Government Relations
Pending Legislation 2007-08
UW System bill positions, status, and testimonies
Navigate pending legislation for 2007-08:
- Assembly Bills
- Assembly Joint Resolutions and Assembly Resolutions
- Senate Bills
- Senate Joint Resolutions
Navigate pending legislation for prior years:
Typical path of each bill introduced in the State Legislature
Assembly Bills
| Assembly Bill Name | Brief Description |
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AB 8 Locker Room Written Policies |
Requires the owner or operator of a locker room to adopt a written policy regarding conducting interviews in the locker room. |
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AB 67 Tuition Tax Credit for Businesses |
Creates a non-refundable income tax and franchise tax credit for businesses. |
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AB 83 Agricultural Education and Workforce Development Council |
Creates an agricultural education and workforce development council. |
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AB 90 Medical Student Loan program |
Creates $450,000/yr. loan program, to be administered by HEAB, for tuition, fees, and expenses for resident medical school students. |
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AB 132 Tuition Fee Remission for Certain Family Members of Veterans |
Expands the current tuition remission law. |
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AB 151 Drug Dealers Ineligible for WHEG |
Makes a college student who is convicted of possessing ineligible for a state grant, loan, or work assistance for a period of two years following the conviction. |
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AB 154 Divorced persons - contributions to college savings plans |
Allows an individual income tax deduction for some amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent. |
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AB 194 Composition of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System |
Requires the appointment to the Board of at least one citizen member who resides in each of the Wisconsin’s congressional districts. |
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AB 252 WHEG Education Grant Increase |
Increases Wisconsin Higher Education Aids Board (WHEG) education grants. |
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AB 280 Health Insurance Coverage of Full-time Student on Medical Leave |
Allows for coverage for the entire calendar year, regardless of when the student withdraws, when the status for that absence is a medical leave of absence. |
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AB 291 Veterinary Medicine Student Loan Program |
Creates a loan forgiveness program for veterinary students attending the UW School of Veterinary Medicine and who choose to enter into food animal practice. |
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AB 307 State Procurement of Contractual Services |
Requires procurement of all contractual services purchased by state executive branch agencies to be performed within the United States. |
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AB 327 Youth Options Program |
Eliminates the Youth Options Program mandate and instead authorizes a school district to establish its own youth options program. |
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AB 440 Pharmacy Student Loan Program |
Creates a $255,000/yr. loan program to be administered by HEAB for tuition, fees and expenses for resident pharmacy students. |
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AB 469 Instructional Materials for Students with Disabilities |
The bill requires a publisher of instructional materials to provide, at no additional cost, instructional material in an electronic format to a nonprofit or public institution of higher education... |
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AB 541 Tuition Gift Certificate Program |
Corrects technical issues in administering the gift certificate program, passed as Act 77 of last year. |
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AB 559 Tax Credits for Purchase of Season Tickets to Athletic Events |
Creates an income and franchise tax credit. |
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AB 570 Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) |
Updates and modernizes organ donation methods and procedures. |
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AB 577 Appointment of student members of the Board of Regents |
Creates an additional requirement for student members. |
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AB 619 Remedial Legislation for Administration of BadgerNet |
Introduces remedial legislation related to System administration of BadgerNet. |
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AB 658 Academic Excellence Higher Education Scholarships |
Permits a senior with the next highest grade point, but not less than 3.8 or the equivalent, to be certified as an alternate and to receive a scholarship... |
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AB 726 Collective Bargaining for Faculty & Academic Staff |
Provides UW System faculty and academic staff the right to collectively bargain for wages, hours, and conditions of employment. |
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AB 766 Enumeration for Additional Capital Project for Tomotherapy at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine |
Enumeration of additional capitol project at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine to house a TomoTherapy machine. |
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AB 780 Higher Education Aid Grants |
Changes the formula used to calculate the amounts appropriated for higher education grants for UW System students and for Lawton grants. |
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AB 854 Providing Financial Aid at UW-La Crosse |
Approves the differential tuition for all UW-La Crosse undergraduates and encourages the Legislature to apply $664,800 of the general purpose revenue funding from the 2007-09 UW-La Crosse Growth Agenda to need based financial aid for students affected by this initiative. |
Assembly Joint Resolutions and Assembly Resolutions
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Senate Bills
| Name of Senate Bill | Brief Description |
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SB 31 Tuition Tax Credit for Businesses |
Creates a non-refundable income tax and franchise tax credit for businesses. |
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SB 67 Drug Dealers Ineligible for WHEG |
Makes a college student who is convicted of possessing ineligible for a state grant, loan, or work assistance for a period of two years following the conviction. |
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SB 100 Tuition Fee Remission for Certain Veterans Dependents |
Expands the current tuition remission law. |
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SB 154 Health Insurance Coverage of Full-time Student on Medical Leave |
Allows an individual income tax deduction for some amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent. |
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SB 155 Veterinary Medicine Student Loan Program |
Creates a loan forgiveness program for veterinary students attending the UW School of Veterinary Medicine and who choose to enter into food animal practice. |
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SB 163 State Procurement of Contractual Services |
Requires procurement of all contractual services purchased by state executive branch agencies to be performed within the United States. |
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SB 168 Academic Excellence Higher Education Scholarships |
Permits a senior with the next highest grade point, but not less than 3.8000 or the equivalent, to be certified as an alternate and to receive a scholarship |
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SB 238 Instructional Materials for Students with Disabilities |
The bill requires a publisher of instructional materials to provide, at no additional cost, instructional material in an electronic format to a nonprofit or public institution of higher education... |
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SB 254 Divorced persons - contributions to college savings plans |
Allows an individual income tax deduction for some amounts contributed by a divorced or legally separated parent. |
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SB 286 Fee remissions for undergraduate students |
Repeals the 21 year old age requirement while limiting remissions for students not older than 30 years of age. |
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SB 291 Tuition Gift Certificate Program |
Corrects technical issues in administering the gift certificate program, passed as Act 77 of last year. |
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SB 313 Tax Credits for Purchase of Season Tickets to Athletic Events |
Creates an income and franchise tax credit. |
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SB 353 Collective Bargaining for Faculty & Academic Staff |
Provides UW System faculty and academic staff the right to collectively bargain for wages, hours, and conditions of employment. |
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SB 450 Higher Education Aid Grants |
Changes the formula used to calculate the amounts appropriated for higher education grants for UW System students and for Lawton grants. |
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SB 456 Enumeration for Additional Capital Project for Tomotherapy at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine |
Enumeration of additional capitol project at UW-Madison’s School of Veterinary Medicine to house a TomoTherapy machine. |
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SB 516 Providing Financial Aid at UW-La Crosse |
Approves the differential tuition for all UW-La Crosse undergraduates and encourages the Legislature to apply $664,800 of the general purpose revenue funding from the 2007-09 UW-La Crosse Growth Agenda to need based financial aid for students affected by this initiative. |
Senate Joint Resolutions
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