Title: Steven C. Brist Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1977-1986

Creator:

• Brist, Steven C., 1954-

Call Number: Mss 1028

Quantity: 9.0 c.f. (20 archives boxes and 5 index card boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Steven C. Brist, a three-term Democratic assemblyman for the 67th assembly district from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, documenting his political career. Files consist of legislation records organized by bill number, constituent correspondence referenced by last name and topic, news clippings, and newspaper columns authored by Brist. The bulk of the collection consists of papers from Brist's second and third terms in office (1982-1985) with only a limited amount of material from his first term (1976-1977). Brist was instrumental in creating legislation relating to securities, property and real estate, employee disclosure of improper activities in governmental units (whistleblower protection), and the designation of milk as the official state beverage. Other topics covered in the collection include marital property reform, changing the legal drinking age, mandatory seat belt usage, voter registration, abortion and wrongful birth, and groundwater pollution and waste management.

Language: English

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Steven C. Brist was born in 1954 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and graduated from Chippewa Falls High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, after which he worked as a realtor, a savings and loan officer, a legislative assistant, and a staff member to Wisconsin Democratic congressman David Obey. He served as Democratic Party ward committeeman from 1972 to 1976, and Chippewa County supervisor, 1976-1977.

Brist began his first term as the 67th District's Democratic representative to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1976 at the age of 22. He served as Majority Caucus Secretary in 1977, as well as serving on the Elections, Revenue, Administrative Rules, and Judiciary Committees, and the Legislative Council Committee on Constitutional and Statutory Review. During this legislative term, Brist became engaged to Monica A. Burkert; the couple later married and settled in Colfax, Wisconsin. After completing his two-year term, Brist attended Law School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating in 1982. He was elected to the State Assembly once again in 1982, and re-elected in 1984.

While in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1982 to 1986, Brist served as Majority Caucus secretary, and served on the Administrative Rules, Agriculture, Elections, Judiciary, Forest Productivity and Rural Development, Condominium Issues, Statutory Review, Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and Educational Communications Board Committees, the Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions, the Legislative Council Committee on Mining, and the Study Committee on Legislative Services. He chaired and vice-chaired the Administrative Rules Committee, and co-chaired the Survey Committee on Tax Exemptions.

Brist was instrumental in creating legislation relating to securities, property and real estate, employee disclosure of improper activities in governmental units (whistleblower protection), and the designation of milk as the official state beverage.

After completing his third term in the Legislature, Steven C. Brist worked as an attorney and eventually joined the Madison City Attorney's Office, where he currently [2007] serves as an Assistant City Attorney.

The Steven C. Brist Papers document the legislative activities of Mr. Brist and the daily tasks he performed as a state legislator. The bulk of the collection comes from Mr. Brist's second and third terms in office, 1982-1986. All of the materials contained in the collection are directly related to his political career, with the exception of a few of the newspaper clippings (for example, his engagement announcement). The collection contains legislative files arranged by bill number, correspondence from constituents arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced by topic on index cards, and newspaper clippings of both news about Brist and of the columns he wrote.

The collection provides substantial coverage both of topics that were of special interest to Brist and topics that his constituents found important. Securities legislation comprises a significant part of the collection's subject matter. Brist's extensive knowledge of securities and other financial matters led one constituent to refer to him as the securities expert in the Assembly. Documentation of securities registration and consumer loan practices is thorough.

As a two-term member of the Assembly Committee on Agriculture, Brist also concerned himself with environmental and agricultural legislation. There is extensive coverage of groundwater contamination and solid waste legislation, tax exemptions for agricultural equipment and goods containing agricultural commodities (such as motor fuels), the licensing and grading of animal products, and use of products containing phosphates.

Brist championed a “Whistleblower Bill” that protected government employees from retaliation upon disclosure of waste or improper activities in governmental units; this is covered in detail in the collection. Other areas of employment law that are well-covered include legislation relating to University of Wisconsin System teaching, project, and program assistant labor relations; and supervision and licensing of various professionals including dental hygienists, physical therapists, nursing home employees, and barbers.

Real estate groups considered Brist an ally due to his former employment as a realtor, and he had extensive knowledge of real estate legislation. There is a substantial amount of documentation in Assembly and Senate Bill series for realty topics such as the uniform limited property act, real estate fees, marital property reform, and recreational use of property.

Brist also campaigned for public safety, and answered many questions from constituents who were both for and against legislation relating to seat belt use, the legal drinking age, helmet use, smoking in public buildings, and firearm regulation. Other topics that particularly concerned the public which are well-documented in the collection include abortion and wrongful birth, living wills, obscenity and sexual activity between consenting adults, investing in apartheid South Africa, taxes and the state budget, and legislation that Brist authored to promote milk as the official Wisconsin state beverage.

The Brist Papers are organized in four series: BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS; CONSTITUENT CORRESPONDENCE; CLIPPINGS, COLUMNS, AND PRESS RELEASES; and COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES.

The BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS series constitutes the bulk of the collection and documents Brist's personal work in authoring legislation. The series includes Assembly Bills, Senate Bills, Assembly Joint Resolutions, and Senate Joint Resolutions for both the 1983-1984 and the 1985-1986 sessions. The series does not represent a complete run of Assembly and Senate Bills, but it does include all of those for which Mr. Brist received information. For each session, this series has groupings for Assembly Files, Senate Files, and Legislative Reference Bureau Bill Drafts.

The CONSTITUENT CORRESPONDENCE series comprises files for both the 1983-1984 and 1985-1986 sessions, each of which contains correspondence arranged alphabetically by last name, and index cards. Each letter is cross-referenced and alphabetized by last name and also by topic on a typed index card which contains the writer's name and address, what topic and/or bill number the letter refers to, and the letter writer's opinion on the matter.

The CLIPPINGS, COLUMNS, AND PRESS RELEASES series consists of regular columns published by Brist, news stories related to Brist, election advertisements and coverage, and campaign memorabilia.

The files in the COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES series, 1981-1986, document Brist's involvement and membership on various Assembly committees and more generally the work of the committees. The files also include information on Brist's appointment to the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Steven C. Brist, January 6, 1986.

Processing Information

Processed by Molly Fischer Bjork (practicum student), May 2007.

	Series: Bills and Resolutions
	Subseries: Assembly Files, 1983-1984
Box   1 Folder   1	AB 24 - Escrow accounts for victims of crimes
Box   1 Folder   2-5	AB 83 - Budget
Box   1 Folder   6	AB 138 - Sales restrictions of products containing phosphates
Box   1 Folder   7	AB 142 - Perennial crop plant tax exemption
Box   1 Folder   8	AB 143 - Clerks of courts record-keeping requirements
Box   1 Folder   9	AB 144 - Registration requirements for professional engineers
Box   1 Folder   10	AB 148 - Abortions in public hospitals
Box   1 Folder   11	AB 150 - Disclosure of information about adopted children
Box   1 Folder   12	AB 153 - Expenditure of bingo funds
Box   1 Folder   13	AB 157 - Logging equipment tax exemption
Box   1 Folder   14	AB 159 - Dairy product labeling requirements
Box   1 Folder   15	AB 161 - Civil suits in wrongful life actions
Box   1 Folder   16	AB 162 - Dairy products sale promotions
Box   1 Folder   17	AB 170 - Plumbers' advertising
Box   1 Folder   18	AB 171 - Abuse of persons in custody
Box   1 Folder   19	AB 174 - Petroleum product sales
Box   1 Folder   20	AB 177 - Exemptions to the certificate of need moratorium
Box   1 Folder   21	AB 185 - Prohibiting area discrimination in home loans
Box   1 Folder   22	AB 187 - Discriminating organizations and tax exemptions
Box   1 Folder   23	AB 194 - Possession of unstamped cigarettes
Box   1 Folder   24	AB 200 - Marital property reform
Box   2 Folder   1	AB 217 - Patient compensation panels
Box   2 Folder   2	AB 228 - Relinquishing land interested reserved by the state
Box   2 Folder   3	AB 230 - Motor vehicle safety inspections
Box   2 Folder   4	AB 234 - Mental health commitments for inmates
Box   2 Folder   5	AB 237 - Compulsory motor vehicle insurance
Box   2 Folder   6	AB 238 - Salary reductions for state officers and employees
Box   2 Folder   7-10	AB 240 - Employee disclosure of improper activities in governmental units (Whistleblower Law)
Box   2 Folder   11	AB 245 - Prohibiting 2,4,5-T and silvex use or sale
Box   2 Folder   12	AB 247 - Restrictions on dealings between beer wholesalers and brewers and retailers
Box   2 Folder   13	AB 250 - Sexual activity between consenting adults
Box   2 Folder   14	AB 256 - Collective bargaining units consisting of supervisors
Box   2 Folder   15	AB 257 - Expanding sales tax to additional services
Box   2 Folder   16	AB 258 - Jail officer training
Box   2 Folder   17	AB 260 - Changing legal drinking age and establishing a curfew
Box   2 Folder   18	AB 262 - Designating milk as the state beverage
Box   3 Folder   1	AB 266 - Farmland rule-making authority
Box   3 Folder   2	AB 268 - Brucellosis vaccination
Box   3 Folder   3	AB 273 - Motor vehicle factory branch licensing
Box   3 Folder   4	AB 281 - Drug administration by school officials
Box   3 Folder   5	AB 282 - Employment relations in higher education
Box   3 Folder   6	AB 283 - Nonstock corporations financial reporting and involuntary dissolutions
Box   3 Folder   7	AB 286 - Wine menus
Box   3 Folder   8	AB 287 - Manure storage facility property tax exemptions
Box   3 Folder   9	AB 289 - Awarding costs to businesses sued by the state
Box   3 Folder   10	AB 294 - Definition of “occasional sale” for sales tax purposes
Box   3 Folder   11	AB 295 - Recovery of disbursements in garnishing actions
Box   3 Folder   12	AB 296 - Reporting of child abuse or neglect
Box   3 Folder   13	AB 298 - Land ownership by nonresident aliens
Box   3 Folder   14	AB 302 - Personal liability for delinquent taxes
Box   3 Folder   15	AB 304 - Investigations in stepparent adoptions
Box   3 Folder   16	AB 305 - Issuance of citations and summonses
Box   3 Folder   17	AB 309 - Verification of staffing levels in nursing homes
Box   3 Folder   18	AB 311 - Engineering systems designer incorporation
Box   3 Folder   19	AB 315 - Employee notification of merger, liquidation, disposition, or relocation
Box   3 Folder   20	AB 316 - Water and sewer hookup interest rates and payments
Box   3 Folder   21	AB 320 - Creation of the Department of Corrections
Box   3 Folder   22	AB 322 - Unemployment compensation and taxicabs
Box   3 Folder   23	AB 327 - Highway traffic signal synchronization
Box   3 Folder   24	AB 330 - Termination of guardianship
Box   3 Folder   25	AB 334 - Reflective pavement markers
Box   3 Folder   26-27	AB 338 - Uniform limited property act
Box   3 Folder   28	AB 342 - Car pools
Box   3 Folder   29	AB 349 - Inheritance tax exemption for lineal issue
Box   3 Folder   30	AB 353 - Harassment
Box   3 Folder   31	AB 354 - Real estate appraisals and construction lien law
Box   3 Folder   32	AB 356 - Inheritance and gift tax exemption for lineal issue
Box   3 Folder   33	AB 358 - Tax exemption for motor fuel partially created by agricultural commodities
Box   3 Folder   34	AB 367 - Abandoned property and public utility interest
Box   3 Folder   35	AB 374 - Computation of interest on money judgments
Box   3 Folder   36	AB 387 - Early retirement for teachers
Box   3 Folder   37	AB 388 - Payment of government employee attorney fees
Box   3 Folder   38	AB 391 - Changing the content requirements of milk
Box   3 Folder   39	AB 393 - Podiatric medicine and surgical services under care plans
Box   3 Folder   40	AB 395 - Transportation and humane slaughter of livestock
Box   3 Folder   41	AB 397 - Employment of school district administrators
Box   3 Folder   42	AB 398 - Licensing, grading, and labeling cheese and butter
Box   3 Folder   43	AB 399 - Food regulation
Box   3 Folder   44	AB 401 - Vocational rehabilitation of handicapped persons
Box   3 Folder   45	AB 403 - Hunter education and firearm safety and regulation
Box   3 Folder   46	AB 408 - Liability for recreational use of property
Box   4 Folder   1	AB 411 - Wisconsin housing finance authority
Box   4 Folder   2	AB 412 - Reimbursement for providers of ambulance services
Box   4 Folder   3	AB 413 - Cable television services
Box   4 Folder   4	AB 418 - Weapon training and civil disorder
Box   4 Folder   5	AB 426 - Exemptions in inheritance and gift taxes
Box   4 Folder   6	AB 428 - Veteran economic assistance loans
Box   4 Folder   7	AB 431 - Tax exemptions for newspapers and periodicals
Box   4 Folder   8	AB 433 - Statutory close corporations
Box   4 Folder   9	AB 434 - Day care services and funds
Box   4 Folder   10	AB 435 - Sales tax exemptions in mobile homes
Box   4 Folder   11	AB 436 - Property taxation of mobile homes
Box   4 Folder   12	AB 440 - Family court commissioner presiding over divorce actions
Box   4 Folder   13	AB 451 - Creation of an export loan program
Box   4 Folder   14	AB 453 - Swine psuedorabies control
Box   4 Folder   15	AB 454 - School district state aid
Box   4 Folder   16	AB 455 - Wildlife damage claim program creation
Box   4 Folder   17	AB 459 - Regulating and licensing grease processors
Box   4 Folder   18	AB 479 - Weight allowances for vehicles transporting salt and earth
Box   4 Folder   19	AB 481 - Liming material fees
Box   4 Folder   20	AB 492 - Veterans' spouses serving as county veterans' services officers
Box   4 Folder   21	AB 499 - Criminal responsibility and commitment of non-responsible persons
Box   4 Folder   22	AB 500 - Dissolution of drainage districts
Box   4 Folder   23	AB 507 - Protective headgear for motor-driven cycle passengers
Box   4 Folder   24	AB 512 - Education requirements for barber apprentices
Box   4 Folder   25	AB 513 - Adult patient authorization of withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures (living wills)
Box   4 Folder   26	AB 514 - Collecting delinquent payments for water and sewer service
Box   4 Folder   27	AB 515 - Endangered crime victims
Box   4 Folder   28	AB 516 - Allocating costs of collection in worker's compensation law action
Box   4 Folder   29	AB 519 - Public highway access easements
Box   4 Folder   30	AB 521 - Advertising by alcohol beverage permittees and licensees
Box   4 Folder   31	AB 531 - Nonrenewal of a motor vehicle dealership or distributor franchise
Box   4 Folder   32	AB 532 - Motor vehicle dealer facilities and franchises
Box   4 Folder   33	AB 535 - Modifying definition of grade A milk products
Box   4 Folder   34	AB 536 - Labeling and sale of animal remedies
Box   4 Folder   35	AB 539 - Involuntary commitments for mental illness, drug dependence, developmental disability or alcoholism
Box   4 Folder   36	AB 540 - Elections and campaigning
Box   4 Folder   37	AB 543 - Funeral directors and embalmers
Box   4 Folder   38	AB 545 - Regulation and registration of all-terrain vehicles
Box   4 Folder   39	AB 549 - Probate registration fees
Box   4 Folder   40	AB 550 - Testing for metabolic disorders
Box   4 Folder   41	AB 551 - Veterans' housing
Box   4 Folder   42	AB 555 - Security deposits in residential tenancies
Box   4 Folder   43	AB 563 - Development of a state health insurance plan
Box   4 Folder   44	AB 565 - Issuance of liquor licenses
Box   4 Folder   45	AB 567 - Disclosure of decedent's saving and loan accounts
Box   4 Folder   46	AB 569 - Copying of original products by direct molding or selling of copies
Box   4 Folder   47	AB 570 - Sexual orientation discrimination
Box   4 Folder   48	AB 571 - Elder abuse or neglect
Box   4 Folder   49	AB 577 - Residency requirements for municipal employees
Box   4 Folder   50	AB 578 - Automatic sprinkler system requirements
Box   4 Folder   51	AB 585 - Sheltering and concealing runaway children
Box   4 Folder   52	AB 590 - Strip searches of pupils
Box   4 Folder   53	AB 593 - Partition fences
Box   4 Folder   54	AB 594 - State grants to counties for veteran services
Box   5 Folder   1-3	AB 595 - Groundwater management
Box   5 Folder   4	AB 599 - Reimbursement for enforcement activities
Box   5 Folder   5	AB 615 - Department of Regulation and Licensing remedial legislation
Box   5 Folder   6	AB 617 - Department of Revenue remedial legislation
Box   5 Folder   7	AB 622 - Licensure of social workers, mental health, and social service workers
Box   5 Folder   8	AB 629 - Notatorial acts
Box   5 Folder   9	AB 630 - Pesticide use in bat control
Box   5 Folder   10	AB 641 - Prohibiting racial discrimination by real estate agents
Box   5 Folder   11	AB 649 - Students' rights
Box   5 Folder   12	AB 653 - Attorney fees in discrimination actions
Box   5 Folder   13	AB 656 - Publications eligible to publish legal notices
Box   5 Folder   14	AB 657 - Criminal damage to property in cemeteries
Box   5 Folder   15	AB 658 - Statutory construction of references to city classes
Box   5 Folder   16	AB 664 - Inquests, investigations of deaths, autopsies, and cremations
Box   5 Folder   17	AB 671 - Privileged communications between patients and RNs
Box   5 Folder   18	AB 672 - Child custody and visitation
Box   5 Folder   19	AB 681 - Waste facility siting process
Box   5 Folder   20	AB 684 - Inheritance, estate, and gift taxes
Box   5 Folder   21	AB 687 - Exempting retirement benefits from income tax
Box   5 Folder   22	AB 689 - Public highway right-of-way adverse possession claims
Box   5 Folder   23	AB 693 - Registration requirements for pharmacists
Box   5 Folder   24	AB 718 - Agricultural impact statement requirements
Box   5 Folder   25	AB 738 - October 1983 local transportation aids payments
Box   5 Folder   26-28	AB 740 - Securities registration fees
Box   6 Folder   1-4	AB 740 - Securities registration fees, continued
Box   6 Folder   5	AB 742 - Deregulation of rates of small telephone companies
Box   6 Folder   6	AB 751 - Credit union and higher education corporations as public fund depositors
Box   6 Folder   7	AB 752 - Corporation membership in credit unions and credit union legislation
Box   6 Folder   8	AB 861 - Sales tax exemption on raffle tickets
Box   6 Folder   9	AB 867 - Cross-filing for more than one ballot position
Box   6 Folder   10	AB 887 - Determination of public schools according to criteria
Box   6 Folder   11	AB 888 - Finance charges for goods used for agricultural purposes
Box   6 Folder   12	AB 893 - Wills and trusts
Box   6 Folder   13	AB 927 - State public defender regulations
Box   6 Folder   14	AB 931 - State inspection of nursing home records
Box   6 Folder   15	AB 932 - Payment of attorney fees
Box   6 Folder   16	AB 938 - Warehouse keepers and grain dealers security act
Box   6 Folder   17-19	AB 951 - Consumer loan practices
Box   7 Folder   1	AB 955 - Provision of services for the mentally ill
Box   7 Folder   2	AB 972 - Arthritis pain medication advertising
Box   7 Folder   3	AB 974 - Licensure of respiratory therapists
Box   7 Folder   4	AB 982 - Privately owned property liability
Box   7 Folder   5	AB 986 - Apportions to counties with Indian reservations
Box   7 Folder   6	AB 999 - Utility advertising practices
Box   7 Folder   7	AB 1000 - Authority of the public intervenor
Box   7 Folder   8	AB 1005 - Court record keeping requirements
Box   7 Folder   9	AB 1010 - Municipal borrowing
Box   7 Folder   10	AB 1012 - Vocation, technical and adult education system mission statement
Box   7 Folder   11	AB 1035 - Solid waste recycling
Box   7 Folder   12	AB 1057 - License fees for light, heat, and power companies
Box   7 Folder   13	AB 1058 - Ice cream container capacity
Box   7 Folder   14	AB 1063 - Income taxes and renewable energy resource systems
Box   7 Folder   15	AB 1075 - Assessment of vacation time-sharing property
Box   7 Folder   16	AB 1076 - Regulation and operation of video display terminals
Box   7 Folder   17	AB 1084 - Consumer credit transactions
Box   7 Folder   18	AB 1086 - Revision of laws regarding cooperatives
Box   7 Folder   19	AB 1089 - Plain language requirements for consumer transaction documents
Box   7 Folder   20	AB 1094 - Re-codification and revision of town laws
Box   7 Folder   21	AB 1103 - Advertising appropriations for Forward Wisconsin, Inc.
Box   7 Folder   22	AB 1112 - Appropriation for committees created by law or executive order
Box   7 Folder   23	AB 1126 - Creation of a managed forest land program
Box   7 Folder   24	AB 1133 - Unfair sales act
Box   7 Folder   25	AB 1137 - Broker referral fees
Box   7 Folder   26	AJR 48 - Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge
	Subseries: Senate Files, 1983-1984	⇧
Box   7 Folder   27	SB 1 - Changing legal drinking age, obtaining alcoholic beverage licenses
Box   7 Folder   28	SB 2 - Possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages by non-state residents (border-hopping)
Box   7 Folder   29	SB 4 - County assessor systems
Box   7 Folder   30	SB 9 - John C. Weaver appropriation
Box   7 Folder   31	SB 10 - Bed and breakfast registration
Box   7 Folder   32	SB 12 - Rules of the road for all premises used by motor vehicles
Box   7 Folder   33	SB 26 - Property tax exemption for vehicles
Box   7 Folder   34	SB 39 - Criminal trespass to dwellings
Box   7 Folder   35	SB 41 - Changing legal drinking age to 21
Box   7 Folder   36	SB 55 - UW system teaching, project, and program assistant labor relations
Box   7 Folder   37	SB 56 - Police and fire board and engineer authority
Box   7 Folder   38	SB 64 - Inheritance, estate, and gift taxes
Box   7 Folder   39	SB 68 - Tax exemptions for logging equipment
Box   7 Folder   40	SB 70 - Service fees on tax-exempt property
Box   7 Folder   41	SB 71 - Tax exemptions for farmers' temples, colleges, and universities
Box   7 Folder   42	SB 80 - Smoking in public conveyances
Box   7 Folder   43	SB 83 - Budget
Box   7 Folder   44	SB 86 - Assessors' certificates and department of revenue re-assessments
Box   7 Folder   45	SB 92 - Telephone service for the hearing impaired
Box   7 Folder   46	SB 98 - Restricting sale of products containing phosphates
Box   7 Folder   47	SB 116 - Employment discrimination
Box   7 Folder   48	SB 118 - Employees' right-to-know law
Box   7 Folder   49	SB 119 - Miscellaneous changes affecting insurers
Box   7 Folder   50	SB 121 - Partnership, securities, corporate take-over, and franchise investment laws
Box   7 Folder   51	SB 161 - Liens on motor vehicles for towing or storage
Box   7 Folder   52	SB 170 - Regulation of fireworks
Box   7 Folder   53	SB 174 - Employment relations in higher education
Box   8 Folder   1	SB 180 - Highway salt
Box   8 Folder   2	SB 182 - Mortgage foreclosure redemption periods
Box   8 Folder   3	SB 193 - Designating milk as the state beverage
Box   8 Folder   4	SB 197 - Income tax deduction for charitable contributions of works of art
Box   8 Folder   5	SB 202 - Radioactive waste
Box   8 Folder   6	SB 229 - Consumer loan practices
Box   8 Folder   7	SB 232 - Motor vehicles laws, warrants, and patient health care records
Box   8 Folder   8	SB 236 - State forestry taxation and funding
Box   8 Folder   9	SB 241 - School district administrators, business managers, and principals
Box   8 Folder   10	SB 244 - Determining paternity and changing parentage terminology
Box   8 Folder   11	SB 255 - Motor vehicle rustproofing
Box   8 Folder   12	SB 259 - Executing and registering municipal obligations
Box   8 Folder   13	SB 262 - Income tax exemption for federal employees' retirement annuities
Box   8 Folder   14	SB 275 - Liming material fees
Box   8 Folder   15	SB 277 - Pets in nursing homes and community-based residential facilities
Box   8 Folder   16	SB 281 - Credit unions and higher education corporations as public funds depositors
Box   8 Folder   17	SB 291 - Real estate transfer fee exemption
Box   8 Folder   18	SB 299 - Redemption of trading stamps
Box   8 Folder   19	SB 301 - Corporation takeover regulations
Box   8 Folder   20	SB 305 - Enforcement of handicapped parking provisions
Box   8 Folder   21	SB 306 - Issuance of bowling alley liquor licenses
Box   8 Folder   22	SB 310 - State reimbursement for state-mandated municipal costs
Box   8 Folder   23	SB 315 - Burial agreements and funeral merchandise sale
Box   8 Folder   24	SB 317 - Exempting migrant workers from UW System nonresident tuition
Box   8 Folder   25	SB 324 - Venue in civil actions and special proceedings
Box   8 Folder   26	SB 327 - Financial responsibility in motor vehicle accidents
Box   8 Folder   27	SB 353 - Child custody and visitation
Box   8 Folder   28	SB 362 - Sexual assault case evidence
Box   8 Folder   29	SB 364 - Experience requirements for board members
Box   8 Folder   30	SB 370 - Exempting retirement benefits from income tax
Box   8 Folder   31	SB 391 - Revision of laws relating to dogs
Box   8 Folder   32	SB 394 - Employment-connected heart or respiratory disease
Box   8 Folder   33	SB 398 - Limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide
Box   8 Folder   34	SB 410 - Solid waste and hazardous waste disposal
Box   8 Folder   35	SB 412 - UW-Stevens Point field station project
Box   8 Folder   36	SB 425 - Administrative rule-making process
Box   8 Folder   37	SB 427 - Wisconsin election campaign fund
Box   8 Folder   38	SB 429 - Motion picture licensing
Box   8 Folder   39	SB 462 - State and county boundary review boards
Box   8 Folder   40	SB 507 - Health care coverage plan regulation
Box   8 Folder   41	SB 509 - Property tax exemption for nonprofit day care centers
Box   8 Folder   42	SB 511 - Sales tax exemption on raffle tickets
Box   8 Folder   43	SB 546 - Commercial fishing
Box   8 Folder   44	SB 548 - Construction site erosion and storm water management zoning
Box   8 Folder   45	SB 568 - Retirement benefits
Box   8 Folder   46	SB 581 - Abolition of bingo control board, creation of public gaming board
Box   8 Folder   47	SB 586 - Privately-owned recreational land use
Box   8 Folder   48	SB 601 - Motor vehicle dealer licensing
Box   8 Folder   49	SB 605 - Railroad facilities and construction
Box   8 Folder   50	SB 606 - Railroads and rail property
Box   9 Folder   1	SB 609 - Pharmacist participation in cooperative associations and HMOS
Box   9 Folder   2	SB 610 - Cooperative code revision
Box   9 Folder   3	SB 613 - Youth hockey association facilities
Box   9 Folder   4	SB 622 - Nonmoving traffic violations
Box   9 Folder   5	SB 634 - Health care plans
Box   9 Folder   6	SB 645 - Liability for the cost of care provided by public agencies
Box   9 Folder   7	SB 649 - Unemployment compensation
Box   9 Folder   8	SB 650 - Minority business certification
Box   9 Folder   9	SB 663 - Budget
Box   9 Folder   10	SB 686 - Broker referral fees
Box   9 Folder   11	SJR 13 - Taxation of improvements in cities and villages
Box   9 Folder   12	SJR 19 - Nuclear weapon regulation
Box   9 Folder   13	Subseries: Legislative Reference Bureau Bill Drafts, 1983-1984	⇧
	Subseries: Assembly Files, 1985-1986	⇧
Box   9 Folder   14	AB 16 - American water spaniel as Wisconsin state dog
Box   9 Folder   15	AB 17 - Obscene material and performance
Box   9 Folder   16	AB 18 - Death penalty and life imprisonment
Box   9 Folder   17	AB 35 - Motor vehicle child safety restraints
Box   9 Folder   18	AB 45 - Tax exemptions for animal medicines
Box   9 Folder   19	AB 46 - Maintaining an animal health laboratory in Barron, Wisconsin
Box   9 Folder   20	AB 48 - Firearm possession by convicted felons
Box   9 Folder   21	AB 53 - Student membership on the UW board of regents
Box   9 Folder   22-24	AB 54 - Investments relating to the Republic of South Africa
Box   9 Folder   25	AB 55 - UW system teaching, project, and program assistant labor relations
Box   9 Folder   26	AB 60 - City, village, town, and school district offices
Box   9 Folder   27	AB 67 - Payment of interest by state agencies
Box   9 Folder   28	AB 70 - Rights of law enforcement officers
Box   9 Folder   29	AB 74 - Medical malpractice claims against state employees
Box   9 Folder   30-31	AB 85 - Budget (folders 1-2)
Box   10 Folder   1	AB 85 - Budget (folder 3)
Box   10 Folder   2	AB 120 - Leaded gasoline tax exemptions
Box   10 Folder   3	AB 132 - Seat belts
Box   10 Folder   4	AB 136 - Distribution of literature in shopping centers
Box   10 Folder   5	AB 141 - Interstate banking and bank power
Box   10 Folder   6	AB 146 - Public deposits
Box   10 Folder   7	AB 168 - Tax rates on motor fuel with lead and with alcohol
Box   10 Folder   8	AB 172 - Cattle and bison sales
Box   10 Folder   9	AB 175 - Regulation of fireworks
Box   10 Folder   10	AB 179 - Employment relations in higher education
Box   10 Folder   11	AB 181 - Tax exemption for legal tender and bullion
Box   10 Folder   12	AB 185 - Laws governing cooperative associations
Box   10 Folder   13	AB 193 - Train cabooses
Box   10 Folder   14	AB 194 - Medical malpractice
Box   10 Folder   15	AB 196 - Prohibiting tobacco sales to those under 18
Box   10 Folder   16	AB 201 - Use of nondairy products in state and municipal buildings
Box   10 Folder   17	AB 212 - Small claims actions, worthless checks, and retail theft
Box   10 Folder   18	AB 219 - Sales by cigarette dealers
Box   10 Folder   19	AB 229 - Employment relations for UW academic staff
Box   10 Folder   20	AB 252 - Natural death
Box   10 Folder   21	AB 256 - Physical therapist practice with a referral
Box   10 Folder   22	AB 257 - Collecting of delinquent payment for utility bills
Box   10 Folder   23	AB 279 - Investment of public stocks in nuclear or defense contracts
Box   10 Folder   24	AB 287 - Sales tax liability
Box   10 Folder   25	AB 293 - Marketing and the Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection
Box   10 Folder   26	AB 296 - Dentistry restrictions
Box   10 Folder   27	AB 311 - Involuntary civil commitments and emergency detentions
Box   10 Folder   28	AB 321 - Notices of presidential election voting procedure
Box   10 Folder   29	AB 325 - Teacher retirement
Box   10 Folder   30	AB 346 - Voter registration deputies
Box   10 Folder   31	AB 361 - State aid for public health
Box   10 Folder   32	AB 396 - Correction procedure for allegedly defamatory broadcasts
Box   10 Folder   33	AB 426 - Habitual traffic offenders
Box   10 Folder   34	AB 431 - Determination of equalized value
Box   10 Folder   35	AB 440 - Rate for veteran care and services at the UW Hospital
Box   10 Folder   36	AB 460 - Basement insulations and rental unit energy efficiency
Box   10 Folder   37	AB 466 - Child abuse restraining orders
Box   10 Folder   38	AB 506 - Franchise fees for cable television operators
Box   10 Folder   39	AB 510 - Pregnancy prevention programs and family regulations
Box   10 Folder   40	AB 516 - Tax exemptions for parent-teacher organizations
Box   10 Folder   41	AB 519 - Pupil training in protective behaviors
Box   10 Folder   42	AB 520 - Dissolution of nonstock corporations
Box   10 Folder   43	AB 522 - Regulation of private sewage systems
Box   10 Folder   44	AB 537 - Libraries
Box   10 Folder   45	AB 547 - Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions and acid deposition council
Box   10 Folder   46	AB 594 - Conversion of mutual life insurance companies to stock life insurance companies
Box   10 Folder   47	AB 596 - Interstate bank acquisition and merger
Box   10 Folder   48	AB 625 - Capital expenditure for a cardiac program
Box   10 Folder   49	AB 668 - Discrimination and state assistance
Box   10 Folder   50	AB 669 - Business hours for alcohol retailers
Box   10 Folder   51	AB 705 - Private sewage systems and septage districts
Box   10 Folder   52	AB 784 - Fetal monitor tracings in health care records
Box   10 Folder   53	AB 806 - Supervision of dental hygienists
Box   10 Folder   54	AB 814 - Reciprocal hunting, fishing, and trapping license fees with Minnesota
Box   10 Folder   55	AB 818 - Cooperative law contract provisions and agricultural product producers
Box   10 Folder   56	AB 825 - Exceptions to the fair employment law
Box   10 Folder   57	AB 835 - Legal drinking age and alcohol beverage licenses and permits
Box   10 Folder   58	AB 846 - Firearm regulation
Box   10 Folder   59	AB 865 - Liability insurance risk-sharing plans
Box   11 Folder   1	AJR 3 - Removing obsolete portions and revision state constitution
Box   11 Folder   2	AJR 6 - Farm bill
Box   11 Folder   3	AJR 20 - Equal rights on the basis of sex
Box   11 Folder   4	AJR 37 - Authorizing study of care and treatment of mentally ill
Box   11 Folder   5	AJR 45 - Betting on horse racing and legislative authorization of lotteries
	Subseries: Senate Files, 1985-1986	⇧
Box   11 Folder   6	SB 3 - Improvements on state trunk and connecting highways
Box   11 Folder   7	SB 7 - Seat belts
Box   11 Folder   8	SB 9 - Petroleum inspection fee and unfair sales provisions
Box   11 Folder   9	SB 32 - Board eliminations and changes
Box   11 Folder   10	SB 50 - UW system teaching, project, and program assistant labor relations
Box   11 Folder   11	SB 76 - Unemployment compensation
Box   11 Folder   12	SB 84 - Income tax deduction for school expenses
Box   11 Folder   13	SB 113 - Cooperative associations
Box   11 Folder   14	SB 138 - Income tax exemption for retirement benefits
Box   11 Folder   15	SB 150 - Marital property act
Box   11 Folder   16	SB 214 - Seat belt installation on school buses
Box   11 Folder   17	SB 224 - Department of Development legislation
Box   11 Folder   18	SB 229 - Maximum finance charge
Box   11 Folder   19	SB 255 - License fees for electric cooperatives
Box   11 Folder   20	SB 307 - Wage scale compliance on public works projects
Box   11 Folder   21	SB 328 - Patient compensation, medical malpractice, and health care professional discipline
Box   11 Folder   22	SB 357 - Veterinary examinations
Box   11 Folder   23	SB 361 - Work experience and training project
Box   11 Folder   24	SB 384 - Buyers of farm products
Box   11 Folder   25	SB 447 - Brain injury services
Box   11 Folder   26-30	SB 458 - Securities registration
Box   11 Folder   31	SB 502 - Participation by pharmacists in HMOs
Box   11 Folder   32	SB 516 - Supervision of dental hygienists
Box   11 Folder   33	SB 549 - Firearm regulation
Box   12 Folder   1	SB 620 - Housing and economic development legislation
Box   12 Folder   2	SJR 41 - Access to satellite communications technology
	Subseries: Legislative Reference Bureau Bill Drafts, 1985-1986	⇧
Box   12 Folder   3	Legislation introduced by Brist, 1985-1986
Box   12 Folder   4	Bill drafts, 1985-1986
	Series: Constituent Correspondence	⇧
	Letters, by last name, 1983-1984
Box   12 Folder   5-12	A-E
Box   13 Folder   1-11	E, continued-L
Box   14 Folder   1-11	L, continued-S
	Index cards, by last name, 1983-1984
Box   15 Folder   1-8	S-T, V-W, Y-Z
Box   16	A-R
Box   17	S-T, V-W, Z
	Index cards, by topic, 1983-1984
Box   17	A-M
Box   18	N-W, X
	Letters, by last name, 1985-1986
Box   19 Folder   1-12	A-J
Box   20 Folder   1-17	K-W, Y-Z
	Index cards, by last name, 1985-1986
Box   21	A-H, J-W, Y-Z
	Index cards, by topic, 1985-1986
Box   21	A-E
Box   22	F-J, L-P, R-W
	Series: Clippings, Columns, and Press Releases	⇧
	Clippings and Columns
Box   23 Folder   1-17	February 1977-June 1978
Box   23 Folder   18-20	1982-1984
Box   23 Folder   24	1985-1986
Box   23 Folder   21	Blue Book Biography, 1983
Box   23 Folder   22	Election News, 1984
Box   23 Folder   23	Election Advertisements and Memorabilia, 1984
Box   23 Folder   25-27	Press Releases and Columns, 1985-1986
	Series: Committee Activities, 1981-1986	⇧
Box   24 Folder   1-5	Assembly Committee on Agriculture, 1981-1986
Box   24 Folder   6-7	Assembly Committee on Forest Productivity, 1983-1984
Box   25 Folder   1-2	Assembly Committee on the Judiciary, 1983-1986
Box   25 Folder   3-7	Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, 1983-1986