Senate

Plastic bags: retailers may not provide to customers unless they are compostable or reusable -  AB813

Plastic bags: retailers may not provide to customers unless they are compostable or reusable -  SB451

Prevailing wage rate determination by DWD: collecting data from public works contractors and subcontractors and certain labor organizations -  SB526

Principal homesteads of individuals: exception from ``uniformity clause". Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR18

Products containing mercury, including fever thermometers, manometers, thermostats, and switches: sales regulated; DATCP authority and exception provisions  - SB346

Recycling fee increased; local governmental recycling assistance program funding increased and distribution modified - AB76

Recycling fee increased; local governmental recycling assistance program funding increased and distribution modified - SB29

Renewable motor vehicle fuels: sale of; definitions and DATCP duties -  SB380

Renewable resource facility: school board authorized to construct or acquire; use energy for school district facilities or sell at wholesale -  AB625

Renewable resource facility: school board authorized to construct or acquire; use energy for school district facilities or sell at wholesale -  SB358

Revenue limits for school districts increased re school safety and security measures -  AB626

Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act: urging U.S. Congress to pass and the President to enact  - SR9

School levy property tax credit and lottery and gaming property tax credit distribution revised - AB77

Slow-no-wake restriction within 100 ft. of lake shoreline for motorboats created, exception for water skiing; local governments may pass an ordinance exempting motorboats from this restriction -  SB385

Sovereign status of federally recognized American Indian tribes and bands: state recognition affirmed; state agencies, departments, and future governors provision  - SJR97

Streamlined sales and use tax agreement: substantive provisions adopted -  SB446

Town sanitary district commissioners: right of recall expanded to include -  AB82

Vehicle or vehicle combination operating under a Michigan border permit: allowing transport of wood chips or forestry biomass and operation on certain portion of USH 2 in Bayfield County -  AB414

Vehicle or vehicle combination operating under a Michigan border permit: allowing transport of wood chips or forestry biomass and operation on certain portion of USH 2 in Bayfield County -  SB209

Video display devices: recycling requirements; manufacturers, collectors, and recyclers to register with and report to DNR; landfill ban, audits, state purchasing, and other electronic devices provisions -  SB397

WRS creditable military service provisions revised re federal retirement benefits, returning to any WRS employer, and when the participant served -  AB43

WRS creditable military service provisions revised re federal retirement benefits, returning to any WRS employer, and when the participant served -  SB19

Other proposals coauthored or cosponsored by Sen. Jauch:

Senate Bills: 63, 89, 99, 129, 130, 171, 178, 181, 197, 217, 224, 353, 367, 381, 436, 487, 500, 509

Senate Joint Resolutions: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 41, 42, 43, 49, 52, 62, 63, 64, 66, 74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 85, 86, 94, 100

Senate Resolutions: 12

Senate Petitions:

Assembly Bills: 24, 83, 122, 217, 231, 250, 274, 298, 353, 377, 396, 417, 425, 455, 682, 726, 751, 756, 793, 821, 826

Assembly Joint Resolutions: 6, 8, 10, 53, 68, 76, 82, 86, 88, 105, 110, 113

S33 Kanavas, Sen. Ted (33rd Sen.Dist.; Rep.)

Arbitration between video programmer and cable or satellite television system operators -  SB343

Ballot printing in first class cities: limit changed to 200 percent of votes cast in the most recent corresponding election  - SB201

Biennial budget bill preparation and consideration revisions re state agency budget requests, biennial state agency modification report, earmark transparency report, JCF, Senate, and Assembly consideration of the bill  - SB414

Biennial state budget report prepared by the DOA Secretary: content requirements modified -  AB514

Biennial state budget report prepared by the DOA Secretary: content requirements modified -  SB270

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

Early stage seed and angel investment credits: excluded from taxable income for income and franchise tax purposes, total amount allowed to claim revised, Comm.Dept certification of businesses modified -  SB334

Early stage seed and angel investment credits: total amount allowed to claim revised; Comm.Dept certification of businesses modified -  AB598

Early stage seed and bona fide angel investment income and franchise tax credit limits revised  - AB557

Early stage seed and bona fide angel investment income and franchise tax credit limits revised  - SB293

Early stage seed investment credits claimed by insurers for license fees on insurance companies allowed; maximum amount of angel investments increased; technology commercialization grants and loans funding through Comm.Dept  - SB501

Eligible innovation project or project facility: income and franchise tax credits created re costs for creating and maintaining or operating; Comm.Dept and definition provisions  - AB696

Eligible innovation project or project facility: income and franchise tax credits created re costs for creating and maintaining or operating; Comm.Dept and definition provisions  - SB74

Film production company income and franchise tax credits: beginning taxable date modified - AB56

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

Film production company income and franchise tax credits: transfer to other taxpayers allowed; claiming salary or wages for employees who are nonresidents permitted under certain conditions -  SB556

