Senator Melissa Ratcliff

2025 Co-authored Proposals

• 4/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 180
  Relating to: modifications to housing programs under the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. (FE)

• 4/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 176
  Relating to: an income and franchise tax exemption for broadband expansion grants and for federal high-cost program funding for broadband expansion. (FE)

• 4/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 174
  Relating to: coverage of individuals with preexisting conditions and benefit limits under health plans.

• 4/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 175
  Relating to: local building permit fees for certain improvements of residences of disabled veterans. (FE)

• 4/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 178
  Relating to: changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE)

• 3/27/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 20
  Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jim Soletski.

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 142
  Relating to: algorithmic software for residential housing, and providing a penalty.

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 150
  Relating to: passing legislation to reduce carbon emissions.

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 145
  Relating to: the procedure for adding federal newborn screening recommendations to the state-required newborn screenings, granting rule-making authority, and providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures. (FE)

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Resolution 2
  Relating to: proclaiming March 2025 and March 2026 as Women’s History Months.

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 152
  Relating to: financial eligibility for the Alzheimer’s family and caregiver support program. (FE)

• 3/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 148
  Relating to: the right to repair agricultural equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)

• 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 19
  Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Jonathan Brostoff.

• 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 135
  Relating to: special observance days in schools.

• 3/14/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 17
  Relating to: honoring April 22, 2025, as the 55th anniversary of Earth Day.

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 96
  Relating to: exempting certain electric vehicle charging stations located at a residence from the electric vehicle charging tax. (FE)

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 14
  Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative David O. Martin.

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 15
  Relating to: condemning the pardons and sentence commutations of individuals involved in the violent attack on law enforcement officers at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 13
  Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Assembly Chief Clerk Patrick Fuller.

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 119
  Relating to: positions for the Office of School Safety. (FE)

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 99
  Relating to: spinal cord injury research grants and symposia and making an appropriation. (FE)

• 3/7/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 12
  Relating to: designating the month of March as Endosalpingiosis Awareness Month.

• 2/26/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 73
  Relating to: prosecuting or adjudicating delinquent a person under the age of 18 for committing an act of prostitution.

• 2/26/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 74
  Relating to: ratification of the Social Work Licensure Compact. (FE)

• 2/26/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 71
  Relating to: ratification of the Dietitian Licensure Compact. (FE)

• 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 67
  Relating to: providing state aid to reimburse public and private schools that provide free meals to all pupils for the costs of those meals and making an appropriation. (FE)

• 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 54
  Relating to: requirements concerning assistance in the detention of individuals who are or are alleged to be not lawfully present in the United States.

• 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 60
  Relating to: expanding the homestead income tax credit. (FE)

• 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 50
  Relating to: health care costs omnibus, granting rule-making authority, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)

• 2/21/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 63
  Relating to: ratification of the Driver License Compact. (FE)

• 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 8
  Relating to: proclaiming February 4, 2025, as Transit Equity Day.

• 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 10
  Relating to: proclaiming February 2025 as Black History Month.

• 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 42
  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)

• 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 38
  Relating to: personalized registration plate fees for gold star family special registration plates. (FE)

• 2/12/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 39
  Relating to: establishment of a Palliative Care Council. (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 19
  Relating to: fee waivers for state park vehicle admission receipts to pupils with Every Kid Outdoors passes. (FE)

• 2/5/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 24
  Relating to: limitations on the total value of taxable property that may be included in, and the lifespan of, a tax incremental financing district created in the city of Middleton. (FE)

• 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 23
  Relating to: extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE)

• 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 12
  Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for the sale of gun safes. (FE)

• 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Joint Resolution 3
  Relating to: proclaiming January 2025 as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin.

• 2/3/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 14
  Relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients.

• 1/24/2025: 2025 Senate Bill 2
  Relating to: expanding veterans benefits to individuals who served in Laos in support of the United States during the Vietnam War.