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Assembly, 2007-08 legislative session

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Ballweg, Joan (R) Wisconsin House District 41																					100%
Benedict, Chuck (D) Wisconsin House District 45																					15%
Berceau, Terese (D) Wisconsin House District 76																					25%
Bies, Garey (R) Wisconsin House District 1																					95%
Black, Spencer (D) Wisconsin House District 77																					25%
Colon, Pedro (D) Wisconsin House District 8																					15%
Cullen, David (D) Wisconsin House District 13																					25%
Davis, Brett (R) Wisconsin House District 80																					100%
Fields, Jason (D) Wisconsin House District 11				-	-	-	-	-					-				-				38%
Fitzgerald, Jeff (R) Wisconsin House District 39																					100%
Friske, Donald (R) Wisconsin House District 35																					90%
Garthwaite, Phil (D) Wisconsin House District 49																					35%
Gottlieb, Mark (R) Wisconsin House District 60																					100%
Grigsby, Tamara (D) Wisconsin House District 18																					25%
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Gunderson, Scott (R) Wisconsin House District 83																					95%
Gundrum, Mark (R) Wisconsin House District 84	-			-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	100%
Hebl, Gary (D) Wisconsin House District 46				-	-	-	-	-					-				-				15%
Hilgenberg, Steve (D) Wisconsin House District 51																			-		21%
Hintz, Gordon (D) Wisconsin House District 54																					30%
Hixson, Kim (D) Wisconsin House District 43																					20%
Honadel, Mark (R) Wisconsin House District 21																					100%
Hraychuck, Ann (D) Wisconsin House District 28																					35%
Hubler, Mary (D) Wisconsin House District 75																					30%
Huebsch, Michael (R) Wisconsin House District 94																					100%
Jorgensen, Andy (D) Wisconsin House District 37																					35%
Kaufert, Dean (R) Wisconsin House District 55																					100%
Kerkman, Samantha (R) Wisconsin House District 66																					95%
Kessler, Frederick (D) Wisconsin House District 12																					5%
Kestell, Steve (R) Wisconsin House District 27																					95%
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Kleefisch, Joel (R) Wisconsin House District 38																					95%
Kramer, Bill (R) Wisconsin House District 97																					95%
Krusick, Margaret (D) Wisconsin House District 7																					40%
LeMahieu, Daniel (R) Wisconsin House District 59																					95%
Lothian, Thomas (R) Wisconsin House District 32																					100%
Mason, Cory (D) Wisconsin House District 62																					40%
Meyer, Dan (R) Wisconsin House District 34																					100%
Molepske, Louis (D) Wisconsin House District 71																					25%
Montgomery, Phil (R) Wisconsin House District 4																					95%
Mursau, Jeffrey (R) Wisconsin House District 36																					100%
Murtha, John (R) Wisconsin House District 29																					100%
Nass, Stephen (R) Wisconsin House District 31			-																		94%
Nelson, Tom (D) Wisconsin House District 5																					30%
Nerison, Lee (R) Wisconsin House District 96																					100%
Newcomer, Scott (R) Wisconsin House District 33																					95%
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Nygren, John (R) Wisconsin House District 89																					95%
Ott, Alvin (R) Wisconsin House District 3																					100%
Ott, Jim (R) Wisconsin House District 23																					95%
Parisi, Joseph (D) Wisconsin House District 48																					10%
Petersen, Kevin (R) Wisconsin House District 40																					95%
Petrowski, Jerry (R) Wisconsin House District 86																					100%
Pocan, Mark (D) Wisconsin House District 78																			-		15%
Pope-Roberts, Sondy (D) Wisconsin House District 79																					20%
Pridemore, Don (R) Wisconsin House District 99																					95%
Rhoades, Kitty (R) Wisconsin House District 30																					100%
Richards, Jon (D) Wisconsin House District 19																					20%
Roth, Roger (R) Wisconsin House District 56	-			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-			-	-			-	100%
Schneider, Marlin (D) Wisconsin House District 72																					10%
Seidel, Donna (D) Wisconsin House District 85																					25%
Sheridan, Mike (D) Wisconsin House District 44																					30%
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Shilling, Jennifer (D) Wisconsin House District 95																					35%
Sinicki, Christine (D) Wisconsin House District 20																			-		21%
Smith, Jeff (D) Wisconsin House District 93																					15%
Soletski, Jim (D) Wisconsin House District 88																					35%
Staskunas, Anthony (D) Wisconsin House District 15																					40%
Steinbrink, John (D) Wisconsin House District 65																					25%
Stone, Jeff (R) Wisconsin House District 82																					100%
Strachota, Pat (R) Wisconsin House District 58																					95%
Suder, Scott (R) Wisconsin House District 69																					100%
Tauchen, Gary (R) Wisconsin House District 6																					95%
Toles, Barbara (D) Wisconsin House District 17																					20%
Townsend, John (R) Wisconsin House District 52																					100%
Turner, Robert (D) Wisconsin House District 61																					20%
Van Akkeren, Terry (D) Wisconsin House District 26														-				-			27%
Van Roy, Karl (R) Wisconsin House District 90																					95%
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Vos, Robin (R) Wisconsin House District 63																					95%
Vruwink, Amy (D) Wisconsin House District 70																					10%
Vukmir, Leah (R) Wisconsin House District 14																					100%
Williams, Annette (D) Wisconsin House District 10															-				-		5%
Williams, Mary (R) Wisconsin House District 87																					95%
Wood, Jeffrey (R) Wisconsin House District 67								-													94%
Young, Leon (D) Wisconsin House District 16		-	-																		5%
Zepnick, Josh (D) Wisconsin House District 9																					20%
Ziegelbauer, Robert (D) Wisconsin House District 25																					65%
Zipperer, Rich (R) Wisconsin House District 98																					95%

