2023 Senate Authors

Full-time librarian and instructional media specialist: public schools and private schools participating in a parental choice program required to employ; revenue limit adjustment provision - SB758

Groundwater protection standards for PFAS: exemption to requirement re suspension of work on permanent rules costing over certain amount - SB1022

Grow Your Own programs re encouraging careers in teaching: new grant program - AB521

Grow Your Own programs re encouraging careers in teaching: new grant program - SB498

Handgun purchase: 48 hour waiting period restored - SB675

Home test kits for STDs: health insurance required to cover - SB1099

Ignition interlock device requirement applied to all OWI offenses involving alcohol - AB1132

Ignition interlock device requirement applied to all OWI offenses involving alcohol - SB1044

Initial license to teach grades K to 5: Foundation of Reading test (FORT) requirement exemption re completion of comparable course of study - AB1092

Initial license to teach grades K to 5: Foundation of Reading test (FORT) requirement exemption re completion of comparable course of study - SB996

Initial teaching licenses for grades K to 5, reading teacher, and reading specialist: exception to Foundations of Reading test (FORT) requirement expanded to include - SB609

Inspections of rental properties: repeal restrictions on political subdivision’s authority to require - SB673

Interacting with generative AI that simulates conversation: disclaimer required - SB1072

Itemized billing by hospitals and plain-language requirements - AB785

Joint emergency dispatch center expenses: local levy limit exception created - AB1083

Joint emergency dispatch center expenses: local levy limit exception created - SB986

Landlord or tenant required to apply for emergency rental assistance and participate in mediation prior to eviction; certain rent increases prohibited - SB655

Lost or stolen firearm: report to law enforcement and written notice in commercial sales or transfers required; penalty provisions; JRCCP may report - SB863

Mandatory stay of eviction proceedings against a tenant who applied for emergency assistance under W-2: restriction eliminated - AB705

Mandatory stay of eviction proceedings against a tenant who applied for emergency assistance under W-2: restriction eliminated - SB657

Marijuana possession or distribution: penalty for no more than 28 grams eliminated; distributing to a minor and ordinance provisions - AB1207

Marijuana possession or distribution: penalty for no more than 28 grams eliminated; distributing to a minor and ordinance provisions - SB1113

Mass communications: reporting to the Ethics Commission revised; definition provisions - AB911

Mass communications: reporting to the Ethics Commission revised; definition provisions - SB599

Medical debt: health care provider or collection agency requirements prior to reporting to a consumer reporting agency - AB786

Medical debt: health care provider or collection agency requirements prior to reporting to a consumer reporting agency - SB1068

Minimum salaries for public school teachers established - AB517

Minimum salaries for public school teachers established - SB511

Motorists required to stop and remain stopped until pedestrian, bicyclist, personal delivery device, or rider of electric scooter or EPAMD has crossed certain highway crosswalks - AB1193

Motorists required to stop and remain stopped until pedestrian, bicyclist, personal delivery device, or rider of electric scooter or EPAMD has crossed certain highway crosswalks - SB1097

Municipal rent control and inclusionary zoning: prohibitions repealed; DOA appendix report - AB877

Municipal rent control and inclusionary zoning: prohibitions repealed; DOA appendix report - SB821

Name, image, and likeness (NIL) compensation for students at higher education institutions: restrictions created - AB1048

Name, image, and likeness (NIL) compensation for students at higher education institutions: restrictions created - SB939

National Bike to School Day: May 3, 2023 recognized as - AJR48

Network sufficiency of defined network plans or PP plans: OCI required to evaluate - AB792

Nomination papers for spring election: first date they may be circulated changed - AB1214

Nonclassroom teacher time: compensation requirements - AB524

Nonclassroom teacher time: compensation requirements - SB495

Nonprofit hospital property tax exemption: charity care requirement increased - AB1152

Nonprofit hospital property tax exemption: charity care requirement increased - SB1047

Notice of change in polling place location - SB570

Nurse staffing plan requirement and minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals established; RN right to refuse work assignment and mandatory overtime prohibited; penalty provisions - AB489

Nurse staffing plan requirement and minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals established; RN right to refuse work assignment and mandatory overtime prohibited; penalty provisions - SB470

