2023 Senate Authors

CWD research and management funding - SB798

CWD self-service sampling kiosks; contract with private entity allowed - AB885

CWD self-service sampling kiosks; contract with private entity allowed - SB799

Deer carcass disposal sites and large metal containers: DNR required to provide; CWD education and funding provisions - AB886

Deer carcass disposal sites and large metal containers: DNR required to provide; CWD education and funding provisions - SB800

Democracy Day: Tuesday after the first Monday in November designated as a state holiday; state offices are closed - SB583

Discrimination under open housing law re questioning prospective tenant or denying housing due to evictions that are more than 5 years old - AB714

Discrimination under open housing law re questioning prospective tenant or denying housing due to evictions that are more than 5 years old - SB634

Drug products prescribed to counteract anaphylaxis: therapeutic interchange by pharmacist allowed - SB783

Dry cleaner environmental response program eliminated; Revitalize Wisconsin program created re hazardous substances and environmental cleanup - SB1071

EBT and credit and debit card processing equipment and services: DHS to provide to farmers' markets and farmers who sell directly to consumers; FTE position provision - SB710

Election and voting law changes: automatic voter registration, deceptive election practices, voter intimidation and suppression, polling place posting and language requirements, election manual, and withholding of voluntarily provided elector information; voter bill of rights; JRCCP may report - AB604

Election and voting law changes: automatic voter registration, deceptive election practices, voter intimidation and suppression, polling place posting and language requirements, election manual, and withholding of voluntarily provided elector information; voter bill of rights; JRCCP may report - SB548

Election supplies and equipment: grants to municipalities - AB1047

Election supplies and equipment: grants to municipalities - SB936

Employment discrimination based on unfair honesty and unfair genetics testing: circuit court action to recover compensatory and punitive damages allowed - SB578

Empty conduit lines: person conducting special work requiring digging in a right-of-way required to install; duty to offer service imposed on Internet service provider - AB1178

Empty conduit lines: person conducting special work requiring digging in a right-of-way required to install; duty to offer service imposed on Internet service provider - SB1083

Energy Innovation Grant Program appropriation - AB823

Energy Innovation Grant Program appropriation - SB775

Epinephrine for ambulances: DHS to reimburse ambulance service providers, conditions specified - SB782

Equal opportunity intern program established in DWD re placing paid interns with Wisconsin businesses - SB473

Food and beverages served in foam polystyrene packaging prohibited, exceptions provided - SB315

Food waste reduction pilot project grants created - SB721

Gas pipeline safety violations: maximum penalties increased - SB812

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

Hospital chargemaster: copy filed with DHS on annual basis required; notice and penalty provisions - AB788

In person absentee ballot application period expanded - AB1043

In person absentee ballot application period expanded - SB937

Individual Medicare supplement policy: policyholder may cancel at any time - AB404

Individual Medicare supplement policy: policyholder may cancel at any time - SB412

Initiative and referendum powers reserved to the people: petition process which people may propose and approve laws and constitutional amendments and referendum process which people may reject an act of the legislature created. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR87

Initiative and referendum powers reserved to the people: petition process which people may propose and approve laws and constitutional amendments and referendum process which people may reject an act of the legislature created. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR80

Insecticide use near pollinator habitat on land maintained by DNR prohibited, limited exceptions - SB360

Marriage law changes: eliminating the exception for minors between ages 16 and 18 and the spousal exception for certain sex crimes against children; annulment if a party was under age 18 - SB1030

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

Medicaid expansion; elimination of BadgerCare Plus Core; BadgerCare Reform waiver statutory implementation requirement eliminated - SB716

Mental health crisis intervention team training for law enforcement and correctional officers: DHS grants to local governments and American Indian tribes or bands - AB1154

Mississippi River erosion control revolving loan program established in DNR to assist certain municipalities and home owners - AB828

Mississippi River erosion control revolving loan program established in DNR to assist certain municipalities and home owners - SB785

Native American Heritage Month: November recognized as - AJR97

Native American Heritage Month: November recognized as - SJR90

Native prairie and forage plants: state agencies to give preference to for the benefit of pollinators - AB361

Native prairie and forage plants: state agencies to give preference to for the benefit of pollinators - SB357

Non-judicial elective state officials required to serve as election officials; Senate, Assembly, and legislative committees prohibited from meeting on election days - AB496

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