Representative Shae A. Sortwell

2025 Authored Proposals

(first or second author, first sponsor)

• 4/15/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 187
  Relating to: training completion awards for volunteer firefighters. (FE)

• 4/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 186
  Relating to: training completion awards for volunteer firefighters. (FE)

• 4/9/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 172
  Relating to: consumer data protection and providing a penalty. (FE)

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 143
  Relating to: the nomination of presidential electors.

• 3/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 149
  Relating to: the nomination of presidential electors.

• 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 125
  Relating to: a nuclear power siting study and time limits for taking final action on certain certificate of public convenience and necessity applications. (FE)

• 3/13/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 132
  Relating to: creating a board to organize, promote, and host a Wisconsin nuclear power summit and making an appropriation. (FE)

• 3/11/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 127
  Relating to: the duty of a pharmacist to dispense lawfully prescribed drugs and devices. (FE)

• 3/11/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 108
  Relating to: a nuclear power siting study and time limits for taking final action on certain certificate of public convenience and necessity applications. (FE)

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 94
  Relating to: civil action for injury or damages resulting from riot or vandalism, participation in a riot, prohibiting certain limitations or restrictions on law enforcement responses to riot or vandalism activity, and providing a penalty.

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 95
  Relating to: restitution orders following a conviction for human trafficking and restoration of the right to vote to a person barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction. (FE)

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 91
  Relating to: imposing the penalty of life imprisonment for the crime of child trafficking and providing a penalty. (FE)

• 2/28/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 88
  Relating to: civil action for injury or damages resulting from riot or vandalism, participation in a riot, prohibiting certain limitations or restrictions on law enforcement responses to riot or vandalism activity, and providing a penalty.

• 2/28/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 86
  Relating to: imposing the penalty of life imprisonment for the crime of child trafficking and providing a penalty. (FE)

• 2/28/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 87
  Relating to: restitution orders following a conviction for human trafficking and restoration of the right to vote to a person barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction. (FE)

• 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 41
  Relating to: local regulation of vegetable gardens.

• 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 42
  Relating to: local regulation of fowl.

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

• 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 Senate Bill 37
  Relating to: local regulation of vegetable gardens.

• 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 44
  Relating to: local regulation of fowl.

• 2/6/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 17
  Relating to: creating an employee ownership conversion costs tax credit, a deduction for capital gains from the transfer of a business to employee ownership, and an employee ownership education and outreach program. (FE)

• 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 21
  Relating to: creating an employee ownership conversion costs tax credit, a deduction for capital gains from the transfer of a business to employee ownership, and an employee ownership education and outreach program. (FE)

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

2025 Co-authored Proposals

• 4/15/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 178
  Relating to: expanding the treatment alternatives and diversion programs. (FE)

• 4/9/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 173
  Relating to: regulation of pharmacy benefit managers, fiduciary and disclosure requirements on pharmacy benefit managers, and application of prescription drug payments to health insurance cost-sharing requirements. (FE)

• 3/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 148
  Relating to: interpreter action by telephone or live audiovisual means in civil or criminal proceedings.

• 3/13/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 135
  Relating to: the right to repair motor vehicles and providing a penalty. (FE)

• 3/3/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 100
  Relating to: designating athletic sports and teams operated or sponsored by public schools or private schools participating in a parental choice program based on the sex of the participants.

• 3/3/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 102
  Relating to: designating University of Wisconsin and technical college sports and athletic teams based on the sex of the participants.

• 2/28/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 81
  Relating to: excluding expenditures funded by referenda from shared costs for the purpose of determining equalization aid for school districts. (FE)

• 2/24/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 54
  Relating to: utilization management controls for antipsychotic prescription drugs under the Medical Assistance program. (FE)

• 2/24/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 67
  Relating to: venue for actions in which there is a governmental party.

• 2/17/2025: 2025 Assembly Bill 35
  Relating to: withdrawal of candidacy for certain offices filled at the general election and providing a penalty. (FE)

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

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

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

• 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).

2025 Cosponsored Proposals

• 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 206
  Relating to: voidable provisions in residential rental agreements and the application of the Wisconsin Consumer Act to leases. (FE)

• 4/16/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 203
  Relating to: regulation of pharmacy benefit managers, fiduciary and disclosure requirements on pharmacy benefit managers, and application of prescription drug payments to health insurance cost-sharing requirements. (FE)

• 4/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 195
  Relating to: serving maple syrup in a public eating place.

• 3/27/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 166
  Relating to: consumer data protection and providing a penalty. (FE)

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 147
  Relating to: interpreter action by telephone or live audiovisual means in civil or criminal proceedings.

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 153
  Relating to: expanding the treatment alternatives and diversion programs. (FE)

• 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 137
  Relating to: the duty of a pharmacist to dispense lawfully prescribed drugs and devices. (FE)

• 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 129
  Relating to: the right to repair motor vehicles and providing a penalty. (FE)

• 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 124
  Relating to: creating a board to organize, promote, and host a Wisconsin nuclear power summit and making an appropriation. (FE)

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 117
  Relating to: designating athletic sports and teams operated or sponsored by public schools or private schools participating in a parental choice program based on the sex of the participants.

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 116
  Relating to: designating University of Wisconsin and technical college sports and athletic teams based on the sex of the participants.

• 2/26/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 75
  Relating to: venue for actions in which there is a governmental party.

• 2/26/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 83
  Relating to: utilization management controls for antipsychotic prescription drugs under the Medical Assistance program. (FE)

• 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 57
  Relating to: county sheriff assistance with certain federal immigration functions. (FE)

• 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 34
  Relating to: withdrawal of candidacy for certain offices filled at the general election and providing a penalty. (FE)

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

• 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.

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