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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 439

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Relating to: funding for improvement of baseball park facilities and making an appropriation. (FE)

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  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

This bill provides a total of $411,500,000 in funding from the 2023-24 fiscal

year to the 2045-46 fiscal year for the Department of Administration to make

payments under a grant awarded to a local professional baseball park district for the

purpose of assisting in the development, construction, improvement, repair, and

maintenance of baseball park facilities. The bill separately provides a total of

$50,000,000 in funding for short-term loans awarded by DOA to a local professional

baseball park district for that purpose.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Binsfeld (R) , Brooks (R) , Duchow (R) , Melotik (R) , Michalski (R) , O'Connor (R) , Plumer (R) , Rozar (R) , Schmidt (R) , Swearingen (R)

1 cosponsors

Feyen (R)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 13, Noes 1

Passed 13–1 Oct 12, 2023 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 13, Noes 1

Passed 13–1 Oct 12, 2023 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 69–27 Oct 17, 2023 official source full page

Aye · 69

Not voting · 3

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Nov 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: Report concurrence as amended recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Nov 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: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

Passed 15–0 Nov 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: Report concurrence as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Passed 14–1 Nov 8, 2023 official source full page

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

Assembly: Senate Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 72, Noes 26

Passed 72–26 Nov 14, 2023 official source full page

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

Assembly: Senate Amendment 2 concurred in, Ayes 72, Noes 26

Passed 72–26 Nov 14, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: Senate Amendment 3 rejected, Ayes 22, Noes 10

Passed 22–10 Nov 14, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: Senate Substitute Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 30, Noes 3

Passed 30–3 Nov 14, 2023 official source full page

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

Senate: SUSPEND RULES

Passed 25–7 Nov 14, 2023 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 19–14 Nov 14, 2023 official source full page

Senate: SUSPEND THE RULES TO MESSSAGE TO THE ASSEMBL

Passed 26–7 Nov 14, 2023 official source full page

Full history

  1. Sep 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Brooks, Duchow, Binsfeld, Rozar, O'Connor, Plumer, Melotik, Schmidt, Michalski and Swearingen; cosponsored by Senator Feyen

  2. Sep 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs

  3. Oct 5, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Brooks

  5. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 13, Noes 1

  7. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 13, Noes 1

  8. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 10-17-2023 by Committee on Rules

  10. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  11. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  12. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  13. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 69, Noes 27

  14. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  15. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  16. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  17. Oct 18, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations

  18. Oct 25, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  19. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Feyen

  20. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  21. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  22. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Report concurrence as amended recommended by Committee on Government Operations, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  23. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  24. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Senate Organization and rereferred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  25. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  26. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 15, Noes 0

  27. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Report concurrence as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 1

  28. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  29. Nov 13, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 11-14-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  30. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator Feyen

  31. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senators Larson, Carpenter and Taylor

  32. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 3 offered by Senators Larson, Carpenter and Taylor

  33. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  34. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 30, Noes 3

  35. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  36. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 adopted

  37. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 3 rejected, Ayes 22, Noes 10

  38. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  39. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading, Ayes 25, Noes 7

  40. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in as amended, Ayes 19, Noes 14

  41. Nov 14, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged, Ayes 26, Noes 7

  42. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate amended and concurred in as amended (Senate Amendment 1 and Senate Amendment 2 adopted)

  43. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Senate Amendment 1 concurred in, Ayes 72, Noes 26

  44. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Senate Amendment 2 concurred in, Ayes 72, Noes 26

  45. Nov 14, 2023 · Assembly

    Action ordered immediately messaged

  46. Nov 16, 2023 · Assembly

    LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)

  47. Nov 16, 2023 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 11-16-2023

  48. Nov 30, 2023 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 11-30-2023

  49. Dec 5, 2023 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 12-5-2023. 2023 Wisconsin Act 41

  50. Dec 5, 2023 · Assembly

    Published 12-6-2023