Ty Bodden

AB29 Restoring Sound Money (passed 86 to 12 on 2/20/2024). Creates a sales and use tax exemption for gold, silver, and other precious metals.

AB470 Public Utility Monopolies (passed 85 to 12 on 2/15/2024). Adopts a "right of first refusal" for incumbent public utilities to build transmission projects.

AB975 Legalizing Abortion Up to 14 Weeks (passed 53 to 46 on 1/25/2024). Would have placed on the April 2024 ballot a referendum on legalizing abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy, except in the case of a “medical emergency.”

AB291 Eliminating the Waiting Period After Divorce (passed 93 to 6 on 1/25/2024). Eliminates the six-month waiting period for remarriage after a divorce.

SB466 Second Amendment Financial Privacy (passed 62 to 35 on 1/18/2024). 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.

AB553 Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Due Process (passed 62 to 36 on 11/7/2023). Establishes free speech, academic freedom, and due process standards at University of Wisconsin System institutions and technical colleges.

AB394 'Free' Driver Education for Low-Income Residents (passed with near-unanimous consent on 10/17/2023). Establishes a driver education grant program for low-income individuals who satisfy the “income eligibility criteria for a free or reduced-price meal in the federal school lunch program.”

AB439 Taxpayer Money for Professional Baseball (passed 69 to 27 on 10/17/2023). Would appropriate $411,500,000 in state and local funds through FY 2045-46, along with $50,000,000 in loans, for improvements to the Milwaukee Brewers baseball stadium.

AB465 Prohibiting Sex Mutilation Against Children (passed 63 to 34 on 10/12/2023). Prohibits “gender transition medical intervention” for individuals under 18 years of age.

AB176 Easy Access to 'Morning-After' Pills (passed 82 to 11 on 6/21/2023). Would permit a pharmacist to dispense “self-administered oral hormonal contraceptives” without a prescription from a physician or other medical professional.

AB146 Preventing Local "Guaranteed Income" Programs (passed 60 to 34 on 4/25/2023). Prevents political subdivisions from making expenditures “for the purpose of making payments to individuals under a guaranteed income program.”

AB51 Illegal Aliens as Law Enforcement Officers (passed with near-unanimous consent on 3/22/2023). Would allow recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to become law enforcement officers.