Robert L. Cowles

AB29 Restoring Sound Money (passed 23 to 9 on 3/12/2024). Creates a sales and use tax exemption for gold, silver, and other precious metals.

AB910 Internet Sales Taxes and "Remote" Retail Permits (passed 30 to 2 on 3/12/2024). Prohibits online retailers from selling cigars or pipe tobacco without a “remote” permit, including for the collection of state taxes, and mandates the use of an age verification system.

Motion to Refer: AB51 Illegal Aliens as Law Enforcement Officers (passed 22 to 10 on 2/20/2024). Stopped the advancement of a bill that would allow recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to become law enforcement officers.

SB466 Second Amendment Financial Privacy (passed 22 to 10 on 1/16/2024). Forbids a financial institution from requiring the use of a merchant category code that identifies the merchant as a firearms retailer and provides that no governmental entity may maintain a list of firearms owners.

AB494 Voter ID for Absentee Ballots (passed 22 to 11 on 11/14/2023). Would require persons seeking “indefinitely confined status” due to “frailty, physical illness, or a disability” to submit proof of voter indentation before receiving automatic absentee ballots.

AB146 Preventing Local "Guaranteed Income" Programs (passed 22 to 10 on 10/17/2023). Prevents political subdivisions from making expenditures “for the purpose of making payments to individuals under a guaranteed income program.”

AB465 Prohibiting Sex Mutilation Against Children (passed 22 to 10 on 10/17/2023). Prohibits “gender transition medical intervention” for individuals under 18 years of age.

SB343 Safeguarding Wisconsin's 1849 Abortion Ban (passed 22 to 10 on 10/17/2023). Would provide that “abortion” under state law “does not include a physician’s performance medical procedures or treatments designed or intended to prevent the death of a pregnant woman and not designed or intended to kill the unborn child.”

SB436 Repealing Work-Permit Requirements for Minors (passed 21 to 11 on 10/17/2023). Would eliminate the requirement for a minor who is 14 or 15 years of age to obtain a state-authorized work permit prior to employment.

SB110 Extending Postpartum Medicaid Coverage (passed 32 to 1 on 9/14/2023). Would extend postpartum coverage for Medicaid recipients from two months to 12 months.

SB263 100-Day Drug Supplies for SeniorCare Recipients (passed 33 to 0 on 9/14/2023). Would allow SeniorCare participants to purchase 100-day supplies of prescription drugs.

SB166 "Gender-Neutral" Language in the Military (passed 33 to 0 on 9/14/2023). Removes “gender-specific” language from Article 133 of the Wisconsin Code of Military Justice, which prohibits “conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman.”

AB834 No-Knock Search Warrants (passed 20 to 12 on 3/8/2022). Permits law enforcement officers to execute “no-knock” search warrants in certain “dangerous” or “ineffective” situations.

AB963 Parental Rights (passed 19 to 12 on 3/8/2022). Would prohibit the state from infringing on the fundamental right of parents or guardians to direct the upbringing, education, health care, and mental health of their children.

SJR102 Article V Convention: Term Limits (passed 17 to 15 on 2/22/2022). Applies to Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the U.S. Constitution, to call for a convention to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishing term limits for members of Congress.

AJR9 Article V Convention: Constitutional Amendments (passed 17 to 16 on 1/25/2022). Applies to Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the U.S. Constitution, to call for a "Convention of the States" for the purpose of proposing constitutional amendments.

SJR32 U.S. Citizenship Requirement to Vote (passed 21 to 12 on 1/25/2022). Proposes to amend the Wisconsin Constitution to provide that only a U.S. citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district in Wisconsin is eligible to vote in the state.

SJR3 Terminating the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (passed 18 to 13 on 1/26/2021). Terminated the COVID-19 public health emergency declared by Governor Tony Evers in Executive Order #104 on January 19, 2021, and all actions of the Governor and all emergency orders issued pursuant to the declaration of the public health emergency.