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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 1171

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Relating to: a wakeboat study at the University of Wisconsin System.

Boat University of wisconsin — Finance

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the University of Wisconsin System, in submitting

information to the governor for the purposes of the 2025-27 biennial budget, to

submit a plan for conducting a wakeboat study and request funding for conducting

the wakeboat study in the 2025-27 fiscal biennium. The bill requires the study to

be planned to measure wave energy from representative wakeboats engaged in wake

surfing and wake boarding activities in typical wake-enhanced mode and at various

distances, study the impact of enhanced wakes on lake bottoms, fish nesting, aquatic

vegetation, and sediment disruption, and assess the wave energy of waves generated

by winds and storms compared to the energy of waves generated by enhanced wakes.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Bodden (R) , Callahan (R) , Edming (R) , Green (R) , Michalski (R) , Mursau (R) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Sortwell (R) , Swearingen (R) , Tittl (R)

4 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Feyen (R) , Spreitzer (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Swearingen, Behnke, Bodden, Callahan, Michalski, Mursau, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Sortwell, Tittl, Green and Edming; cosponsored by Senators Felzkowski, Cowles, Feyen and Spreitzer

  2. Mar 22, 2024 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Forestry, Parks and Outdoor Recreation

  3. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1