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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 944

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Relating to: levy increase limits in political subdivisions with qualifying parking lot redevelopment. (FE)

Motor vehicle — Parking Municipality — Taxation Property tax

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

Generally, under current law, local levy limits are applied to the property tax levies that are imposed by political subdivisions. A political subdivision may not increase its levy by a percentage that exceeds its “valuation factor,” which is the greater of 0 percent or the percentage change in the political subdivision’s equalized value due to new construction, less improvements removed (net new construction).

This bill changes the net new construction component of the valuation factor by adding valuation increases due to certain parking lot redevelopment, multiplied by 1.5, to the new construction value used in the net new construction calculation.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Drake (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

8 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 2

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

Full history

  1. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Drake, Dassler-Alfheim, Larson, Roys and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Arney, Moore Omokunde, Ortiz-Velez, Rivera-Wagner, Roe, Stroud and Stubbs

  2. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

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

  3. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 19, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1