Sortwell, Shae
Born
1985
Contact
Email · Rep.Sortwell@legis.wisconsin.gov
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27
Bills sponsored
this session · 420 all-time
61
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 61 all-time
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Enacted into law
counting…
813
Recorded votes
100%
Vote participation
voted in 100% of 813 recorded votes
Voting scorecard
2026S1 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes
Based on only 2 votes so far — treat these scores as early and low-confidence.
Party unity
100%
based on 2 votes
Votes with own party's majority
Independence
0%
based on 2 votes
Votes against own party's majority
Participation
100%
based on 2 votes
Roll calls where a yes/no was cast
Sponsored (introduced)
420 billsCurrent session 27 bills
- AB 486 Relating to: permissible financial aid reductions in higher education. (FE) Passed
- AB 485 Relating to: the pupil application process to attend a private school under a parental choice program and modifying and creating administrative rules related to pupil applications to participate in parental choice programs. Failed
- AB 472 Relating to: 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) Passed
- AB 393 Relating to: school bus operation by drivers over 70 and drivers with medical conditions. Passed
- AB 380 Relating to: suspension without pay in cases of judicial misconduct or pending final determination in proceedings involving alleged judicial misconduct or permanent disability. Passed
- AB 295 Relating to: allowing certified advanced practice nurse prescribers to engage in the practice of radiography. Failed
- AB 294 Relating to: membership on the Board of Nursing. To Executive
- AB 282 Relating to: local government rules of proceedings and consideration of ordinances or resolutions for which enactment or adoption previously failed. (FE) Failed
- AB 270 Relating to: a school psychologist loan program. (FE) Failed
- AB 232 Relating to: transferring adjudicatory functions for worker’s compensation from the Division of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Administration to the Department of Workforce Development. (FE) To Executive
- AB 187 Relating to: training completion awards for volunteer firefighters. (FE) Passed
- AB 149 Relating to: the nomination of presidential electors. To Executive
- AB 108 Relating to: a nuclear power siting study and time limits for taking final action on certain certificate of public convenience and necessity applications. (FE) Failed
- AB 88 Relating to: civil action for injury or damages resulting from riot or vandalism, participation in a riot, prohibiting certain limitations or restrictions on law enforcement responses to riot or vandalism activity, and providing a penalty. Failed
- AB 87 Relating to: restitution orders following a conviction for human trafficking and restoration of the right to vote to a person barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction. (FE) Vetoed
- AB 86 Relating to: imposing the penalty of life imprisonment for the crime of child trafficking and providing a penalty. (FE) To Executive
- AB 42 Relating to: local regulation of fowl. Failed
- AB 41 Relating to: local regulation of vegetable gardens. Failed
- AB 26 Relating to: battery or threat to jurors and providing a penalty. Failed
- AB 17 Relating to: 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) Passed
- AB 618 Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption and an income and franchise tax credit for nuclear energy facilities. (FE) Failed
- AB 758 Relating to: sales tax exemption certificates for the sale of precious metal bullion. (FE) Failed
- AJR 124 Relating to: requiring legislative approval for the expenditure or obligation, encumbrance, or other commitment of bond revenue for purposes of conservation and nature-based outdoor recreation in Wisconsin and for the expenditure of moneys from a fund created by law specially for any such purpose (first consideration). Introduced
- AB 1095 Relating to: speech-language pathologist licenses issued by the Department of Public Instruction and modifying administrative rules promulgated by the Department of Public Instruction. (FE) Failed
- AB 1052 Relating to: prohibiting nonunion employees from receiving nonnegotiated benefits from union. Failed
Historical 393 bills
- AB 146 Relating to: local guaranteed income programs. Vetoed
- AB 844 Relating to: disclosures by prospective buyers of residential real property. Failed
- AB 612 Relating to: waivers from workplace immunization requirements. Failed
- AB 77 Relating to: pupil applications to attend a private school participating in a parental choice program. Failed
- AB 252 Relating to: interception of oral communications by public bodies in public spaces. Failed
- AB 680 Relating to: state aid adjustments under the full-time open enrollment program. (FE) Failed
- AB 37 Relating to: expungement of records of certain crimes and discrimination based on expunged conviction. (FE) Died
- AB 86 Relating to: permissible financial aid reductions in higher education. (FE) Failed
- AB 504 Relating to: attendance of children at public events with groups of nude adults and providing a penalty. Failed
- AB 426 Relating to: eligibility for appointment as a law enforcement or correctional officer. Failed
- AB 975 Relating to: abortion if the probable postfertilization age of an unborn child is 14 or more weeks and requiring a referendum. (FE) Died
- AB 2 Relating to: eliminating the personal property tax. (FE) Failed
- AB 784 Relating to: insurance coverage and balance billing for certain health care services and granting rule-making authority. Failed
- AB 780 Relating to: indication of veteran status of former service member on an operator's license or identification card. (FE) Failed
- AB 101 Relating to: creating an ineligibility period in the Medical Assistance and FoodShare programs for voluntary employment termination. (FE) Failed
- AB 1060 Relating to: assistance to replace customer-side water service lines containing lead. (FE) Failed
- AB 76 Relating to: restoration of the right to vote to a person barred from voting as a result of a felony conviction. (FE) Failed
- AB 628 Relating to: requiring retail sellers to accept cash and providing a penalty. (FE) Failed
- AB 53 Relating to: reporting certain crimes and other incidents that occur on school property or school transportation and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died
- AB 460 Relating to: index of discovery for district attorneys and public defenders. (FE) Died
- AB 974 Relating to: the civil causes of action for human trafficking and trafficking a child. Died
- AB 923 Relating to: specialized transportation assistance pilot program. (FE) Failed
- AB 873 Relating to: reimbursing teachers for classroom supplies, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Failed
- AJR 115 Relating to: commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Died
- AB 433 Relating to: bail for criminal defendants who have a previous conviction for bail jumping and Department of Justice collection and reporting of certain criminal case data. (FE) Failed
Co-sponsored
61 billsCurrent session 61 bills
- AB 590 Relating to: definition of athletic training. (FE) Failed
- AB 554 Relating to: the sale, service, and labeling of food products containing lab-grown animal cells and providing a penalty. (FE) Vetoed
- AB 501 Relating to: free speech and academic freedom at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges, due process in disciplinary proceedings at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges, and causes of action against the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and technical college district boards. (FE) Failed
- AB 461 Relating to: an income tax subtraction for certain overtime compensation. (FE) Vetoed
- AB 448 Relating to: nonprofit agricultural organization health benefit coverage. Failed
- AB 442 Relating to: the first date on which nomination papers may be circulated for the spring election. Failed
- AB 439 Relating to: eligibility of a highway for an agricultural roads improvement program grant. (FE) Failed
- AB 405 Relating to: explaining pregnancy, prenatal development, and childbirth as part of a human growth and development instructional program. (FE) Failed
- AB 398 Relating to: including information about immunization waivers in enrollment or admission materials for schools, child care centers, and nursery schools. Failed
- AB 394 Relating to: driver education instruction related to school bus safety. Failed
- AB 391 Relating to: the per pupil adjustment for school district revenue limits. (FE) Failed
- AB 389 Relating to: indication of veteran status of certain service members on operators’ licenses or identification cards. (FE) Failed
- AB 369 Relating to: a tax credit for employer-provided child care. (FE) Failed
- AB 353 Relating to: price transparency in hospitals, restricting certain debt collection actions against patients, and providing a penalty. (FE) Failed
- AB 318 Relating to: a requirement for fair organizations that seek state aid. Failed
- AB 315 Relating to: the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program and a major land acquisitions program. (FE) Passed
- AB 312 Relating to: hours for voting by absentee ballot in person at the office of the municipal clerk or an alternate site. (FE) Passed
- AB 308 Relating to: prohibiting funding for health services for unlawfully present individuals. (FE) Vetoed
- AB 306 Relating to: time limits on local unit of government chief executive officer emergency power proclamations. Failed
- AB 278 Relating to: grants to law enforcement agencies for data-sharing platforms. Failed
- AB 274 Relating to: the expiration of administrative rules. (FE) Failed
- AB 218 Relating to: limitations on ownership of real property in this state by foreign persons. (FE) Failed
- AB 205 Relating to: serving maple syrup in a public eating place. Failed
- AB 202 An Act to amend 704.44 (intro.), 704.44 (1m) (intro.), 704.44 (9) and 704.44 (10); to create 421.103 (5) and 704.445 of the statutes; Failed
- AB 178 Relating to: expanding the treatment alternatives and diversion programs. (FE) Failed
Voting record
Current session 50 votes
| Bill | Vote | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
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AB 411
Relating to: creation of a farmland link program. (FE)
Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | February 17, 2026 |
|
AB 315
Relating to: the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program and a major land acquisitions program. (FE)
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table |
Yea | pass | January 22, 2026 |
|
AB 279
Relating to: talent recruitment grants. (FE)
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | June 24, 2025 |
|
AB 269
Relating to: delivery network couriers and transportation network drivers, Department of Financial Institutions’ approval to offer portable benefit accounts, providing for insurance coverage, modifying administrative rules related to accident and sickness insurance, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Read a third time and passed |
Yea | pass | June 18, 2025 |
|
AB 226
Relating to: prohibiting school boards and independent charter schools from providing food containing certain ingredients in free or reduced-price meals.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | January 15, 2026 |
|
AB 182
Relating to: changes to the low-income housing tax credit. (FE)
Assembly Amendment 3 laid on table |
Yea | pass | January 13, 2026 |
|
AB 156
Relating to: requiring child sexual abuse prevention education. (FE)
Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | November 19, 2025 |
|
AB 96
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2024-25 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Read a third time and passed |
Yea | pass | March 18, 2025 |
|
AB 95
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2024-25 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Read a third time and passed |
Yea | pass | March 18, 2025 |
|
AB 94
Relating to: ratification of the agreement negotiated between the State of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee, for the 2024-25 fiscal year, covering employees in the building trades crafts collective bargaining unit, and authorizing an expenditure of funds. (FE)
Read a third time and passed |
Yea | pass | March 18, 2025 |
|
AB 91
Relating to: the requirement that first class cities and first class city school districts place school resource officers in schools. (FE)
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | March 13, 2025 |
|
AB 85
Relating to: recommendation to revoke extended supervision, parole, or probation if a person is charged with a crime. (FE)
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | March 13, 2025 |
|
AB 66
Relating to: dismissing or amending certain criminal charges and deferred prosecution agreements for certain crimes.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | March 13, 2025 |
|
AB 58
Relating to: flags flown, hung, or displayed from a flagpole or the exterior of state and local buildings and eliminating a related administrative rule.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | September 11, 2025 |
|
AB 50
Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Assembly Amendment 23 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table |
Yea | pass | July 02, 2025 |
|
AB 39
Relating to: requiring state employees to perform their work at the offices of their employer.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | September 11, 2025 |
|
AB 38
Relating to: an income tax exemption for cash tips paid to an employee. (FE)
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table |
Yea | pass | January 15, 2026 |
|
AB 6
Relating to: requiring a school board to spend at least 70 percent of its operating expenditures on direct classroom expenditures and annual pay increases for school administrators. (FE)
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | February 19, 2025 |
|
AB 4
Relating to: required instruction in civics in the elementary and high school grades, high school graduation requirements, and private school educational program criteria. (FE)
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | February 19, 2025 |
|
AB 453
Relating to: required approvals of rezoning requests related to residential development, contents of and consistency of local ordinances with local comprehensive plans, certain tax incremental district project costs related to residential development, and tax incremental district lifespan extension. (FE)
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | October 07, 2025 |
|
SJR 108
Relating to: recognizing the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | June 24, 2025 |
|
SJR 106
Relating to: congratulating the Greendale High School Marching Band on winning the Wisconsin School Music Association State Marching Band Championship for the 20th consecutive year.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | June 24, 2025 |
|
SJR 76
Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Senator Bruce S. Peloquin.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | October 14, 2025 |
|
SB 498
Relating to: free speech and academic freedom at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges, due process in disciplinary proceedings at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges, and causes of action against the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and technical college district boards. (FE)
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | February 12, 2026 |
|
SB 283
Relating to: public protective services hearing protection assistance. (FE)
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | June 24, 2025 |
|
SB 214
Relating to: registration of out-of-state health care providers to provide telehealth services. (FE)
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | January 15, 2026 |
|
SB 182
Relating to: emergency medical services education, tuition and materials reimbursement for emergency medical responders and emergency medical services practitioners, and a live 911 pilot program. (FE)
Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | October 14, 2025 |
|
SB 108
Relating to: sharing minors’ safety plans. (FE)
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | June 24, 2025 |
|
SB 106
Relating to: psychiatric residential treatment facilities, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | June 24, 2025 |
|
SB 76
Relating to: dismissing or amending certain criminal charges and deferred prosecution agreements for certain crimes.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | October 14, 2025 |
|
AR 6
Relating to: proclaiming March 2025 and March 2026 as Women’s History Months.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | February 19, 2025 |
|
AR 4
Relating to: proclaiming our appreciation and respect for our Grocery and Retail Food Employees.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | February 19, 2025 |
|
AJR 96
Relating to: proclaiming the months of October 2025 and October 2026 as Breast Cancer Awareness Months.
Read a third time and passed |
Yea | pass | March 18, 2025 |
|
AJR 95
Relating to: designating October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Wisconsin.
Read a third time and passed |
Yea | pass | March 18, 2025 |
|
AJR 94
Relating to: proclaiming January as Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month in the state of Wisconsin.
Read a third time and passed |
Yea | pass | March 18, 2025 |
|
AJR 91
Relating to: recognizing the United States Navy’s 250th birthday.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | March 13, 2025 |
|
AJR 85
Relating to: congratulating the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Baseball Team on winning the 2025 NCAA Division III National Championship.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | March 13, 2025 |
|
AJR 66
Relating to: congratulating Southwest Wisconsin Technical College for winning the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | March 13, 2025 |
|
AJR 58
Relating to: designating May as Older Americans Month in Wisconsin.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | September 11, 2025 |
|
AJR 50
Relating to: recognizing the United States Army’s 250th birthday.
Assembly Amendment 23 to Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table |
Yea | pass | July 02, 2025 |
|
AJR 39
Relating to: recognizing Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month as a time to honor the important contributions of Asians, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders to the history of the United States.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | September 11, 2025 |
|
AJR 38
Relating to: proclaiming 2025 as the year of the snake.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table |
Yea | pass | January 15, 2026 |
|
AJR 6
Relating to: recognizing that the Wisconsin State Legislature supports nuclear power and fusion energy as clean energy sources that are critical to safely meeting Wisconsin’s growing energy demands and declaring the legislature’s commitment to the continuation and expansion of nuclear power and nuclear technologies, the development of nuclear technologies and fusion energy, and employing the leadership and resources necessary to support the development of and investment in nuclear power, fusion energy, and related technologies in the state.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | February 19, 2025 |
|
AJR 4
Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Justice David T. Prosser Jr.
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | February 19, 2025 |
|
AB 840
Relating to: certain requirements related to data centers.
Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 laid on table |
Yea | pass | January 20, 2026 |
|
AB 673
Relating to: banning the use of genetic software from foreign adversaries in medical and research facilities, the storage of any human genome sequencing data within the borders of a foreign adversary, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | January 22, 2026 |
|
AB 672
Relating to: penalty enhancer for crimes committed by a person acting as an agent of a foreign government or terrorist organization with the intent to silence or punish persons for their political view, criminalizing the enforcement of foreign laws without federal or state approval, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | January 22, 2026 |
|
AB 659
Relating to: tuition and fee remission or grants for certain veterans and their dependents enrolled in the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college, or a private nonprofit institution of higher education; and the University of Wisconsin System nonresident tuition exemption for certain veterans. (FE)
Assembly Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | February 19, 2026 |
|
AB 652
Relating to: various changes to the unemployment insurance law. (FE)
Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table |
Yea | pass | January 20, 2026 |
|
AB 648
Relating to: supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts. (FE)
Decision of the Chair upheld |
Yea | pass | November 19, 2025 |