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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 882

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Relating to: town authority over the water elevation of an artificial water body created by a dam and recourse due to damage caused by an obstructed waterway.

Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Town — Board Waterways and water power

  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

Current law grants the Department of Natural Resources the authority to regulate and control the level and flow of water in all navigable waters. This bill gives a town board the authority to prescribe the maximum water elevation for an artificial water body created by a dam that includes the use of a diversion pump and and that is located in the town if the town board has determined that a certain water elevation of that water body causes the road bed of a highway in the town to be saturated.

Current law provides a procedure whereby the owner or occupant of any lands damaged by an obstruction in a natural watercourse due to negligent action by the owner, occupant, or person in charge of the land on which the obstruction is located may request and ultimately require removal of the obstruction. The bill specifies that the damage triggering this authority must be due to ground or surface water flooding.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Born (R) , Tucker (R)

3 cosponsors

Moses (R) , Quinn (R) , Stafsholt (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 7

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 passage recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 4, Noes 2

Passed 4–2 Jan 30, 2026 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 Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 9, 2026 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 Mar 16, 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. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Tucker and Born; cosponsored by Senator Quinn

  2. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment

  3. Jan 21, 2026 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Jan 29, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Jan 30, 2026 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Environment, Ayes 4, Noes 2

  6. Jan 30, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Feb 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative Moses added as a coauthor

  8. Feb 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Senator Stafsholt added as a cosponsor

  9. Feb 17, 2026 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 1:29 PM on 2-18-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 13

  10. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  11. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Tucker

  12. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted

  13. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  15. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  16. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Neubauer

  18. Feb 19, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  19. Feb 20, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry

  20. Mar 2, 2026 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  21. Mar 9, 2026 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  22. Mar 9, 2026 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  23. Mar 9, 2026 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  24. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

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

  25. Mar 16, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-17-2026 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  26. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a second time

  27. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  28. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  29. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in

  30. Mar 17, 2026 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  31. Mar 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  32. Mar 20, 2026 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-20-2026

  33. Apr 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  34. Apr 8, 2026 · Assembly

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 4-8-2026

  35. May 12, 2026 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  36. May 13, 2026 · Assembly

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