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1	WI 2007: AB 157, To Suspend Rules and Take Up	STATE CO2 CAPS: Gives DNR broad authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from businesses and electric utilities. Requires a reduction to 1990 CO2 levels by the year 2020. Would lead to higher electric rates, and a competitive disadvantage for many manufacturing sectors, especially the pulp and paper industry.

2	WI 2007: AB 207, On passage	VIDEO COMPETITION; Prior law required video service providers (such as cable companies) to negotiate franchise agreements municipality-by-municipality. Such agreements generally required cable companies to pay franchise fees and to carry public access channels. Under AB 207, a video service provider will have to enter into just one franchise agreement, at the state level. Video service providers will continue to pay municipalities a franchise fee and would continue to be required to carry public access channels.

3	WI 2007: AB 260, On passage	SEX OFFENDERS IN THE WORKPLACE; Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a sex offense or a violent offense and preempting cities, villages, town, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law.

4	WI 2007: AB 346, On passage	NUCLEAR POWER PLANT MORATORIUM REPEAL; Requires the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) to investigate ways Wisconsin can replace the electricity generated by its current nuclear power plants, when their operating licenses are expected to expire. AB 348 gives the PSC additional duties to advocate on nuclear waste storage facility matters.

5	WI 2007: AB 47, On passage	HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT DEDUCTION; Provides a state tax exemption for contributions to health savings accounts. Such accounts are currently exempt from federal taxes.

6	WI 2007: AB 504, To Withdraw from Committee and Take Up	REMOVE DNR ACCOUNTABILITY; Would insulate the DNR's top decisionmaker from the scrutiny of elected officials by allowing the unelected Natural Resources Board to select the DNR Secretary, instead of the Governor.

7	WI 2007: AB 67, On passage	EDUCATION TAX CREDIT FOR BUSINESSES; Creates an income tax and franchise tax credit for businesses that pay tuition for an individual to attend a university, college, or technical college. Sole proprietorships, corporations, and insurers may claim the credit. Partnerships, limited liability companies, and tax−option corporations compute the credit but pass it on to the partners, members, and shareholders in proportion to their ownership interests. The credit is an amount equal to 1) 50 percent of the tuition paid by a business for an individual to attend school in a taxable year, if the individual is enrolled in a degree−granting program; and 2) 75 percent of the tuition paid by a business for an individual to attend school in a taxable year, if the individual is enrolled in a degree−granting program and if the individual’s taxable income is not more than 185 percent of the federal poverty line. If the credit claimed by a business exceeds the business’s tax liability, the state will not issue a refund check, but the business may carry forward any remaining credit to subsequent taxable years.

8	WI 2007: AB 682, To Withdraw from Committee	E25 ETHANOL MANDATE; Begins as a 10% ethanol mandate, and then ratchets up to a 25% ethanol mandate over time. Requires the fuel industry to purchase "credits" to reach mandated levels if they cannot sell the required amount of ethanol, resulting in significant market distortions and consumer price hikes.

9	WI 2007: AB 696, On passage	CREATING AN INCOME & FRANCHISE TAX CREDIT FOR ELIBIBLE INNOVATION PROJECTS & PROJECT FACILITIES; Persons claiming an income and franchise tax credit that is equal to 75 percent of the costs that the person paid in the taxable year related to creating and operating a project facility or to creating and maintaining an eligible innovation project. The amount that a claimant may claim in any taxable year may not exceed $500,000, and the total amount of all claims in each year may not exceed $10,000,000. Under AB 696, a project facility is any facility located in this state that is operated for the purpose of creating and maintaining an eligible innovation project, if the operation of the facility is likely to create new jobs, or preserve existing jobs, in this state, as determined by the Department of Commerce. The bill defines an eligible innovation project as any real property, tangible personal property, or intangible property related to a new product or process that is based on new technology or the creative application of existing technology.

10	WI 2007: AB 751, To withdraw from Committee	TAX DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS; requires publicly traded corporations to submit annual statements to the Department of Revenue (DOR) with information including total gross income, total business income apportioned to this state, and total deductions for management services, fees, rents, royalties, interest, and license fees paid to an affiliated entity. The information contained in the statement would be considered a public record and available to anyone. The bill also requires DOR to publish the information and put it on the internet.

11	WI 2007: AB 76, To withdraw from committee	INCREASED GARBAGE TAXES: This bill would more than triple the current garbage tax from $3 per ton to $10 per ton. The corresponding $48 million annual tax increase would fall predominantly on the backs of Wisconsin businesses and homeowners. The current level of taxation generates a large surplus, so a tax increase is unwarranted.

12	WI 2007: AB 770, On passage	INCOME TAX CREDIT AND PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR RESEARCH; Corporations claiming an income and franchise tax credit equal to the amount of its qualified research expenses in the taxable year for research conducted in this state that exceeds the amount equal to the average amount of the corporation’s qualified research expenses in the previous three taxable years multiplied by 1.25. If the credit claimed by a corporation exceeds the corporation’s tax liability, the state will not issue a refund, but the corporation may carry forward any remaining credit to five subsequent taxable years. AB 770 also creates a property tax exemption and a sales and use tax exemption for machinery and other tangible personal property used for qualified research by persons engaged primarily in manufacturing or biotechnology in this state.

13	WI 2007: AB 872, On passage	HEALTH CARE PRICE TRANSPARENCY; Relating to: disclosure of information by health care providers, insurers, and governmental self-insured plans; requiring acceptance by a health care provider of a payment amount in certain circumstances; and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.

14	WI 2007: AJR 106, On Adoption	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PRESERVING THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO PRIVATELY CONTRACT FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES; Permits the creation of a state fund, or program revenue appropriation account thereof, other than a fund or account related solely to the issuance or payment of public debt or other obligation, only if two−thirds of all the members elected to each house concur therein.

15	WI 2007: AJR 34, On adoption	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PROTECTING SEGREGATED FUND INTEGRITY; Relating to: the creation of state funds and accounts and prohibiting the state from changing the purpose of any state fund or program revenue appropriation account.

16	WI 2007: SB 165, To withdraw from Committee	CAUSE OF ACTION IN COURT & PUNITIVE DAMAGES FOR WISCONSIN FAIR EMPLOYMENT ACT CASES; Creates compensatory and punitive damages for all Wisconsin Fair Employment Act (WFEA) Claims, and exposes employers to both the Equal Rights Division administrative process AND circuit courts in defending WFEA claims, and all of the costs associated with those processes.

17	WI 2007: SB 178, To Table	HEALTHCARE INSURANCE MANDATE FOR AUTISM THERAPY; Creates a new healthcare insurance mandate, requiring health insurance policies sold in Wisconsin to cover treatment for autism, Asperger’s syndrome, and pervasive developmental disorders not otherwise specified. Coverage would have to be provided for treatment by a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker certified to practice psychotherapy, or a paraprofessional working under the supervision of any of these.

18	WI 2007: SB 197, To Suspend Rules and Take Up	PHOSPHOROUS FERTILIZER BAN; With very limited exceptions, bans the sale and use of fertilizer containing phosphorous. Also prohibits retailers from displaying fertilizer containing phosphorous in their stores, even in cases where it is lawful to sell.

19	WI 2007: SB 40; ASA 1, On adoption	BUDGET BILL: ELIMINATING TAX INCREASES; The budget passed by the Senate included several major tax increases included in the Governor’s bill, including the gross receipts tax on oil companies, the real estate transfer fee, elimination of local property tax limits and the elimination of the qualified economic offer for teacher arbitration. The Senate also added a 14% payroll tax to fund government run healthcare and imposed combined reporting for corporate income taxation. Tax increases in the Senate budget exceeded $18 billion, and assembly substitute amendment 1 eliminated all tax increases.

20	WI 2007: SB 431, On concurrence	UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS; The legislation adjusts the taxable wage base for all Wisconsin employers and shifts revenues to the systems’ solvency fund. The bill increases the amount of time that UI claimants must have worked in order to qualify for unemployment insurance benefits, and also freezes UI benefit levels at current levels until 2009.

We also found votes cast by the following former members of this chamber: