Wisconsin Legislature: Darling, Sen. Alberta (8th Sen.Dist.; Rep.)

Brunsweiler River: portion designated part of the wild river system and named ``Martin Hanson Wild River"; maintenance provisions - SB6

Budget process: withholding pay and expenses from legislators and certain state elected officials if not passed by August 1 of odd-numbered year; acceptance of political contributions by partisan elective state officials prohibited between certain dates, penalty provision; deadlines for budget message from the Governor, Building Commission's long-range state building program budget, and state agencies' biennial budget requests revised; legislative consideration of biennial budget bill and identification of nonfiscal policy items, JCF and LRB duties; if not passed by certain date, any non-budget legislation may not be considered or requested until budget passes; JRCCP report - AB117

Combined protective services departments: towns and cities authorized to provide; abolishment of offices of chief of police and fire chief; JSCRS appendix report - AB312

Contact lenses that deliver therapeutic pharmaceutical agent: certain optometrists authorized to dispense - SB402

Convicted felon ineligible for licensure as a lobbyist; GAB duties specified - SB217

Electronic text messaging device: use while operating a motor vehicle prohibited; definition, exception, and penalty provisions; increased penalties for causing bodily harm or death; JRCCP report - SB103

Employment information of applicants for law enforcement positions: law enforcement agency authorized to obtain a court order if necessary; confidentiality, court prohibited disclosure, and exceptions provisions - SB82

Guantanamo Bay Naval Base detention facility: Corr.Dept may not enter into an agreement or contract to imprison prisoners or detainees from unless they violated a Wisconsin law - AB345

Inmates with contagious diseases: disclosure to correctional officer who has custodial authority permitted - SB547

Mueller, (SGT) Nickolas A.: life and military service commended - AJR104

NRB appoints DNR Secretary, term of office provisions; filling an NRB member vacancy modified - SB113

Nuclear Waste Fund: Congress should reimburse all funds contributed by ratepayers and suspend further collections - AJR115

Rail passenger service assistance and promotion program: provision allowing DOT to contract without competitive bidding or sealed proposals eliminated - AB796

Rail passenger service assistance and promotion program: provision allowing DOT to contract without competitive bidding or sealed proposals eliminated - SB343

Renewable resource credit based on use of solar energy, geothermal energy, biomass, or biogas that displaces the use of electricity created; PSC duties set - SB273

Transportation fund created in DOT and revenue generated by use of the state transportation system to be deposited into it: constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR18

Turf fertilizer containing phosphorus: application and retail sale prohibitions created; exceptions, penalty, and certain manure and finished sewage sludge product provisions - SB5

Undergraduate Research Day proclaimed April 22, 2009, and U.W. System students, faculty, and staff commended - SJR28

USH 41 designation as part of the interstate system: Wisconsin congressional delegation urged to grandfather preexisting weight limits - SJR45

USH 41 designation as part of the interstate system: Wisconsin congressional delegation urged to grandfather preexisting weight limits - SR9

U.W. Board of Regents required to notify and get approval from JCF to acquire property by condemnation - AB597

U.W. Board of Regents required to notify and get approval from JCF to acquire property by condemnation - SB566

Other proposals coauthored or cosponsored by Sen. Cowles:

Senate Bills: 9, 16, 23, 31, 34, 43, 48, 58, 66, 68, 75, 76, 77, 92, 97, 105, 118, 126, 128, 136, 145, 157, 162, 169, 194, 198, 200, 206, 208, 235, 236, 254, 267, 280, 288, 290, 293, 302, 321, 331, 333, 355, 385, 386, 400, 406, 418, 465, 471, 499, 500, 502, 533, 557, 562, 576, 587, 605, 610, 611, 618, 626, 629, 641, 659, 694, 696

Senate Joint Resolutions: 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 19, 22, 33, 38, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 74, 78, 83

Senate Resolutions: 8, 11, 13

Senate Petitions:

