2019 Senate Authors

Minors 17 years of age may contract for admission to a shelter facility or transitional living program, conditions specified - SB61

Motor vehicle operators’ licenses: DOT may issue a copy in electronic format, fee provision - AB677

Motor vehicle traffic stop when law enforcement accesses operator’s license, permit, or ID card: DOT required to record certain information of the person whose record was accessed - AB678

Multijurisdictional business improvement district (MJBID) created by 2 or more municipalities authorized, conditions set; neighborhood improvement district (NID) financial statement and audit requirements; notice requirements provision - SB483

Natural hair braiding: obtaining a barbering or cosmetology license to perform not required, definition provision - SB870

Natural hair braiding: obtaining a barbering or cosmetology license to perform not required, definition provision - AB899

Nurse aide training: TCS Board grants to districts in areas with nurse aide shortages - SB222

Patient right to medically accurate information: health care provider obligation to provide and civil action provisions created; employment retribution prohibited - SB897

Personal care services reimbursement under MA increased; eligibility for BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core expanded; DHS required to apply for Medicaid expansion - AB255

Physical restraint and seclusion of pupils in schools: laws revised - SB527

Postpartum women receiving substance abuse-related health services under BadgerCare Plus while pregnant: extend benefits for one year after last day of pregnancy - SB630

Prostitution: prosecuting person under age 18 prohibited - SB49

Qualified residential treatment program for children and youth: DCF may certify a residential care center, group home, or shelter care facility to operate under certain conditions - SB609

Rent abatement for tenants: DATCP to promulgate rules specifying items and amounts - SB887

Restraints used on child under 18 years old in juvenile or criminal court prohibited, exception provision - SB813

Sale or transfer of firearm, including frame or receiver, prohibited unless through a federally licensed firearms dealer and background check on transferee is conducted; exceptions and penalty provisions; JRCCP may report - SB572

Sale or transfer of firearm, including frame or receiver, prohibited unless through a federally licensed firearms dealer and background check on transferee is conducted; exceptions and penalty provisions; JRCCP may report - AB431

Sign language interpreters: new categories of licenses established, examination provisions; Sign Language Interpreter Council eliminated and Sign Language Interpreters Advisory Committee established; DSPS duties - SB265

Solitary confinement use restricted for inmates with serious mental illness; DOC required to review status of inmates in solitary - SB829

Solitary confinement use restricted for inmates with serious mental illness; DOC required to review status of inmates in solitary - AB825

Student teacher hourly wage: school boards required to pay and DPI to reimburse - SB849

Suspension of motor vehicle operating privilege for nontraffic offenses limited; circuit court and DOT authority provisions - AB676

Teacher loan program expanded to include persons seeking a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education and is employed full-time in that area in a school or certain child care centers - SB826

Teacher loan program expanded to include persons seeking a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education and is employed full-time in that area in a school or certain child care centers - AB938

Unnecessarily summoning a police officer: civil cause of action created - AB920

Use of force by law enforcement policy: every law enforcement agency required to prepare and make publicly available on its own or the municipality’s website - SB891

Use of force by law enforcement policy: every law enforcement agency required to prepare and make publicly available on its own or the municipality’s website - AB1015

Use of force by law enforcement policy required to incorporate specified principles; LESB to develop model policy - SB892

Use of force by law enforcement policy required to incorporate specified principles; LESB to develop model policy - AB1012

Use of force options and techniques: required hours of training for law enforcement officers; DOJ appropriation provision - AB1014

Victim of sex trafficking: privilege of self-defense created - SB211

Volunteer Health Care Provider Program: allowing nonprofit agencies providing volunteer health care services to MA recipients who are primarily homeless to participate - SB155

Wisconsin Motherhood Month: May proclaimed as - SJR30

Wisconsin Motherhood Month: May proclaimed as - AJR41

Wisconsin Shares: TANF allocation and child care provider rates increased - SB889

Wisconsin Shares: TANF allocation and child care provider rates increased - AB996

Women’s History Month: March 2019 proclaimed as - AJR22

Women’s History Month: March 2020 proclaimed as - AJR153

Youthful offender: sentence adjustment procedure created and mandatory life sentence without parole eliminated - SB815

Other proposals authored or co-authored by Johnson, Sen. LaTonya (6th Sen.Dist.; D)

Assembly Bills:5, 10, 20, 24, 33, 41, 52, 65, 88, 111, 113, 114, 116, 126, 133, 137, 149, 158, 162, 188, 168, 191, 201, 202, 203, 211, 214, 228, 238, 253, 254, 234, 250, 300, 303, 309, 319, 321, 324, 336, 337, 346, 358, 367, 378, 381, 384, 396, 397, 398, 400, 422, 410, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 436, 440, 459, 483, 485, 475, 476, 477, 491, 496, 520, 501, 510, 522, 484, 537, 538, 569, 570, 576, 585, 587, 589, 573, 618, 643, 666, 660, 686, 693, 697, 726, 749, 751, 759, 768, 774, 775, 770, 792, 823, 786, 830, 831, 832, 816, 815, 813, 913, 914, 852, 858, 930, 958, 959, 945, 946, 961, 963, 983, 989, 1028, 1029

Assembly Joint Resolutions:4, 3, 28, 21, 17, 23, 24, 30, 47, 58, 67, 68, 69, 61, 64, 72, 74, 80, 93, 91, 92, 105, 117, 124, 134, 150, 152

Senate Bills:1, 5, 12, 19, 26, 37, 39, 69, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 91, 107, 110, 100, 116, 118, 126, 138, 159, 168, 191, 193, 195, 198, 200, 217, 246, 239, 266, 288, 302, 308, 316, 324, 332, 348, 364, 366, 367, 380, 393, 401, 402, 407, 408, 420, 421, 426, 442, 444, 456, 446, 468, 459, 469, 476, 507, 511, 518, 536, 538, 562, 566, 596, 620, 625, 651, 693, 703, 717, 732, 734, 744, 788, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 840, 846, 854, 855

Senate Joint Resolutions:4, 5, 8, 15, 16, 17, 21, 38, 43, 48, 51, 52, 53, 55, 61, 67, 78, 83, 87

1905 Kapenga, Sen. Chris (33rd Sen.Dist.; R)

Abortion-inducing drug regimen: informed consent requirements and hospital, clinic, or other facility reporting requirement - SB174

Abortion-inducing drug regimen: informed consent requirements and hospital, clinic, or other facility reporting requirement - AB180

Absentee ballots by electronic transmission for certain overseas and military voters: Elections Commission to promulgate rules authorizing, criteria specified - SB794

Alcohol beverage operator’s license issuance: municipal governing body may delegate authority to a municipal official by ordinance - SB203

Alcohol beverage operator’s license issuance: municipal governing body may delegate authority to a municipal official by ordinance - AB216

Alternative project delivery in DOT: design-build projects pilot program authorized and office of innovative program delivery created, report required; emergency rules provision - SB285

Alternative project delivery in DOT: design-build projects pilot program authorized and office of innovative program delivery created, report required; emergency rules provision - AB286

Autocycle, a type of 3-wheeled motor vehicle: definition, registration, and operation provisions created; registration fee and operator’s license provisions - SB86

Bills creating an occupational license requirement: DSPS report required and LRB duties - SB541

Bills creating an occupational license requirement: DSPS report required and LRB duties - AB605

Campus Free Speech Act: UW Board of Regents required to adopt a policy, conditions specified; disciplinary sanctions, damages, and report provisions - SB403

Campus Free Speech Act: UW Board of Regents required to adopt a policy, conditions specified; disciplinary sanctions, damages, and report provisions - AB444

Direct primary care agreements and exemption from insurance law - SB28

Direct primary care agreements and exemption from insurance law - AB26

Discretionary merit award program: DOT to develop - SB283

Highway improvement involving reconstruction or replacement: same scope as existing highway required (replace in kind), exception provision - SB281

Historic landmark: certain 2nd class cities may not designate or regulate if affected property or area is owned by the county - SB314

Historic landmark: certain 2nd class cities may not designate or regulate if affected property or area is owned by the county - AB339

Hours of direct pupil instruction provided virtually by private schools participating in a parental choice program permitted; inclement weather and DPI provisions - SB111

Interior designer: scope of practice and registration requirements revised - SB303

Interior designer: scope of practice and registration requirements revised - AB324

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 - SB742

Local organizations that may conduct raffles: criteria modified - SB614

Local organizations that may conduct raffles: criteria modified - AB679

Motor vehicle seller: liability immunity provisions after title is signed and given to the buyer, exception provisions - SB322

Motor vehicle seller: liability immunity provisions after title is signed and given to the buyer, exception provisions - AB345

Piping materials meeting project standards: local governmental units cannot exclude from consideration in a public contract - SB365

Piping materials meeting project standards: local governmental units cannot exclude from consideration in a public contract - AB450

Reciprocal credentials for service members, former service members, and their spouses: expiration provision revised - SB654

Reciprocal credentials for service members, former service members, and their spouses: expiration provision revised - AB731

Roundabouts in highway projects: approval from governing body of the municipality required - SB280

Safe Drinking Water Loan Program: term and repayment of loan revisions - SB248

Safe Drinking Water Loan Program: term and repayment of loan revisions - AB271

State of emergency declarations: legislative approval if order exceeds 30 days and for DHS stay at home orders, report to legislature justifying ban on gatherings over 50 people and on arrests for violation of order to control an outbreak or epidemic - SB923

Tax treatment of tax-option corporations that elect to pay tax at the entity level modified - SB706

Vehicle theft, reckless driving, and fleeing an officer penalties increased; victim impact panel provision; JRCCP may report - SB769

Vehicle theft, reckless driving, and fleeing an officer penalties increased; victim impact panel provision; JRCCP may report - AB853

Violent felon: prosecution for crime of illegal possession of a firearm provisions modified; report provision - SB745

Violent felon: prosecution for crime of illegal possession of a firearm provisions modified; report provision - AB808

Other proposals authored or co-authored by Kapenga, Sen. Chris (33rd Sen.Dist.; R)

Assembly Bills:4, 43, 75, 81, 78, 76, 115, 117, 129, 138, 147, 154, 155, 169, 187, 186, 182, 183, 179, 193, 208, 203, 213, 257, 288, 251, 273, 277, 279, 281, 282, 283, 284, 313, 317, 340, 353, 395, 428, 437, 435, 457, 458, 488, 452, 504, 541, 556, 576, 699, 721, 779, 753, 781, 835, 810, 840, 899, 861, 985, 1037

Assembly Joint Resolutions:30, 59, 81, 108, 151

Senate Bills:1, 18, 51, 52, 67, 89, 102, 103, 106, 112, 132, 151, 153, 164, 170, 187, 173, 178, 175, 179, 193, 202, 233, 243, 257, 272, 276, 278, 282, 298, 300, 320, 328, 362, 394, 396, 399, 410, 436, 439, 446, 457, 488, 497, 518, 629, 637, 638, 666, 669, 684, 685, 699, 705, 739, 743, 758, 822, 870

Senate Joint Resolutions:4, 37, 59, 62, 67, 78, 93