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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

SB 541

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Relating to: planting trees, shrubs, or hedges on the side of certain highways. (FE)

Forestry Plants Road Road — Construction and repair Town

  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

Under current law, a person who owns land that adjoins a highway may, with

the approval of the public authority maintaining the highway, plant, cultivate, and

maintain trees, shrubs, or hedges on the side of the highway contiguous to and within

ten feet of that person's land. Under this bill, if the person who owns the land that

adjoins a highway is a town, the town may, with the approval of the public authority

maintaining the highway, authorize another person to plant trees, shrubs, or hedges

on the land.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Petrowski (R)

2 cosponsors

Miller (D) , Spiros (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Veterans Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Jan 25, 2016 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Jan 8, 2016 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Petrowski; cosponsored by Representative Spiros

  2. Jan 8, 2016 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Veterans Affairs

  3. Jan 14, 2016 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Jan 21, 2016 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  5. Jan 25, 2016 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Jan 25, 2016 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation and Veterans Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Jan 25, 2016 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Feb 8, 2016 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-9-2016 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  9. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  10. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  11. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  12. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  13. Feb 9, 2016 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  14. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Senator Miller added as a coauthor

  15. Feb 9, 2016 · Senate

    Read a second time

  16. Feb 12, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  17. Feb 16, 2016 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 2:36 PM on 2-18-2016 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 29

  18. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  20. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  21. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  22. Feb 18, 2016 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  23. Feb 18, 2016 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  24. Feb 25, 2016 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  25. Feb 25, 2016 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 2-25-2016

  26. Mar 2, 2016 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-1-2016. 2015 Wisconsin Act 236

  27. Mar 2, 2016 · Senate

    Published 3-2-2016