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Representative Mark Born

Assembly District 39

(R - Beaver Dam)
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Madison Office:
 Room 308 East
State Capitol
PO Box 8952
Madison, WI 53708 Telephone:
 (608) 237-9139
(888) 534-0039 Fax:
 (608) 282-3639 Voting Address:
 135 Franklin St.
Beaver Dam, WI 53916
Staff:
 Gianna Feest Gianna.Feest@legis.wisconsin.gov
Anna Knocke Anna.Knocke@legis.wisconsin.gov
Nick Krueger Nick.Krueger@legis.wisconsin.gov
Storm Linjer Storm.Linjer@legis.wisconsin.gov
Joe Malkasian Joe.Malkasian@legis.wisconsin.gov

Biography

  • Born Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, April 14, 1976; married; 1 child.
  • Graduate Beaver Dam High School, 1994; B.A. in Political Science and History, Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota), 1998.
  • Full-time legislator. Former corrections supervisor, Dodge County Sheriff’s Department.
  • Member: Trinity Church United Methodist Beaver Dam; Downtown Beaver Dam, Inc.; Friends of Horicon Marsh; Dodge County Historical Society (vice president); Leadership Beaver Dam Steering Committee; Beaver Dam Lake Improvement Association (former vice president); Republican Party of Dodge County (former chair); Beaver Dam Elks Lodge 1540.
  • Elected to Beaver Dam Fire and Police Commission, 2003–05; Beaver Dam City Council, 2005–09; Assembly since 2012.

Member of University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority

2023 Authored Proposals

(first or second author, first sponsor)

  • 1/29/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 1020
    Relating to: expansion of the second individual income tax bracket. (FE)

  • 1/19/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 932
    Relating to: modifications to building program project budgets, selection of project architects and engineers, single prime contracting, agency cooperation with energy conservation contractors, timeline for claims before the Claims Board, and making a transfer to the state building trust fund. (FE)

  • 1/16/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 956
    Relating to: modifications to building program project budgets, selection of project architects and engineers, single prime contracting, agency cooperation with energy conservation contractors, timeline for claims before the Claims Board, and making a transfer to the state building trust fund. (FE)

  • 1/12/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 944
    Relating to: counting convictions and findings for the purpose of the sex offender registry and notifications.

  • 1/10/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 921
    Relating to: amendments to the 2023-25 capital budget for University of Wisconsin System projects, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation.

  • 1/10/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 895
    Relating to: amendments to the 2023-25 capital budget for University of Wisconsin System projects, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation.

  • 1/5/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 874
    Relating to: counting convictions and findings for the purpose of the sex offender registry and notifications.

  • 11/9/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 658
    Relating to: a sales tax exemption for road-building equipment; increasing the income tax withholding threshold for nonresidents; modifying the certification requirement for a qualified opportunity fund; prohibiting certain lottery games; and extending the capital gains exclusion to family members who inherit certain farms organized as a partnership or limited liability company. (FE)

  • 11/2/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 616
    Relating to: Medical Assistance coverage of services provided in an institution for mental disease. (FE)

  • 10/27/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 573
    Relating to: a law enforcement officer virtual behavioral health crisis care pilot program. (FE)

  • 5/17/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 284
    Relating to: tribal nation welcome signs.

  • 5/17/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 270
    Relating to: hunter education requirements for persons under the age of 18 and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  • 4/20/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 224
    Relating to: ambulance staffing on aircraft transporting pediatric patients between hospitals.

  • 4/14/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 221
    Relating to: ambulance staffing on aircraft transporting pediatric patients between hospitals.

