Senate Bill 51
The Wisconsin Small Company Advancement grant program and making an appropriation
Topics: Business, Industrial development, Organization, Miscellaneous, University of Wisconsin: Regents
Stopped in committee
It never got a , so it never came up for a vote. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.
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Introduced, passed
Apr 1, 2011
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Senate vote, not reached
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2012: “Failed to pass pursuant to ”
It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Higher Education. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.
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Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
What it would have done
Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.
Current law requires the Board of Regents (board) of the University of Wisconsin (UW) System to make grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.
(foundation), for the Wisconsin Small Company Advancement program (program) to provide intellectual property management services to UW-Extension and all institutions and college campuses, except for UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
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The amount of each grant must be $250,000, but the board may make a grant only if the foundation secures matching funds from sources other than the state. Current law appropriates a sum sufficient not to exceed $2,000,000 dollars for the grants, as well as for certain administrative costs. This bill changes the appropriation to a sum certain appropriation, and appropriates $1,400,000 dollars in fiscal year 2011-12 and $1,400,000 in fiscal year 2012-13 for the grants and administrative costs.
Who's behind it
8 senators are its . All 8 are Democrats.
6 more lawmakers .
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Authors (8)
- Jon Erpenbach · Democrat, Senate
- Dave Hansen · Democrat, Senate
- Jim Holperin · Democrat, Senate
- Robert Jauch · Democrat, Senate
- Julie M. Lassa · Democrat, Senate
- Spencer Coggs · Democrat, Senate
- Lena Taylor · Democrat, Senate
- Kathleen Vinehout · Democrat, Senate
Signed on in support (6)
- Peter Barca · Democrat, Assembly
- Fred Clark · Democrat, Assembly
- Jason Fields · Democrat, Assembly
- Samantha Kerkman · Republican, Assembly
- Jennifer Shilling · Democrat, Senate
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Mar 23, 2012
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Apr 19, 2011
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Apr 1, 2011
Sent to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Higher Education.
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Apr 1, 2011
Introduced in the Senate.
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- Apr 1, 2011 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Lassa, Hansen, Holperin, Vinehout, Jauch, S. Coggs, Taylor and Erpenbach;Cosponsored by Representatives Kerkman, Fields, Barca, Clark, Sinicki and Shilling
- Apr 1, 2011 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Higher Education
- Apr 19, 2011 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
- Mar 23, 2012 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Terms on this page
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary
Author
A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary
From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source
Committee
A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.
Public hearing
A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.
Senate Joint Resolution 1
The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.
Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1
Legislative Reference Bureau
The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.
Official term: LRB analysis
Signed on in support
Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.
Official term: Cosponsor
Cost estimate
A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.
Official term: Fiscal estimate