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Bills · 2011-2012 Regular Session

AB 82

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wildlife damage abatement assistance and claim payments for damage caused by cougar.

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law authorizes a person who owns, leases, or controls land on which

certain wild animals cause damage to crops or livestock (wildlife damage) to apply

to the county for wildlife damage claim payments and for wildlife damage abatement

assistance (wildlife damage payments). With certain exceptions, the person may

receive wildlife damage payments only if the person opens the land for hunting the

type of animal that caused the wildlife damage. Wildlife damage for which a person

is eligible to receive wildlife damage payments includes wildlife damage caused by

deer, bear, and geese.

This bill adds wildlife damage caused by cougar to the type of damage for which

a person is eligible to receive wildlife damage payments. The bill also exempts that

person from the requirement that the land be open for the hunting of cougar in order

to be eligible to receive wildlife damage payments.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ripp (R) , Spanbauer (R) , Turner (D) , Vruwink (D)

4 cosponsors

Kedzie (R) , Lassa (D) , Schultz (R) , Taylor (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by committee on Natural Resources, Ayes 12, Noes 0

Passed 12–0 Nov 7, 2011 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0

Passed 97–0 Mar 13, 2012 official source full page

Aye · 97

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Apr 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Vruwink, Spanbauer, Turner and Ripp;Cosponsored by Senators Lassa, Schultz, Kedzie and Taylor

  2. Apr 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Natural Resources

  3. May 2, 2011 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Oct 26, 2011 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Nov 3, 2011 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Nov 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by committee on Natural Resources, Ayes 12, Noes 0

  7. Nov 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  9. Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0

  10. Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  11. Mar 13, 2012 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  12. Mar 13, 2012 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  13. Mar 13, 2012 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  14. Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Rules and take up

  15. Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  16. Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Mar 14, 2012 · Senate

    Rules suspended and taken up

  18. Mar 14, 2012 · Senate

    Read a second time

  19. Mar 14, 2012 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  20. Mar 14, 2012 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  21. Mar 14, 2012 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  22. Mar 14, 2012 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  23. Mar 14, 2012 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  24. Mar 20, 2012 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled

  25. Apr 5, 2012 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-5-2012

  26. Apr 13, 2012 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-12-2012. 2011 Wisconsin Act 280

  27. Apr 17, 2012 · Assembly

    Published 4-26-2012