Total Lobbying Effort

Hours Lobbied on Each Matter

• Legislative Bills/Resolutions

  Lobbying Effort On Legislative Bills And Resolutions

  Assembly Bill 100

  Relating to: guardian training requirements.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)	1.00 (2%)			2.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 177

  Relating to: returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 179

  Relating to: absentee voting in certain residential care facilities and retirement homes and providing a penalty.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 180

  Relating to: status as an indefinitely confined voter for purposes of receiving absentee ballots automatically and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 198

  Relating to: defects on absentee ballot certificates, certain kinds of election fraud, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 201

  Relating to: absentee ballot applications, unsolicited mailing or transmission of absentee ballot applications and absentee ballots, canvassing absentee ballots, electronic voter registration, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 17

  Relating to: increased penalties for crimes against elder persons; restraining orders for elder persons; freezing assets of a defendant charged with financial exploitation of an elder person; sexual assault of an elder person; physical abuse of an elder person; and providing a penalty.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)	1.00 (1%)			2.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 18

  Relating to: expediting criminal proceedings when a victim or witness is an elder person and preserving the testimony of a crime victim or witness who is an elder person.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 92

  Relating to: guardian training requirements.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)	2.00 (3%)			3.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 203

  Relating to: the secure delivery of absentee ballots and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 204

  Relating to: absentee ballot applications, unsolicited mailing or transmission of absentee ballot applications and absentee ballots, canvassing absentee ballots, electronic voter registration, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 205

  Relating to: absentee voting in certain residential care facilities and retirement homes and providing a penalty.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 206

  Relating to: status as an indefinitely confined voter for purposes of receiving absentee ballots automatically and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 209

  Relating to: returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 212

  Relating to: defects on absentee ballot certificates, certain kinds of election fraud, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 214

  Relating to: early canvassing of absentee ballots, issuance of presidential ballots, combined polling places, timeline for sending or transmitting absentee ballots, nomination papers for certain independent candidates, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 247

  Relating to: short-term health coverage duration.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)	1.00 (1%)			2.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 44

  Relating to: increased penalties for crimes against elder persons; restraining orders for elder persons; freezing assets of a defendant charged with financial exploitation of an elder person; sexual assault of an elder person; physical abuse of an elder person; and providing a penalty.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  	1.00 (1%)			1.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 400

  Relating to: responses to reports relating to elder adults at risk and adults at risk.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  	1.00 (1%)			1.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 726

  Relating to: limitation of estate recovery for the cost of long-term Medical Assistance to only a recipient's probate estate. (FE)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  	1.00 (1%)			1.00 (< 1%)

• Budget Bill Subjects

  Lobbying Effort On Budget Bill Subjects

  Administration: Housing and Community Development

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Board on Aging and Long-Term Care

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Children and Families: Economic Support

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.00 (1%)				1.00 (< 1%)

  Insurance: Departmentwide

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  3.00 (2%)				3.00 (1%)

  Public Service Commission: Grant Programs

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  3.00 (2%)				3.00 (1%)

  Shared Revenue and Tax Relief

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  4.00 (3%)				4.00 (2%)

  Transportation: Local Transportation Assistance

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  4.00 (3%)	1.00 (1%)			5.00 (2%)

  Health Services: Medicaid Services

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  7.00 (5%)				7.00 (3%)

  Health Services: Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Services; Facilities

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  13.00 (10%)				13.00 (6%)

  Health Services: Departmentwide

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  	1.00 (1%)			1.00 (< 1%)

• Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

  Lobbying Effort On Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

  Housing supports to preserve older adults’ quality of life and financial security and help them age in their homes and communities.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)	0.74 (1%)			2.06 (1%)

  Telehealth/telemedicine services for older adults

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)				1.32 (< 1%)

  The CARE Act - requiring hospitals to keep family caregivers informed about the patient's treatment and discharge date and ensure caregivers receive instructions and training related to caregiving tasks they will be required to perform at home.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)				1.32 (< 1%)

  Preserving and/or expansion of Wisconsin's Family Medical Leave Act.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)	1.47 (2%)			2.79 (1%)

  Strategies to address the long-term care direct care workforce crisis and appropriations.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)	2.94 (4%)			4.26 (2%)

  Expansion of supports for family caregivers.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)	12.50 (17%)			13.82 (7%)

  Medicaid Expansion

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)	1.47 (2%)			2.79 (1%)

  Dementia Care Specialists. Funding for dementia care specialists in aging and disability resource centers and making an appropriation.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)				1.32 (< 1%)

  Prescription drug regulation and pricing

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  1.32 (1%)				1.32 (< 1%)

  Guardian training requirements LRB 0143 - free training and support for family and volunteer guardians

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  2.63 (2%)				2.63 (1%)

  Transportation including transit, specialized transportation, volunteer driver programs, and non-emergency medical transportation, including coordination of programs and services and making an appropriation.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  2.63 (2%)	2.21 (3%)			4.84 (2%)

  Creation of a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain expenses incurred by a family caregiver to assist a qualified member.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  2.63 (2%)	1.47 (2%)			4.10 (2%)

  Broadband expansion and affordability

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  2.63 (2%)	2.21 (3%)			4.84 (2%)

  Preservation, protection and expansion of Wisconsin's Elder Benefit Specialist program and making an appropriation.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  3.95 (3%)	3.68 (5%)			7.63 (4%)

  Creation of and funding for a clearinghouse for evidence-based health promotion programs and healthy aging grants.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  3.95 (3%)	2.94 (4%)			6.89 (3%)

  Development, drafting or introduction of a proposal relating to long term care for older adults including Family Care, IRIS, Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ADRCs)- ADRC reinvestment funding.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  5.26 (4%)	5.88 (8%)			11.14 (5%)

  Social isolation and loneliness among older adults

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  6.58 (5%)	5.15 (7%)			11.73 (6%)

  Voting - Development or drafting of proposals related to voting rights for older adult voters.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  6.58 (5%)	5.88 (8%)			12.46 (6%)

  All matters related to funding and regulatory changes in response to COVID-19 relating to older adults and caregivers - in the areas of health and long term care, mental health, Medicaid, voting, public benefits, housing, resource allocation & others

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  13.15 (10%)	3.68 (5%)			16.83 (8%)

  Development, drafting or introduction of a proposal relating to SeniorCare.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  	0.74 (1%)			0.74 (< 1%)

  Elder economic security

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  	1.47 (2%)			1.47 (< 1%)

  Repealing Wisconsin's expanded Medicaid Estate Recovery Recovery Program (MERP)

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  	2.21 (3%)			2.21 (1%)

  Guardianship Reform - cyclical reviews, time limits.

  2021 January - June	2021 July - December	2022 January - June	2022 July - December	Total
  	2.94 (4%)			2.94 (1%)