John Jagler

Voted for Senate Bill 106, which creates a new kind of treatment center in Wisconsin for children and young people under 21 who need inpatient psychiatric care. The state health department may certify these centers, inspect them, cap how many exist and spread them around the state, and it may give grants to help open at least one in the north and one in the south. Care at a certified center becomes a service Medicaid pays for, if the federal government approves. A center may use locked units and may record video in common areas without a child's consent, though it must tell the child and the parent and may not use video instead of one-to-one watching of a child at high risk of self-harm. The Senate passed it 18-14 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 9.

June 18, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 182, which pays for training more emergency medical workers. The state technical college board must give grants to every technical college that runs a course for emergency medical responders or emergency medical services practitioners, and a college that had a waiting list the year before must put the grant towards taking more students. The act also repays tuition and materials costs to people who finish the training and get their first license or certificate, or to the employer who paid for them. It funds a pilot letting 911 centers take live video from callers. The Senate passed it 18-14 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 35.

June 18, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 4, which would have set rules in state law for direct primary care, where a patient or an employer pays a doctor's office a set subscription fee for primary care instead of paying per visit. The written agreement would have had to list the services covered and the fee, and state plainly that it is not health insurance and may not count toward a deductible. A provider could not have turned a patient away or ended an agreement because of the patient's health, and could not have billed an insurer for services the fee already covers. The Senate passed it 18-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

March 18, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for Senate Bill 825, which lets a major highway project clear its environmental review step earlier and with less federal involvement. Before the act, the state Transportation Projects Commission could not recommend a major highway project until it was told that a final environmental impact statement or final environmental assessment had been approved by the Federal Highway Administration. The act lets a draft do instead of a final one and lets the state transportation department give the approval unless federal money makes federal approval necessary. It also adds a third option called a categorical exclusion, a federal label for projects expected to have little effect on the environment, which excuses them from the full environmental study. The Senate passed it 24-9 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 110.

February 18, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 420, which would have barred any Wisconsin city, village, town or county from passing a rights of nature ordinance. The bill defined that as an ordinance giving a natural resource a legal right to exist, to be protected from pollution, or to keep a healthy ecosystem. The Senate passed it 19-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 11, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Assembly Bill 211, which would have exempted some cigar and pipe bars from Wisconsin's indoor smoking ban. A bar would have qualified only if it opened on or after June 4, 2009, allowed only cigars and pipes, and was not a retail food establishment. It would also have had to bar anyone under 21, post a notice, have every employee sign an acknowledgment of exposure to secondhand smoke, and show the state building plans with enough air filtration and exhaust. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

November 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 184, which would have barred every state agency and local government in Wisconsin from restricting the use or sale of a motor vehicle, or of any other device, because of the energy source that powers it. That would have ruled out, for example, a local ban on new gas-powered cars or gas stoves. A government could still have set its own rules for the vehicles it buys. The Senate passed it 18-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

June 18, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 56, which lets the state forgive loans made to privately owned water utilities when the money is used to replace lead service lines. A lead service line is the pipe that carries drinking water from the main into a building. Wisconsin runs a drinking water loan program with federal money, and before this act that federal money could not be used to write off any part of a loan to a private water company. The act keeps that bar in place for everything except lead pipe replacement. The Senate passed it 17-16 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 8.

May 15, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 16, which would have barred a Wisconsin school district from belonging to a high school athletic association unless that association agreed to follow the state's open records and open meetings laws. The association governing high school sports in Wisconsin is a private nonprofit, so those laws do not reach it now. Records about individual referees and individual pupils would have stayed private. The Senate passed it 22-11, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

November 18, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

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Voted for Assembly Bill 168, which would have tightened fraud controls and service standards in unemployment insurance. The state would have had to verify a claimant's identity to a federal digital identity standard before a claim, and check recipients every week against death records, prison records, the national new-hire directory and federal immigration databases. It would have had to tell the Legislature if it ever scaled back a fraud check. It would have had to keep a phone help line staffed longer when claims surge, and offer free training for employers. Prosecutors would have had eight years to charge fraud involving benefits paid during the pandemic. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

October 14, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Assembly Bill 162, which would have required every state agency running a job training or job placement program to track and publish how well it works. That would have covered programs paid with state or federal money, including Wisconsin Works, the food stamp employment program, the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and prisoner re-entry work. Each program would have reported the share of participants working six months and a year after leaving, their median earnings, and the share earning a credential. The results would have gone on one state website and to the Legislature every year. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

October 14, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Assembly Bill 73, which would have written two kinds of specialized court docket into state law. A treatment court docket handles criminal cases where addiction, mental illness or military service lies behind the offense, and puts the case before a judge trained in that subject. A commercial court docket handles business disputes and has run in Wisconsin as a pilot for more than seven years. The bill set out how cases reach each docket, which cases may not go to the commercial docket, and how a case moves between counties. The Legislature's stated finding was that trained judges reach better decisions faster. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

May 15, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Senate Bill 287, which would have required state and local government agencies, including the University of Wisconsin, to check every new hire through E-Verify, the federal system that confirms a person may legally work in the United States. The state also could not have awarded a contract of $50,000 or more to an employer, or its subcontractors, that did not check new hires the same way. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the Assembly did not vote on it before the session's last floor period ended, so it never became law.

February 18, 2026Opposes Immigration

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Voted for Assembly Bill 308, which would have barred public money from paying for health care for a person who is not lawfully present in the United States. The ban covered state, county, city, village, town and long-term care district funds, and federal money passing through the state treasury. Two exceptions were written in: the ban would not have applied where federal law requires the payment, and it would have applied only so far as it did not cost the state federal funds. The Senate agreed to it 21-12, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

November 18, 2025Opposes Immigration

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Voted for Assembly Bill 672, which would have addressed what it called transnational repression. That means a person acting for a foreign government or a foreign terrorist group who harasses, intimidates or punishes a dissident, exile, journalist, political opponent or member of a minority group over their politics. Committing any crime that way would have raised the offense one classification. Enforcing a foreign government's law here without federal or state approval would have become a felony carrying at least three years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The state justice department would have had to train police, keep a list of the countries and groups that do this, run a public reporting portal, and report to the Legislature every year. The Senate agreed to it 19-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 18, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 610, which would have added homeless shelters to the places where dealing drugs carries an extra penalty. Wisconsin already adds up to five years in prison when someone delivers a controlled substance, or holds it with intent to deliver, in or within 1,000 feet of a school, a park, a public housing project or a treatment center. That covers drugs such as cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine and marijuana. The bill would have covered a person inside a shelter, or within 1,000 feet of one, who knew or should have known where they were, or where the shelter is plainly recognizable as one. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

January 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 394, which would have made it a felony to damage or put graffiti on any statue, plaque, painting or other monument of historical or commemorative value on public property. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the Assembly did not vote on it before the session's last floor period ended, so it never became law.

November 18, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 432, which would have widened who must report child abuse and what must go to the police. Any employee of an agency whose job involves working directly with children or handling child welfare cases would have joined the list of mandatory reporters. County agencies would have had to refer to the sheriff or police, within 12 hours, every reported case of suspected or threatened abuse of any kind. Under the law as it stands, that 12-hour duty covers only some kinds of abuse and each agency writes its own policy for the rest. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

November 18, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 94, which would have made it a felony to urge or organize a riot or to commit violence during one. People harmed by a riot or vandalism could have sued those responsible and anyone who gave them support meant for the crime. Officials could not have stopped police from arresting rioters or breaking up a riot. The Senate passed it 18-14, but the Assembly did not vote on it before the session's last floor period ended, so it never became law.

June 18, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 41, which would have created competitive grants of up to $20,000 for public, private and tribal schools to make their buildings safer and train staff in security, with preference for schools that had never had a state school safety grant. Before voting, the Senate removed the bill's $30 million, so no money would have been set aside for the grants. No grant could have been made after June 30, 2027. The Senate passed it 18-14, but the Assembly did not vote on it before the session's last floor period ended, so it never became law.

