The Appleton Post Crescent has a nice run down of major bills passed and rejected by the Wisconsin Legislature since the beginning of the two-year session starting in January 2009.
The list appears below – for a description of each, see the full article:
- Clean energy
- Failing schools
- Raw milk
- Smoking ban
- Texting while driving
- Drinking with parents
- Drunken driving
- Troubled lawmaker
- Medical marijuana
- Missing DNA
- BadgerCare
- Payday lending
- State budget
- Indian mascots
- Phone deregulation
- Regional transit
- Election reform
- Supreme Court
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Update 4/29
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel specifically highlights bills that didn’t pass this session. The the article for descriptions of each.
- Straw buyers – buying a firearm on behalf of a felon
- Child abuse victims -elimination of the statute of limitations
- Prescription drugs
- OWI
- DNA -requirement upon arrest
- Medical marijuana
- Public records – 911 and CCAP limits