What John Was Up To This Legislative Session

It was a busy session in madison! several bills that I authored were signed into law

Act 200: Protecting students from sexual misconduct by a teacher or school volunteer

Act 272: Creating an alert system for missing children who do not qualify for an Amber Alert

Act 248: Funding for Holocaust education resources

Act 159: Enhancing protections for workers in railroad maintence areas

Act 10: Defining and enhancing penalties for carjacking

Act 31: Increasing transparency in the Wisconsin Parole Commission and supporting crime victims

I also supported and was a co-author of several important bills the assembly passed

Act 12: Increasing shared revenue payments to local municipalities, supporting local law enforcement and EMS, repealing the personal property tax

Tax Cuts: three different tax cut packages that would have provided relief to middle-class families and seniors that were vetoed by the Governor

Two Constitutional Amendments to ban outside money, like Zuckerbucks, from impacting Wisconsin elections

Excluding land covered in solar panels from the Farmland Preservation Tax Credit

Act 227: Increasing training cost reimbursements for local law enforcement

Act 13: $150 million in funding for an agricultural roads grant program

As chair of the Assembly committee on criminal justice and public safety, i analyzed and approved several proposals

Act 9: Cracking down on reckless driving

Act 29: Holding fentanyl dealers accountable for overdose deaths

Grants for schools to acquire AI gun detection technology to enhance school safety

as a member of the joint committee for review of administrative rules, I stopped radical, left-wing policy items like:

Vaccine mandates for high school students

Erosion of parental rights

Last minute changes to election administration

not every bill gets signed into law. Here are some that I co-sponsored that i look forward to pushing over the finish line next session:

Low cost, full coverage health insurance for farmers

Prohibiting “gender affirming care” for minors

Funding and support to local communities to mitigate PFAS