June 18, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Assembly Bill 87, which would have done two things. A person convicted of human trafficking, including trafficking of a child, would have had to pay restitution to the victim immediately. A court that was not paid would have had to go after the offender's property the way it collects an ordinary civil judgment. Separately, a person barred from voting by a felony conviction would have got their vote back only after finishing their sentence and paying every fine, cost, fee, surcharge and restitution order and finishing any court-ordered community service. Under the law as it stands, finishing the sentence is enough. The Senate agreed to it 18-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

June 18, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Assembly Bill 85, which would have required the state corrections department to recommend revoking a person's extended supervision, parole or probation whenever that person is charged with a crime. A charge is an accusation, not a conviction. The hearing process that decides whether to actually revoke would have stayed as it is, so the change is to what the department must ask for, not to who decides. It would have applied to charges filed on or after the day the law took effect. The Senate agreed to it 18-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

June 18, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 279, which has the state justice department give grants to police agencies to buy a data-sharing platform. The act lists what the platform has to do: pull together data from common police systems in real time, strip out duplicate records, search and analyze it, control who can see what, and keep a detailed log of everything each user looks at. It must be hosted to federal criminal justice security standards and be running within 90 days. The version that became law stops any new grants after 30 June 2027. The Senate passed it 17-15 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 58.

June 18, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Assembly Bill 73, which would have written two kinds of specialized court docket into state law. A treatment court docket handles criminal cases where addiction, mental illness or military service lies behind the offense, and puts the case before a judge trained in that subject. A commercial court docket handles business disputes and has run in Wisconsin as a pilot for more than seven years. The bill set out how cases reach each docket, which cases may not go to the commercial docket, and how a case moves between counties. The Legislature's stated finding was that trained judges reach better decisions faster. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

May 15, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 146, which would have barred anyone convicted of a violent felony from ever changing their name, and made trying to do so a felony in itself. The ban would have reached every route to a new name: a court petition, an amendment to a birth record, a change of the name and sex on a birth record after surgery, and resuming a former surname after a divorce. It had no end date and no exceptions. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

May 15, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 76, which would have limited what a prosecutor can do with a set of charges the bill calls covered crimes. Those are domestic abuse offenses, taking a vehicle without consent, physical abuse of an elder or at-risk adult, sexual assault, crimes against children, gun possession by someone with a violent felony record, and reckless driving that causes great bodily harm. A prosecutor could not have dismissed or reduced such a charge without a judge's approval, and the judge could approve only after finding it serves the public interest in deterring those crimes. A court that approved any such request would have had to report every one of them to the Legislature each year. Deferred prosecution, which sets a case aside while the defendant completes conditions, would have been barred outright for these crimes. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

April 22, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 25, which would have stopped a judge from allowing a criminal complaint against a police officer over a death the officer was involved in, once the district attorney has decided there is no basis to prosecute. The only way past that bar would have been new or previously unused evidence. Wisconsin law now lets a citizen ask a judge to issue a complaint when a prosecutor declines, and that route would have been closed for these cases. The Senate passed it 19-13, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

March 18, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Assembly Bill 180, which orders the state health department to ask the federal government for permission to stop people from buying candy or soft drinks with FoodShare benefits. FoodShare is Wisconsin's name for food stamps. The act writes out what counts as candy and what counts as a soft drink, and it exempts baked goods, milk drinks, coffee, unsweetened tea and drinks that are more than half juice. If the federal government says no, the department has to ask again every year until it says yes. The act also pays a nonprofit group up to $3 million to build a checkout system that tells stores which products can be bought with benefits. The Senate agreed to it 25-8 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 116.

