2015 Senate Authors

Immigration status: prohibiting local ordinance, resolution, or policy that prohibits inquiries of individuals legally detained or arrested or assisting units of government with enforcement; writ of mandamus provision and reduction of shared revenue payments for failure to comply - AB450

Immigration status: prohibiting local ordinance, resolution, or policy that prohibits inquiries of individuals legally detained or arrested or assisting units of government with enforcement; writ of mandamus provision and reduction of shared revenue payments for failure to comply - SB369

Interstate Voter Registration Data Crosscheck Program: chief election officer required to enter into the agreement - AB189

Invasion of privacy crime created re installing or using device to view under a person's clothing without consent - SB4

Knowledge and concepts examination: pupil's parent or guardian may opt out of any such exam; certain DPI report revision; requiring summary about exams posted to schools' Internet sites - SB193

Legislative Office of Inspector General created, JCLO to appoint each inspector general; reports required; state agencies, LAB, and DOJ duties; offices of inspector general in DCF and DHS eliminated - AB382

Legislative Office of Inspector General created, JCLO to appoint each inspector general; reports required; state agencies, LAB, and DOJ duties; offices of inspector general in DCF and DHS eliminated - SB368

Lothian, Thomas Archer: life and public service - AJR43

LPG retailers required to obtain commercial general liability insurance; surety bond and letter of credit options eliminated - SB547

Making a terrorist threat made a felony, conditions specified - SB256

Motor vehicle insurance and proof of financial responsibility requirements: penalties for violations revised; DOT duties; fraud and recovery of noneconomic damages provisions - AB92

Motor vehicle liability insurance and proof of financial responsibility: requirements and penalties for violations revised; certain religious sects allowed to qualify as self-insurers for the purposes of motor vehicle liability insurance; DOT duties - SB638

Political contributions: reporting principal place of employment of individual contributors revised - AB176

Political subdivisions may not impose new occupational fee or licensing requirements on any profession, exception provided - SB81

Private detective continuing education requirements; DSPS duties - SB460

Project plan financial accountability provisions that apply to certain TIDs to apply to all TIDs created by a city or village after a set date - SB263

Property rights regulation revisions re local government restrictions on sale, purchase, development, or occupancy of real property and individual notice requirements; vested rights; shoreland zoning; resolution of challenge to zoning restrictions; supermajority vote to down zone a property; property tax treatment of undeveloped land; and contested case hearings - SB464

Public school changing rooms: school board required to designate for the exclusive use by pupils of one sex; definitions, reasonable accommodation for pupils who identify as a member of the opposite sex, and complaint provisions - AB469

Public school changing rooms: school board required to designate for the exclusive use by pupils of one sex; definitions, reasonable accommodation for pupils who identify as a member of the opposite sex, gender neutral restrooms, and complaint provisions - SB582

Register of deeds: revisions re instruments filed or recorded with and fees - SB73

Regulation of navigable waters, artificial water bodies, wetlands, and nonpoint source pollution revised; DNR duties - SB459

Right turn on red traffic signal permitted from leftmost right-turn lane - SB319

Robotics competition participation: DPI to award grants to teams of pupils in grades 9 to 12 - AB665

Robotics competition participation: DPI to award grants to teams of pupils in grades 9 to 12 - SB583

Seasonal placement of a Christmas tree in the Capitol rotunda or a church: prohibiting promulgation or enforcement of a DSPS rule and enactment or enforcement of an ordinance re fire safety - AB648

Seized firearm: procedure for returning to person who owns the firearm revised - AB13

Small claims actions: interest rate on judgments revised - AB95

Small claims actions: interest rate on judgments revised - SB76

State prevailing wage law, local prevailing wage law, and highway prevailing wage law eliminated - SB49

Town meeting to direct a town board to change the number of commissioners on a town sanitary district commission authorized under certain conditions - AB706

Town meeting to direct a town board to change the number of commissioners on a town sanitary district commission authorized under certain conditions - SB486

UI law changes re recovery of employer UI debt under the federal Treasury Offset Program, work-share programs, and combined-wage claim determinations - AB416

UI law changes re recovery of employer UI debt under the federal Treasury Offset Program, work-share programs, and combined-wage claim determinations - SB341

UI law: unemployment program integrity fund sunset repealed; concurrent receipt of UI and SSDI or WC modified; administrative and judicial review of UI decisions; and various other changes - AB819

UI law: unemployment program integrity fund sunset repealed; concurrent receipt of UI and SSDI or WC modified; administrative and judicial review of UI decisions; and various other changes - SB684

Vapor products: restrictions on use established; definition and ordinance provisions - AB170

Vapor products: restrictions on use established; definition and ordinance provisions - SB132

Vodenlich, John: commended on receiving the 2015 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s Baseball Coach of the Year award - SJR44

WC law revisions re general coverage, payment of benefits, hearing and procedures, and program administration; self-insurer provisions; DWD, LIRC, DHA, and DOJ duties - AB724

WC law revisions re general coverage, payment of benefits, hearing and procedures, and program administration; self-insurer provisions; DWD, LIRC, DHA, and DOJ duties - SB536

Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission: DOT to award grant from freight rail infrastructure improvement program for bridge repair - AB738

Wisconsin Wing Civil Air Patrol Month: December 2016 proclaimed as - SR10

Other proposals authored or co-authored by Nass, Sen. Stephen (11th Sen.Dist.; R)

Senate Bills: 9, 20, 23, 35, 43, 47, 59, 67, 74, 84, 86, 89, 90, 97, 106, 121, 122, 131, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 155, 156, 179, 212, 213, 219, 238, 242, 260, 276, 278, 285, 290, 294, 303, 308, 322, 343, 363, 371, 386, 401, 419, 438, 443, 452, 453, 455, 467, 479, 485, 499, 502, 504, 527, 533, 573, 584, 585, 589, 590, 622, 643, 697, 707, 765

Senate Joint Resolutions: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 17, 21, 31, 33, 34, 40, 42, 48, 50, 55, 59, 66, 72, 79, 88, 90, 109

Senate Resolutions: 7, 11, 12

Assembly Bills: 8, 10, 25, 30, 32, 44, 47, 49, 56, 58, 68, 71, 75, 82, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 110, 111, 114, 116, 120, 141, 143, 164, 169, 172, 174, 177, 197, 199, 200, 202, 203, 206, 207, 212, 213, 219, 220, 226, 237, 239, 240, 251, 259, 268, 269, 285, 286, 303, 305, 311, 326, 341, 349, 352, 353, 356, 357, 361, 368, 373, 386, 388, 403, 407, 425, 445, 446, 447, 452, 460, 466, 480, 513, 533, 536, 549, 557, 562, 563, 566, 582, 592, 600, 602, 606, 608, 610, 638, 641, 658, 669, 694, 698, 707, 716, 723, 739, 750, 760, 770, 782, 807, 838, 846, 868, 876, 947

Assembly Joint Resolutions: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 22, 31, 32, 33, 37, 39, 44, 47, 57, 66, 68, 77, 82, 84, 95, 97, 103, 106, 113

1214 Olsen, Sen. Luther (14th Sen.Dist.; R)

Achievement Gap Reduction (AGR) program: various changes re 2015 WisAct 53 - AB287

Achievement Gap Reduction (AGR) program: various changes re 2015 WisAct 53 - SB254

American Red Cross Month: March 2015 proclaimed as - AJR18

American Red Cross Month: March 2015 proclaimed as - SJR18

Assessed value of each major class of property of a taxation district: in reevaluation process, removing requirement that assessment staff attend an assessor education program prior to DOR appointing someone to assist staff; definition of ``major class of property” modified - AB576

Assessed value of each major class of property of a taxation district: in reevaluation process, removing requirement that assessment staff attend an assessor education program prior to DOR appointing someone to assist staff; definition of ``major class of property” modified - SB430

Assessor’s certification: DOR authority to suspend - AB577

Assessor’s certification: DOR authority to suspend - SB431

Birth parent whose rights were terminated: if deceased, DCF may disclose identity under certain conditions; procedure for biological parent to obtain identifying information about his or her child; requests for genetic or medical information about the birth parent does not require a physician’s statement, deceased birth parent and offspring is under age 18 provision - AB513

Birth parent whose rights were terminated: if deceased, DCF may disclose identity under certain conditions; procedure for biological parent to obtain identifying information about his or her child; requests for genetic or medical information about the birth parent does not require a physician’s statement, deceased birth parent and offspring is under age 18 provision - SB386

Brain Injury Awareness Month: March 2016 recognized as - SJR94

Broadband expansion grant program funding modified - SB519

Building permit form for one- and two-family dwellings revised and annual report from political subdivisions to DSPS required - AB571

Building permit form for one- and two-family dwellings revised and annual report from political subdivisions to DSPS required - SB458

Camping units: DSPS directed to include separate standards for in the dwelling code, electrical code, and plumbing code - AB121

Camping units: DSPS directed to include separate standards for in the dwelling code, electrical code, and plumbing code - SB94

Certificate of self-insurance issued to a religious sect can be used in lieu of motor vehicle liability insurance re proof of financial responsibility and liability insurance requirements - AB649

Certificate of self-insurance issued to a religious sect can be used in lieu of motor vehicle liability insurance re proof of financial responsibility and liability insurance requirements - SB534

Charitable organizations, professional fund-raisers, fund-raising counsel, and professional employer organizations: registration and other requirements revised; DFI rules modified [Admin.Code DFI-Bkg 60.01, 60.02, 60.03, 60.04, 60.05, 60.06, 60.07, 60.075, 60.08] - SB631

Child safety restraint system requirements modified re rear-facing car seat - AB400

Child safety restraint system requirements modified re rear-facing car seat - SB332

Child sex trafficking crime expanded; child abuse definition and investigation, and juvenile court orders provisions - SB618

Civics exam as condition for high school diploma, independent audit of private schools participating in a parental choice program, and school and school district accountability reports: requirements created in 2015 WisAct 55 modified - AB828

Civics exam as condition for high school diploma, independent audit of private schools participating in a parental choice program, and school and school district accountability reports: requirements created in 2015 WisAct 55 modified - SB640

Coroner and medical examiner service fees: moratorium expanded and exception created re an intergovernmental cooperation agreement - SB531

Crime victim restitution revisions re Corr.Dept authority to charge a reimbursement fee, garnishment of a defendant’s wages, and certification to DOR of restitution owed; reports required - AB663

Crime victim restitution revisions re Corr.Dept authority to charge a reimbursement fee, garnishment of a defendant’s wages, and certification to DOR of restitution owed; reports required - SB500

Deaf History Month: March 2016 proclaimed as - SJR100

Declaration of domestic partnership maximum additional fee within 5 days of application modified and legal status required to be completed within 30 days; county clerk requirement revised re providing information on fetal alcohol syndrome and dangers of using drugs while pregnant - AB573

Declaration of domestic partnership maximum additional fee within 5 days of application modified and legal status required to be completed within 30 days; county clerk requirement revised re providing information on fetal alcohol syndrome and dangers of using drugs while pregnant - SB465

Dementia crisis unit: DHS to report re individuals with dementia in crisis situations and propose a pilot program - AB786

Dementia crisis unit: DHS to report re individuals with dementia in crisis situations and propose a pilot program - SB749

Dementia specialist certification program created; DHS duties - AB785

Dementia specialist certification program created; DHS duties - SB750

Dietetic internship program established under the WIC program; DHS duties - SB402

DNR permits re high-voltage transmission construction and relocation of utility facility as condition of certain general permits; one-call system requirements, violations, complaints, and enforcement, PSC duties; sulfur dioxide compliance plan, certain DNR determinations, and certain PSC variance eliminated; PSC assessment authority; funding for energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; PSC approval of public utility contracts with affiliated interests; PSC authority re local access and transport areas for telephone service and complaints re railroad telecommunications service - SB654

Donate Life Month: April 2015 proclaimed as - AJR22

Donate Life Month: April 2015 proclaimed as - SJR25

Donation of abandoned or seized vehicles to nonprofit organization by municipality, county, or law enforcement agency allowed - SB153

DOT rules: technical changes and revisions re Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act, evaluation of major highway projects, recreational vehicle dealers, motor vehicle rental companies, design of handicapped parking signs, and electronic signatures for ID card applications for certain parking privileges [Admin.Code Trans 28.04, 28.06, 28.07, 28.09, 31.02, 31.03, 31.04, 55.02, 55.06, 56.04, 56.05, 57.04, 100.01, 100.03, 100.07, 100.08, 100.10, 100.18, 106.02, 106.03, 113 (title), 113.01, 113.03, 113.04, 118.01, 118.03, 118.04, 118.05, 118.06, 118.07, 118.08, 118.09, 118.10, 118.11, 118.12, 118.13, 118.14, 130.03, 131.01, 131.02, 131.03, 131.07, 131.08, 131.11, 131.15, 142.07, 145, 146.04, 157.05, 175.09, 178.03, 200.07, 206.03, 207.02, 210 (title), 210.01, 210.02, 210.03, 210.05, 210.06, 210.065, 210.07, 210.08, 233.08, 233.11, 252.06, 253.01, 253.02, 253.04, 253.045, 253.05, 253.06, 253.065, 310.01, 310.04, 310.05, 315.01, 315.03, 400.03 (note), 400.04, 400.05, 400.06, 400.07, 400.08, 400.09, 400.10, 400.11, 400.12, 400.13, 400.14, 401.04, 510.08] - SB360