State Bill Tracking Chart

Bill #

Description, Main Author(s) and Status

WASB

Requires a certain percentage of state purchases to be made from businesses located in Wisconsin and requires local governments to set a goal of at least two percent of their purchases to be made from Wisconsin businesses. (Clark/Plale)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires all employers in the state to grant paid leave to veterans for Veterans Day (November 11). (Turner/Erpenbach)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorder. (Hixson/Robson)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires health insurance coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under the age of 18. (Cullen/Lassa)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 27, was signed into law May 21, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 14.

Makes housing and employment discrimination a Class I felony. (Schneider)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires subdivision plans to be approved by school boards. (Schneider)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Regulates employer monitoring of employee electronic mail. (Schneider)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Authorizes circuit courts to order a person who engages in employment discrimination to pay compensatory and punitive damages. (Sinicki/Hansen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Extends the employer notification program administered by the Department of Transportation to noncommercial motor vehicle drivers. (Gottlieb/Grothman)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 326.

Creates a process for a school district resident to object to a school district's use of a race-based name, nickname, logo or mascot. (Soletski/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.
Companion bill, SB 25, was signed into law on May 5, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 250.
WASB Testimony (Assembly Education Committee) (107.76 KB)

Relates to the filing of a wage claim and allows a collective bargaining representative to file a wage claim on behalf of an employee. (Garthwaite/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Increases the state's minimum wage to $7.60 for most employees. (Mason/Decker)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Prohibits campaign contributions for state officials from Jan. 1 of odd-numbered years to the enactment of the biennial state budget. (Gottlieb/Harsdorf)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires the state to pay for the legal representation and pay for any awards against a volunteer health care provider regardless of insurance. (Kaufert/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Establishes English as the official language of the state and requires all units of government to use English for all written expression except when necessary to use another language. (Schneider/Lasee)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Replaces the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act with the Uniform Prudent Management of Funds Act for the purposes of overseeing the management of funds held in trust for educational and other purposes. (Cullen/Risser)

Status: Fail to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Changes certain registration and reporting requirements for campaign contributions. (Dexter/Erpenbach)

Status: Failed to pass prior tothe end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Regulates employer monitoring of employee electronic mail. (Schneider)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Conforms the distribution of the First Dollar Credit with the distribution of the school levy credit. (Dexter/Vinehout)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Creates an individual income tax credit for health savings accounts. (Kaufert/Darling)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

2009-11 Biennial State Budget (Joint Committee on Finance at the request of Gov. Doyle)

Status: Signed into law on June 29, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 28.

See WASB Budget Chart (214.49 KB)

Requires preparation time for teachers to be a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. (Sinicki/Erpenbach)

Status: Signed into law on July 20, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 34.

WASB Testimony (Assembly Labor Committee) (96.35 KB)

WASB Veto Request Letter to Gov. Doyle (105.56 KB)

Adopts federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creates an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. (Roth/Hopper)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Makes it a prohibited practice under the Municipal Employment Relations Act for an employer or an employee to end any grievance arbitration agreement during a contract hiatus and for an employer to end any fairshare agreement during a contract hiatus. (Soletski/Hansen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 46 was signed into law on June 23, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 21.

WASB Testimony (Assembly Labor Committee) (93.66 KB)

Relates to portability under group health benefit plans and independent review of insurance policy rescissions and preexisting condition exclusion denials under group and individual health benefit plans. (Pasch/Vinehout)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session..

Authorizes a city or village to extend the life of a tax incremental district for one year to benefit housing in the city or village. (Grigsby/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires all employers with at least 50 employees to provide unpaid leave for school conferences and activities. (Black/Carpenter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Makes changes to the campaign finance laws and the biennial state budget process. (Kaufert/Cowles)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires employers to provide health insurance coverage through a group health plan to employee dependents up to age 27 under certain conditions. (Smith/Vinehout)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires a child to complete 5-year-old kindergarten in order to attend first grade, requires a child enrolled in 5-year-old kindergarten to attend regularly, and requires school boards to establish policies for exceptions to the first-grade admission requirement. (Smith/Coggs)

Status: Signed into Law October 6, 2009, as 2009 Wisconsin Act 41.

Eliminates the Sept. 1 school start date mandate.
(Pope-Roberts/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Purchasing of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces. (Peterson/Leibham)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session..

Changes the biennial state budget preparation, and requires zero-based budgeting and use of generally accepted accounting principles. (Vukmir/Kanavas)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Adopts federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creates an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. (Hixson/Plale)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires distribution on autism-related materials, provides funding for Medical Assistance and creates other autism-related initiatives. (Newcomer/Leibham)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Applies the open meetings law to legislative party caucuses. (Mason/Lasee)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires legislative review of Milwaukee Public Schools election district plans and other municipal districts following the 10-year census. (Kessler/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires instruction in safely dealing with railroad crossing hazards in driver education courses. (Van Roy/Plale)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 157, was signed into law on November 12, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 64.

Relates to the charge-back of refunded or rescinded taxes and of personal property taxes and sharing certain collected taxes. (Hixson/Robson)

Status: Signed into law on March 15, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 171.

Eliminates the applicability of the prevailing wage law to projects in which the construction is contracted for by a private owner or developer and the completed project is acquired by a local government unit or state agency. (Gottlieb/Harsdorf)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Makes changes relating to consideration of biennial budget bills. (Zipperer/Leibham)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the number of nomination paper signatures required for school board member candidates in certain school districts. (Zipperer/Kanavas)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires instruction on collective bargaining and the history of organized labor in public schools. (Jorgensen/Hansen)

Status: Signed into law on December 10, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 99.

Relates to school bus seating positions and passenger loading and unloading. (Molepske Jr./Lassa)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Directs the Department of Public Instruction annually to award grants to school districts that operate language immersion schools in any grade from kindergarten to 8. (Kessler)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. (Hilgenberg/Robson)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Provides public with information on state agency and school district operations. (Kramer/Hopper)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Retains minimum number of school hours per year, but eliminates minimum number of days. (Rhoades/Kreitlow)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Changes date of pupil counts in second semester to the last Friday in January. (Huebsch/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Establishes a charter school in conjunction with an American Indian tribe. (Sherman/Jauch)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Provides benefit and protections to tribal schools and tribal school pupils and staff similar to those provided to private schools and private school pupils and staff. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the use of a facsimile firearm. (Van Roy/Hansen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. (Fields/Plale)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires that certain high school agriculture courses be counted as science credits. (Radcliffe/Vinehout)

Status: Signed into law on February 11, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 114.

Monitor

Memo (.pdf) (135.45 KB)

Grants high school diplomas to certain veterans with service-connected disabilities. (Milroy/Hansen)

Signed into law on April 21, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 208.

Eliminates the requirement that DPI keep confidential pupil records received from a school board. (Pocan/Miller)

Status: Signed into law on May 15, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 11.

Relates to the sale, disposal, collection and recycling of electronic devices. (Bernard Schaber/Miller)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Support

Amendment (.pdf)
(89.94 KB)

Relates to children and their families who are involved in two or more systems of care. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Signed into law on May 13, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Law 334.

Relates to products containing mercury. (Danou/Jauch)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 200, was signed into law on October 6, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 44.

AB 306

Eliminates the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. (Davis/Olsen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Includes days on which school is closed by order of the state department of health services in the computation of school days. In addition, it includes days on which school is closed by order of the school district administrator because of a threat to the health or safety of pupils or school personnel (but not including inclement weather, which is covered by current law). (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Signed into Law, October 6, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 42.

 

Support

Memo (.pdf) (92.33 KB)


WASB Testimony (92.33 KB)

 

Relates to the identification of individuals who examine statements of economic interests filed with the Government Accountability Board. (Black)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the requirements for electors who vote by absentee ballot. (Turner/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to insurance coverage of orthotic and prosthetic devices and services. (Townsend/Hansen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the payment of employee required contributions under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (Gottlieb/Lazich)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Restricts access toand limits informationcontained in the Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP). (Schneider)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Oppose

 

 

Limits the searchability of a governmental Internet listing of property taxes assessed. (Parisi/Erpenbach)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to vehicle owner liability for a vehicle's failure to stop as required for a school bus. (Kramer/Kedzie)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to indoor environmental quality in public and private schools. (Grigsby/Sullivan)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 41, was signed into law on Dec. 10, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 96.

Relates to employment discrimination based on credit history. (Hixson/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to traffic control devices used by school safety patrols. (Dexter/Kreitlow)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 253, was signed into law on December 1, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 88.

Relates to state agency fiscal and operations reports and quarterly hearings of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. (Kramer/Lazich)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

AB 388

Makes numerous changes in the campaign financing law. (Pope-Roberts/Erpenbach)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Uses the results of standardized examinations to evaluate teachers. (Davis/Hopper)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Reduction in Local Government Property Insurance Fund premiums. (Barca/Vinehout)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to personal liability of officers, directors, and employees of child care providers. (Grigsby/Jauch)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to Indian child Welfare

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Notification requirements for persons who must register as sex offenders and who are school premises. (Friske)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Eliminating Special Transfer Program aid. (Friske/Schultz)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into eight school districts. (Vukmir/Kanavas)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. (Gottlieb/Olsen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Final offer limits under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. (Gottlieb)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Provides instruction in human growth and development. (Grigsby/Taylor)

Signed into law on February 24, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 134.

Relates to the model academic standards for personal financial literacy (Soletski/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Allows a school district to carry over unused revenue limit authority for more than one year (Sherman/Jauch)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires that an employer permit an employee who is a volunteer fire fighter to be late for or absent from work (Gunderson/Vinehout)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Various changes in the unemployment insurance law and providing a penalty. (Sinicki/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism, and other drug abuse problems. (Pasch/Hansen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 362, was signed into law on April 29, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 218.

Participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations. (Staskunas/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Allows the results of state standardized tests to be used for teacher evaluations if the school board develops a teacher evaluation plan and agrees to collectively bargain all aspects of the plan. (Under the bill, the prohibitionagainstusing the results of the tests to discharge or nonrenew a teacher would remain.) (Pope-Roberts)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 372, was signed into law on Nov. 9, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 60.

Oppose

Memo (.pdf) (149.10 KB)

Authorizes the state superintendent of public instruction to direct a school district to implement a new curriculum or instructional design, make personnel changes, or adopt accountability measures. (Pope-Roberts)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 437, was signed into law on April 29, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 215.

Requires school boards to consider the principles and standards for quality charter schools established by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers when establishing a charter school. (Pope-Roberts)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 373 was signed into law on Nov. 9, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 61.

Authorizes the DPI, the UW System, the Technical College System, and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges andUniversities to study each others' education programs,requires a written agreement concerning such studies, and requires the establishment of a longitudinal data system of student data. (Pope-Roberts)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 371 was signed into law on Nov. 9, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 59.

Moves the authority to approve a specific MPS grant to improve academic achievement from the Department of Administration to the DPI. (Pope-Roberts)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

AB 538

Allows the results of state standardized tests to be used for the purpose of evaluating teacher performance, and directs the DPI to award grants to school districts for improving or maintaining a high level of pupil academic achievement. (Davis/Darling)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relating to disclosure of information by health care providers and insurers. (Vukmir/Kanavas)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Licensing for audiologists; discipline grounds for audiologists. (Zepnick/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 358, was signed into law on May 10, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 356.

Notification of school closings and reopenings. (Schaber/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 379 was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 305.

Requires the Department of Health Services (DHS) to promulgate rules requiring the use of "healthy and environmentally sensitive" cleaning products and cleaning systemsin schools and othergovernment buildings. (Black/Miller)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session..

WASB Assembly Committee Testimony (94.02 KB)

Requiring passage of a supplemental examination in reading instruction to obtain a teaching license. (Ripp/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Screening pupils for phonemic awareness and rapid naming. (Ripp/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relating to special adjustment aid to school districts (Bies/Lasee)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

The eligibility for academic excellence higher education scholarships. (Ballweg/Miller)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 407, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 306.

Relates to vacating an award following arbitration pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement. (Kessler/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Oppose

Memo (.pdf) (153.21 KB)

Changing certain administrative procedures under the tax incremental financing program. (Pope-Roberts/Erpenbach)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 412, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 312.

The powers and duties of the board of school directors and the superintendent of schools in a first-class city school district. (Colon/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

School nurses and the administration of drugs to pupils.

(Pope-Roberts/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 414, was signed into law on March 15, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 160.

Relating to applicability to private roads and driveways of certain rules of the road governing passing school buses. (Pope-Roberts/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Physical fitness assessments, school nutrition, a quality rating system for day care centers. (Benedict)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Monitor

Memo (.pdf) (113.42 KB)

Pupils attending a school district under the Open Enrollment Program who are habitually truant.(Smith/Kreitlow )

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 342, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 304.

Authority to modify speed limits in school zones. (Nelson/Hansen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relating to the format and fees for obtaining copies of public records. (Dexter/Kreitlow)

Status: Signed into law on May 18, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 370.

Relating to the threshold for registration and reporting by groups and individuals seeking to influence referendum results. (Committee on Elections and Campaign Reform)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 417, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 313.

Requiring local units of government to use the qualifications-based selection process for certain public works consulting contracts. (Molepske/Plale)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relating to the governance and election of members of the board of school directors of a first class city school district and tenure for school principals. (Grigsby/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relating to sentencing for crimes on school premises. (Staskunas/Darling)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relating to the use of positive behavioral interventions and supports aversive interventions in schools and requires the exercise of rule-making authority. (Pasch/Lassa)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Various changes to the worker's compensation law. (Sinicki/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Public, educational, and governmental access channel requirements for video service providers and interim cable operators. (Hebl/Vinehout)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiocerebral resuscitation, and the use of an automated external defibrillator to high school pupils.(Zigmunt/Hansen)

Status: Signed into law on May 10, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 273.

Creating a nonrefundable individual income and corporate income and franchise tax credit for contributions to certain public school programs and to private school scholarship funds. (Fields/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Prohibiting health insurance policies and self-insured health plans from excluding coverage for injuries based on the use of alcohol or controlled substances.

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session..

Promoting the use of locally grown food in school meals and snacks and granting rule-making authority. (Vruwink/Lassa)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 293.

Creating an Office of School Standards and Licensure in the city of Milwaukee and requiring all public schools and certain private schools in the city of Milwaukee to obtain a license in order to operate. (Kessler)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Allowing union high school districts to include students attending the elementary schools in their districts under the Open Enrollment Program in the high school's count of occupied pupil spaces for the purposes of the Open Enrollment Program. (Pasch/Darling)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB250, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 303.

Creating grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies. (Clark/Vinehout)

Status:Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Allowing different timelines for school district consolidation referendums. (Clark/Vinehout)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 598, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 307.

Allowing the Department of Public Instruction to distribute surplus transportation categorical aids to school districts. (Dexter/Kreitlow)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Increasing the maximum class size in the student achievement guarantee in education (SAGE) program to 18; allowing additional schools to enter into the SAGE program; and eliminating SAGE class size waivers. (Dexter/Holperin)

Status: Signed into law on May 12 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 301.

Allowing school districts to transport private school students only during the term of the school district (not before Sept. 1); allowing the payment for parent transportation contracts for multiple children in one household attending the same private school to be calculated for one child; and changing the student enrollment notification requirement for private schools to July 15. (Dexter/Kreitlow)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Political disbursements by corporations and cooperative associations and the scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. (Black/Wirch)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters. (Van Akkeren/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 585, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 290.

The statute of limitations for sexual contact with a child and limits on recovery against the state and local political subdivisions. (Staskunas)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

The school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment. (Hraychuck/Vinehout)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Energy conservation standards for state buildings, structures, and facilities, energy and environmental design standards for school district facilities and other local government buildings, leasing of state buildings, structures, and facilities, standards for the construction and use of gray water systems, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (Molepske/Risser)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Oppose

Testimony (.pdf)
(167.09 KB)

Defining political subdivision of a state for purposes of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law. (Barca/Wirch)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 604, was signed into law on May 13, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 345.

Prohibiting consideration of any conviction record of an applicant for employment before the applicant has been selected for an interview. (Parisi/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

The limit on the number of pupils who may attend a private school under the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. (Davis/Lazich)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Special distinguishing registration plates associated with the Neenah Joint School District and making an appropriation. (Kaufert/Ellis)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Employment eligibility verification requirements for state and local government employees and state procurement and construction contracts. (Gottlieb/Holperin)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. (Smith/Coggs)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

A sales and use tax exemption for textbooks. (Sinicki/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (Roys/Erpenbach)

Status: Signed into law on May 18, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 390.

Funding post-retirement health care benefits of local government employees. (Townsend)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Authorizing the state superintendent to withhold payments from a private school participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program if the private school is in arrears or default in contractual payments. (Colon/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (Mason/Hansen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Creating a qualified economic offer for school district professional employees in the arbitration process and school board selection of the group health benefits provider for school district employees. (Davis)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Pupil Assessments (Davis)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session..

Prohibiting the use of corporal punishment in private schools that participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. (Krusick)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Distributing one-half of general school aid using an income equalization formula. (Meyer/Kapanke)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Creating an income and franchise tax credit for businesses that contribute to a scholarship-granting organization or to an educational improvement organization and a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for education expenses paid for dependents who attend elementary and secondary schools. (Davis/Darling)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an appropriation.
(Pope-Roberts/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 681, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 329.

