2023 Senate Authors

Non-judicial elective state officials required to serve as election officials; Senate, Assembly, and legislative committees prohibited from meeting on election days - SB537

Noncompliant REAL ID driver's license or ID card applicant: documentary proof of citizenship or lawful presence in the U.S. not required; SSN and discrimination provisions - SB1108

Obsolete statutory references removed re property, sales, and income taxes; the Revised Uniform Claimed Property Act; and lottery games - SB738

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

Pension payments from WRS by protective occupation participants: income tax exemption created - SB1034

Pesticide regulation to protect pollinators: local ordinance allowed - SB359

Plants labeled as beneficial to pollinators: sale prohibited if treated with certain insecticides - SB358

Presidential or vice-presidential campaigns: local governments may require advance payment for expected public event costs - AB1211

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 - AB535

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

PSC to require retail electric utilities and cooperatives to survey customers about broadband service availability and Internet service providers to disclose certain information to improve broadband mapping - AB1175

PSC to require retail electric utilities and cooperatives to survey customers about broadband service availability and Internet service providers to disclose certain information to improve broadband mapping - SB1085

Public assistance revisions: housing, homelessness, and indigence; workforce development, job, and income supports; community action agencies; lead exposure and abatement; sober living residences; nonemergency medical transportation; annual report on poverty; and transportation - AB600

Public assistance revisions: housing, homelessness, and indigence; workforce development, job, and income supports; community action agencies; lead exposure and abatement; sober living residences; nonemergency medical transportation; annual report on poverty; and transportation - SB557

Public hearing required on bills with one third of members of either house as cosponsors - AB598

Public hearing required on bills with one third of members of either house as cosponsors - SB547

Public Higher Education, Blue Ribbon Commission on, created in the UW System, report required - AB995

Registration of all eligible electors: requiring Elections Commission to use all feasible means to facilitate; DOT and report provisions - AB605

Registration of all eligible electors: requiring Elections Commission to use all feasible means to facilitate; DOT and report provisions - SB561

Residency requirement for voting purposes: number of days changed - AB1045

Residency requirement for voting purposes: number of days changed - SB943

Residential energy improvement program established - AB832

Residential energy improvement program established - SB784

Restrictiveness of shoreland zoning ordinances: changes to - AB1159

Semester of student teaching: tuition remission for resident undergraduates enrolled in a UW System institution - AB997

Shared governance at UW System institutions: statutory provisions restored to form prior to 2015 WisAct 55 - SB858

SNSP phased out; pupil enrollment cap in parental choice programs; DPI duties - SB499

Something Special from Wisconsin promotional campaign: DATCP appropriation increased - SB714

State aid to technical colleges: TCS funding increased - AB992

State preemption of local employment regulations repealed re wage claims and employee hours and overtime - AB484

Student loan forgiveness: adopting exclusion under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 for state income tax purposes; JSCTE appendix report - SB984

Student Loan Ombudsman, Office of the, created in DFI; student loan servicer licensing requirements - SB859

Student success and access fund: UW System to establish program; report required - AB998

Sustainable agriculture grant program created in DATCP, report required - SB778

Teacher and administrator licensure requirement for private schools participating in a parental choice program or the SNSP; exception provided - SB500

Teacher preparatory grant program administered by HEAB created; school district revenue limit per pupil adjustment modified; certain special education costs reimbursement changes - SB1045

Trampoline park license requirement created; liability coverage and exemptions - SB708

Transit Equity Day proclaimed February 4, 2024 - AJR124

Transit Equity Day proclaimed February 4, 2024 - SJR108

Unaccompanied youth’s authority to consent to, contract for, and receive medical care without a parent’s or guardian’s consent; conditions specified - SB704

Undetectable firearms manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and carrying prohibited, plans for manufacture provision; possession of frame or receiver of a firearm without a serial number prohibited; JRCCP may report - SB636

Universal changing stations: installation in certain buildings required; income and franchise tax credit for small businesses created - SB393

Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Day: June 7, 2024 proclaimed as - SJR107

U.S. senator and representative in Congress: top-five candidates in primary election appear on general election ballot and instant runoff voting in general election via ranked-choice voting ballot - SB528

UW general program operations appropriation increased - AB994

UW System resident undergraduate tuition freezes: limitation prohibited unless offset by increase in GPR - AB993

UW System tuition promise grant program created - AB990

Value-added agricultural practices: DATCP to provide education and technical assistance and grants - SB715

Voter preregistration provisions for 16 and 17 year olds - AB593

Voter preregistration provisions for 16 and 17 year olds - SB550

Voter registration at high schools and certain tribal schools: provisions prior to 2011 WisAct 240 reinstated - AB499

Voter registration at high schools and certain tribal schools: provisions prior to 2011 WisAct 240 reinstated - SB556

Voter registration at high schools and certain tribal schools: provisions prior to 2011 WisAct 240 reinstated - SB562

Voter registration forms and information provided to high school students eligible to register to vote - AB498

Voter registration forms and information provided to high school students eligible to register to vote - SB551

Water Fund for Our Future trust fund created; Joint Committee for the Oversight of the Water Fund for Our Future joint standing committee created - AB1183

