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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 480

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Relating to: eligibility for farmland preservation tax credits. (FE)

Energy conservation Farmland preservation

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill disallows a person from claiming the farmland preservation tax credit

for any part of the claimant's qualifying acres on which a photovoltaic solar energy

system that is not an integral part of or incidental to an agricultural use. Under

current law, a person may claim an individual income or corporate income and

franchise tax credit for the person's land engaged in an agricultural use, if the land

is covered by a farmland preservation agreement or located in a farmland

preservation zoning district, or both.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Behnke (R) , Bodden (R) , Donovan (R) , Goeben (R) , Green (R) , Gustafson (R) , Hurd (R) , Kitchens (R) , Kurtz (R) , Macco (R) , Melotik (R) , Michalski (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Nedweski (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Plumer (R) , Rettinger (R) , Schutt (R) , Wichgers (R)

6 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Marklein (R) , Nass (R) , Stroebel (R) , Tomczyk (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 4

Passed 8–4 Jan 18, 2024 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 Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 4

Passed 8–4 Jan 18, 2024 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 64–35 Jan 25, 2024 official source full page

Aye · 64

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

Passed 11–4 Feb 7, 2024 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 Feb 9, 2024 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. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Schutt, Behnke, Bodden, Donovan, Goeben, Green, Gustafson, Hurd, Kitchens, Kurtz, Macco, Melotik, Michalski, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Nedweski, O'Connor, Penterman, Plumer, Rettinger and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Tomczyk, Cowles, Marklein, Nass, Stroebel and Wanggaard

  2. Oct 12, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means

  3. Oct 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Oct 13, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Nov 27, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Schutt

  6. Nov 29, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Dec 29, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Schutt

  8. Jan 4, 2024 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 4

  11. Jan 18, 2024 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 8, Noes 4

  12. Jan 23, 2024 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 10:20 AM on 1-25-2024 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 23

  13. Jan 25, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Jan 25, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 adopted

  15. Jan 25, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Jan 25, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  17. Jan 25, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 64, Noes 35

  18. Jan 25, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Jan 25, 2024 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  20. Jan 26, 2024 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  21. Jan 26, 2024 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  22. Feb 5, 2024 · Senate

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

  23. Feb 7, 2024 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  24. Feb 7, 2024 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

  25. Feb 7, 2024 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  26. Feb 9, 2024 · Senate

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

  27. Feb 9, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-13-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  28. Feb 13, 2024 · Senate

    Read a second time

  29. Feb 13, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  30. Feb 13, 2024 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  31. Feb 13, 2024 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 22, Noes 10

  32. Feb 13, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  33. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  34. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 2-15-2024

  35. Mar 26, 2024 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2024

  36. Mar 29, 2024 · Assembly

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 3-29-2024

  37. May 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 5-14-2024 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  38. May 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82