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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 518

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Relating to: environmental pollution in an environmental remediation tax incremental district. (FE)

Environmental protection Property tax

  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

Current law allows a city, village, town, or county to create an environmental

remediation tax incremental district so that the tax increments generated by the

district may be used to pay the costs of remediating environmental pollution on

contiguous parcels of property that are located in the district. For purposes of an

environmental remediation tax incremental district, “environmental pollution”

means contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land, or waters of the

state, or making the air, land, or waters of the state injurious to public health,

harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal, or

plant life. This bill modifies that definition of “environmental pollution” so that it

includes substances that if released into the air, land, or waters of the state due to

the redevelopment of an existing structure would be harmful to public health or

harmful for commercial or recreational use.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bewley (D) , Cowles (R) , Feyen (R) , Jacque (R) , Petrowski (R)

13 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , Cabrera (D) , Loudenbeck (R) , Novak (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Ramthun (R) , Rozar (R) , Tauchen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tittl (R) , Tusler (R) , VanderMeer (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 14, 2021 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 14, 2021 official source full page

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

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 29–2 Oct 20, 2021 official source full page

Nay · 2

Not voting · 2

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 93–0 Jan 25, 2022 official source full page

Aye · 93

Full history

  1. Aug 19, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Cowles, Feyen, Petrowski, Bewley and Jacque; cosponsored by Representatives Armstrong, Tittl, Ramthun, Rozar, Ohnstad, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, VanderMeer and Tusler

  2. Aug 19, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources and Energy

  3. Sep 2, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Sep 16, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Allen added as a cosponsor

  5. Sep 21, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Novak added as a cosponsor

  6. Sep 29, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  7. Oct 7, 2021 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Cowles

  8. Oct 13, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  9. Oct 14, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  10. Oct 14, 2021 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  11. Oct 14, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  12. Oct 19, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-20-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  13. Oct 19, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Loudenbeck added as a cosponsor

  14. Oct 20, 2021 · Senate

    Read a second time

  15. Oct 20, 2021 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  16. Oct 20, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Oct 20, 2021 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  18. Oct 20, 2021 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 29, Noes 2

  19. Oct 20, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Oct 20, 2021 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  21. Dec 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  22. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-25-2022 by Committee on Rules

  23. Jan 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Cabrera added as a coauthor

  24. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  25. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  26. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to joint committee on Finance

  27. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from joint committee on Finance and taken up

  28. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  29. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  30. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 93, Noes 0

  31. Jan 25, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  32. Jan 26, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  33. Feb 3, 2022 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  34. Mar 3, 2022 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-3-2022

  35. Mar 7, 2022 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-4-2022. 2021 Wisconsin Act 149

  36. Mar 7, 2022 · Senate

    Published 3-5-2022