Assembly Bill 867
Groundwater monitoring, CAFO fees, nutrient management plans, well construction rules, the SnapPlus program, and making an appropriation. (FE)
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
Feb 7, 2020
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Committee, stopped here
Stopped here. No public hearing was held.
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Assembly vote, not reached
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Senate vote, not reached
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Governor, not reached
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Law, not reached
Latest entry in the official record, Apr 15, 2020: “Fiscal estimate received”
It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Agriculture. 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.
The bill increases the annual fee for concentrated animal feeding operations from $345 to $650. Under the bill, once every five years a CAFO must pay a fee of $3,270 instead of the $650 fee.
In addition, the bill requires DNR to establish a plan to expand nutrient management planning and cost-sharing availability to meet the goal of having all farmers and all manure landspreading operations be covered by a nutrient management plan by 2030. The bill also allows DNR to require groundwater monitoring at any manure landspreading location in sensitive areas of the state if a public health risk exists.
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The bill also requires DNR, as necessary, to establish rules and update existing rules relating to well construction and pump installation to provide enhanced requirements to protect groundwater in sensitive geologic formations.
Under the bill, DNR, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, the University of Wisconsin-Extension, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Soil Science must collaborate to update the SnapPlus program, to take into account nutrient loss. The UW-Extension must also update its nutrient application guidelines to take into account nutrient loss.
Finally, the bill creates several sum sufficient appropriations to ensure rapid response time for the State Laboratory of Hygiene to perform testing relating to water contamination; for DNR and the Department of Health Services to perform emergency testing of public and private water supplies near areas of known contamination from perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); for DNR to assist municipalities and the public in addressing local sites that are contaminated with PFAS; and for DHS to make recommendations to DNR on groundwater standards.
Who's behind it
22 lawmakers are its . All 22 are Democrats.
8 more lawmakers .
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Authors (22)
- Jimmy Anderson · Democrat, Assembly
- Jill Billings · Democrat, Assembly
- Jonathan Brostoff · Democrat, Assembly
- Chris Taylor · Democrat, Assembly
- Marisabel Cabrera · Democrat, Assembly
- Dave Considine · Democrat, Assembly
- Jodi Emerson · Democrat, Assembly
- Jason Fields · Democrat, Assembly
- Staush Gruszynski · Democrat, Assembly
- Gary Hebl · Democrat, Assembly
- Dianne Hesselbein · Democrat, Senate
- Nick Milroy · Democrat, Assembly
- Greta Neubauer · Democrat, Assembly
- Tod Ohnstad · Democrat, Assembly
- Sondy Pope · Democrat, Assembly
- Melissa Sargent · Democrat, Assembly
- Katrina Shankland · Democrat, Assembly
- Christine Sinicki · Democrat, Assembly
- Shelia Stubbs · Democrat, Assembly
- Lisa Subeck · Democrat, Assembly
- Don Vruwink · Democrat, Assembly
- JoCasta Zamarripa · Democrat, Assembly
Signed on in support (8)
- Tim Carpenter · Democrat, Senate
- Jon Erpenbach · Democrat, Senate
- Chris Larson · Democrat, Senate
- Mark Miller · Democrat, Senate
- Fred A. Risser · Democrat, Senate
- Patty Schachtner · Democrat, Senate
- Jeff Smith · Democrat, Senate
- Bob Wirch · Democrat, Senate
What it would cost
State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.
What happened
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Apr 15, 2020
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Apr 1, 2020
The session ended, and the bill died with it.
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Mar 3, 2020
A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
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Feb 7, 2020
Sent to the Assembly Committee on Agriculture.
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Feb 7, 2020
Introduced in the Assembly.
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- Feb 7, 2020 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Pope, Hebl, Shankland, Anderson, Billings, Brostoff, Emerson, Fields, Neubauer, C. Taylor, Zamarripa, Sargent, Subeck, Gruszynski, Stubbs, Cabrera, Milroy, Sinicki, Hesselbein, Ohnstad, Considine and Vruwink; cosponsored by Senators Miller, Smith, Risser, Erpenbach, Larson, Schachtner, Carpenter and Wirch
- Feb 7, 2020 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture
- Mar 3, 2020 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
- Apr 15, 2020 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
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