March 17, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Assembly Bill 167, which would have made several changes to unemployment insurance. Stealing or misusing an employer's property, confidential information or credit card, or destroying its records, would have counted as misconduct that disqualifies a worker from benefits. A worker fired for breaking a written attendance policy could also have been denied benefits. Claimants would have had to register on their local job center website, and the state would have had to check that they did and audit at least half of all reported job search actions. If federal money were offered to raise unemployment benefits, the governor would have had to notify the Legislature's budget committee, and the increase could take effect only if that committee could cancel it. The Senate agreed to it 18-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

January 21, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Assembly Bill 165, which would have barred any Wisconsin city, village, town or county from spending its own money on a guaranteed income program. The bill defined that as regular cash payments that people have not earned through work and may spend on anything. A program that requires work or training would not have counted. The ban covered local taxes, fees and state shared revenue. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

November 18, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Assembly Bill 169, which would have required an unemployment claimant's weekly job search report to list every job offer, interview offer and recall to work received or answered that week. Where the law now says the state "may" recover benefits paid by mistake, including benefits paid to someone who used the claimant's login, it would have said the state "shall". The state would also have had to report its fraud work to the Legislature each year and let employers file reports about claimants online. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

October 14, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Senate Bill 108, which sets up a statewide online system for sharing a child's safety plan. A safety plan is a document a young person writes in advance, with help, saying what it looks like when they are in crisis, what calms them down and who to contact. Schools, police, fire departments, ambulance services, health providers, county agencies and 911 and 988 call centers can form a network and see the plan. A plan is only shared if the young person signs a release, the release can be withdrawn at any time except during a crisis, and the plan expires after a year. The Senate passed it 18-14 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 10.

June 18, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted for Assembly Bill 614, which would have written into state law a teacher's authority to remove a disruptive pupil from class and send the pupil to the principal. The principal would have had to act on the removal within a set time, and a school board could not have fired, demoted or otherwise punished a teacher for making one. A district would have had to tell a pupil's parent when the pupil was involved in a disruptive incident, including when a pupil was removed from the class, and to adopt a code of conduct. The bill also set limits on removing a pupil whose behavior comes from a disability, and required a child's special education plan to say whether removal is appropriate for that behavior. The Senate agreed to it 19-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 11, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Assembly Bill 457, which would have stopped a school board from asking voters for permission to borrow money or to raise more than its revenue limit. The board could only have asked if the state education department first certified that the district was up to date on the financial reports it owes the state. The certification could have been no more than 14 days old when the board adopted the resolution. A resolution adopted without one, and any referendum held on that resolution, would have been void. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

January 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 532, which would have stopped University of Wisconsin System institutions from charging a student an extra fee for a course offered only online. Two exceptions were allowed: a fee that covers real costs the institution would not have if the course were taught in person, and a fee that is also charged for the same course taught in person. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

November 18, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 389, which would have ended the automatic yearly increase in the money a school district may raise from state aid and property taxes. Under the law as it stands, each district's revenue limit rises by $325 per pupil every year with no end date. The bill would have kept that $325 increase through the 2026-27 school year and then stopped it, making no adjustment for 2027-28 or any year after. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

November 18, 2025Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for Assembly Bill 5, which would have required every school board to post its list of adopted textbooks on the board's website as well as file it with the school district clerk. Any resident of the district could then have asked in writing to see a copy of an adopted textbook, or of any curriculum or instructional material used in a school in the district. The board would have had to make it available within 14 days, at no cost, at the place the district uses for public records requests, and would have had to adopt procedures for doing it faster. The bill said it could not be read to require anything that would infringe copyright. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

October 14, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Assembly Bill 1, which would have changed how Wisconsin grades its schools and reports test results. State school and school district report cards would have had to use the same score cutoffs, the same score ranges and the same written definitions for each of the five performance categories that the state used for the 2019-20 school year. For English and mathematics tests in grades 3 through 8, the state would have had to set cutoffs and pupil performance categories matching those of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test given across the country. For grades 9 through 11 it would have had to use the 2021-22 cutoffs and the labels Below Basic, Basic, Proficient and Advanced. The Senate agreed to it 18-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

March 18, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted for Senate Bill 384, which would have required health care providers to give a child born alive after an attempted abortion the same care as any other newborn of that age, and to get the child to a hospital. Failing to do so would have been a felony with up to six years in prison, and intentionally killing such a child would have carried life in prison. The mother could not have been charged. The Senate passed it 17-16, but the Assembly did not vote on it before the session's last floor period ended, so it never became law.