Water Fund for Our Future trust fund created; Joint Committee for the Oversight of the Water Fund for Our Future joint standing committee created - SB1087

WRS teacher annuitant hired as a teacher by a WRS participating employer - AB515

WRS teacher annuitant hired as a teacher by a WRS participating employer - SB512

Other proposals authored or co-authored by Smith, Sen. Jeff (31st Sen.Dist.; D)

Assembly Bills:10, 11, 28, 23, 48, 115, 120, 116, 133, 140, 218, 219, 260, 288, 289, 301, 307, 340, 350, 352, 358, 359, 363, 366, 368, 372, 381, 385, 402, 403, 423, 472, 473, 474, 475, 478, 479, 481, 485, 501, 508, 509, 506, 513, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 537, 538, 557, 563, 564, 581, 582, 584, 585, 588, 589, 590, 591, 594, 595, 596, 597, 602, 615, 623, 631, 634, 643, 655, 657, 677, 678, 700, 701, 707, 717, 718, 728, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 740, 742, 743, 744, 745, 746, 747, 748, 750, 751, 754, 755, 756, 766, 775, 776, 777, 785, 787, 789, 802, 809, 810, 819, 825, 827, 833, 841, 840, 843, 729, 848, 849, 852, 859, 911, 948, 949, 916, 991, 1000, 1044, 1046, 1050, 1055, 1080, 1066, 1082, 1106, 1107, 1110, 1113, 1114, 1117, 1119, 1124, 1130, 1132, 1136, 1144, 1145, 1156, 1161, 1184, 1194, 1203, 1207, 1208, 1210, 1229

Assembly Joint Resolutions:10, 5, 11, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 38, 42, 50, 51, 44, 61, 54, 67, 68, 86, 95, 107, 108, 121, 138, 139, 140

Senate Bills:13, 14, 28, 36, 55, 113, 116, 120, 134, 298, 161, 218, 262, 302, 307, 322, 341, 352, 353, 365, 370, 372, 380, 383, 395, 414, 469, 474, 486, 487, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 503, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 520, 529, 533, 534, 535, 536, 540, 552, 566, 567, 568, 574, 590, 595, 615, 619, 622, 633, 637, 659, 662, 670, 675, 679, 696, 697, 698, 699, 700, 717, 718, 711, 712, 713, 719, 723, 732, 733, 734, 755, 761, 762, 777, 793, 795, 804, 819, 871, 877, 894, 907, 935, 938, 955, 981, 982, 995, 1004, 1007, 1012, 1013, 1022, 1025, 1033, 1044, 1064, 1065, 1069, 1093, 1103, 1104, 1113

Senate Joint Resolutions:10, 11, 12, 15, 19, 22, 25, 39, 41, 42, 44, 50, 51, 62, 86, 97, 99, 119, 120, 133

Senate Resolutions:1

2561 Spreitzer, Sen. Mark (15th Sen.Dist.; D)

Absentee ballot for the presidential primary: timeline for municipal clerks to send or transmit to certain electors modified - SB433

Absentee ballot requests and returns: text message confirmation of receipt; confidentiality provision - SB39

Additional sales and use taxes: municipalities may enact ordinance to allow - AB857

Additional sales and use taxes: municipalities may enact ordinance to allow - SB815

Automatic renewals in consumer contracts: requirements created; DATCP and private civil action provisions - AB417

Bathing periods for inmates: DOC and sheriffs to ensure minimum number per week - SB745

Beginning farmer and owners of farm assets income tax credit created - AB1124

Beginning farmer and owners of farm assets income tax credit created - SB1025

Candidate adjudged guilty of felony campaign finance or election fraud violations: court to order candidate committee dissolved and conditions on disbursement of funds specified - SB334

Child abuse and neglect reporting hotline posted in schools required - SB23

Childhood obesity prevention and management program created in DHS; grants, reports, and JSCTE appendix report provisions - SB953

Childhood obesity prevention and management program grants: DHS funding - SB952

Civic Information Consortium Board created and attached to the UW System re nonprofit corporation to award grants to support local journalism and media projects; report required - AB1139

Civic Information Consortium Board created and attached to the UW System re nonprofit corporation to award grants to support local journalism and media projects; report required - SB1042

Condemnation authority used to acquire land to establish or extend recreational trails, bicycle ways or lanes, or pedestrian ways: prohibition eliminated - AB863

Condemnation authority used to acquire land to establish or extend recreational trails, bicycle ways or lanes, or pedestrian ways: prohibition eliminated - SB816

Constitutional restrictions on marriage eliminated. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR97

Conversion therapy involving a minor: mental health providers prohibited from engaging in; specified examining boards required to investigate and discipline if violations are found - SB1065

“Corporal Benjamin H. Neal Memorial Highway”: portion of STH 11 from Village of Orfordville to Village of Footville designated as - AB225

“Corporal Benjamin H. Neal Memorial Highway”: portion of STH 11 from Village of Orfordville to Village of Footville designated as - SB223

Criminal defenses of adequate provocation, self-defense, or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect eliminated for claims based on discovery of victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation - SB307

Diapers and feminine hygiene products: sales and use tax exemption created; JSCTE appendix report - SB219