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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 812

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Relating to: allowing more than 35 percent of the area within a tax incremental district in the Village of Somers to be used for residential use. (FE)

Kenosha county Property tax

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  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

Current law requires that revenue obtained through tax incremental financing (TIF) be used only for certain project costs, including any expenditures made or estimated to be made or monetary obligations incurred or estimated to be incurred for a mixed-use development tax incremental district (TID). Under current law, mixed-use development means development that contains a combination of industrial, commercial, or residential uses, except that lands proposed for newly platted residential use may not exceed 35 percent of the real property within the TID.

This bill creates an exception to this 35 percent limit for TIDs in the Village of Somers. Under the bill, lands proposed for newly platted residential use within a mixed-use development TID in the Village of Somers may not exceed 50 percent of the real property within the TID.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: McGuire (D) , Novak (R)

1 cosponsors

Wanggaard (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0

Passed 10–0 Feb 4, 2026 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 9, Noes 1

Passed 9–1 Feb 4, 2026 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 89–7 Feb 19, 2026 official source full page

Aye · 89

Not voting · 3

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Mar 12, 2026 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. Dec 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Novak and McGuire; cosponsored by Senator Wanggaard

  2. Dec 23, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means

  3. Jan 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 21, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Jan 28, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative McGuire

  6. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 10, Noes 0

  8. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Ways and Means, Ayes 9, Noes 1

  9. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 11:32 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14

  11. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  12. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  13. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  15. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 89, Noes 7

  16. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Feb 23, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  18. Feb 25, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Transportation and Local Government

  19. Mar 10, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  20. Mar 12, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  21. Mar 12, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Transportation and Local Government, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  22. Mar 12, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  23. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1