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Bills from the 2019–20 session

Senate Bill 448

Creating University of Wisconsin System positions for farm succession planning and making an appropriation

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.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Sep 27, 2019

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Senate vote, not reached

  4. Assembly vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 1, 2020: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Senate Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill requires the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System to create two positions to advance farm succession planning programs. The first position is a specialist within the Center for Dairy Profitability to assist in the financial aspects of farm succession management. The center is part of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences of the UW-Madison. The second position is a specialist within the farm management program of the Division of Extension of the UW-Madison to assist in developing and delivering programs at the local level and focus on research, training, and joint programming with county-based agriculture educators throughout the state.

Who's behind it

7 senators are its ⁠. 6 are Democrats and 1 is a Republican.

25 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 32 names

Authors (7)

Signed on in support (25)

What happened

  1. Apr 1, 2020

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Oct 1, 2019

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  3. Sep 27, 2019

    Sent to the Senate Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families.

  4. Sep 27, 2019

    Introduced in the Senate.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Sep 27, 2019 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Testin, Schachtner, Carpenter, L. Taylor, Ringhand, Miller and Erpenbach; cosponsored by Representatives Considine, Kulp, Spreitzer, Kolste, Vruwink, L. Myers, Hebl, Sargent, Billings, Edming, Pope, Ohnstad, Subeck, Anderson, Skowronski, Brostoff, Hesselbein, Neubauer, Shankland, Zamarripa, Bowen, Fields, Doyle and Stuck

  2. Sep 27, 2019 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families

  3. Oct 1, 2019 · Senate

    Representative C. Taylor added as a cosponsor

  4. Apr 1, 2020 · 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.

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Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

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

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

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor