Skip to content
Bills from the 2025–26 session

Assembly Bill 852

Farmland preservation implementation grants, maximum acres of agricultural enterprise areas, indexing the farmland preservation tax credit for inflation, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Topics: Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Department of, Farmland preservation, Income tax: Credit, Inflation

Stopped in committee

It never got a ⁠, so it never came up for a vote. The last day for votes this session was Mar 19, 2026. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Jan 16, 2026

  2. Committee, stopped here

    Stopped here. No public hearing was held.

  3. Assembly vote, not reached

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Mar 23, 2026: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

It never got a hearing in the Assembly Committee on Agriculture. The committee's chair at the time was Travis Tranel. Chairs decide which bills get a hearing. See every bill that never got a hearing this session.

Read the bill

Following saves it on this device. New actions show on your Following page. You can also get updates in a feed reader.

Embed this on your site

Paste this code into your page. The card shows the latest record each time it loads. Preview the card

The same bill was also filed in the Senate as SB 841. That version died when the session ended.

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to award grants to cities, villages, towns, counties, regional planning commissions, and tribal governments for various purposes related to implementing a county’s certified farmland preservation plan. Under the bill, DATCP must enter into a contract with a grant recipient before distributing grant funds, and the contract must identify costs eligible for reimbursement through the grant for the following activities: 1) certifying a farmland preservation zoning ordinance for the first time; 2) enrolling land in farmland preservation agreements; 3) designating an agricultural enterprise area or facilitating agricultural preservation and development; 4) monitoring compliance with land and water conservation standards; and 5) farmland preservation program outreach.

Under current law, DATCP may designate agricultural enterprise areas targeted for agricultural preservation and development. Current law authorizes DATCP to designate agricultural enterprise areas in the state with a combined area of not more than 2,000,000 acres.

Read the full summary

The bill increases this authorization to a combined area of not more than 3,000,000 acres.

The bill also indexes for inflation the dollar amounts used to calculate the farmland preservation income tax credit. Under current law, claimants may claim a farmland preservation income tax credit for qualifying acres of farmland at a rate of $10 or $12.50 per qualifying acre, depending on certain factors.

Who's behind it

28 representatives are its ⁠. All 28 are Democrats.

15 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 43 names

Authors (28)

Signed on in support (15)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

What happened

  1. Mar 23, 2026

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Feb 5, 2026

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  3. Jan 20, 2026

    1 more representative signed on in support.

  4. Jan 16, 2026

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Agriculture.

  5. Jan 16, 2026

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Miresse, Anderson, Arney, Bare, Billings, Brown, Clancy, DeSanto, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Goodwin, Hong, Hysell, J. Jacobson, Joers, Johnson, Madison, McCarville, Neubauer, Phelps, Roe, Sheehan, Sinicki, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Spreitzer, Keyeski, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Drake, Habush Sinykin, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Pfaff, Ratcliff, Roys, Smith and Wall

  2. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture

  3. Jan 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 5, 2026 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Public hearing

A meeting where anyone can speak to a committee about a bill, or send written comments.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

More in the glossary

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate

More in the glossary