Open alcohol containers and consumption of alcohol in or on an ATV or UTV prohibited - SB262

Outdoor access by inmates: DOC and sheriffs required to provide certain amount - AB814

Outdoor access by inmates: DOC and sheriffs required to provide certain amount - SB776

Parking structures: periodic professional engineer inspections required, report provision - AB1121

Parking structures: periodic professional engineer inspections required, report provision - SB1043

Payments to private schools when a pupil withdraws from a parental choice program, SNSP, or an independent charter school - AB532

Payments to private schools when a pupil withdraws from a parental choice program, SNSP, or an independent charter school - SB502

Per diem and mileage allowances for legislators: payment prohibited for certain period following enactment of a biennial budget act containing a public employee compensation increase; JCOER provision - AB996

Personal hygiene products for inmates: availability in prisons, jails, and houses of correction - SB797

Political action committee definition revised for campaign finance purposes - AB635

Political action committee definition revised for campaign finance purposes - SB603

Preemption on local government regulation of firearms eliminated - AB1199

Preemption on local government regulation of firearms eliminated - SB1100

Presidential or vice-presidential campaigns: local governments may require advance payment for expected public event costs - SB1107

Property tax bill required to include information re gross reduction in state aid to school districts - SB504

Public Bank of Wisconsin: authority created and supervised by the Division of Banking, reports required; Board of Advisors created and attached to DFI - AB1220

Public Bank of Wisconsin: authority created and supervised by the Division of Banking, reports required; Board of Advisors created and attached to DFI - SB1106

Public employee collective bargaining over wages, hours, and conditions of employment revised; dispute settlement procedure, selection of bargaining unit representatives, and bargaining unit certification provisions - AB908

Public employee collective bargaining over wages, hours, and conditions of employment revised; dispute settlement procedure, selection of bargaining unit representatives, and bargaining unit certification provisions - SB564

Pupil anti-discrimination law applied to private schools participating in MPCP, RPCP, WPCP, or SNSP; discrimination on the basis of gender identity or gender expression prohibition provision - SB505

Purchase of vaccines: DHS to establish program providing vaccines to individuals not eligible for vaccines at no cost from a federal program - SB418

Race-based team names, nicknames, logos, and mascots used by schools: restores law prior to enactment of 2013 WisAct 115; DPI grant to school board that terminates use - AB528

Race-based team names, nicknames, logos, and mascots used by schools: restores law prior to enactment of 2013 WisAct 115; DPI grant to school board that terminates use - SB507

Rate increases for health insurance: filing before rate is applied required, OCI approval for certain increases required - AB791

Records and correspondence of legislative members: "public record" definition exclusion eliminated - AB164

Records and correspondence of legislative members: "public record" definition exclusion eliminated - SB146

Recreational opportunities and structured programming for inmates in state correctional institutions, county jails, and houses of correction - SB731

Reimbursement rate for special education costs - AB527

Reimbursement rate for special education costs - SB506

Rent abatement and retaliatory conduct of the landlord - SB677

Reporting place of employment of campaign finance contributors: amount required for report increased - AB662

Reporting place of employment of campaign finance contributors: amount required for report increased - SB600

Residential tenant’s right to counsel in an eviction action, notice provisions - AB698

Residential tenant’s right to counsel in an eviction action, notice provisions - SB658

Retail business that sells firearms: storage requirements when the business is unattended - AB761

Retail business that sells firearms: storage requirements when the business is unattended - SB764

Revenue limit adjustment for school districts for the costs of employing school nurses - AB531

Revenue limit adjustment for school districts for the costs of employing school nurses - SB509

Rusty patched bumble bee designated as the state native insect; Blue Book provision - AB363

School and public library personnel licensing: DPI positions increased - AB530

School and public library personnel licensing: DPI positions increased - SB510

School district employees: municipal employers required to offer health insurance plan offered by GIB - SB492

School lunch and breakfast programs: additional state reimbursement and expanded to include public and private schools; conditions specified - AB754

School lunch and breakfast programs: additional state reimbursement and expanded to include public and private schools; conditions specified - SB720

Skateboards used on roadways: regulations revised - AB448