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SJR38 - Celebrating May 5, 2023, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin.
Dan Feyen, Joan A. Ballweg, Robert L. Cowles
Last updated 5 months ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Relating to: celebrating May 5, 2023, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin.
STATUS
Failed
SB269 - Grants to map, control, eradicate, monitor, and minimize the spread of wild parsnip; funding for the Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)
Patrick Testin, Robert L. Cowles, Timothy W. Carpenter
Last updated 5 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
An Act to create 20.370 (1) (fq), 20.370 (6) (dr) and 23.22 (2) (g) of the statutes; Relating to: grants to map, control, eradicate, monitor, and minimize the spread of wild parsnip; funding for the Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)
STATUS
Failed
SJR39 - Honoring the life and public service of Representative Sheryl Albers.
Joan A. Ballweg, Howard Marklein, Robert L. Cowles
Last updated 5 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Representative Sheryl Albers.
STATUS
Failed
SB108 - Maintaining a lifetime teaching, administrator, or pupil services license.
Robert L. Cowles, Joan A. Ballweg, Mary Czaja Felzkowski
Last updated 5 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
An Act to renumber 118.19 (18) (c); and to create 118.19 (18) (c) 2. of the statutes; Relating to: maintaining a lifetime teaching, administrator, or pupil services license.
STATUS
Failed
SB308 - A sales and use tax exemption for data center equipment or software. (FE)
Romaine Robert Quinn, Van H. Wanggaard, Marc Julian Bradley
Last updated 5 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
An Act to create 77.54 (70) and 238.40 of the statutes; Relating to: a sales and use tax exemption for data center equipment or software. (FE)
STATUS
Failed
SB254 - A wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Robert L. Cowles, Joan A. Ballweg, Jeffrey L. Mursau
Last updated 5 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
An Act to amend 15.347 (22) (b) 9. and 23.321 (5) (a); and to create 23.321 (2d) of the statutes; Relating to: a wetland assured delineation program, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
STATUS
Failed
AB53 - Reporting certain crimes and other incidents that occur on school property or school transportation and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Cindi Duchow, David Armstrong, Robert G. Donovan
Last updated 5 months ago
17 Co-Sponsors
An Act to create 115.385 (1) (e), 115.385 (1g) (g) and 118.124 of the statutes; Relating to: reporting certain crimes and other incidents that occur on school property or school transportation and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
STATUS
Failed
AB999 - Labeling food as a type of dairy product or as a dairy ingredient and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
Joy Goeben, Clinton Anderson, Elijah Behnke
Last updated 5 months ago
29 Co-Sponsors
An Act to create 97.26 of the statutes; Relating to: labeling food as a type of dairy product or as a dairy ingredient and granting rule-making authority. (FE)
STATUS
Failed
SB53 - Disabled parking privileges on University of Wisconsin System campuses. (FE)
Patrick Testin, Steve Nass, Joan A. Ballweg
Last updated 5 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
An Act to amend 346.50 (2) and 346.50 (2a) (intro.) of the statutes; Relating to: disabled parking privileges on University of Wisconsin System campuses. (FE)
STATUS
Failed
AJR103 - Honoring the life and public service of Lieutenant Governor Margaret Farrow.
Tom Michalski, Scott E. Allen, Tyler August
Last updated 5 months ago
49 Co-Sponsors
Relating to: honoring the life and public service of Lieutenant Governor Margaret Farrow.
STATUS
Failed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Wisconsin district SD-002
COMMITTEES
Wisconsin Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Robert L. Cowles is a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate, representing District 2. Cowles earned his BS in Journalism and MBA from UW-Madison. He was elected to the Senate in 1987. Cowles serves as co-chairman of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. He also serves on the Senate Committee on Insurance, Housing, and Trade and the Transportation and Veterans Affairs Committee. Previously, Cowles served in the State Assembly from 1982 to 1987. He owns a publishing company.read less
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