Since in office, Dora’s been leading & getting it done!
In the 2021-2022 Biennium, Dora Drake served on 4 committees: Public Safety and Criminal Justice, Workforce Development, Family Law, and Government Oversight and Accountability. She is also a member of the Governor’s Financial Literacy Council and the Interim Chair of the Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus.
In the 2023-2024 Biennium, Dora Drake expanded her leadership roles in addition to her committee assignments. Dora Drake is the Ranking Democrat for the Criminal Justice and Public Safety and is the Vice Chair for the Speaker’s Task Force on Truancy. She serves on the following committees: Energy & Utilities; Transportation; and Health, Aging and Long-Term Care. Dora Drake continues to be the Chairwoman of the Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus and a member of the Governor’s Financial Literacy Council.
Bills Dora has worked on since in office.
Since being sworn into office, State Representative Dora Drake had over 25 bills signed into law ranging from issues on public safety, healthcare access, supporting small businesses, and criminal justice reform. Some of these include:
Act 34, The design of health care coverage plans for public safety employees (23-24)
Act 60, Requiring one-half credit of personal financial literacy for high school graduation (23-24)
Act 73, Department of Revenue enforcement and providing a penalty (Authored, 23-24)
Act 86, A driver education grant program (23-24)
Act 72, Prohibiting the out-of-home placement of a child with a person with a record of a crime against a child (Authored, 21-22)
Act 82, Disclosure of employment files when recruiting former or current officers (21-22)
Act 196, Housing authorities use of mixed developments (21-22)
Act 252, A new juvenile correctional facility in Milwaukee and granting bonding authority (21-22)
Act 156, Income and franchise tax exemption for restaurant revitalization grants (21-22)
Act 121, Funding for free and charitable clinics and defining telehealth (21-22)
During this session, Dora has authored or co-sponsored bills to ensure equity for healthcare access, address the living conditions in our state prisons, to improving our neighborhoods:
SB 534, Training to address student mental health and making an appropriation
AB 340, Coverage of maternity and newborn care under health insurance policies and plans (Authored)
AB 114, Extension of eligibility under the Medical Assistance program for postpartum women (Co-authored)
AB 48, Prosecuting or adjudicating delinquent a person under the age of 18 for committing an act of prostitution (Co-authored)
AB 38, Absentee ballot request and return confirmation (Co-authored)
AB 466, consumer data protection and providing a penalty
AB 622, multijurisdictional business improvement districts, annual reports for neighborhood improvement districts, and certain notifications for neighborhood improvement districts and business improvement districts. (Authored)
AB 770, free feminine hygiene products for inmates of state correctional institutions or county jails or houses of correction
AB 883, payday loans (Co-Authored)
AB 939, reporting of and notifications about restricted movement and solitary confinement in state correctional institutions and county jails and making an appropriation.
AB 948, student loans for postsecondary education, requirements related to student loan servicers, creating an office of the student loan ombudsman in the Department of Financial Institutions, and granting rule-making authority
AB 1024, notice to the parent or guardian of a habitually truant child
AB 1025, definitions related to truancy
AB 1027, funding a truancy reduction grant program and making an appropriation
AB 1028, truancy reduction grant program
AB 1052, courtroom supports for and sealing the identifying information of child victims and child witnesses of human trafficking crimes