Born Stevens Point; married; 3 children. Graduate Stevens Point Area Senior H.S.; B.S. in political science and public administration UW-Stevens Point 1993; UW-Madison La Follette Institute of Public Affairs graduate work. Former legislative aide and executive director, Plover Area Business Assn. Member: Heart of Wisconsin Business and Economic Alliance; Adams County Chamber of Commerce; Sparta Area Chamber of Commerce; Greater Tomah Area Chamber of Commerce; Black River Area Chamber of Commerce; Waushara Area Chamber of Commerce; Portage Co. Democratic Party (former chp.); Portage Co. Business Council; Small Business Environmental Council; Gov.’s Council on Workforce Investment; Small Business Development Center Adv. Bd.; UW Population Health Inst. Adv. Bd.; NCSL Early Learning Fellows Program. Former member: Oral Health Coalition Steering Com. Dewey Town Board 1993-94.
Elected to Assembly 1998-2002 (resigned eff. 5/9/03); elected to Senate in April 2003 special election; reelected since 2004. Minority Caucus Chairperson 2015, 2013, 2011; Minority Caucus Secretary 1999.
Member of Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation
3/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 1007
Relating to: public, educational, and governmental access channel requirements for video service providers and interim cable operators. (FE)
3/1/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 963
Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual and corporate income and franchise tax credit for costs paid to eliminate exposure to a lead hazard in a dwelling. (FE)
2/26/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 957
Relating to: testing for lead in homes of certain children and making an appropriation. (FE)
2/23/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 943
Relating to: pilot program for school districts to employ special education job development specialists and making an appropriation. (FE)
2/18/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 925
Relating to: authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment on the basis of military service to pay compensatory and punitive damages. (FE)
2/16/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 114
Relating to: commemorating the 100th anniversary of Marshfield Clinic and declaring Thursday, October 13, 2016, as Marshfield Clinic Day in Wisconsin.
2/15/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 915
Relating to: prohibiting sales or leases of municipal water or sewer utilities to investor-owned utilities.
2/15/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 920
Relating to: preferences for woman-owned businesses in state procurement. (FE)
2/11/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 110
Relating to: proclaiming May 13, 14, and 15, 2016, Syttende Mai Weekend.
2/11/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 111
Relating to: honoring the 200th anniversary of Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien.
2/11/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 109
Relating to: requesting the department of health services and the department of children and families to seek waiver approval to create a sliding scale for eligibility for public benefit programs.
2/9/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 900
Relating to: collective bargaining for public employees, prohibiting employees other than public safety employees from bargaining collectively on insurance contributions and employee required contributions to retirement, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations. (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)
2/3/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 856
Relating to: long-term care districts and care management organizations. (FE)
2/3/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 852
Relating to: expanding eligibility for the earned income tax credit; hospital best practices for postpartum patients and newborns; hospital staff privileges and written agreements required for nurse-midwives; coverage of nurse-midwives under the injured patients and families compensation fund; a report on information related to hospital neonatal intensive care units; an electronic application and information system to determine eligibility and register for public assistance programs; directing the Department of Health Services to request a Medical Assistance waiver; evidence-based home visitation program services for persons who are at risk of poor birth outcomes or of abusing or neglecting their children; designating race and ethnicity on birth certificates; a report on fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; requiring informed consent for performance on pregnant women of certain elective procedures prior to the full gestational term of a fetus; cultural competency training for certain students enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System and the technical college system; granting rule-making authority; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
1/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 830
Relating to: training for newly hired correctional officers. (FE)
1/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 832
Relating to: pay adjustments for state correctional officers who take certain other civil service positions. (FE)
1/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 833
Relating to: reports of incidents between inmates and prison employees and between inmates.
1/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 834
Relating to: limiting overtime at the Department of Corrections.
1/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 831
Relating to: staff required to be on duty at prisons. (FE)
1/29/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 836
Relating to: first responders on duty at prisons. (FE)
1/27/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 813
Relating to: collective bargaining over workplace safety for employees of the Department of Corrections.
