida 2004. Attorney. Member: Polk Co. Economic Development Corporation (secy.); National Rifle Assn.; Polk Co. Sportsmen’s Club; Wis. Bear Hunters Assn.; Apple River Fire Dept.
Elected to Assembly 2014.
(first or second author, first sponsor)
2/2/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 845
Relating to: creating a legislative committee on the oversight of law enforcement and investigation. (FE)
2/1/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 657
Relating to: adopting revisions to the state's uniform partnership law, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a criminal penalty. (FE)
1/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 837
Relating to: adopting revisions to the state's uniform partnership law, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a criminal penalty. (FE)
1/20/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 750
Relating to: eliminating the personal property tax. (FE)
1/15/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 726
Relating to: renaming, changing the membership of, and eliminating certain professional licensure boards and transferring certain functions to the Department of Safety and Professional Services and the Medical Therapy Examining Board; eliminating certain councils under the Department of Safety and Professional Services; creating the Medical Assistants Council; authorizing removal by the governor, for excessive absenteeism and other infractions, of certain members of boards under the Department of Safety and Professional Services; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/13/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 693
Relating to: disposition of the unclaimed cremated remains of veterans and their dependents. (FE)
12/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 477
Relating to: restrictions in a county shoreland zoning ordinance on activities within the shoreland setback area.
12/18/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 459
Relating to: the regulation of navigable waters and wetlands. (FE)
12/18/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 463
Relating to: duties of ski area operators and persons who bike in a ski area, and liability of ski area operators.
12/18/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 464
Relating to: government actions affecting rights to real property; the regulation of shoreland zoning; the substitution of hearing examiners in contested cases; and the property tax treatment of unoccupied property. (FE)
12/16/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 603
Relating to: restrictions in a county shoreland zoning ordinance on activities within the shoreland setback area.
12/11/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 601
Relating to: designating and marking STH 87 as the Carson Holmquist Memorial Highway. (FE)
12/11/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 447
Relating to: designating and marking STH 87 as the Carson Holmquist Memorial Highway. (FE)
12/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 600
Relating to: the regulation of navigable waters and wetlands. (FE)
12/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 596
Relating to: duties of ski area operators and persons who bike in a ski area, and liability of ski area operators.
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 582
Relating to: government actions affecting rights to real property; the regulation of shoreland zoning; the substitution of hearing examiners in contested cases; and the property tax treatment of unoccupied property. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 574
Relating to: the disclosure of electronic juvenile court records to a county department of human services or social services for purposes of providing intake and depositional services. (FE)
11/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 537
Relating to: forfeiture of property seized in relation to a crime. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 504
Relating to: the age restriction for operation of a small utility terrain vehicle.
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 523
Relating to: replacement of certain nonconforming structures that are destroyed by vandalism or certain natural forces and manufactured home communities that are nonconforming uses.
11/12/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 381
Relating to: the age restriction for operation of a small utility terrain vehicle.
11/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 483
Relating to: prevention specialist-in-training certification.
10/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 367
Relating to: decreasing auditor positions in the Department of Revenue. (FE)
10/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 358
Relating to: prevention specialist-in-training certification.
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 Senate Bill 338
Relating to: interfering with hunting, fishing, and trapping and providing criminal penalties.
10/14/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 333
Relating to: fees charged for initial credentials administered by the Department of Safety and Professional Services and its attached boards. (FE)
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 402
Relating to: decreasing auditor positions in the Department of Revenue. (FE)
10/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 392
Relating to: methods of voting by members of a cooperative.
10/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 382
Relating to: creating a legislative office of inspector general and making appropriations. (FE)
9/30/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 284
Relating to: methods of voting by members of a cooperative.
8/26/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 317
Relating to: retail licenses held by wineries.
8/26/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 321
Relating to: the school district budget summary, annual audit, and annual report.
8/20/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 234
Relating to: the school district budget summary, annual audit, and annual report.
8/5/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 223
Relating to: retail licenses held by wineries.
7/16/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 212
Relating to: closing hours for retail sales by wineries.
7/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 286
Relating to: closing hours for retail sales by wineries.
6/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 256
Relating to: restrictions applicable to persons operating a motorboat towing a person on water skis.
5/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 214
Relating to: exemptions to certain boating restrictions for operators of hydro-flight devices and operators of personal watercraft that assist in powering hydro-flight devices.
5/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 204
Relating to: repealing an air pollution rule promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources.
4/20/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 129
Relating to: school district accountability reports.
4/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 168
Relating to: rules that prohibit feeding deer in certain counties. (FE)
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 162
Relating to: school district accountability reports.
3/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 122
Relating to: exempting certain vehicles of utilities from class B highway weight limitations and certain special or seasonal weight limitations. (FE)
3/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 16
Relating to: congratulating Bruce Larson on being named the 2014 Don Shula NFL National High School Coach of the Year.
2/27/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 13
Relating to: congratulating Bruce Larson on being named the 2015 Don Shula NFL National High School Coach of the Year.
2/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 14
Relating to: congratulating Bruce Larson on being named the 2015 Don Shula NFL National High School Coach of the Year.
2/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 13
Relating to: honoring the life and public service of David Earl Paulson.
2/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 34
Relating to: approval by the Department of Corrections for international travel by persons on community supervision.
2/13/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 36
Relating to: approval by the Department of Corrections for international travel by persons on community supervision.
2/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 23
Relating to: prohibiting certain actions against financial institutions for offers, promises, agreements, or commitments that are not in writing.
1/29/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 5
Relating to: honoring the life and public service of David Earl Paulson.
2/16/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 113
Relating to: commending the ardent and remarkable service of Justice Antonin Scalia.
2/8/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 874
Relating to: replacement, reconstruction, and transfer of an approved high capacity well. (FE)
2/4/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 867
Relating to: reporting deaths; death investigations and other duties of coroners and medical examiners; disposition of bodies; creating a medicolegal investigation examining board; licensure of medical examiners and medicolegal investigation staff members; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing criminal penalties. (FE)
2/4/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 857
Relating to: the authority of the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection related to the inspection for, and abatement of, pests on properties that are not agricultural lands or agricultural business premises. (FE)
1/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 820
Relating to: duties of the Public Service Commission under the broadband expansion grant program and certification of political subdivisions under that program. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 793
Relating to: the teacher loan program. (FE)
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 789
Relating to: continuing legal and judicial education on elder law-related issues. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 772
Relating to: consolidation of various appropriations to the Department of Workforce Development for various workforce training programs into a single appropriation to that department for workforce training, restructuring of the career and technical education incentive grant program administered by that department, and making appropriations.
1/22/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 770
Relating to: burial or cremation and burial of a deceased prison inmate, cremation of an unclaimed corpse, and prohibition on cremation of an unclaimed corpse in cases of homicide. (FE)
1/20/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 756
Relating to: special registration plates associated with certain professional basketball teams and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/15/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 730
Relating to: local regulation of certain containers.
1/15/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 729
Relating to: advertising motor fuel prices by the half-gallon.
1/15/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 720
Relating to: the redemption period and notice of sale applicable to a foreclosure action involving noncommercial property and procedures regarding abandoned property in a foreclosure action.
1/8/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 663
Relating to: restitution owed to victims of crime.
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 654
Relating to: decreases in the number of Milwaukee County board supervisory districts. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 640
Relating to: regulation of aquaculture and fish farms. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 643
Relating to: compensating victims of crime. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 648
Relating to: seasonal placement of a Christmas tree in the rotunda of the state capitol building or in a church.
1/5/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 631
Relating to: the maximum height of pole traps.
1/4/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 629
Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for federal excise tax imposed on a sale of a heavy truck or trailer. (FE)
12/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 621
Relating to: expungement of deoxyribonucleic acid from crime laboratories if person not adjudicated guilty or delinquent. (FE)
12/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 623
Relating to: individual and corporate income and franchise taxes; sales and use taxes; administration of tax laws; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
12/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 614
Relating to: creating a procedure for granting certificates of qualification for employment. (FE)
12/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 608
Relating to: the sales tax imposed on ecosystem restoration services. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 583
Relating to: lodging establishments and restricting a local government's ability to prohibit or restrict a person from renting out of the person's residential dwelling. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 579
Relating to: the sale, purchase, or possession of wild game bird feathers.
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 578
Relating to: exclusion of a franchisor as the employer of a franchisee or of an employee of a franchisee. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 580
Relating to: the width and weight limits of certain motor vehicles operated on a highway. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 87
Relating to: limiting the number of terms permitted for members of the state legislature and the governor and lieutenant governor (first consideration).
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 565
Relating to: funding for the Department of Transportation and making an appropriation. (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.
12/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 568
Relating to: terminating a tenancy for criminal activity or drug-related criminal activity; disposition of personal property left in rental property by a trespasser; preexisting sprinkler ordinances that are stricter than the multifamily dwelling code; towing vehicles illegally parked on private property; terminating certain tenancies for breaches other than failure to pay rent; limitations on the authority of political subdivisions to regulate rental units, historic properties, and signs; prohibiting local governmental units from imposing real property purchase or residential real property occupancy requirements; creating a criminal penalty; and making an appropriation. (FE)
12/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 561
Relating to: taxes on managed forest lands, eligibility for the managed forest land program, management plans for managed forest land, sale or transfer of managed forest land, productivity of managed forest land, closed managed forest land, forest production areas, natural heritage inventory, wildlife action plans, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
11/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 534
Relating to: biennial budget requests of state agencies. (FE)
11/18/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 531
Relating to: lighting on vehicles in a funeral procession.
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 519
Relating to: compatible offices and positions for city, village, and town elective officeholders. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 503
Relating to: adding a circuit court branch in Calumet, Wood, Marathon, Dunn, Polk, Jackson, and Vilas counties and making an appropriation. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 518
Relating to: lines transporting manure within highway rights-of-way and providing a penalty. (FE)
11/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 481
Relating to: limitations on borrowing by school districts and the use by school districts of resolutions and referenda to authorize bonding for capital projects or increase revenue limits and scheduling of school district referendums to exceed revenue limits. (FE)
10/30/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 81
Relating to: contributions of Bart Starr.
10/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 460
Relating to: resolution of claims against the state for wrongful imprisonment of innocent persons, exempting from taxation certain amounts an individual receives from the claims board or legislature, health benefits for wrongfully imprisoned persons, and making appropriations. (FE)
10/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 457
Relating to: the method used by a county clerk to notify town clerks of certain county zoning actions. (FE)
10/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 466
Relating to: distribution of Wisconsin Blue Book and highway maps. (FE)
10/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 441
Relating to: establishing the Wisconsin Veterans Employment Initiative. (FE)
10/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 409
Relating to: the sales and use tax imposed on a jukebox. (FE)
10/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 415
Relating to: back tag requirements. (FE)
10/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 374
Relating to: real estate transfer fee returns for conveyances exempt from the fee. (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.
10/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 378
Relating to: the age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a criminal law, a civil law, or a municipal ordinance and who has not been charged with certain violent offenses, and has not, after previously being convicted of a crime or adjudicated delinquent, been charged with a crime or alleged in a complaint or citation to have violated a civil law or municipal ordinance, is subject to juvenile court jurisdiction. (FE)
10/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 380
Relating to: reports to the Department of Justice from special units maintained by law enforcement agencies. (FE)
10/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 381
Relating to: no-knock search warrants. (FE)
10/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 373
Relating to: the state civil service and making an appropriation. (FE)
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 66
Relating to: accounting and expenditure of state funds and reduction of deficit (first consideration).
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 362
Relating to: multiple county health departments. (FE)
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 361
Relating to: authorizing local government employees to participate in ancillary insurance coverage programs offered by the Group Insurance Board to state employees. (FE)
9/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 345
Relating to: sunsetting the individual income tax deduction for expense allowances that may be claimed by certain state legislators. (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.
9/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 59
Relating to: commemorating the 160th anniversary of Miller Brewing Company in the state of Wisconsin.
9/3/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 330
Relating to: prohibiting the Department of Transportation from installing certain equipment on highways. (FE)
8/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 313
Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for building materials that become a part of a facility for a local unit of government or nonprofit organization. (FE)
8/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 310
Relating to: family planning and preventive health services grants and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
8/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 311
Relating to: billing the Medical Assistance program for prescription drugs by certain entities. (FE)
8/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 305
Relating to: sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a criminal penalty.
8/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 303
Relating to: prohibiting the Department of Workforce Development from requiring a job seeker to furnish his or her social security number to that department as a precondition to using the services of the job center network, including using the job center network Internet site. (FE)
8/6/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 296
Relating to: distributing excess sales tax revenue collected by a local professional football stadium district to Brown County and the municipalities within Brown County and making an appropriation. (FE)
7/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 290
Relating to: imposing residence restrictions on certain sex offenders, establishing conditions of release from civil commitment for certain sex offenders, and providing a criminal penalty. (FE)
7/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 289
Relating to: exempting out-of-state emergency medical services personnel from licensure requirements.
6/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 253
Relating to: ratification of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact and making appropriations. (FE)
6/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 251
Relating to: various changes regarding administrative rules and rule-making procedures; time limits for emergency rules; and making an appropriation. (FE)
6/2/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 44
Relating to: the life and service of Wisconsin State Trooper Trevor Casper.
6/2/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 43
Relating to: the life and public service of Representative Thomas Archer Lothian.
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)
5/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 222
Relating to: photo identification cards for FoodShare recipients. (FE)
5/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 225
Relating to: unattended decoys left in water.
5/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 232
Relating to: donation of abandoned or seized vehicles.
5/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 233
Relating to: elimination of sick leave for state senators and representatives to the assembly. (FE)
5/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 226
Relating to: audits and interest rates on past due amounts. (FE)
5/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 213
Relating to: ambulance staffing by emergency medical technicians and first responders. (FE)
5/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 212
Relating to: acts of concealment and misrepresentations in filing for or claiming unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
5/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 34
Relating to: declaring May 14 to be Apraxia Awareness Day.
5/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 199
Relating to: publication of certain legal notices on an Internet site maintained by a municipality. (FE)
4/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 170
Relating to: regulating the use of vapor products.
4/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 190
Relating to: continuing education requirements for persons who perform electrical work, licensing and registration requirements for certain experienced electricians, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
4/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 165
Relating to: town zoning ordinances affecting shorelands.
3/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Resolution 6
Relating to: celebrating Saint Patrick's Day on March 17, 2015.
3/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 97
Relating to: federalizing the treatment of capital losses. (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 81
Relating to: modifying and repealing rules promulgated by the Department of Financial Institutions and the Department of Revenue relating to documents filed with county registers of deeds.
3/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 77
Relating to: certification cards to carry concealed weapons for residents of Wisconsin who formerly were employed as law enforcement officers in another state and successor law enforcement agencies to assume responsibility of issuing certification cards to carry concealed weapons to former officers. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 68
Relating to: John Doe proceedings and providing a penalty. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 75
Relating to: eligibility for a license to carry a concealed weapon for a member of the U.S. armed forces stationed in Wisconsin.
2/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 56
Relating to: University of Wisconsin System reports regarding remedial courses in English and mathematics.
2/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 58
Relating to: responding to a request for an absentee ballot.
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)
2/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 49
Relating to: waiting period for handgun purchases.
2/9/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 27
Relating to: the maximum speed limit on freeways and expressways. (FE)
2/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 24
Relating to: variable rate loans.
2/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 25
Relating to: regulating air pollution from residential and commercial wood heaters. (FE)
1/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 5
Relating to: deleting from the constitution the office of state treasurer (first consideration).
1/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 4
Relating to: honoring the service of all military working dogs.
1/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 11
Relating to: the newspaper recycling fee and the recycled content of newsprint used in newspapers. (FE)
1/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 13
Relating to: the return of a seized firearm to the person who owns the firearm. (FE)
1/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 1
Relating to: a school review system, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
2/23/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 765
Relating to: eliminating the personal property tax. (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)
2/9/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 712
Relating to: reporting deaths; death investigations and other duties of coroners and medical examiners; disposition of bodies; creating a medicolegal investigation examining board; licensure of medical examiners and medicolegal investigation staff members; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing criminal penalties. (FE)
2/3/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 703
Relating to: the teacher loan program. (FE)
2/1/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 671
Relating to: continuing legal and judicial education on elder law-related issues. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 639
Relating to: creating a legislative committee on the oversight of law enforcement and investigation. (FE)
1/22/2016: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 84
Relating to: proclaiming February 2016 as Black History Month.
1/22/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 629
Relating to: the redemption period and notice of sale applicable to a foreclosure action involving noncommercial property and procedures regarding abandoned property in a foreclosure action.
1/22/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 601
Relating to: local regulation of certain containers.
1/22/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 596
Relating to: consolidation of various appropriations to the Department of Workforce Development for various workforce training programs into a single appropriation to that department for workforce training, restructuring of the career and technical education incentive grant program administered by that department, and making appropriations.
1/15/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 581
Relating to: compatible offices and positions for city, village, and town elective officeholders. (FE)
1/15/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 585
Relating to: burial or cremation and burial of a deceased prison inmate, cremation of an unclaimed corpse, and prohibition on cremation of an unclaimed corpse in cases of homicide. (FE)
1/15/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 587
Relating to: advertising motor fuel prices by the half-gallon.
1/13/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 568
Relating to: renaming, changing the membership of, and eliminating certain professional licensure boards and transferring certain functions to the Department of Safety and Professional Services and the Medical Therapy Examining Board; eliminating certain councils under the Department of Safety and Professional Services; creating the Medical Assistants Council; authorizing removal by the governor, for excessive absenteeism and other infractions, of certain members of boards under the Department of Safety and Professional Services; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/12/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 550
Relating to: special registration plates associated with certain professional basketball teams and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 518
Relating to: disposition of the unclaimed cremated remains of veterans and their dependents. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 521
Relating to: forfeiture of property seized in relation to a crime. (FE)
1/6/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 503
Relating to: individual and corporate income and franchise taxes; sales and use taxes; administration of tax laws; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
1/6/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 506
Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for federal excise tax imposed on a sale of a heavy truck or trailer. (FE)
1/6/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 510
Relating to: compensating victims of crime. (FE)
1/6/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 500
Relating to: restitution owed to victims of crime.
1/4/2016: 2015 Senate Bill 493
Relating to: regulation of aquaculture and fish farms. (FE)
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 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)
12/10/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 446
Relating to: lodging establishments and restricting a local government's ability to prohibit or restrict a person from renting out of the person's residential dwelling. (FE)
12/10/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 445
Relating to: terminating a tenancy for criminal activity or drug-related criminal activity; disposition of personal property left in rental property by a trespasser; preexisting sprinkler ordinances that are stricter than the multifamily dwelling code; towing vehicles illegally parked on private property; terminating certain tenancies for breaches other than failure to pay rent; limitations on the authority of political subdivisions to regulate rental units, historic properties, and signs; prohibiting local governmental units from imposing real property purchase or residential real property occupancy requirements; creating a criminal penalty; and making an appropriation. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 75
Relating to: limiting the number of terms permitted for members of the state legislature and the governor and lieutenant governor (first consideration).
12/7/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 443
Relating to: the sales tax imposed on ecosystem restoration services. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 435
Relating to: the sale, purchase, or possession of wild game bird feathers.
12/7/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 434
Relating to: taxes on managed forest lands, eligibility for the managed forest land program, management plans for managed forest land, sale or transfer of managed forest land, productivity of managed forest land, closed managed forest land, forest production areas, natural heritage inventory, wildlife action plans, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
12/3/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 422
Relating to: exclusion of a franchisor as the employer of a franchisee or of an employee of a franchisee. (FE)
12/3/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 403
Relating to: replacement of certain nonconforming structures that are destroyed by vandalism or certain natural forces and manufactured home communities that are nonconforming uses.
12/3/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 426
Relating to: the disclosure of electronic juvenile court records to a county department of human services or social services for purposes of providing intake and depositional services. (FE)
12/3/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 407
Relating to: biennial budget requests of state agencies. (FE)
12/3/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 411
Relating to: funding for the Department of Transportation and making an appropriation. (FE)
12/3/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 417
Relating to: the width and weight limits of certain motor vehicles operated on a highway. (FE)
11/20/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 400
Relating to: lighting on vehicles in a funeral procession.
11/20/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 399
Relating to: prohibiting certain law enforcement practices or policies.
11/12/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 380
Relating to: adding a circuit court branch in Calumet, Wood, Marathon, Dunn, Polk, Jackson, and Vilas counties and making an appropriation. (FE)
11/12/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 390
Relating to: lines transporting manure within highway rights-of-way and providing a penalty. (FE)
11/2/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 69
Relating to: contributions of Bart Starr.
10/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 368
Relating to: creating a legislative office of inspector general and making appropriations. (FE)
10/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 355
Relating to: limitations on borrowing by school districts and the use by school districts of resolutions and referenda to authorize bonding for capital projects or increase revenue limits and scheduling of school district referendums to exceed revenue limits. (FE)
10/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 348
Relating to: registration of vehicles defined as autocycles. (FE)
10/19/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 343
Relating to: distribution of Wisconsin Blue Book and highway maps. (FE)
10/15/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 339
Relating to: establishing the Wisconsin Veterans Employment Initiative. (FE)
10/14/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 322
Relating to: resolution of claims against the state for wrongful imprisonment of innocent persons, exempting from taxation certain amounts an individual receives from the claims board or legislature, health benefits for wrongfully imprisoned persons, and making appropriations. (FE)
10/14/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 313
Relating to: the method used by a county clerk to notify town clerks of certain county zoning actions. (FE)
10/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 306
Relating to: multiple county health departments. (FE)
10/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 297
Relating to: reports to the Department of Justice from special units maintained by law enforcement agencies. (FE)
10/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 296
Relating to: no-knock search warrants. (FE)
10/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 300
Relating to: the sales and use tax imposed on a jukebox. (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)
9/30/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 279
Relating to: real estate transfer fee returns for conveyances exempt from the fee. (FE)
9/30/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 280
Relating to: the age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a criminal law, a civil law, or a municipal ordinance and who has not been charged with certain violent offenses, and has not, after previously being convicted of a crime or adjudicated delinquent, been charged with a crime or alleged in a complaint or citation to have violated a civil law or municipal ordinance, is subject to juvenile court jurisdiction. (FE)
9/30/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 278
Relating to: authorizing local government employees to participate in ancillary insurance coverage programs offered by the Group Insurance Board to state employees. (FE)
9/29/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 55
Relating to: accounting and expenditure of state funds and reduction of deficit (first consideration).
9/18/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 260
Relating to: sale and use of fetal body parts and providing a criminal penalty.
9/11/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 255
Relating to: sunsetting the individual income tax deduction for expense allowances that may be claimed by certain state legislators. (FE)
9/11/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 49
Relating to: commemorating the 160th anniversary of Miller Brewing Company in the state of Wisconsin.
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 239
Relating to: replacement, reconstruction, and transfer of an approved high capacity well. (FE)
8/24/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 238
Relating to: billing the Medical Assistance program for prescription drugs by certain entities. (FE)
8/24/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 237
Relating to: family planning and preventive health services grants and granting rule-making authority.
8/20/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 233
Relating to: distributing excess sales tax revenue collected by a local professional football stadium district to Brown County and the municipalities within Brown County and making an appropriation. (FE)
8/11/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 227
Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for building materials that become a part of a facility for a local unit of government or nonprofit organization. (FE)
7/28/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 219
Relating to: prohibiting the Department of Workforce Development from requiring a job seeker to furnish his or her social security number to that department as a precondition to using the services of the job center network, including using the job center network Internet site. (FE)
7/16/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 210
Relating to: exempting out-of-state emergency medical services personnel from licensure requirements.
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.
6/2/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 40
Relating to: the life and service of Wisconsin State Trooper Trevor Casper.
5/29/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 183
Relating to: elimination of sick leave for state senators and representatives to the assembly. (FE)
5/27/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 180
Relating to: restrictions applicable to persons operating a motorboat towing a person on water skis.
5/21/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 168
Relating to: various changes regarding administrative rules and rule-making procedures; time limits for emergency rules; and making an appropriation. (FE)
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)
5/14/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 153
Relating to: donation of abandoned or seized vehicles.
5/14/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 37
Relating to: declaring May 14 to be Apraxia Awareness Day.
5/5/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 147
Relating to: unattended decoys left in water.
5/1/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 143
Relating to: ambulance staffing by emergency medical technicians and first responders. (FE)
5/1/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 144
Relating to: repealing an air pollution rule promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources.
4/28/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 140
Relating to: acts of concealment and misrepresentations in filing for or claiming unemployment insurance benefits. (FE)
4/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 137
Relating to: publication of certain legal notices on an Internet site maintained by a municipality. (FE)
4/20/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 127
Relating to: variable rate loans.
4/20/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 132
Relating to: regulating the use of vapor products.
4/8/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 113
Relating to: town zoning ordinances affecting shorelands.
3/27/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 103
Relating to: prohibiting certain actions against financial institutions for offers, promises, agreements, or commitments that are not in writing.
3/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 80
Relating to: exempting certain vehicles of utilities from class B highway weight limitations and certain special or seasonal weight limitations. (FE)
3/23/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 81
Relating to: limiting the authority of a city, village, town, or county to create new occupational licenses or fees or to continue to regulate certain professions. (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 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 59
Relating to: University of Wisconsin System reports regarding remedial courses in English and mathematics.
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)
2/27/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 47
Relating to: responding to a request for an absentee ballot.
2/13/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 35
Relating to: waiting period for handgun purchases.
2/9/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 26
Relating to: the maximum speed limit on freeways and expressways. (FE)
2/5/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 23
Relating to: regulating air pollution from residential and commercial wood heaters. (FE)
1/30/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 7
Relating to: the life and service of Annette Polly Williams.
1/28/2015: 2015 Senate Joint Resolution 4
Relating to: deleting from the constitution the office of state treasurer (first consideration).
1/22/2015: 2015 Senate Bill 7
Relating to: the newspaper recycling fee and the recycled content of newsprint used in newspapers. (FE)
2/18/2016: 2015 AA2-SB546
2/9/2016: 2015 AA1-ASA2-AB600
2/8/2016: 2015 AA1-ASA2-AB582
2/4/2016: 2015 AA1-AA2-AB603
1/29/2016: 2015 ASA2-AB600
Relating to: the regulation of navigable waters and wetlands.
1/22/2016: 2015 ASA1-AB600
Relating to: the regulation of navigable waters and wetlands.
1/19/2016: 2015 ASA2-AB582
Relating to: government actions affecting rights to real property; the regulation of shoreland zoning; the contents of an economic impact analysis of a proposed administrative rule; the substitution of hearing examiners in Department of Natural Resources and Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection contested cases; the standard for judicial review of a state agency action or decision affecting a property owner's use of the owner's property; and the property tax treatment of unoccupied property.
1/19/2016: 2015 AA2-AB603
1/14/2016: 2015 AA1-AB596
1/4/2016: 2015 ASA1-AB582
Relating to: government actions affecting rights to real property; the regulation of shoreland zoning; the substitution of hearing examiners in contested cases; and the property tax treatment of unoccupied property.
6/9/2015: 2015 AA3-AB220
5/11/2015: 2015 ASA1-AB92
Relating to: penalties for violations related to the motor vehicle liability insurance requirement, proof of financial responsibility, and providing a penalty.
4/29/2015: 2015 AA2-AB92
3/18/2015: 2015 AA2-AB23
3/3/2015: 2015 AA1-AJR14
2/24/2015: 2015 AA1-AB23