February 11, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 595, which would have required daily checks of the voter list against driver's license, death and felony records, and would have removed ineligible voters from the list instead of marking them ineligible. Every other year the Legislative Audit Bureau would have searched the list for noncitizens and confirmed each match in a federal immigration database. A voter flagged as a noncitizen would have been removed unless they showed a birth certificate, naturalization certificate or passport within 30 days. A removed voter could still register again, including at the polls. The bill would also have made the elections commission rule on complaints that it broke federal election law, and capped the fee for an electronic copy of the voter list at $1,000. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

March 17, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for Assembly Bill 223, which requires a person who collects signatures on nomination papers to be a Wisconsin voter. Before the act, someone who lived in another state could collect those signatures if they were a United States citizen aged 18 or over and would be allowed to vote if they lived here. The act keeps the old, wider rule for presidential and vice-presidential nomination papers only. It also requires that a person circulating a recall petition be a Wisconsin voter. The Senate agreed to it 19-14 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 126.

February 11, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for Assembly Bill 35, which for the first time lets a candidate take their name off the ballot after filing. To withdraw, a candidate must file a sworn statement, have their identity checked in person by a county clerk, county sheriff or police chief, and pay a fee. The fee is $2,500 for statewide office, United States Senate or president, $500 for the United States House and $250 for the state Legislature. There are deadlines before the primary and before the general election. Making a false withdrawal statement is a felony. The Senate agreed to it 19-14 and it became law as 2025 Wisconsin Act 43.

October 14, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for Assembly Bill 673, which would have barred any medical or research facility that takes state money from using a genetic sequencer, or the software that runs one, made by a company from a foreign adversary country. It would also have barred any facility, company or nonprofit from storing a Wisconsin resident's genome sequencing data inside such a country, and required them to keep that data out of reach of anyone located there. Data collected in a clinical trial covered by federal rules was excepted. The attorney general would have enforced the law, and each violation would have carried a $10,000 forfeiture. The Senate agreed to it 20-13, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 18, 2026Supports National Defense

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Voted for Assembly Bill 663, which would have restricted the University of Wisconsin's dealings with foreign adversary countries. The Board of Regents would have had to approve any research partnership, academic partnership or collaboration agreement with a university based in such a country. It could approve one only after a federal law enforcement agency assessed the national security risk, and could not approve one that let a foreign government direct the curriculum. No such arrangement would have been allowed at all for a project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, and none with Russia during the 2025-27 budget period. The university could not have accepted gifts from those countries or their universities, and would have had to report every such arrangement to the governor and the Legislature each year. The Senate agreed to it 19-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 18, 2026Supports National Defense

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Voted for Assembly Bill 415, which would have barred a state agency from using a state-owned device to open a social media platform, other software, or a generative artificial intelligence tool owned or controlled by a foreign adversary. The bill named China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and the Maduro government in Venezuela, tied to the federal list. Police using such tools for law enforcement were exempt. The administration department, the Legislature's technology bureau and the courts would each have had to publish rules on foreign-adversary technology covering the supply chain, future purchases and phasing out equipment already bought. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 18, 2026Supports National Defense

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Voted for Senate Bill 10, which would have required every public high school, including Milwaukee schools and charter schools, to let military recruiters into the building's common areas during a school day or a school event. That access would have been required no matter how much access the school gives to colleges or to other employers. Federal law already conditions school funding on giving recruiters the same access other recruiters get; this would have set a floor in state law. Schools would not have had to admit a recruiter to a classroom during teaching time. The Senate passed it 18-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

June 18, 2025Supports National Defense

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Voted for Assembly Bill 461, which would have let Wisconsin taxpayers subtract overtime pay from their state taxable income, matching the federal overtime deduction that took effect for 2025. The amount would have been whatever the taxpayer could deduct on the federal return. The federal deduction ends after 2028; the state subtraction would have continued after that as if it had not. The Senate agreed to it 21-12, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