1/27/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 817
Relating to: overtime policies at the Department of Corrections. (FE)
1/26/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 808
Relating to: prohibiting issuance of citations for alcohol beverages violations to certain underage persons in connection with sexual assault or certain other crimes and prohibiting certain disciplinary sanctions if the underage person is a student.
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 790
Relating to: dementia training grants for mobile crisis teams and making an appropriation. (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 787
Relating to: funding for respite care under the Alzheimer's Family and Caregiver Support Program and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/20/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 756
Relating to: special registration plates associated with certain professional basketball teams and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/20/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 760
Relating to: reimbursement of costs for certain enforcement actions by the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. (FE)
1/20/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 752
Relating to: leave from employment for the purpose of serving as a bone marrow or organ donor and providing a penalty. (FE)
1/20/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 102
Relating to: requiring the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization to immediately appoint a committee, to be known as the Commission on Debt-Free College, to study and report on the feasibility of providing a debt-free college education to all residents of this state.
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)
1/13/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 701
Relating to: action required to be taken in response to a discharge of hazardous substances, exemption from liability for certain hazardous substance discharges, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1/13/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 699
Relating to: regulating the operation of recreational vessels carrying persons under the age of 13.
1/13/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 691
Relating to: requiring sexual abuse prevention education.
1/13/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 97
Relating to: the life and public service of Rodney Warren Kreunen.
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)
1/11/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 666
Relating to: administrative subpoena for investigating Internet crimes against children, creating an Internet crimes against children surcharge, and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/8/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 664
Relating to: mental health services in schools.
1/8/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 663
Relating to: restitution owed to victims of crime.
1/8/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 95
Relating to: the public service of Vicki R. Holten.
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 652
Relating to: providing to a victim notification when an offender's extended supervision or parole is revoked. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 636
Relating to: a grant program to support creative industries, job creation, or economic development in this state and making an appropriation. (FE)
1/7/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 637
Relating to: control of nonpoint source water pollution in certain areas with carbonate bedrock and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
1/6/2016: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 93
Relating to: commending Officer Chris Litzkow and the Capitol Police.
1/4/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 626
Relating to: eligibility for the Technical Excellence Higher Education Scholarship Program. (FE)
1/4/2016: 2015 Assembly Bill 624
Relating to: retaining invoices for the sale of malt beverages and intoxicating liquors and the local option for issuing liquor licenses. (FE)
12/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 622
Relating to: exempting from nonresident tuition at the University of Wisconsin System certain members of the Wisconsin National Guard or a reserve unit of the U.S. armed forces. (FE)
12/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 610
Relating to: supplemental forfeitures for trade and consumer protection violations perpetrated against the elderly and disabled and providing a penalty. (FE)
12/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 609
Relating to: authorizing certain libraries to notify collection agencies and law enforcement agencies of delinquent accounts. (FE)
12/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 607
Relating to: payments to child care providers, preventing fraud in the child care subsidy program, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and making an appropriation. (FE)
12/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 605
Relating to: campaign finance reporting by social welfare organizations; individual contribution limits to political parties and committees; political disbursements and obligations by corporations, cooperative associations; and labor organizations and the scope of regulated activity and reporting of certain activity under the campaign finance law.
12/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 599
Relating to: grants for community services to reduce recidivism and making an appropriation. (FE)
12/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 570
Relating to: authorizing the circuit court to order a person who engages in discrimination in employment, unfair honesty testing, or unfair genetic testing to pay compensatory and punitive damages. (FE)
12/1/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 551
Relating to: district board membership for the Milwaukee Area Technical College. (FE)
12/1/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 552
Relating to: preparation and response required by railroad corporations in the event of discharge of transported materials and making an appropriation. (FE)
11/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 548
Relating to: establishing a Wisconsin conservation corps program, authorizing a transfer of moneys appropriated to one or more state agencies, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing exemptions from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
11/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 538
Relating to: fee waivers for state park vehicle admission receipts and distribution of state park activity guides to pupils enrolled in grade 4 and making an appropriation. (FE)
11/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 545
Relating to: providing lifesaving skills instruction to pupils. (FE)
11/18/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 526
Relating to: the open season for hunting raccoon.
11/18/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 530
Relating to: establishment of a dietetic internship program and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 507
Relating to: persons authorized to officiate at a marriage.
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 509
Relating to: directional signage for the Iola Old Car Show in Marathon, Portage, and Waupaca Counties.
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 516
Relating to: the establishment of a family and medical leave insurance program; family leave to care for a grandparent, grandchild, or sibling and for the active duty of a family member; the employers that are required to permit an employee to take family or medical leave; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 510
Relating to: health care aid for certain veterans and their family members. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 514
Relating to: procedures for changing the placement of a child who is subject to a temporary physical custody order or termination of parental rights order of the juvenile court, procedures for amending a consent decree of the juvenile court, emergency change-in-placement procedures for a child who is placed in his or her own home under a dispositional order of the juvenile court, venue in post-dispositional proceedings under the Children's Code and Juvenile Justice Code, procedures for requesting and objecting to a proposed change in placement of a child and for changing the placement of a child when no objection is filed, the appointment of a successor guardian for a child who is subject to a termination of parental rights order of the juvenile court, case closure orders with respect to a child whose dispositional order is terminated, and the effective period of a temporary physical custody order of the juvenile court. (FE)
11/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 518
Relating to: lines transporting manure within highway rights-of-way and providing a penalty. (FE)
11/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 496
Relating to: school bullying, unlawful use of computer systems, and providing a criminal penalty.
11/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 499
Relating to: eliminating the requirement that the Natural Resources Board offer certain land for sale.
11/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 502
Relating to: regulation of liquid nicotine packaging, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
11/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 484
Relating to: providing additional funding for the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program and making an appropriation. (FE)
11/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 478
Relating to: disclosure of pupil records that are pertinent to addressing a pupil's educational needs to the Department of Children and Families, a county department of human services or social services, or a tribal organization that is legally responsible for the care and protection of the pupil.
11/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 482
Relating to: counting low-income pupils for state school aid purposes; calculating the amount to be appropriated for state general school aid; school aid factors; special adjustment aids; hold harmless aid; per pupil aid; school district revenue limits; the first dollar and school levy property tax credits; and making an appropriation. (FE)
11/3/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 473
Relating to: the Uniform Interstate Enforcement of Domestic Violence Protection Orders Act.
11/3/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 474
Relating to: paid sick leave. (FE)
11/3/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 83
Relating to: recognizing November 2015 as Prematurity Awareness Month.
11/2/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 82
Relating to: proclaiming November 2015 as diabetes awareness month.
10/30/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 81
Relating to: contributions of Bart Starr.
10/28/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 80
Relating to: declaring November 13, 2015, "World Pancreatic Cancer Day" in the state of Wisconsin.
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 463
Relating to: the prosecution and venue for trial of certain offenses by certain state residents.
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 458
Relating to: requiring the Department of Transportation to award a grant to Northwoods Rail Transit Commission to fund the purchase of railroad cars and making an appropriation.
10/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 459
Relating to: adverse possession against the state or a political subdivision. (FE)
10/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 464
Relating to: attempts to influence action upon model or similar proposed legislation, reporting by certain persons providing or state public officials receiving certain things of value, and providing a criminal penalty.
10/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 466
Relating to: distribution of Wisconsin Blue Book and highway maps. (FE)
10/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 78
Relating to: Department of Veterans Affairs' 70 years of service to veterans.
10/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 436
Relating to: the regulation of ferrous metallic mining and related activities. (FE)
10/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 438
Relating to: state aid to local fairs and regulation of horse racing. (FE)
10/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 434
Relating to: carcass tags issued under fish and game laws; registration of carcasses of wild animals; methods of storing, retrieving, printing, and displaying fish and game approvals; counterfeiting or illegal alteration of fish and game approvals; forgery in applying for fish and game approvals or for registration of an all-terrain vehicle, utility terrain vehicle, or snowmobile; transfers of wolf harvesting licenses; the place of trial for a violation of certain fish and game laws; methods of issuing, retrieving, reprinting, duplicating, and exhibiting registration documents and safety certificates and proving registration for all-terrain vehicles, utility terrain vehicles, and snowmobiles; methods of issuing, retrieving, reprinting, duplicating, and exhibiting certification and registration documents for boats; methods of issuing, retrieving, reprinting, and exhibiting proof of a trail pass for all-terrain vehicles and utility terrain vehicles and of a trail use sticker for snowmobiles; suspension and revocation of a certificate of number or registration for a boat; reasonable suspicion for a law enforcement officer to stop an all-terrain vehicle, utility terrain vehicle, boat, or snowmobile; extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing penalties. (FE)
10/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 428
Relating to: repeated acts of physical abuse of the same child and providing a criminal penalty.
10/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 429
Relating to: referral of cases of suspected or threatened child abuse or neglect to the sheriff or police department, coordination of the investigation of those cases, and referral of those cases to the district attorney for criminal prosecution. (FE)
10/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 430
Relating to: granting victims of certain crimes the right to be accompanied by a victim advocate. (FE)
10/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 431
Relating to: neglect of a child and providing criminal penalties. (FE)
10/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 426
Relating to: transport of radiological materials and providing penalties. (FE)
10/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 424
Relating to: applying motor carrier regulations to motor carriers operating in intrastate commerce. (FE)
10/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 419
Relating to: removing the sunset provision that applies to the fire fighters memorial individual income tax checkoff. (FE)
10/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 423
Relating to: accountability provisions for private schools participating in a parental choice program, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
10/16/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 417
Relating to: the sale of homemade baked goods and homemade canned goods.
10/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 414
Relating to: eligibility for and premiums under the Medical Assistance purchase plan and disregarding assets in an independence account and retirement benefits for purposes of determining eligibility and cost-sharing requirements under a number of Medical Assistance and long-term care programs. (FE)
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 72
Relating to: congratulating the 2015 Stars of Life honorees.
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 71
Relating to: the life and service of Marty Beil.
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 70
Relating to: Proclaiming October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
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 396
Relating to: provider of last resort obligations of certain telecommunications providers. (FE)
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 400
Relating to: use of child safety restraint systems in motor vehicles. (FE)
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 405
Relating to: exemptions from certain taxes and other requirements for work performed by persons from outside the state during a state of emergency declared by the governor. (FE)
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 394
Relating to: review of proposed changes to public employee group health insurance programs.
10/13/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 407
Relating to: appointment of a successor guardian for a child in need of protection or services and eligibility of a successor guardian for subsidized guardianship payments, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
10/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 392
Relating to: methods of voting by members of a cooperative.
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 Joint Resolution 69
Relating to: reaffirming support for increasing Taiwan's international profile and for strengthening and expanding sister-city and sister-state ties between Wisconsin and Taiwan; and supporting Taiwan's efforts to secure entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the signing of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) with the United States.
9/28/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 68
Relating to: the life and public service of Dr. Ronald H. Lingren.
9/28/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 67
Relating to: Wisconsin Legislative Resolution to Restore Free and Fair Elections in the United States.
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 368
Relating to: regulation of persons that own or operate dental practices and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
9/25/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 358
Relating to: parking spaces reserved for persons with physical disabilities.
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 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)
9/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 62
Relating to: the public's right to access governmental records (first consideration).
9/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 63
Relating to: requiring the legislature to enact laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees, and making members of the legislature subject to citations and civil penalties for violations of such laws (first consideration).
9/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 64
Relating to: public notice for assembly, senate, and joint committee meetings.
9/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 342
Relating to: reporting travel expenses for elected state officials seeking national office and providing a penalty. (FE)
9/18/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 60
Relating to: proclaiming September 2015 as Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Awareness Month.
9/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 59
Relating to: commemorating the 160th anniversary of Miller Brewing Company in the state of Wisconsin.
9/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 58
Relating to: proclaiming the second week in September each year as Towing Industry Awareness Week.
9/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 333
Relating to: the possession of certain wild animals and providing a penalty. (FE)
9/3/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 56
Relating to: proclaiming November 1 to 7, 2015, as Towing Industry Awareness Week.
9/1/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 322
Relating to: highway parking of motor vehicles owned by carsharing organizations.
9/1/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 323
Relating to: prohibiting certain mining and drilling activities that cause the destruction or filling in of a lake bed, reservoir, or flowage or that cause the withdrawal of water from a reservoir or flowage.
8/21/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 55
Relating to: providing for an advisory referendum on the question of adopting a nonpartisan system for redistricting.
8/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 308
Relating to: providing an exemption from civil liability for forcibly entering a vehicle under certain circumstances.
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 300
Relating to: creditable military service under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (FE)
7/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 294
Relating to: increase funding for special education. (FE)
7/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 291
Relating to: the color of clothing required to be worn during the season for hunting deer with firearms.
7/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 284
Relating to: causing or threatening bodily harm to certain child welfare and juvenile justice workers, and providing a criminal penalty. (FE)
7/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 286
Relating to: closing hours for retail sales by wineries.
6/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 275
Relating to: increasing the rate paid to private attorneys for representing indigent clients. (FE)
6/29/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 276
Relating to: allowing district attorneys, deputy district attorneys, and assistant district attorneys to engage in the private practice of law for certain civil purposes.
6/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 272
Relating to: student loans, the individual income tax subtract modification for tuition and student fees, creating an authority to be known as the Wisconsin Student Loan Refinancing Authority, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
6/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 47
Relating to: honoring Radio Station WCLO AM-1230 on its 85th birthday on August 1, 2015.
6/18/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 267
Relating to: the investigation of a child abuse report in which a person who is not a caregiver of the child is suspected of permitting, allowing, or encouraging the child to engage in prostitution; and prohibiting prosecuting a person under the age of 18 with committing an act of prostitution. (FE)
6/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 265
Relating to: public financing of campaigns for the office of justice of the supreme court, making appropriations, and providing penalties. (FE)
6/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 260
Relating to: requiring racial impact statements for bills that create a new crime, modify an existing crime, or modify the penalty for an existing crime. (FE)
6/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 261
Relating to: employment discrimination based on employment status. (FE)
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 254
Relating to: applicability to private roads and driveways of certain rules of the road governing passing school buses.
6/4/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 252
Relating to: statute of limitations for second-degree or third-degree sexual assault.
6/2/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 45
Relating to: proclaiming August 6, 7, 8, and 9, 2015, Mile of Music Weekend.
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.
5/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 41
Relating to: honoring the life and contributions of David Duax.
5/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 238
Relating to: the effective date of amendments to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.
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)
5/20/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 235
Relating to: charging resident fees to nonresident veterans and their family members attending technical colleges. (FE)
5/19/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 221
Relating to: Medicaid expansion and eligibility for BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core. (FE)
5/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 38
Relating to: the right to vote (first consideration).
5/14/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 39
Relating to: commending and congratulating Chancellor Richard J. Telfer for his contributions to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and to the state of Wisconsin.
5/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 211
Relating to: waiver for prescription drug assistance for elderly program, use of excess moneys in prescription drug assistance for elderly program, and making an appropriation. (FE)
5/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 208
Relating to: special restrictions cards issued with certain motor vehicle operator's licenses. (FE)
5/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 207
Relating to: application of stopping, standing, and parking provisions to certain authorized emergency vehicles.
5/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 205
Relating to: flashing yellow arrow traffic control signals.
5/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 206
Relating to: pedestrian traffic control signals.
5/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 37
Relating to: congratulating the Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association on its 75th Anniversary.
5/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 204
Relating to: repealing an air pollution rule promulgated by the Department of Natural Resources.
5/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 34
Relating to: declaring May 14 to be Apraxia Awareness Day.
5/7/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 35
Relating to: designating May as Older Americans Month in Wisconsin.
5/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 203
Relating to: supply and use of epinephrine auto-injectors by certain authorized entities. (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.
4/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 172
Relating to: method for notifying parent or guardian of habitually truant pupil.
4/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 28
Relating to: commemorating the economic impacts of sportsmen and sportswomen in Wisconsin.
4/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 187
Relating to: an exemption for disabled veterans and recipients of the purple heart medal from the cumulative preference system for issuing wild turkey hunting licenses and tags.
4/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 186
Relating to: resident fees for nonresident veterans and eligible spouses and children enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System or a technical college. (FE)
4/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 179
Relating to: access to investigational drugs, devices, and biological products and limitations on liability related to their use.
4/22/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 180
Relating to: considering post-traumatic stress disorder as a mitigating factor in sentencing certain criminal offenders. (FE)
4/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 165
Relating to: town zoning ordinances affecting shorelands.
4/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 167
Relating to: adopting federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators. (FE)
4/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 27
Relating to: Wisconsin children's outdoor heritage.
4/15/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 164
Relating to: various election law changes.
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 24
Relating to: proclaiming April 2015 as Forestry and Paper Products Month.
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 22
Relating to: declaring April 2015 Donate Life Month.
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 21
Relating to: proclaiming Workers' Memorial Day.
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 150
Relating to: listing frac sand mining as a conditional or prohibited use in certain types of zoning ordinances. (FE)
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 151
Relating to: notice requirements for zoning actions related to frac sand mining. (FE)
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 161
Relating to: limitations on town expenditures for certain highway purposes. (FE)
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 149
Relating to: county authority relating to exploration for a type of industrial sand. (FE)
4/8/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 152
Relating to: disclosure of contracts for frac sand mining on neighboring properties.
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)
3/31/2015: 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)
3/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 115
Relating to: trust funds related to cemetery lots, mausoleum spaces, and cemetery merchandise.
3/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 123
Relating to: limited authorization for the town of Rome in Adams County to make cash grants or loan subsidies to owners, lessees, or developers of land located in a tax incremental district created by the town. (FE)
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)
3/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 20
Relating to: the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.
3/20/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 107
Relating to: authorizing reimbursement to counties for the costs incurred in processing and donating certain wild turkeys. (FE)
3/20/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 104
Relating to: establishing a nanotechnology information hub and a nanotechnology council. (FE)
3/18/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 101
Relating to: premium and cost-sharing assistance for health plans through the Medical Assistance program. (FE)
3/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 89
Relating to: grants for farm to school programs and making an appropriation. (FE)
3/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 84
Relating to: creating a refundable earned income tax credit for individuals, repealing the changes made to the earned income tax credit in 2011 Wisconsin Act 32, and making an appropriation. (FE)
3/12/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 85
Relating to: restoring indexing provisions to the homestead tax credit. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 70
Relating to: creation of a private retirement security plan and making appropriations. (FE)
3/5/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 72
Relating to: prohibiting the sale of powdered alcohol.
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.
2/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 66
Relating to: creating the Wisconsin Renewable Energy Development Authority to participate in and guarantee certain energy-related loans, implement other energy-related programs, and make certain grants and making an appropriation. (FE)
2/24/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 63
Relating to: eligible applicants under the broadband expansion grant program.
2/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 55
Relating to: shareholder objections to corporate political expenditures.
2/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 58
Relating to: responding to a request for an absentee ballot.
2/23/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 59
Relating to: creation of a category of business corporation identified as a benefit corporation.
2/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 44
Relating to: transfer of certain fish and game approvals to persons with disabilities and the transfer of Class A bear licenses to persons awarded the Purple Heart or serving on active duty in the U.S. armed forces. (FE)
2/17/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 35
Relating to: alerts for hit-and-run incidents. (FE)
2/10/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 28
Relating to: traffic control at nonfunctioning or malfunctioning traffic control signals.
2/9/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 12
Relating to: commending the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater baseball team for winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Baseball National Championship title.
2/9/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 10
Relating to: commending the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team for winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Football National Championship title.
2/9/2015: 2015 Assembly Joint Resolution 11
Relating to: commending the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men's basketball team for winning the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Basketball National Championship title.
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.
2/2/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 20
Relating to: preference in state and local government contracts and procurement for materials manufactured in the United States. (FE)
1/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 16
Relating to: posters regarding the national human trafficking resource center hotline. (FE)
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)
1/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 14
Relating to: the regulation of raffles. (FE)
1/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 15
Relating to: the manufacture and acceptance for sale of products containing microbeads. (FE)
1/27/2015: 2015 Assembly Bill 12
Relating to: a state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (FE)
3/15/2016: 2015 SA1-AB731
3/15/2016: 2015 SSA1-AB731
Relating to: changing the authority to create ABLE accounts in this state, creating tax benefits for contributions to ABLE accounts in other states, updating references to the Internal Revenue Code, and making appropriations.
3/15/2016: 2015 SA9-SSA2-SB239
3/15/2016: 2015 SA8-SSA2-SB239
3/15/2016: 2015 SA7-SSA2-SB239
3/15/2016: 2015 SA6-SSA2-SB239
3/15/2016: 2015 SA5-SSA2-SB239
3/15/2016: 2015 SSA4-SB239
Relating to: repair, replacement, and transfer of an approved high capacity well and making an appropriation.
2/16/2016: 2015 SA1-SSA2-SB503
2/11/2016: 2015 SA1-SB394
2/9/2016: 2015 SA10-SSA1-SB295
2/9/2016: 2015 SA9-SSA1-SB295
2/9/2016: 2015 SSA2-SB295
Relating to: electronic voter registration and election administration and granting rule-making authority.
2/9/2016: 2015 SSA1-SB517
Relating to: leave from employment for the purpose of serving as a bone marrow or organ donor.
2/9/2016: 2015 SA3-SB449
2/5/2016: 2015 SA2-SB604
2/5/2016: 2015 SA3-SSA1-SB503
2/5/2016: 2015 SA2-SSA1-SB503
1/26/2016: 2015 SA7-AB554
1/26/2016: 2015 SA6-AB554
1/26/2016: 2015 SA5-AB554
1/26/2016: 2015 SA4-AB554
1/26/2016: 2015 SA3-AB554
1/26/2016: 2015 SA2-AB554
1/26/2016: 2015 SA1-AB554
1/26/2016: 2015 SSA1-AB554
Relating to: prohibiting sales or leases of municipal water or sewer utilities to investor-owned utilities.
1/15/2016: 2015 SA1-SSA1-SB515
1/15/2016: 2015 SA1-SB519
1/15/2016: 2015 SA1-SB449
1/4/2016: 2015 SA4-AB212
1/4/2016: 2015 SA3-AB212
1/4/2016: 2015 SA2-AB212
1/4/2016: 2015 SA1-AB212
11/6/2015: 2015 SA9-AB387
11/6/2015: 2015 SA4-AB23
11/6/2015: 2015 SA3-AB23
11/6/2015: 2015 SA2-AB23
11/6/2015: 2015 SA1-AB23
10/20/2015: 2015 SA20-SB43
7/7/2015: 2015 SA46-SSA1-SB21
7/7/2015: 2015 SA45-SSA1-SB21
7/7/2015: 2015 SA41-SSA1-SB21
7/7/2015: 2015 SA40-SSA1-SB21
7/7/2015: 2015 SA37-SSA1-SB21
7/7/2015: 2015 SA32-SSA1-SB21
7/7/2015: 2015 SA28-SSA1-SB21
7/7/2015: 2015 SA22-SSA1-SB21
7/7/2015: 2015 SA9-SSA1-SB21
6/9/2015: 2015 SA5-SB70
6/9/2015: 2015 SA2-SB153
2/25/2015: 2015 SA7-SB44
