Adam Neylon

Adam Neylon
File:Representative Adam Neylon.jpg The Wisconsin State Assembly Wisconsin State Rep. Adam Neylon
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 98th district
In office 2013 – Present
Preceded by	Paul Farrow
Personal details
Born	(1984-12-30) December 30, 1984 Elgin, Illinois
Political party	Republican
Residence	Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Alma mater	Carroll University
Profession	Business Owner, Politician
Website	www.adamneylon.com

Adam Neylon is an American politician and business owner.

Background

Neylon was born in Elgin, Illinois and raised in West Dundee, Illinois. He attended and graduated from Harry D. Jacobs High School in Algonquin, Illinois. After high school, he attended Carroll University and graduated with a degree in Political Science in 2008. At Carroll, he played second base on the baseball team.

After college, Neylon entered into Wisconsin politics by serving as a member of The Sensenbrenner Committee Primary Campaign Staff (2008), as an Absentee Ballot Director for the Republican National Committee (2008), as a Congressional Staff member for the Office of Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (2008-2010), as the Waukesha County Field Director for the Republican Party of Wisconsin (2010), and as a Policy Advisor for the Wisconsin State Assembly (2011-2012).

In 2010, Neylon opened his own commercial window cleaning company. On April 2, 2013, in a special election, Neylon was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly's 98th District as a Republican from Pewaukee, Wisconsin. In 2014, Neylon ran for re-election won. Presently he is serving his second term as the State Representative for the 98th District of Wisconsin's State Assembly.

Career

In his first run for elected office, Neylon won a special election Republican primary for the 98th Assembly District in Wisconsin on February 19, 2013. He ran unopposed in the general election. After the election, the conservative website Right Wisconsin said Neylon was poised to become a rising star in Madison.

During the 2013-15 state budget debate, he championed issues like tax cuts, reduced long-term borrowing, and fought against DNA collection upon arrest. According to journalist Steven Walters, he was one of the GOP Young Guns that helped dictate final budget deals.

Neylon was selected to receive the prestigious Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development fellowship with the Council of State Governments in 2014. In his first term, Neylon was part of the class of 2014, making him the only freshman Republican selected from Wisconsin that year. He was the lead author of two new laws that have garnered national attention: the GPS Privacy Act and the Patent Protection Act to combat predatory “patent troll” schemes targeting Wisconsin business owners. For the 2015-17 Legislative Session, Neylon was appointed Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Jobs and the Economy and appointed Chairman of Wisconsin's Small Business Regulatory Review Board.

During the 2015-2016 Wisconsin Legislative Session, four bills authored by Neylon were passed and signed into law. These bills are the GPS Privacy Bill, The Parent-Based School Accountability Act, the Robotics Competition Bill, and the Department of Children and Families Modernization Act. The GPS Privacy Bill protects citizens by making it a crime for someone to place a global positioning system (GPS) device on someone’s vehicle without their consent. The Parent-Based School Accountability Act requires Wisconsin schools to post a link on their website to the School Report Card generated by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. The Robotics Competitions Bill is a participation grant program, where schools are able to apply for up to $5000 in grants to help pay the cost of having a school affiliated robotics team.

Committee Assignments:

• Committee on Jobs and the Economy, Chairman
• Committee on Energy and Utilities
• Committee on Consumer Protections
• Committee on Public Benefit Reform
• Committee on Children and Families