Health insurance coverage of smoking cessation treatment and medications. (Black/Risser)

Status:Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (Stone/Leibham)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Expanding and increasing the tax exemption for retirement income received by an individual. (Davis/Leibham)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Grants for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs and making an appropriation. (Vos/Schultz)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Eliminates spring elections. (Sherman/Carpenter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Exempts principal homesteads of individuals from the uniformity clause. (Sherman/Jauch)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Provides property tax relief from school district property taxes to persons who have their principal dwelling in this state. (Soletski/Hansen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Changes the requirement for a qualified elector from 18 to 17. (Mason/Taylor)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to commending the public service of Elizabeth Burmaster. (Pope-Roberts/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires the state to budget and account for all funds it receives or expends in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. (Strachota/Hopper)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to different property tax levy rates for parts of cities, villages, towns, counties, and school districts added by attachments to school districts, consolidations, and boundary changes under cooperative agreements. (Newcomer/Lehman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Prohibiting partial vetoes of parts of bill sections. (Hebl/LRisser)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Bill #

Description, Main Author(s) and Status

WASB

Increases the state's minimum wage to $7.60 per hour for most employees. (Decker/Mason)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorder. (Robson/Hixson)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Authorizes circuit courts to order a person who engages in employment discrimination to pay compensatory and punitive damages. (Hansen/Sinicki)

Status: Signed into law on June 8, 2009, as 2009 Wisconsin Act 20.

Prohibits political campaign donations to state officials from Jan. 1 of odd-numbered years until the enactment of the biennial state budget. (Harsdorf/Gottlieb)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Creates a process for a school district resident to object to a school district's use of a race-based name, nickname, logo or mascot. (Coggs/Soletski)

Status: Signed into law on May 5, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 250.

Requires health insurance coverage for hearing aids and cochlear implants for persons under the age of 18. (Lassa/Cullen)

Status: Signed into law on May 21, 2009, as 2009 Wisconsin Act 14.

Replaces the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act with the Uniform Prudent Management of Funds Act for the purposes of overseeing the management of funds held in trust for educational and other purposes. (Risser/Cullen)

Status: Signed into law on July 20, 2009, as 2009 Wisconsin Act 33.

Conforms the distribution of the first dollar credit with the distribution for the school levy credit. (Vinehout/Dexter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires school boards to adopt a plan for maintaining indoor air quality and creates a task force to make recommendations to the Department of Public Instruction for a school district indoor environmental air quality model management plan. (Sullivan/Grigsby) (This legislation is based on a compromise agreement reached by the WASB, SAA and WEAC.)

Status: Signed into law on December 10, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 96.

Changes certain registration and reporting requirements for campaign contributions. (Erpenbach/Dexter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Creates a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts. (Darling/Kaufert)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Makes it a prohibited practice under the Municipal Employment Relations Act for an employer or an employee to end any grievance arbitration agreement during a contract hiatus and for an employer to end any fairshare agreement during a contract hiatus. (Hansen/Soletski)

Status:Signed into law on June 23, 2009, as 2009 Wisconsin Act 21.

Authorizes legislative oversight of expenditure of federal stimulus dollars. (Carpenter/Richards)

Status:Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Extends the employer notification program operated by the Department of Transportation to noncommercial motor vehicle drivers. (Grothman/Gottlieb)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 32, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 326.

Prohibits the Milwaukee Public Schools from imposing residency requirements. (Darling/Gunderson)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the regulation, preservation and restoration of historic buildings. (Lassa/Shilling)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

SB 67

 

Makes prep time a mandatory subject of collective bargaining. (Erpenbach/Sinicki)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 95 was signed into law on July 20, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 34.

WASB Testimony (Senate Labor Committee) (.pdf) (104.02 KB)

WASB Floor Memo to Senators on SB 67 (Prep Time)(.pdf)
(93.64 KB)

Allows employees school conference and activities leave. (Carpenter/Black)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Purchasing of creditable service under the Wisconsin Retirement System for active service in the U.S. armed forces. (Leibham/Peterson)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires a child, beginning in the 2011-12 school year, to complete five-year-old kindergarten as a prerequisite to being admitted to first grade in a public school including a charter school. Also requires a child who is enrolled in five-year-old kindergarten in a public or private school to regularly attend kindergarten during the school year. (Coggs/Smith)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 119 was signed into law on Oct. 6, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act. 41.

Relates to the use of cellular telephones and other devices while operating certain motor vehicles transporting children and providing a penalty. (Carpenter/Kerkman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Makes changes relating to consideration of biennial budget bills. (Leibham/Zipperer)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the collection, recycling, and disposal of certain electronic devices. (Miller/Schaber)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Support

Memo (.pdf) (114.47 KB)

Amendment.pdf (84.11 KB)

Eliminates commencement of the school term in public schools. (Lehman/Pope-Roberts)

 

 

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Adopts federal law as it relates to an income tax deduction for certain educators and creating an individual income tax deduction for educators who use their own funds to purchase classroom educational supplies. (Plale/Hixson)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires the Center on Education and Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to establish a career conversions program. (Lassa/Berceau)

Status: Signed into law on May 10, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 271.

Grants high school credit for extracurricular sports and requires additional physical education credits for a high school diploma. (Hopper/A. Ott)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Establishes a charter school in conjunction with an Indian tribe. (Jauch/Sherman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires that every school board's instructional program in state, national, and world history include information on the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process. (Hansen/Jorgensen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 172 was signed into law on Dec. 10, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 99.

Provides benefits and protections to tribal schools and tribal school pupils and staff similar to those provided to private schools and private school pupils. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 302.

Provides specific details regarding school safety plans, pupil records and school bullying. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 309.

Adjusts a school district's revenue limit for certain school safety expenditures. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Acquaints each student with hazards posed by railroad highway grade crossings and provides at least 30 minutes of instruction in safely dealing with these hazards. (Plale/Van Roy)

Status: Signed into law on November 12, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 64

Increases the maximum claim under the school property tax credit for older claimants. (Darling/Knodl)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Creates and individual income tax deduction for any amount of interest paid on certain loans that are used for educational expenses. (Darling/Vos)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the issuance of licenses to teach mathematics or science. (Plale/Fields)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to reorganizing the Milwaukee Public School System into eight school districts and creating a Milwaukee Public Schools Redistricting and Implementation Commission. (Kanavas/Vukmir)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to an income and franchise tax credit for wages paid to an employee who is deployed or called to active duty with the national guard or a reserve unit of the U.S. armed forces. (Harsdorf/Townsend)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Eliminates the requirement that DPI keep confidential pupil records received from a school board. (Miller/Pocan)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill AB 255 was signed into law on May 15, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 11.

Relates to the time within which a complaint may be filed or a civil action may be brought alleging a violation of the family and medical leave law. (Lassa/Molepske)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot. (Leibham/Stone)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to products containing mercury and granting rule-making authority. (Jauch/Danou)

Status: Signed into Law October 6, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 44.

Relates to school policies on bullying. (Kedzie/Young)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to children and their families who are involved in two or more systems of care and making an appropriation. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status. Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-11 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 296, was signed into law on May 13, 1010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 334.

Eliminates the enrollment limit on virtual charter schools. (Olsen/Davis)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Makes numerous changes in the campaign financing law. The bill also makes changes to the income tax laws, the lobbying regulation law, and the staffing of the Government Accountability Board. (Erpenbach/Pope-Roberts)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to emergency management, succession of public offices and computation of school days. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 316 was signed into law on Oct. 6, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 42.

Monitor

Testimony (.pdf) (83.46 KB)

Relates to the payment of state school aid in June 2009. (Miller/Pocan)

Status: Signed into law on June 11, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 23.

Monitor

 

Relates to a lifelong learning accounts program and creates income tax modifications and an income tax credit for contributions and withdrawals related to lifelong learning accounts. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to popular election of technical college district boards. (Darling/J. Ott)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Accepts pupils under the full-time Open Enrollment Program. (Darling/Pasch)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 303.

Relates to traffic control devices used by school safety patrols. (Kreitlow/Dexter)

Status: Signed into law on December 1, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 88.

Allows the use of the examination results for the evaluation of teacher performance. (Hopper/Davis)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the deployment of high-speed Internet services. (Kreitlow/Jorgensen)

Status:Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to employment discrimination based on credit history. (Taylor/Hixson)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Monitor

Testimony-Fiscal_Note (.pdf) (134.48 KB)

Allows a reduction in Local Government Property Insurance Fund premiums. (Vinehout/Barca)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

 

Relates to physical fitness assessments, school nutrition, a quality rating system for day care centers. (Joint Legislative Council)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Participation in variable annuity program under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (Wirch/Hubler)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to providing instruction in human growth and development. (Taylor/Grigsby)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 458, was signed into law on February 24, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 134.

Relates to the model academic standards for personal financial literacy. (Taylor/Soletski)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Allowing a school district to carry over unused revenue limit authority to the following school year. (Jauch/Sherman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Allows a school board to deny participation in the open enrollment program to students deemed habitually truant. (Kreitlow/Smith)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 304.

Awarding grants to school districts for pupil academic achievement, allowing the results of pupil examinations to be used to evaluate teacher performance. (Darling/Davis)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Licensing for Audiologists; discipline grounds for audiologists. (Lehman/Zepnick)

Status: Signed into law on May 13, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 356.

Directs school boards to provide instruction about the recent history of the Hmong people. (Lehman/Soletski)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Health insurance coverage of nervous and mental disorders, alcoholism and other drug abuse. (Hansen/Pasch)

Status: Signed into law on April 29, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 218.

Moves the authority to approve a specific MPS grant to improve academic achievement from the Department of Administration to the DPI.

Status: Signed into law on Nov. 9, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 58.

Authorizes the DPI, the UW System, the Technical College System, and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges andUniversities to study each others' education programs,requires a written agreement concerning such studies, and requires the establishment of a longitudinal data system of student data.

Status: Signed into law on Nov. 9, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 59.

Allows the results of state standardized tests to be used for teacher evaluations if the school board develops a teacher evaluation plan and agrees to collectively bargain all aspects of the plan. (Under the bill, the prohibitionagainstusing the results of the tests to discharge a teacher would remain.) (Senate Committee on Education)

Status: Signed into law on Nov. 9, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 60.

Oppose

Memo (.pdf) (144.50 KB)

Requires school boards to consider the principles and standards for quality charter schools established by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers when establishing a charter school. (Senate Committee on Education)

Status: Signed into law on Nov. 9, 2009 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 61.

Relates to the notification of school closings and reopenings. (Taylor/Schaber)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 305.

Relates to factors considered in binding interest arbitration under the Municipal Employment Relations Act. (Grothman/Gottlieb)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Licensing sign language interpreters, creating an evidentiary privilege for communications with those interpreters, creating a Sign Language Interpreter Council, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.

Status: Signed into law on May 13, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 360.

Monitor

Memo (.pdf) (114.73 KB)

Deduction of voluntary payments from retirement annuities under the Wisconsin Retirement System. (Hansen/Mason)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

This bill directs the mayor of the city of Milwaukee to appoint a superintendent of schools to serve at the mayor's pleasure. Under the bill, the superintendent of schools is in charge of MPS and most of the powers and duties of the board of school directors are transferred to the superintendent of schools. (Taylor/Colon)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the eligibility for academic excellence higher education scholarships. (Miller/Smith)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 306.

This bill changes certain administrative procedures under the tax incremental financing program. (Erpenbach/Pope-Roberts)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 312.

Relates to school nurses and the administration of drugs to pupils. (Lehamn/Pope-Roberts)

Status: Signed into law on March 15, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 160

Relates to the threshold for registration and reporting by groups and individuals seeking to influence referendum results. (Kedzie/Ott)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 313.

This bill relates to persons under the influence of alcohol beverages on school premises. (Kedzie/Ott)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes. (Kreitlow/Dexter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the format and fees for obtaining copies of public records. (Kreitlow/Dexter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 638, was signed into law on May 18, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 370.

Collective bargaining over health care coverage for municipal employees, allowing municipal employers to change health care coverage plan providers, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority. (Darling/Vukmir)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to vacating an award following arbitration pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement. (Taylor/Kessler)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Authorizes the state superintendent of public instruction to direct school districts to implement a new curriculum or instructional design, make personnel change, or adopt accountability measures. (Committee on Education)

Status: Signed into law on April 29, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 215.

Oppose

Memo (.pdf) (107.55 KB)

SB 442

Requires local units of government to use the qualifications-based process for certain public works consulting contracts. (Plale/Molepske, Jr.)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the possession of a firearm at school or under the supervision of a school authority. (Holperin/Hraychuck)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the governance and election of members of the board of school directors. (Coggs/Grigsby)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Regulation by the office of the commissioner of insurance of self-insured health plans offered by a city, town, village, county, or school district, providing a penalty, and grant rule-making authority. (Erpenbach/Dexter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Relates to the use of positive behavioral interventions and supports aversive interventions in schools. (Lassa/Pasch)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Oppose

Memo (.pdf) (106.68 KB)

Creates a nonrefundable individual income and corporate income and franchise tax credit for contributions to certain public school programs and to private school scholarship funds.(Taylor/Fields)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Various changes to the worker's compensation law. (Coggs/Sinicki)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Promoting the use of locally grown food in school meals and snacks and granting rule-making authority. (Lassa/Vruwink)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 746, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 293.

Political disbursements by corporations and cooperative associations and the scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law. (Wirch/Black)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Authorizing the coping of a birth certificate in order for a child to participate in an organized youth sport. (Grothman/LeMahieu)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Public, educational, and governmental access channel requirements for video service providers and interim cable operators. (Vinehout/Hebl)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Prohibiting discrimination against an employee who declines to attend an employer-sponsored meeting or to participate in any communication with the employer or with an agent, representative, or designee of the employer, the primary purpose of which is to communicate the opinion of the employer about religious or political matters. (Coggs/Van Akkeren)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 290.

Increasing the maximum class size in the student achievement guarantee in education (SAGE) program to 18; allowing additional schools to enter into the SAGE program; and eliminating SAGE class-size waivers. (Holperin/Dexter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 808, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 301.

Allowing school districts to transport private school students only during the term of the school district (not before Sept. 1); allowing the payment for parent transportation contracts for multiple children in one household attending the same private school to be calculated for one child; and changing the student enrollment notification requirement for private schools to July 15. (Kreitlow/Dexter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Allowing the Department of Public Instruction to distribute surplus transportation categorical aids to school districts. (Kreitlow/Dexter)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-11 legislative session.

Allowing different timelines for school district consolidation referendums. (Vinehout/Clark)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 307.

Creating grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies. (Vinehout/Clark)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

The school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment. (Vinehout/Hraychuck)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Defining political subdivision of a state for purposes of the Wisconsin Uniform Securities Law. (Wirch/Barca)

Status: Signed into law on May 13, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 345.

Employment eligibility verification requirements for state and local government employees and state procurement and construction contracts. (Holperin/Gottlieb)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Prohibiting consideration of any conviction record of an applicant for employment before the applicant has been selected for an interview. (Taylor/Parisi)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Energy conservation standards for the construction of certain buildings, energy and environmental design standards for state buildings, structures, and facilities, energy and environmental design standards for school district facilities and other local government buildings, leasing of state buildings, structures, and facilities, standards for the construction and use of gray water systems, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (Risser/Molepske)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties. (Coggs/Smith)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Various changes in the unemployment insurance law and providing a penalty. (Coggs/Sinicki)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (Erpenbach, Roys)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, AB 903, was signed into law on May 18, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 390.

Insurance coverage for behavior analysts' autism treatment. (Wirch/Hintz)

Status: Signed into law on May 11, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 282.

Adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an appropriation. (Lehman/Pope-Roberts)

Status: Signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 329.

The terms of teacher employment contracts. (Grothman/Pridemore)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiocerebral resuscitation, and the use of an automated external defibrillator to high school pupils. (Hansen/Zigmunt)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session. Companion bill, SB 725, was signed into law on May 12, 2010 as 2009 Wisconsin Act 273.

Providing the public with information on state agency and school district operations expenditures and state agency and school district contracts and grants. (Hopper/Kramer)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Authorized foods under the food stamp program; a deductible and coinsurance under BadgerCare Plus; a minimum copayment and maximum child care hours under Wisconsin Shares; drug testing for eligibility for public assistance; eliminating income eligibility requirements for enrollment in a private school participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program; changing eligibility requirements for persons or families of low and moderate income to receive, directly or indirectly, certain housing, housing assistance, grants, loans, or benefits from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, the Department of Commerce, and local housing authorities; consideration of the income and assets of a person for purposes of receiving low-income energy assistance; consideration of the income and assets of both parents of a student under 22 years of age for purposes of awarding a grant or scholarship to such a student; prohibiting new claims under the earned income tax credit; increasing the individual income tax personal exemption for dependents; granting rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.(Grothman/LeMahieu)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Creates a property tax exemption from school district property taxes for the first $60,000 of value for the primary residence of a Wisconsin resident (constitutional amendment - first consideration). (Hansen/Soletski)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Requires a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to dissolve or change the purpose of any state fund (constitutional amendment - first consideration). (Plale/Tauchen)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Proposed constitutional amendment requires the state budget and account for all funds it receives or expends in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. (Hopper/Strachota)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

This proposed constitutional amendment eliminates the spring election of nonpartisan offices so that all regularly scheduled elections will be held in November. (Carpenter/Sherman)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

Prohibiting partial vetoes of parts of bill sections. (Risser/Hebl)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.

The right of the people to contract privately for health care services and health care coverage and prohibiting requiring a person to obtain or maintain health insurance coverage or to participate in any health care system or plan. (Leibham/Vos)

Status: Failed to pass prior to the end of the 2009-10 legislative session.