Assembly Bills: 3, 4, 7, 42, 57, 58, 63, 97, 98, 101, 103, 104, 110, 113, 120, 121, 138, 158, 168, 180, 191, 215, 216, 219, 220, 233, 250, 271, 272, 292, 299, 304, 324, 333, 337, 362, 371, 394, 397, 401, 402, 415, 425, 438, 439, 441, 462, 479, 482, 496, 517, 525, 591, 598, 599, 603, 614, 630, 683, 694, 695, 699, 728, 733, 748, 752, 753, 762, 778, 785, 818, 821, 829, 846, 856, 859, 870, 873, 888, 893, 896, 906, 917, 958

Assembly Joint Resolutions: 1, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 31, 32, 33, 35, 38, 42, 43, 45, 53, 56, 57, 60, 66, 67, 69, 77, 80, 82, 83, 88, 90, 92, 100, 105, 106, 107, 116, 118, 124, 137

S8 Darling, Sen. Alberta (8th Sen.Dist.; Rep.)

Abandoned employee retirement accounts of a retirement system of a 1st class city may be retained by the retirement system; JSCRS appendix report - SB477

AG authorized to file or join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 - SR11

Alzheimer's disease or related dementia: DHS to establish standards of care and treatment; residential care facilities must meet those standards to hold themselves out as offering special services; revisions to annual report from DHS to residential care facilities; emergency rule provision - AB259

American Heart Month recognized February 2009; Wear Red for Women Day recognized February 6, 2009 - SJR4

American Stroke Month: May 2009 proclaimed as - SJR24

Anesthesiologist Assistants, Council on, created in DRL; licensure requirements and practice standards created - SB535

Background checks for handgun purchasers: DOJ required to check for court order or finding rendering the person ineligible under federal law re mental health status; courts required to determine ineligibility and other duties; person may petition court to cancel the order - AB70

Biometric fingerprint identification system re child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares, DCF duties - AB845

Biometric fingerprint identification system re child care attendance under Wisconsin Shares, DCF duties - SB592

Bodily harm to a juror: felony crime expanded to include the juror's family and threats; judge may prohibit convicted person from contacting a juror; JRCCP report - AB71

Bodily substance thrown or expelled at a public safety worker: removing the ``intent" element and still classify it as a felony crime; JRCCP report - SB334

Capital losses: treatment of federalized; JSCTE appendix report - AB268

Capital losses: treatment of federalized; JSCTE appendix report - SB353

Caregiver or nonclient resident of a child care provider: report requirements for suspected drug activity or child abuse or neglect; sheriff duties, confidentiality, and civil and criminal liability immunity - AB695

Catastrophic claims exceeding $10,000.00: insurer required to provide information upon request of a group health insurance policyholder and certain employers - AB368

Child abuse or neglect resulting in the child dying or placed in serious or critical condition: requiring certain information be disclosed to the legislature and made available to the public; DCF duties; report and exception provisions - SB79

Child care provider license, certification, or contract: prohibiting a person convicted or adjudicated delinquent for a drug-related felony from showing he or she has been rehabilitated; employment with a child care provider or residing where child care is provided provisions - AB694

Child care provider: prohibition from being licensed, certified, or contracted with re conviction or adjudicated delinquent of specified crimes or having certain TRO or injunction entered against the person; frequency of criminal history search increased, sex offender registry and TRO or injunction provisions; revocation or suspension of license, certification, or contract required re conviction of or pending serious criminal charges, W-2 payment and TRO or injunction provisions; certain employees required to report to DA any suspected fraud in the W-2 Program, penalty and immunity from liability - AB479

CIP II enhanced funding re persons who meet MA level care requirements and are diverted from imminent entry into nursing homes: limitation on number of persons eliminated; DHS provision - SB96

Citizenship qualification for voting: GAB directed to prescribe procedures to ensure the requirement is observed - AB630

Civilian national security force: if established, it is the Wisconsin Legislature's intent to pass a law barring it from enforcing laws which are the purview of state and local law enforcement - SJR81

Collection agency: health care billing companies exempt from definition - SB286

College savings program: financial institution provisions revised re investment instrument and home office or branch office located in this state - AB315

Comm.Dept prohibited from promulgating rules requiring persons engaged in construction business from holding certain registrations - AB237

Commercial dog breeders: licensing requirements created; DATCP duties specified; penalties and federal Animal Welfare Act provisions; JRCCP report - SB110

Crimes on school premises: sentence increased for battery, mayhem, sexual assault, sexual assault of a child, or reckless injury; JRCCP report - AB677

Dementia specialist certification program created, DHS duties - SB470

Dog sellers, animal shelters, and animal control facilities: licensing requirements created; standard of care, penalties, and DATCP duties; JRCCP report - SB208

Education credit re income and franchise taxes to businesses and corporations that pay certain tuitions; DOR report required - AB80

Education credit re income and franchise taxes to businesses and corporations that pay certain tuitions; DOR report required - SB52

Educational expenses and contributions to scholarship-oriented or educational improvement organizations: income and franchise tax credits created re K-12 schools, definitions provision - AB941

Educational expenses loans: individual income tax deduction created re interest paid, conditions specified; JSCTE appendix report - SB166

Electricity and natural gas sold for residential use exempt from sales and use tax regardless of when it is sold; JSCTE appendix report - AB523

Employee who is a volunteer fire fighter, EMT, first responder, or ambulance driver: employer required to allow employee to be late to work or absent if the employee was responding to an emergency, conditions specified; discrimination and complaint provisions - SB308

Extended-range electric vehicles sales and use tax exemption; property tax exemption for charging station for electric vehicles; property, sales, and use tax exemptions for machinery and certain property used in qualified research in manufacturing, silviculture, or biotechnology; vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program sunsetted; extended-range electric vehicle grant program created; super research and development income and franchise tax credit modified; JSCTE appendix report - SB521

Failure-to-stop violation: penalty for causing ``substantial bodily harm" created; JRCCP report - SB363

Firearm purchase: providing false information re transferring the firearm to a person who is prohibited from possessing one made a felony; DOJ authority to prosecute; JRCCP report - AB373

Fishing license for resident disabled veteran: eligibility for lower annual fee expanded to include ``individually unemployable" determination - AB83

Foreign insurer may offer health care plans in this state: exemption from most insurance laws and requirements, exceptions specified; taxation and HIRSP provisions; domestic health insurer may request exemption from Wisconsin insurance law in certain cases - AB540

Foster parent, treatment foster parent, and other physical custodian of a child: revisions re disclosure of identity, rights in connection with a change in placement proceeding or agency decision to remove the child, and placement for adoption - AB722

Full-time employees employed by claimant: income and franchise tax deductions created; JSCTE appendix report - AB969

Governor's Opportunity Fund created re grants or loans to a political subdivision for specified development projects that create jobs; JCF and Comm.Dept provisions - AB968

Habitual parking violator: county or municipal ordinance for the immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal permitted; conditions and fee provisions - SB297

Harboring or aiding a felon: family members are not exempt from prohibition against destroying, altering, hiding, or disguising physical evidence; domestic abuse provision; penalty for violation increased under certain conditions; JRCCP report - AB613

Health care coverage for employees covered by MERA: collective bargaining prohibited; GIB and OCI provisions - SB430

Health savings account: nonrefundable individual income tax credit created - AB74

Health savings account: nonrefundable individual income tax credit created - SB45

HIV-related specialty care and hospital services for MA recipients: DHS to pay certain grant moneys to the hospital - SB647

``Hydrocephalus Awareness Month" designated each October - AJR74

Individual income tax personal exemption for certain older taxpayers: amount increased; JSCTE appendix report - SB64

Individual income tax personal exemption for dependents increased; JSCTE appendix report - AB576

Juvenile sex offender: juvenile court to order assessment on the probability of reoffending and use the results to determine services to be provided - SB666

Kellner, Mary and Ted: recipients of the Warren P. Knowles Humanitarian Award commended - SJR54

Married persons tax credit: including retirement income in earned income - SB165