RepublicanWisconsin Senate · District 23
Jesse James
State Senator · Thorp · First elected 2023 · Term ends 2027
🏆Top 10🤝Coalition Builder⭐20 Gold
Email: [email protected]Office: (608) 266-7511Mailing: PO Box 7882, Madison WI 53707Web: Legislature page →
#9of 132 legislators
Bipartisan Score
68%
Citizens Reports
0 of 99 primary-authored policy bills have a Citizens Report available.
Bill details and current status remain available in the portfolio below.
Committee Appointments (4)
Bill Portfolio — 2025-26 SessionShowing 99 of 99 primary-authored bills
| Bill | Title | Role | Status | Bipartisan | Citizens Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WI-2025-SB1000 | Prohibiting education employers from entering into certain agreements related to information about alleged immoral conduct by an employee and civil immunity for information provided to a prospective employer. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB1003 | Licensure and regulation of establishments providing massage therapy or bodywork therapy, the practice of massage therapy or bodywork therapy, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB1004 | Ratification of the Interstate Massage Compact. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB1014 | Expanding the Wisconsin deflection initiative and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB1072 | The assignment of child support orders and arrears to the state when a child enters foster care and the role of the Department of Children and Families, county departments of human and social services, and juvenile courts in referring, collecting, and ordering child support. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB113 | A transition to grazing pilot program and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB132 | Classification of the crime of impersonating law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and certain other emergency personnel and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB163 | Income change notifications for child support or maintenance orders. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB17 | Special circumstances battery to a community service officer and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB171 | Requiring child sexual abuse prevention education. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB191 | Requiring a subpoena to a law enforcement officer or tribal law enforcement officer served in official capacity to be served at the officer’s work address. | Primary author | Enacted | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB192 | Fatality review teams and granting rule-making authority. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB21 | Creating an employee ownership conversion costs tax credit, a deduction for capital gains from the transfer of a business to employee ownership, and an employee ownership education and outreach program. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB222 | Extortion, sexual extortion, and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB227 | The law enforcement officers’ bill of rights. | Primary author | In committee | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB23 | Extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women. (FE) | Primary author | Passed chamber | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB232 | Grants to child advocacy centers. (FE) | Primary author | Enacted | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB236 | Tampering with telecommunication or electric wires and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB237 | A sales and use tax exemption for equipment associated with the use of a search and rescue dog. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB238 | Harassment of search and rescue dogs and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB239 | Prohibiting hotels, inns, and motels from discriminating against dog handlers who are accompanied by search and rescue dogs. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB245 | A pilot school-centered mental health program. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB255 | Regulation of the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company. | Primary author | Enacted | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB260 | Certification of surgical technologists. | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB274 | The membership of the Controlled Substances Board. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB283 | Public protective services hearing protection assistance. (FE) | Primary author | Enacted | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB299 | A grant program for the purchase of automated registration plate reader systems. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB303 | Grants for technical colleges to provide mapping data to law enforcement. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB306 | Provision of virtual mental health services for students at certain UW System institutions. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB307 | 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline grants. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB308 | A grant to assist in the purchase and renovation of an existing facility in the city of Chippewa Falls to provide a 50-bed treatment center to men with substance use disorders. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB309 | Immunity for 911 call centers and dispatchers that transfer callers to the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. | Primary author | Enacted | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB317 | Requiring cardiac emergency response plans for cardiac emergencies that occur on school property or at school-sponsored athletic events. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB318 | Small law enforcement agency grant pilot program. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB359 | The minimum age of assistant child care teachers. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB372 | Crime victim notification cards. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB39 | Establishment of a Palliative Care Council. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB391 | Equipment of school buses with audiovisual recording devices. | Primary author | Enacted | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB392 | Driver education instruction related to school bus safety. | Primary author | Enacted | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB393 | School bus operation by drivers over 70 and drivers with medical conditions. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB404 | Creating a Task Force on Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB407 | Grant program for an integrated mental health facility. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB409 | Passing certain vehicles stopped on or near a highway and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB41 | School safety grants and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | In committee | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB416 | Requiring reports on disturbed burial sites. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB426 | Registration of trailers used for transporting manufactured housing units. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB427 | Requirements for the rental of mobile and manufactured homes. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB448 | The use of videoconferencing technology in certain civil actions. | Primary author | Enacted | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB449 | Registers of deeds, transportation project plats, and providing a penalty. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB466 | Age for the issuance of a Missing Child Alert. | Primary author | Enacted | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB476 | A workforce home loan program. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB485 | Video monitoring or recording in residential care centers for children and youth, group homes, and shelter care facilities. | Primary author | Enacted | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB492 | Coverage of nonopioid drug alternatives for the treatment and management of pain. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB502 | A nuclear energy generation tax credit; prioritizing nuclear energy resources; approval of certain electric tariffs for very large customers; and authorizing electric utilities to recover certain precertification costs through rates. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB519 | The operation of drones over school property and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB524 | Raising the legal age for sale, purchase, and possession of cigarettes and nicotine and tobacco products; providing a legal age for sale, purchase, and possession of electronic vaping devices; and providing a penalty. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB533 | Intentionally disarming a correctional officer and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Enacted | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB556 | Providing utility aid payments for certain energy storage facilities. (FE) | Primary author | Enacted | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB561 | Allowing chiropractors to perform school employee health examinations. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB598 | Coverage under the Medical Assistance program for incarcerated individuals. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB628 | Notifying counties and tribes of an exceedance of groundwater protection standards or standards for PFAS. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB671 | Creating a crime of grooming a child for sexual activity and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB678 | The use of oral fluids for preliminary screening of a person suspected of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. | Primary author | Passed chamber | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB701 | Funding for the Family Foundations home visitation program and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB704 | Preferences for woman-owned businesses in state procurement for architectural and engineering services. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB72 | Creating an individual income tax deduction for certain income earned by an individual from the practice of psychiatry or from providing psychiatric or mental health services. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB73 | Prosecuting or adjudicating delinquent a person under the age of 18 for committing an act of prostitution. | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB745 | Eligibility to receive occupational credentials for recipients of deferred action under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB75 | Venue for actions in which there is a governmental party. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB810 | Reimbursement for the provision of military funeral honors. (FE) | Primary author | Enacted | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB83 | Utilization management controls for antipsychotic prescription drugs under the Medical Assistance program. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB832 | Remote dispensing sites under the pharmacy practice law. | Primary author | Enacted | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB833 | Grants to school counselors, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB834 | A grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB835 | School safety plans. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB836 | School lockdown announcements. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB845 | Repealing unconstitutional provisions related to operating while intoxicated. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB864 | Courtroom supports for and sealing the identifying information of child victims and child witnesses of human trafficking crimes. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB882 | Sentencing for crimes committed by a person who is under the age of 18. | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB889 | Immunity for certain controlled substances offenses for aiders and aided persons. | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB893 | Termination of parental rights under the safe haven law. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB902 | Creating a civil cause of action for sexual extortion. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB926 | Implementing a behavioral health prevention pilot program and making an appropriation. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB929 | Subtraction for certain income of members of the National Guard and Reserves. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Minimally Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB935 | Prohibiting the use of phones while driving a motor vehicle and providing a penalty. | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB953 | Internet crimes against children administrative subpoenas for the crime of sexual extortion when the crime victim is a child. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB954 | Requiring the Department of Justice to conduct a public awareness campaign. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB955 | Internet crimes against children law enforcement and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB956 | Position authorizations for Internet crimes against children law enforcement. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB971 | Exempting certain agricultural warehouses from automatic fire sprinkler requirements. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB973 | The name of the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB974 | Tuition and materials reimbursement for community paramedics and community emergency medical services practitioners. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB975 | Virtual currency kiosks. | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB976 | Grants for community emergency medical services, grants for falls prevention awareness and initiatives, and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB977 | Grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Strongly Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB996 | Funding for grants for community emergency medical services and falls prevention initiatives and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Gold Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB997 | Funding for grants for economic support specialists and making an appropriation. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB998 | Tourism promotion improvement districts. (FE) | Primary author | Introduced | Bipartisan | Not yet available |
| WI-2025-SB999 | The voluntary surrender of a license issued by the Department of Public Instruction during an investigation of immoral conduct, prohibited agreements related to information related to an investigation of immoral conduct, and records related to an investigation of immoral conduct. | Primary author | Introduced | Partisan | Not yet available |
Senator Facts
Record IDWI-SEN-23
ChamberSenate
District23
PartyRepublican
HometownThorp
First elected2023
Term ends2027
Annual salary$60924.00
Bipartisan Profile
Primary-authored bills99
Partisan27 (27%)
Bipartisan13 (13%)
Strongly Bipartisan12 (12%)
Gold Bipartisan10 (10%)
Avg. composite score0.377
Perspective Map
130
Partners
45.4%
Cross-Party
71 same-party59 cross-party
Top Cross-Party Partners
Rep. Lisa Subeck126 bills
Rep. Christine Sinicki95 bills
Rep. Shelia Stubbs94 bills
Sen. Mark Spreitzer92 bills
Rep. Vincent Miresse79 bills
Staff (3)
VC
JH
Jayden Hoover
JH
Johnny Humphrey
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