FTE positions authorized in state government limited; DOA Secretary duties specified -  SB164

Greek Independence: 186th anniversary celebrated March 25, 2007 -  SJR25

``Green data center" designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact: income and franchise tax credit created re costs of construction or operation  - AB614

Green data center: income and franchise tax credits created; definition provision -  SB73

Group health benefit plan definition modified; OCI report required -  AB807

Group health benefit plan definition modified; OCI report required -  SB484

Health care coverage for employees covered by MERA: collective bargaining prohibited; GIB and OCI provisions  - SB46

Health care plan or self-insured health plan required to disclose certain information re coverage and costs to insured or enrollee upon request; payments a health care provider may accept from uninsured or patient without public coverage restricted, disclosure of certain information required; DHFS duties and emergency rule provisions -  AB872

Health care services: people have a right to contract privately for and purchase private health care coverage; law requiring participation in a state-sponsored system or plan prohibited. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration)  - AJR106

Health care services: people have a right to contract privately for and purchase private health care coverage; law requiring participation in a state-sponsored system or plan prohibited. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration)  - SJR99

Identification requirement for voting in elections: at time of registration, electors may choose to be required to provide; absentee and provisional ballot provisions  - AB549

Identification requirement for voting in elections: at time of registration, electors may choose to be required to provide; absentee and provisional ballot provisions  - SB200

Income tax exclusion created for the amount of capital gain that is invested in a Wisconsin business, conditions and definition provisions -  AB671

Income tax exclusion created for the amount of capital gain that is invested in a Wisconsin business, conditions and definition provisions -  SB347

Indian gaming establishment re proposed location on certain Indian lands: Governor may not concur with U.S. Secretary of the Interior's decision unless the legislature first concurs by joint resolution -  AB205

Individual income tax rates of taxation modified -  AB190

Individual income tax rates of taxation modified -  SB58

Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund moneys may not be transferred for any purpose not stated under current law before set date -  SB190

Internet access services exempt from telecommunications services definition for sales and use tax purposes  - SB113

Lay witness and expert witness testimony or evidence modifications -  AB121

Lay witness and expert witness testimony or evidence modifications -  SB60

Manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and promoters of products may be held liable if injured party proves the specific product or chemically identical product that caused the injury was manufactured, distributed, sold, or promoted by the defendant, in addition to other considerations; time limit provision - AB128

Manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and promoters of products may be held liable if injured party proves the specific product or chemically identical product that caused the injury was manufactured, distributed, sold, or promoted by the defendant, in addition to other considerations  - SB61

Nanoscience positions and equipment at U.W. Eau Claire, U.W. Stout, and Chippewa Valley Technical College: appropriations increased -  AB609

Nanoscience positions and equipment at U.W. Eau Claire, U.W. Stout, and Chippewa Valley Technical College: appropriations increased -  SB333

Nanotechnology: income and franchise tax credits created re certain related expenses -  AB635

Nanotechnology: income and franchise tax credits created re certain related expenses -  SB139

Person injured by manufactured product: criteria established re liability of manufacturer, distributor, or seller  - AB147

Person injured by manufactured product: criteria established re liability of manufacturer, distributor, or seller  - SB59

Research conducted in this state: corporate income and franchise tax credits for certain expenses; property tax, sales tax, and use tax exemptions for machinery and tangible personal property re manufacturing or biotechnology research  - SB499

``Ronald Reagan Day" recognized February 6, 2007, and subsequent yearly anniversaries thereafter  - SJR4

Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center addition: amendment to the 2005-07 Authorized State Building Program  - AB563

School board candidates: number of nomination signatures required revised; 1st class city school districts not included - AB959

Senate approval of legally enforceable agreement with a foreign nation, Indian tribe or band, the federal government, or another state: constitutional amendment (1st consideration)  - SJR68

Sick leave: accumulating unused hours from year to year prohibited for legislators, Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, circuit court judges, DAs, and state elected officials - AB31

Sick leave: accumulating unused hours from year to year prohibited for legislators, Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, circuit court judges, state elected officials, and certain Governor appointments -  SB5

State automotive museum: Wisconsin Automotive Museum in City of Hartford designated as - AB512

State automotive museum: Wisconsin Automotive Museum in City of Hartford designated as - SB263

Teacher employment contract terms revised, first class city provision; nonrenewal for arbitrary or capricious reasons prohibited; reasons for renewal or nonrenewal made prohibited subjects of collective bargaining - SB383

Thomas, Joe: athletic achievements commended -  SJR12

Turkey, Republic of, urged to grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate recognition, ecclesiastical succession, the right to train clergy of all nationalities, and to respect the property rights and human rights of the Ecumenical Patriarchate  - SR30

W-2 community service job or transitional placement participants: additional technical college education program created - SB507

Other proposals coauthored or cosponsored by Sen. Kanavas: