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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

SB 252

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Relating to: utility aid payments for decommissioned or closed production plants. (FE)

Electric utility Property tax — Exemption Shared revenue

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides that if a production plant that is exempt from property taxes

is decommissioned or closed, and therefore becomes taxable, the county and

municipality where the plant is located receive a utility aid payment for the first five

years in which the plant is subject to the property tax in an amount equal to a

percentage of the utility aid payment that the county or municipality received for the

last year in which the plant was exempt.

Under current law, the amount that a county and municipality receive as a

utility aid payment for a decommissioned plant is reduced by the amount of property

taxes that the plant owner paid during the year in which the county and municipality

receive the payment.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Lasee (R) , Marklein (R)

3 cosponsors

Kitchens (R) , Petrowski (R) , Tranel (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Government Operations and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Sep 11, 2015 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 4, Noes 0

Passed 4–0 Sep 15, 2015 official source full page

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

Senate: Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and made Available for Scheduling by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 4, Noes 0

Passed 4–0 Sep 15, 2015 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 32, Noes 0

Passed 32–0 Sep 16, 2015 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Sep 9, 2015 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Lasee and Marklein; cosponsored by Representatives Kitchens and Tranel

  2. Sep 9, 2015 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations and Consumer Protection

  3. Sep 9, 2015 · Senate

    Senator Petrowski added as a coauthor

  4. Sep 10, 2015 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Sep 10, 2015 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Sep 11, 2015 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Government Operations and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Sep 11, 2015 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Sep 11, 2015 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  9. Sep 15, 2015 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 9-16-2015 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  10. Sep 15, 2015 · Senate

    Referred to joint committee on Finance by Committee on Senate Organization pursuant to Senate Rule 41 (1)(e), Ayes 4, Noes 0

  11. Sep 15, 2015 · 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 4, Noes 0

  12. Sep 16, 2015 · Senate

    Read a second time

  13. Sep 16, 2015 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Sep 16, 2015 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  15. Sep 16, 2015 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 32, Noes 0

  16. Sep 16, 2015 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Sep 16, 2015 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  18. Sep 18, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  19. Sep 22, 2015 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 9-24-2015 by Committee on Rules

  20. Sep 24, 2015 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  21. Sep 24, 2015 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  22. Sep 24, 2015 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  23. Sep 24, 2015 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  24. Sep 24, 2015 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  25. Sep 24, 2015 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  26. Oct 2, 2015 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  27. Oct 6, 2015 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 10-6-2015

  28. Oct 8, 2015 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 10-7-2015. 2015 Wisconsin Act 61

  29. Oct 8, 2015 · Senate

    Published 10-8-2015