March 17, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 36, which would have let Wisconsin taxpayers subtract tips from their state taxable income for tax years 2025 through 2028, matching the federal deduction for tips. The amount would have been whatever the taxpayer could deduct on the federal return. The Senate passed it 21-12, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

January 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted for Assembly Bill 673, which would have barred any medical or research facility that takes state money from using a genetic sequencer, or the software that runs one, made by a company from a foreign adversary country. It would also have barred any facility, company or nonprofit from storing a Wisconsin resident's genome sequencing data inside such a country, and required them to keep that data out of reach of anyone located there. Data collected in a clinical trial covered by federal rules was excepted. The attorney general would have enforced the law, and each violation would have carried a $10,000 forfeiture. The Senate agreed to it 20-13, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 18, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for Assembly Bill 102, which would have made University of Wisconsin campuses and technical colleges label every college and club sports team as men's, women's or coed, based on the sex on a student's original birth certificate, and bar men from women's teams. A female student who lost a spot or was harmed by a violation could have sued the school. Each campus locker room and shower room would also have been limited to one biological sex, with a single-user room or staff locker room offered to a student who asked for another option. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 11, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 100, which would have made public schools, charter schools and private voucher schools label every sports team as boys, girls or coed, based on the sex on a pupil's original birth certificate, and bar boys from girls' teams. A girl who lost a spot or was harmed by a violation could have sued the school. Each locker room and shower room would also have been limited to one biological sex, with a single-user room or staff locker room offered to a pupil who asked for another option. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 11, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 104, which would have barred any health care provider from giving a person under 18 medical treatment meant to change the minor's body to match a sex different from the minor's biological sex, or referring a minor for it. The ban covered puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomy and surgeries that sterilize. It did not cover care for a child born with a disorder of sex development, treatment of harm caused by an earlier procedure, or surgery needed to prevent death or serious harm. A licensing board that found a violation would have had to revoke the provider's license, and for a physician or nurse the board could never restore it. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 11, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 103, which would have required every school board to adopt a policy on pupils' names and pronouns by July 1, 2026. A pupil's school records would have stayed under the legal name and the pronouns given at enrollment unless a parent, or a pupil aged 18 or older, filed a written, notarized request with the principal. During school hours, staff could not have called a minor pupil by a name or pronouns that do not match the pupil's biological sex without a parent's written, notarized permission. A shortened form of the pupil's legal name would not have needed permission. The Senate agreed to it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 11, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 431, which would have widened when an employer or licensing agency in Wisconsin may turn someone away because of a pending charge. Wisconsin's fair employment law treats an arrest record as a protected characteristic, with an exception for a pending criminal charge that is substantially related to the job. The bill would have deleted the word "criminal" from that exception, so it would have reached any pending charge, including a non-criminal one. The Senate passed it 18-15, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

February 11, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Assembly Bill 87, which would have done two things. A person convicted of human trafficking, including trafficking of a child, would have had to pay restitution to the victim immediately. A court that was not paid would have had to go after the offender's property the way it collects an ordinary civil judgment. Separately, a person barred from voting by a felony conviction would have got their vote back only after finishing their sentence and paying every fine, cost, fee, surcharge and restitution order and finishing any court-ordered community service. Under the law as it stands, finishing the sentence is enough. The Senate agreed to it 18-14, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

June 18, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 176, which would have given a company a state tax credit equal to 6.32 percent of the broadband expansion money it received each year from 2026 through 2030. That covered grants from the state, local and tribal governments and the federal government, and federal high-cost program funding for building broadband in Wisconsin. The Senate accepted the Assembly's rewrite of the bill 20-13, but the governor vetoed the bill and the Legislature did not override the veto, so it never became law.

March 17, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

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Joined the bipartisan Wisconsin Senate majority that approved the 2025-27 state budget, Senate Bill 45, which was subsequently signed into law.

July 2, 2025

Source: wispolitics.com · researched September 9, 2026