2021 Senate Authors

Child support: excluding certain military allowances in determining gross income [Admin.Code DCF 150.02] - SB104

Children with blindness or visual impairment: DHS to establish a registry to connect parent or guardian with services - SB467

Constitutional restrictions on marriage eliminated: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR56

Conversion therapy involving a minor: mental health providers prohibited from engaging in; professional discipline provision - AB312

Conversion therapy involving a minor: mental health providers prohibited from engaging in; professional discipline provision - SB326

Crimes against elder persons: penalties increased; sexual assault penalty revised; physical abuse crime created; freezing of assets of defendant re financial exploitation; elder person may appear in court via telephone or live audiovisual means when seeking certain restraining orders; JRCCP may report - SB17

Criminal defense of adequate provocation, self-defense, or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect eliminated if based on victim’s gender identity or expression or sexual orientation - SB450

Discrimination on basis of person’s gender identity or gender expression prohibited; adds gender identity or gender expression as a prohibited basis for discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, National Guard, jury duty, adoption, and receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation service - AB360

Discrimination on basis of person’s gender identity or gender expression prohibited; adds gender identity or gender expression as a prohibited basis for discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, insurance coverage, National Guard, jury duty, adoption, and receipt of mental health or vocational rehabilitation service - SB362

Dog breeding or dealing establishments: inspector positions - SB307

Endosalpingiosis Awareness Month: March designated as - SJR52

Expedite court proceedings in criminal and delinquency cases and juvenile dispositional hearings when victim or witness is an elder person; court required to preserve testimony of elderly witness or victim in criminal matters - SB18

Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults is suspected: actions financial service providers are authorized to take - SB19

Financial exploitation of vulnerable adults with securities accounts: notice and reporting of by securities industry professionals, penalty enhancers, and violations of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law; JRCCP may report - SB20

Gender-neutral terminology and gender-neutral marriage and parental rights adopted; JSCTE appendix report - SB464

Grievous bodily harm to or death of an animal: felony penalty; hunting dog, definition, and court order provisions; JRCCP may report - SB366

Joint annual spring fish and wildlife rule hearing of the DNR and Wisconsin Conservation Congress: rule-making process changes for administrative rules proposed at - SB328

Law enforcement officer citizenship requirement repealed; LESB provision - AB230

LGBTQ Pride Month: June 2021 recognized as - AJR45

LGBTQ Pride Month: June 2021 recognized as - SJR40

Marriage documentation and marriage ceremony changes - SB293

Metropolitan sewerage commission for a sewerage district including a first class city: financing and construction of dredged material management facility for the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern authorized; levy increase set with exemption provision - AB408

Metropolitan sewerage commission for a sewerage district including a first class city: financing and construction of dredged material management facility for the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern authorized; levy increase set with exemption provision - SB425

Officiating at a wedding: mej koob added, in accordance with Hmong wedding customs, and any justice or judge authorized - SB14

Payday loan: maximum interest rate limited - SB220

Pesticides: local governments may prohibit or regulate use on private lawns - SB351

Petitions for public hearings on legislative bills: provisions created - SB265

Prescription drug payments made by enrollee applied to health insurance out-of-pocket maximum or cost-sharing requirements - SB215

Public Higher Education, Blue Ribbon Commission on, created in the UW System, report required - AB379

Public Higher Education, Blue Ribbon Commission on, created in the UW System, report required - SB380

Special registration plates discontinued for lack of sufficient applications: DOT to suspend for one year - SB270

Suicide prevention programming grants from DHS; matching funds or in-kind services provision - SB253

Sunshine Week: March 14-20 declared as - SJR50

Transgender Equality Task Force created to study legal and societal barriers to equality for transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming individuals and make recommendations to the Governor and Legislature; report required - SB443

UC received in 2020 and 2021: income tax exemption created; JSCTE appendix report - AB268

UC received in 2020 and 2021: income tax exemption created; JSCTE appendix report - SB267

UI contribution rates: Schedule D to be in effect to set date - AB328

UI contribution rates: Schedule D to be in effect to set date - SB338

UI contribution rates: Schedule D to be in effect to set date; 2021-23 budget provision - AB406

UI contribution rates: Schedule D to be in effect to set date; 2021-23 budget provision - SB426

Unfair Sales Act exemption for items that are qualified medical expenses - SB357

UWHCA employees allowed to collectively bargain over wages, hours, and conditions of employment - SB404

Volunteer fire fighters, emergency medical responders, and EMS practitioners: nonrefundable individual income tax credit created - SB263

Wild parsnip declared a noxious weed by local governments or American Indian tribes or bands: grants to control, monitor, and eliminate; Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation funding - SB346

Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Remembrance: November 20, 2021 proclaimed as - SJR57

Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility: March 31, 2021 recognized as - AJR25

Wisconsin’s Transgender Day of Visibility: March 31, 2021 recognized as - SJR18

Other proposals authored or co-authored by Carpenter, Sen. Tim (3rd Sen.Dist.; D)

Assembly Bills:18, 31, 19, 26, 27, 36, 39, 33, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 55, 58, 69, 72, 66, 83, 88, 97, 100, 106, 115, 128, 126, 139, 141, 142, 143, 121, 157, 154, 125, 184, 185, 197, 203, 213, 207, 206, 210, 245, 246, 257, 263, 269, 270, 273, 277, 278, 288, 284, 295, 296, 297, 307, 318, 320, 326, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 356, 358, 368, 394, 395, 419, 438, 467, 444, 447, 453, 454, 455, 456, 458, 459, 461, 462, 463, 471, 472, 473, 476, 477, 478

Assembly Joint Resolutions:2, 5, 8, 6, 10, 11, 19, 14, 21, 15, 18, 23, 29, 35, 26, 36, 37, 38, 33, 40, 42, 43, 46, 51, 52, 53, 48, 55, 47, 60, 66, 69, 70, 71

Senate Bills:3, 9, 23, 24, 26, 30, 43, 62, 67, 69, 71, 75, 78, 59, 85, 87, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 92, 94, 100, 101, 114, 120, 121, 124, 125, 127, 158, 161, 162, 186, 173, 184, 199, 216, 226, 224, 228, 248, 242, 243, 245, 251, 286, 287, 294, 282, 308, 309, 311, 320, 330, 331, 325, 350, 356, 361, 389, 439, 442, 444, 445, 446, 447, 451, 452, 455, 456, 457, 465

Senate Joint Resolutions:4, 9, 14, 15, 17, 49, 45, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 46, 34, 51, 36, 53

Senate Resolutions:2, 3

2092 Cowles, Sen. Robert (2nd Sen.Dist.; R)

51st Anniversary of Earth Day: honoring April 22, 2021 as - AJR26

51st Anniversary of Earth Day: honoring April 22, 2021 as - SJR23

"Bart Starr Memorial Bridge": STH 29 bridge over the Fox River in the City of Green Bay designated as; DOT and contributions from interested parties provisions - SB101

Coal pile relocation project in Brown County and the City of Green Bay: grants from certain federal moneys - SB406

Coal tar-based sealant products and high PAH sealant products: sale of prohibited - AB131

Coal tar-based sealant products and high PAH sealant products: sale of prohibited - SB152

Crisis management training for law enforcement officers required - AB332

Decommissioned power production plant: phase out of utility aid payments to counties and municipalities - SB468

Deer carcass disposal grants created, landfill provision - AB151

Deer carcass disposal grants created, landfill provision - SB166

DOR required to maintain a website displaying information re GPR collection and purposes for which it was spent, DOA duties - AB153

DOR required to maintain a website displaying information re GPR collection and purposes for which it was spent, DOA duties - SB70

Electronic waste recycling program changes - AB254

Electronic waste recycling program changes - SB248

Fertilizers and soil or plant additives produced from converting manure into compost or vermicompost: distribution and labeling requirements - SB113

Fire fighting foams with PFAS voluntarily surrendered: expanding clean sweep program to include; third party provision - AB140

Fire fighting foams with PFAS voluntarily surrendered: expanding clean sweep program to include; third party provision - SB156

Firearm possession by person convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence: prohibition created; JRCCP may report - SB317

Hydrologic restoration and management advisory council created in DNR; general permit for hydrologic restoration projects authorized, conditions specified - AB85

Hydrologic restoration and management advisory council created in DNR; general permit for hydrologic restoration projects authorized, conditions specified - SB91

Lawfully present aliens may be appointed as deputy sheriffs or local law enforcement officers; LESB provision - SB193

Lead service line financial assistance or certificate of authority application by a water public utility: PSC deadlines - AB300

Lead service line financial assistance or certificate of authority application by a water public utility: PSC deadlines - SB316

Lead service line replacement, urban nonpoint source program, rural nonpoint source program, well compensation grant program, and grants for well testing and public education: allocating certain federal moneys to - AB243

Lead service line replacement, urban nonpoint source program, rural nonpoint source program, well compensation grant program, and grants for well testing and public education: allocating certain federal moneys to - SB271

Meter installation or replacement: water public utility exemption from certificate of authority - AB302

Meter installation or replacement: water public utility exemption from certificate of authority - SB315

Metropolitan sewerage commission for a sewerage district including a first class city: financing and construction of dredged material management facility for the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern authorized - SB424

Newspaper compensation for publication of legal notices: criteria to be eligible and requirements re publication revised - AB47

Newspaper compensation for publication of legal notices: criteria to be eligible and requirements re publication revised - SB51

Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact ratified - SB412

Persons on probation, extended supervision, or parole from another state and move to Wisconsin are required to submit human biological specimen to state crime labs for DNA analysis regardless of the crime committed - SB299

Petroleum products and storage of dangerous substances: revisions to DATCP regulations - AB384

Petroleum products and storage of dangerous substances: revisions to DATCP regulations - SB381

Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: certain exemption to review of patient’s records repealed - SB407