What John Was Up To This Legislative Session
22-24 & 24-26 sessions in madison! several bills that I authored were signed into law
Act 200: Protecting students from sexual misconduct by a teacher or school volunteer. (On Oct 15, 2025 THE CAPITOL TIMES published an a report uncovered more than 200 cases of teacher sexual misconsduct and grooming by school staff from 2018-2023)
Act 272: Creating an alert system for missing children who do not qualify for an Amber Alert/A bill authored in 2025 expanded this alert to those children with disabilities.
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/Recent WI stats show carjacking has been cut by 50% in the Milwaukee area alone.
Act 31: Increasing transparency in the Wisconsin Parole Commission and supporting crime victims
Act 195: Prevent repeat OWI offenses, toughen accountability for impaired drivers, make roads safer by stengthening OWI prosecutions, preventing cases from being dismissed.
Act 210: Creates compliance based removal system for IID’s (Ignition interlock devices). Creating stricter penalties for tampering, eliminates waiting period to apply for Occupational Licenses. MADD stated “this bill is one of the strongest pieces of legilsation against OWI since 2009”.
SB 533 was signed into law: It makes it a crime to intentionally disarm a correctional officer
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
Co-Authored AB 7 and SB 3: Relating to: requiring local approval for certain wind and solar projects before Public Service Commission approval.
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
Act 48: I co-sponsored as well as heard making sextortion a crime: “Bradyn’s Law” to honor Bradyn Bohn, who died by suicide earlier this year after falling victim to a sextortion scam.
as a member of the joint committee for review of administrative rules, this committee could stop radical left rules:
NOTE: The SCOW voted in 2025 to take away the power of this joint committee to review bills and determine action plans or to stop rules. This committee has had statutoty authority since the 1960’s! Today the administration and Governor can put forth rules with no oversight!
Rules held up:
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