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Senator Steve L. Nass

Senate District 11

(R - Whitewater)
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Madison Office:
 Room 10 South
State Capitol
PO Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707 Telephone:
 (608) 266-2635
 Fax:
 (608) 282-3551
Staff:
 Mike Mikalsen Mike.Mikalsen@legis.wisconsin.gov
Nathan Cobb Nathan.Cobb@legis.wisconsin.gov
Carmen Kraayvanger Carmen.Kraayvanger@legis.wisconsin.gov

Biography

  • Born Whitewater, Wisconsin, October 7, 1952.
  • Graduate Whitewater High School; B.S. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1978; M.S. Ed. in School Business Management, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1990.
  • Owner, rental property business. Former payroll benefits analyst and information analyst/ negotiator. Member of Wisconsin Air National Guard (retired, CMSgt, 33 years of service), served in Middle East in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
  • Member: American Legion; VFW.
  • Elected to Whitewater City Council, 1977—81; University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Board of Visitors, 1979—89; Assembly 1990—2012. Elected to Senate since 2014.

2025 Authored Proposals

(first or second author, first sponsor)

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 61
    Relating to: excluding expenditures funded by referenda from shared costs for the purpose of determining equalization aid for school districts. (FE)

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 53
    Relating to: requiring the display of the national motto in public schools and on public buildings. (FE)

  • 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 43
    Relating to: allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records.

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 22
    Relating to: requiring school boards to make textbooks, curricula, and instructional materials available for inspection by school district residents.

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 4
    Relating to: the freedom to gather in places of worship during a state of emergency (second consideration).

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 16
    Relating to: participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations.

  • 2/3/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 3
    Relating to: incorporating cursive writing into the state model English language arts standards and requiring cursive writing in elementary grades. (FE)

  • 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 11
    Relating to: allowing representatives of certain federally chartered youth membership organizations to provide information to pupils on public school property.

  • 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 13
    Relating to: incorporating cursive writing into the state model English language arts standards and requiring cursive writing in elementary grades. (FE)

  • 1/24/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 5
    Relating to: battery or threat to jurors and providing a penalty.

2025 Co-authored Proposals

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 64
    Relating to: injuring or killing a police or fire animal and providing a penalty.

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 51
    Relating to: flags flown at state and local government buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule.

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 58
    Relating to: referendum questions for certain referenda that affect property taxes. (FE)

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 11
    Relating to: restricting the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an appropriation bill that are capable of separate enactment and reducing appropriations in a bill (first consideration).

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 55
    Relating to: prohibiting the Department of Justice from using the legal services of nongovernmental employees. (FE)

  • 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 57
    Relating to: county sheriff assistance with certain federal immigration functions. (FE)

  • 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 9
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Justice David T. Prosser Jr.

  • 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 41
    Relating to: school safety grants and making an appropriation. (FE)

  • 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 36
    Relating to: an income tax exemption for cash tips paid to an employee. (FE)

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 25
    Relating to: court-issued criminal complaints in officer-involved deaths.

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 7
    Relating to: recognizing that the Wisconsin State Legislature supports nuclear power and fusion energy as clean energy sources that are critical to safely meeting Wisconsin’s growing energy demands and declaring the legislature’s commitment to the continuation and expansion of nuclear power and nuclear technologies, the development of nuclear technologies and fusion energy, and employing the leadership and resources necessary to support the development of and investment in nuclear power, fusion energy, and related technologies in the state.

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 6
    Relating to: honoring the life and enduring legacy of Robert George Uecker.

  • 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 18
    Relating to: changes to the educational assessment program and the school and school district accountability report. (FE)

  • 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 10
    Relating to: access to public high schools for military recruiters.

  • 1/24/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 3
    Relating to: requiring local approval for certain wind and solar projects before Public Service Commission approval.

  • 1/24/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 7
    Relating to: prohibiting a foreign adversary from acquiring agricultural or forestry land in this state.

  • 1/24/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 4
    Relating to: agreements for direct primary care.

  • 1/6/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 2
    Relating to: requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration).

2025 Cosponsored Proposals

  • 2/20/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 51
    Relating to: participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 44
    Relating to: allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 38
    Relating to: an income tax exemption for cash tips paid to an employee. (FE)

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 46
    Relating to: flags flown at state and local government buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 40
    Relating to: school safety grants and making an appropriation. (FE)

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 9
    Relating to: honoring the life and enduring legacy of Robert George Uecker.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 8
    Relating to: restricting the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an appropriation bill that are capable of separate enactment and reducing appropriations in a bill (first consideration).

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 26
    Relating to: battery or threat to jurors and providing a penalty.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 32
    Relating to: access to public high schools for military recruiters.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 34
    Relating to: court-issued criminal complaints in officer-involved deaths.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 30
    Relating to: prohibiting a foreign adversary from acquiring agricultural or forestry land in this state.

  • 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 6
    Relating to: recognizing that the Wisconsin State Legislature supports nuclear power and fusion energy as clean energy sources that are critical to safely meeting Wisconsin’s growing energy demands and declaring the legislature’s commitment to the continuation and expansion of nuclear power and nuclear technologies, the development of nuclear technologies and fusion energy, and employing the leadership and resources necessary to support the development of and investment in nuclear power, fusion energy, and related technologies in the state.

  • 2/12/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 24
    Relating to: county sheriff assistance with certain federal immigration functions. (FE)

  • 2/10/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 4
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Justice David T. Prosser Jr.

  • 2/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 9
    Relating to: allowing representatives of certain federally chartered youth membership organizations to provide information to pupils on public school property.

  • 2/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 8
    Relating to: agreements for direct primary care.

  • 2/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 7
    Relating to: requiring local approval for certain wind and solar projects before Public Service Commission approval.

  • 2/3/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 5
    Relating to: requiring school boards to make textbooks, curricula, and instructional materials available for inspection by school district residents.

  • 1/31/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 1
    Relating to: changes to the educational assessment program and the school and school district accountability report. (FE)

  • 1/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Joint Resolution 1
    Relating to: requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration).