Bills · 2011-2012 Regular Session

SB 497

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designation, modification, and termination of agricultural enterprise areas.

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer

Protection (DATCP) administers the Farmland Preservation Program, which

contains some of the requirements that a farmer must meet to qualify for the

farmland preservation tax credit. Under current law, one requirement for qualifying

for the tax credit is that the farmland must either be in a farmland preservation

zoning district or be covered by a farmland preservation agreement executed by

DATCP. Current law prohibits DATCP from entering into new farmland

preservation agreements unless the farmland is in an agricultural enterprise area

targeted for agricultural preservation and development. Under current law, DATCP

designates agricultural enterprise areas by rule. The law allows DATCP to use

emergency rule-making procedures to designate agricultural enterprise areas.

Under this bill, DATCP designates agricultural enterprise areas by order,

rather than by rule.

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Higher Education, Ayes 7, Noes 0

Passed 7–0 Feb 24, 2012 official source full page

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

Senate: Referred to joint committee on Finance by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 5, 2012 official source full page

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

Senate: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 33, Noes 0

Passed 33–0 Mar 6, 2012 official source full page

Aye · 33

Full history

Feb 21, 2012 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Schultz and Holperin;Cosponsored by Representatives Nerison, Clark, Vruwink, A. Ott and Tranel
Feb 21, 2012 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Higher Education
Feb 22, 2012 · Senate
Representative Spanbauer added as a cosponsor
Feb 23, 2012 · Senate
Public hearing held
Feb 24, 2012 · Senate
Report passage recommended by committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Higher Education, Ayes 7, Noes 0
Feb 24, 2012 · Senate
Available for scheduling
Mar 5, 2012 · Senate
Referred to joint committee on Finance by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0
Mar 5, 2012 · Senate
Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 5, Noes 0
Mar 5, 2012 · Senate
Placed on calendar 3-6-2012 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
Mar 6, 2012 · Senate
Ordered to a third reading
Mar 6, 2012 · Senate
Rules suspended
Mar 6, 2012 · Senate
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 33, Noes 0
Mar 6, 2012 · Senate
Ordered immediately messaged
Mar 6, 2012 · Assembly
Received from Senate
Mar 6, 2012 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to committee on Rules
Mar 6, 2012 · Assembly
Made a special order of business at 11:36 A.M. on 3-13-2012 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 22
Mar 6, 2012 · Senate
Read a second time
Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly
Read a second time
Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly
Ordered to a third reading
Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly
Rules suspended
Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly
Read a third time and concurred in
Mar 13, 2012 · Assembly
Ordered immediately messaged
Mar 13, 2012 · Senate
Received from Assembly concurred in
Mar 21, 2012 · Senate
Report correctly enrolled on 3-21-2012
Apr 5, 2012 · Senate
Presented to the Governor on 4-5-2012
Apr 6, 2012 · Senate
Report approved by the Governor on 4-6-2012. 2011 Wisconsin Act 253
Apr 10, 2012 · Senate
Published 4-19-2012