  • 2/10/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 28
    Relating to: classifying county jailers as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System and the treatment of county jailers under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. (FE)

  • 2/3/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 28
    Relating to: classifying county jailers as protective occupation participants under the Wisconsin Retirement System and the treatment of county jailers under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. (FE)

2023 Co-authored Proposals

  • 2/1/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 1040
    Relating to: medical cannabis, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  • 2/1/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 1035
    Relating to: requiring the community approach to four-year-old kindergarten. (FE)

  • 1/29/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 1023
    Relating to: expanding the child and dependent care credit. (FE)

  • 1/29/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 1021
    Relating to: increasing and expanding the retirement income subtraction. (FE)

  • 1/29/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 1022
    Relating to: the married persons credit. (FE)

  • 1/19/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 975
    Relating to: abortion if the probable postfertilization age of an unborn child is 14 or more weeks and requiring a referendum. (FE)

  • 1/12/2024: 2023 Assembly Bill 954
    Relating to: provisional licenses to practice medicine and surgery for internationally trained physicians and physician assistants and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  • 11/8/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 625
    Relating to: office requirements for motor vehicle wholesaler licensees. (FE)

  • 10/12/2023: 2023 Assembly Joint Resolution 82
    Relating to: condemning Hamas' barbaric attack against Israel.

  • 9/29/2023: 2023 Assembly Joint Resolution 78
    Relating to: requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (first consideration).

  • 9/29/2023: 2023 Assembly Joint Resolution 77
    Relating to: prohibiting state and local governments from using privately sourced moneys or equipment in connection with the conduct of elections and specifying who may perform tasks related to the conduct of an election (second consideration).

  • 9/29/2023: 2023 Assembly Joint Resolution 76
    Relating to: eligibility to vote in Wisconsin (second consideration).

  • 9/28/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 464
    Relating to: nonrecourse civil litigation advances and providing a penalty.

  • 9/28/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 440
    Relating to: permits for the overweight transport of certain fluid milk products. (FE)

  • 9/28/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 443
    Relating to: creation of a cremation permit application form. (FE)

  • 8/29/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 386
    Relating to: lowering the individual income tax rates in the third bracket and increasing and expanding the retirement income subtraction. (FE)

  • 6/14/2023: 2023 Assembly Joint Resolution 54
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Daniel LeMahieu.

  • 5/15/2023: 2023 Assembly Joint Resolution 47
    Relating to: recognizing May 2023 as Law Enforcement Appreciation Month in Wisconsin.

  • 5/3/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 245
    Relating to: county and municipal aid; imposing a city sales tax and an additional county sales tax to pay the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of city and county retirement systems; requiring newly hired city and county employees of certain city agencies and counties to be enrolled in the Wisconsin Retirement System; fire and police commissions of first class cities; eliminating the personal property tax; reporting certain crimes and other incidents that occur on school property or school transportation; advisory referenda; local health officers; local public protection services; exceptions to local levy limits; local regulation of certain quarry operations; emergency services; local approval of projects and activities under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship 2000 Program; requiring a referendum; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  • 4/14/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 175
    Relating to: clarification of medical necessity for abortion and exceptions in cases of rape or incest.

  • 4/14/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 176
    Relating to: permitting pharmacists to prescribe certain contraceptives, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  • 4/7/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 150
    Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance law, federal Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment grants, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  • 4/7/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 148
    Relating to: disenrollment of ineligible individuals from and redeterminations of eligibility for the BadgerCare Plus program and database confirmation for public assistance program eligibility. (FE)

  • 4/6/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 144
    Relating to: preliminary health care credentials granted to previously unlicensed individuals. (FE)

  • 2/23/2023: 2023 Assembly Bill 65
    Relating to: eligibility for producer-led watershed, lake, and river protection grants. (FE)

  • 2/6/2023: 2023 Assembly Joint Resolution 6
    Relating to: the appropriation authority of the legislature and the allocation of moneys Wisconsin receives from the federal government (second consideration).

2023 Cosponsored Proposals

  • 2/8/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 1011
    Relating to: abortion if the probable postfertilization age of an unborn child is 14 or more weeks and requiring a referendum. (FE)

  • 1/30/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 978
    Relating to: increasing and expanding the retirement income subtraction. (FE)

  • 1/30/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 976
    Relating to: expanding the child and dependent care credit. (FE)

  • 1/30/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 977
    Relating to: expansion of the second individual income tax bracket. (FE)

  • 1/30/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 979
    Relating to: the married persons credit. (FE)

  • 1/30/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 973
    Relating to: requiring the community approach to four-year-old kindergarten. (FE)

  • 1/11/2024: 2023 Senate Bill 900
    Relating to: provisional licenses to practice medicine and surgery for internationally trained physicians and physician assistants and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  • 11/7/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 610
    Relating to: a law enforcement officer virtual behavioral health crisis care pilot program. (FE)

  • 11/7/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 635
    Relating to: Medical Assistance coverage of services provided in an institution for mental disease. (FE)

  • 11/7/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 616
    Relating to: a sales tax exemption for road-building equipment; increasing the income tax withholding threshold for nonresidents; modifying the certification requirement for a qualified opportunity fund; prohibiting certain lottery games; and extending the capital gains exclusion to family members who inherit certain farms organized as a partnership or limited liability company. (FE)

  • 10/30/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 588
    Relating to: office requirements for motor vehicle wholesaler licensees. (FE)

  • 10/16/2023: 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 78
    Relating to: prohibiting state and local governments from using privately sourced moneys or equipment in connection with the conduct of elections and specifying who may perform tasks related to the conduct of an election (second consideration).

  • 10/13/2023: 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 74
    Relating to: condemning Hamas' barbaric attack against Israel.

  • 9/29/2023: 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 71
    Relating to: eligibility to vote in Wisconsin (second consideration).

  • 9/29/2023: 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 73
    Relating to: requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (first consideration).

  • 9/29/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 464
    Relating to: nonrecourse civil litigation advances and providing a penalty.

  • 9/20/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 440
    Relating to: creation of a cremation permit application form. (FE)

  • 9/20/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 435
    Relating to: lowering the individual income tax rates in the third bracket and increasing and expanding the retirement income subtraction. (FE)

  • 9/8/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 431
    Relating to: permits for the overweight transport of certain fluid milk products. (FE)

  • 6/8/2023: 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 52
    Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Daniel LeMahieu.

  • 5/24/2023: 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 47
    Relating to: recognizing May 2023 as Law Enforcement Appreciation Month in Wisconsin.

  • 5/18/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 301
    Relating to: county and municipal aid; imposing a city sales tax and an additional county sales tax to pay the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of city and county retirement systems; requiring newly hired city and county employees of certain city agencies and counties to be enrolled in the Wisconsin Retirement System; fire and police commissions of first class cities; eliminating the personal property tax; reporting certain crimes and other incidents that occur on school property or school transportation; advisory referenda; local health officers; local public protection services; exceptions to local levy limits; local regulation of certain quarry operations; emergency services; local approval of projects and activities under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship 2000 Program; requiring a referendum; and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  • 5/18/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 299
    Relating to: clarification of medical necessity for abortion and exceptions in cases of rape or incest.

  • 5/15/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 280
    Relating to: tribal nation welcome signs.

  • 5/2/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 265
    Relating to: hunter education requirements for persons under the age of 18 and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  • 4/14/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 232
    Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance law, federal Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment grants, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  • 4/14/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 245
    Relating to: disenrollment of ineligible individuals from and redeterminations of eligibility for the BadgerCare Plus program and database confirmation for public assistance program eligibility. (FE)

  • 4/3/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 158
    Relating to: preliminary health care credentials granted to previously unlicensed individuals. (FE)

  • 4/3/2023: 2023 Senate Bill 211
    Relating to: permitting pharmacists to prescribe certain contraceptives, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  • 1/27/2023: 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 5
    Relating to: the appropriation authority of the legislature and the allocation of moneys Wisconsin receives from the federal government (second consideration).

2023 Authored Amendments