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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 131

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Relating to: membership in county land conservation committees.

County — Board Land use planning and control

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, 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, each county board must create a land conservation

committee and must appoint to the committee a person from the county's U.S.

Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA). This bill removes the

requirement to appoint an FSA member to a county land conservation committee and

replaces it with a requirement to appoint a person who is engaged in an agricultural

use. “Agricultural use” is defined as crop or forage production; keeping livestock;

beekeeping; nursery, sod, or Christmas tree production; floriculture; aquaculture;

fur farming; and forest management.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , Behnke (R) , Bodden (R) , C. Anderson (D) , Edming (R) , Kurtz (R) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Penterman (R) , Rozar (R) , Schutt (R) , Tranel (R)

12 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Considine (D) , Cowles (R) , Jacobson (D) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , O'Connor (R) , Pfaff (D) , Shelton (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Testin (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Apr 12, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Tourism, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 May 8, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Jun 5, 2023 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. Mar 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Schutt, Armstrong, C. Anderson, Behnke, Bodden, Edming, Kurtz, Moses, Mursau, Novak, Oldenburg, Penterman, Rozar and Tranel; cosponsored by Senators Ballweg, Cowles, Marklein, Nass, Pfaff, Spreitzer, Testin and Wanggaard

  2. Mar 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture

  3. Apr 4, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Apr 4, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor

  5. Apr 5, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Considine added as a coauthor

  6. Apr 11, 2023 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Apr 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  8. Apr 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Apr 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 4-18-2023 by Committee on Rules

  10. Apr 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative O'Connor added as a coauthor

  11. Apr 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  12. Apr 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Shelton added as a coauthor

  13. Apr 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Apr 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  15. Apr 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  16. Apr 18, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Apr 18, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  18. Apr 20, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Agriculture and Tourism

  19. May 8, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  20. May 8, 2023 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Tourism, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  21. May 8, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  22. Jun 5, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  23. Jun 5, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 6-7-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  24. Jun 7, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  25. Jun 7, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  26. Jun 7, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  27. Jun 7, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  28. Jun 7, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Jun 7, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  30. Jun 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 6-9-2023

  31. Aug 2, 2023 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 8-2-2023

  32. Aug 4, 2023 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 8-4-2023. 2023 Wisconsin Act 32

  33. Aug 4, 2023 · Assembly

    Published 8-5-2023