Relating to: designating and marking memorial highways for state troopers.
AB 1020 designates specific highway segments in Wisconsin as "Memorial Highways" honoring eight fallen state troopers, naming each route after a trooper (e.g., STH 23 near Green Lake for Trooper Donald C. Pederson). The bill requires the state transportation department to install commemorative signs on these routes only if sufficient private contributions cover all costs - no state funds may be used. This is a purely commemorative measure with no policy changes to transportation or law enforcement, directly affecting the named highways and the troopers' families.
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Feb 2026
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Introduced Feb 6, 2026
Last action Mar 23, 2026
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Introduced
Introduced by Representatives VanderMeer, Spiros, Maxey, Doyle, Goeben, Goodwin, Hurd, Knodl, Penterman, Stubbs, Subeck and Udell;
cosponsored by Senators Stafsholt, James, Jagler, Jacque, Keyeski and Ratcliff
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Dan Knodl
RRepublican
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Dave Maxey
RRepublican
P
John Spiros
RRepublican
P
Joy Goeben
RRepublican
P
Karen Hurd
RRepublican
P
Lisa Subeck
DDemocratic
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Nancy VanderMeer
RRepublican
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Randy Udell
DDemocratic
P
Russell Goodwin
DDemocratic
P
Shelia Stubbs
DDemocratic
P
Steve Doyle
DDemocratic
P
Will Penterman
RRepublican
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