Commerce, Department of

Apr 28, 2010

AB 253: Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

May 18, 2009

AB 255: Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and payment of extended benefits; excluding recovery and reinvestment act moneys from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments; eligibility for participation in the programs of a community action agency; financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; the confidentiality of pupil records provided to the Department of Public Instruction; financial assistance for criminal justice programs; authorizing political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; definition of low-income household under energy and weatherization assistance programs; eligibility and notice changes for state continuation of coverage for health insurance; changes to enterprise zone jobs credits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 285: Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 408: Financial assistance related to bioenergy feedstocks, biorefineries, and conversion to biomass energy; the definition of the term agricultural use for the purpose of determining the assessed value of a parcel of land; requiring a strategic bioenergy feedstock assessment; creation of a bioenergy council; the agricultural and forestry diversification programs; biofuels training assessment; a study of regulatory burdens relating to biofuel production facilities; marketing orders and agreements for bioenergy feedstocks; exempting personal renewable fuel production and use from the motor vehicle fuel tax, the petroleum inspection fee, and business tax registration requirements; an income and franchise tax credit for installing or retrofitting pumps that mix motor vehicle fuels from separate storage tanks; offering gasoline that is not blended with ethanol to motor fuel dealers; state renewable motor vehicle fuels sales goals; required sales of renewable motor vehicle fuels; use of petroleum-based transportation fuels by state vehicles; use of alternative fuels in flex fuel vehicles owned by the state; use of public alternative fuel refueling facilities; duties of the Office of Energy Independence; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 451: Registration of construction contractors.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 476: Requiring the Department of Commerce to study and report on methods to retain businesses at risk of relocating or expanding outside the state and to encourage business relocations and expansions in the state and to create an emergency response team.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 513: The amounts appropriated for tuition grants and for Wisconsin higher education grants for University of Wisconsin system students, technical college students, and tribal college students; grants to technical college districts to reduce unemployment; grants to businesses to make capital expenditures; increasing the total amount of angel investment credits; creating a new individual income tax upper bracket; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.

Stopped in committee.

May 11, 2010

AB 532: Directing the Department of Commerce to award grants to community development corporations to establish capital access programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 641: A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 642: An income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.

Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 643: Waiving certain federal bond limitations allocated to cities and counties and requiring the Department of Commerce to develop a system for reallocating the bond limitations to other state and local units of government.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 649: Goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 660: Certification of ironworkers, maximum and minimum numbers of certain individuals performing ironwork at construction sites, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 712: A sales and use tax exemption for extended-range electric vehicles; a property tax exemption for tangible personal property used to recharge electric vehicles; the motor vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program, extended-range electric vehicle grants; an income and franchise tax credit for research conducted in this state by a corporation; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 742: Fuel products fees and inspection (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Commerce).

Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

May 11, 2010

AB 749: An income and franchise tax credit for equipment used to harvest or process woody biomass.

Became law.

May 26, 2010

AB 757: A food processing plant and food warehouse investment tax credit, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 767: Changes to the membership of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, notification to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board of bills with an economic impact on small businesses, and the role of the Office of the Small Business Advocate in the Department of Commerce.

Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

May 11, 2010

AB 768: Authorizing the Department of Commerce to designate two additional enterprise zones.

Became law.

May 11, 2010

AB 771: A grant to Wisconsin Workforce Development Association from the Department of Commerce and making an appropriation.

Became law.

May 24, 2010

AB 799: Changes to the membership of the Small Business Regulatory Review Board, notification to the Small Business Regulatory Review Board of bills with an economic impact on small businesses, and the role of the Office of the Small Business Advocate in the Department of Commerce.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 817: Employer-assisted housing.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 818: Notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 843: Energy conservation standards for the construction of certain buildings, energy and environmental design standards for state buildings, structures, and facilities, energy and environmental design standards for school district facilities and other local government buildings, leasing of state buildings, structures, and facilities, standards for the construction and use of graywater systems, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 844: Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 853: Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority.

Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

May 11, 2010

AB 864: Authorizing the Department of Commerce to certify for tax benefits a business located in an enterprise zone and having a Wisconsin supply chain.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 875: Restoring the Minority Business Development Board and the Minority Business Grant and Loan Program.

Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

May 21, 2010

AB 903: Safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 904: Loans to manufacturing businesses for energy improvements, job creation, retooling, or clean energy production; the administration of energy utility programs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of emergency rule-making procedures; and making appropriations.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 928: Licensing of individuals using cranes and heavy equipment, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 948: An income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution and granting rule-making authority.

Stopped before the full Assembly voted.

May 21, 2010

AB 950: Eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 961: Targets for the allocation of federal tax credits by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.

Passed the Assembly, then stopped.

Apr 28, 2010

AB 968: Authorizing the governor to award grants and loans for development projects, granting rule-making authority, and making appropriations.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 55: The regulation, preservation, and restoration of historic buildings; the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit and the state historic rehabilitation tax credit; requiring the certification of downtowns; promoting certain downtown areas in this state; highway projects involving business and downtown areas; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 56: An income and franchise tax credit for workplace wellness programs, granting rule-making authority, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.

Stopped in committee.

Mar 2, 2009

SB 62: State finances and appropriations and making diverse other changes in the statutes.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 77: Changes to economic development tax benefit programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.

Stopped in committee.

Jun 5, 2009

SB 94: The licensing and regulation of thermal system insulation mechanics; creating a thermal system insulation council; requiring the employment of a state inspector; establishing standards for installing and maintaining thermal system insulation; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making an appropriation; and providing a penalty.

Became law.

May 20, 2009

SB 181: Prohibiting smoking in indoor areas, in sports arenas, in public conveyances, and at certain outdoor locations and providing a penalty.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 189: Eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits and payment of extended benefits; excluding recovery and reinvestment act moneys from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments; eligibility for participation in the programs of a community action agency; financial assistance under the Clean Water Fund Program and the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program; the confidentiality of pupil records provided to the Department of Public Instruction; financial assistance for criminal justice programs; authorizing political subdivisions to make residential energy efficiency improvement loans and impose special charges for the loans; definition of low-income household under energy and weatherization assistance programs; eligibility and notice changes for state continuation of coverage for health insurance; changes to enterprise zone jobs credits; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation.

Passed the Senate, then stopped.

May 20, 2010

SB 279: Financial assistance related to bioenergy feedstocks, biorefineries, and conversion to biomass energy; the definition of the term agricultural use for the purpose of determining the assessed value of a parcel of land; requiring a strategic bioenergy feedstock assessment; creation of a bioenergy council; the agricultural and forestry diversification programs; biofuels training assessment; a study of regulatory burdens relating to biofuel production facilities; marketing orders and agreements for bioenergy feedstocks; exempting personal renewable fuel production and use from the motor vehicle fuel tax, the petroleum inspection fee, and business tax registration requirements; an income and franchise tax credit for installing or retrofitting pumps that mix motor vehicle fuels from separate storage tanks; offering gasoline that is not blended with ethanol to motor fuel dealers; state renewable motor vehicle fuels sales goals; required sales of renewable motor vehicle fuels; use of petroleum-based transportation fuels by state vehicles; use of alternative fuels in flex fuel vehicles owned by the state; use of public alternative fuel refueling facilities; duties of the Office of Energy Independence; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; making appropriations; and providing penalties.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 312: The electronic medical records tax credit.

Stopped in committee.

May 17, 2010

SB 314: Traditional neighborhood development ordinances, mixed-use zoning, and the state housing strategy plan.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 393: Restoring the Minority Business Development Board and the Minority Business Grant and Loan Program.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

May 26, 2010

SB 409: A postsecondary education tax credit for businesses; increasing annual limits on angel investment tax credits; awarding grants to the WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc.; business plan competitions and an emerging technology center in the University of Wisconsin System; rural outsourcing grants; requiring the Department of Commerce to award grants to a high-technology business development corporation and grants for converting manufacturing facilities; increasing funding for certain economic development programs; a pilot program providing microloans for the creation of new businesses; increasing funding for certain technical college training program grants; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.

Became law.

Feb 9, 2010

SB 440: Waiving certain federal bond limitations allocated to cities and counties and requiring the Department of Commerce to develop a system for reallocating the bond limitations to other state and local units of government.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 450: Goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 459: Storing certain flammable, combustible, and hazardous liquids and maintaining an inventory of storage tanks containing petroleum products and certain hazardous substances (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Commerce).

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 461: An income and franchise tax credit for a qualified equity investment in a qualified community development entity, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 476: Certification of ironworkers, maximum and minimum numbers of certain individuals performing ironwork at construction sites, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 521: A sales and use tax exemption for extended-range electric vehicles; a property tax exemption for tangible personal property used to recharge electric vehicles; the motor vehicle emission inspection and maintenance program, extended-range electric vehicle grants; an income and franchise tax credit for research conducted in this state by a corporation; a property and sales and use tax exemption for certain machinery and tangible personal property used to conduct research; granting rule-making authority; and making appropriations.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 534: Employer-assisted housing.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 539: Tax incentives for job creation.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

May 20, 2010

SB 557: Notices concerning construction near or on lakes, streams, or wetlands that are given to applicants for building permits and other construction approvals, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to furnish informational brochures about wetlands laws, requiring the Department of Natural Resources to provide evaluations and statements about whether certain land contains wetlands, and making an appropriation.

Became law.

May 26, 2010

SB 616: Energy conservation standards for the construction of certain buildings, energy and environmental design standards for state buildings, structures, and facilities, energy and environmental design standards for school district facilities and other local government buildings, leasing of state buildings, structures, and facilities, standards for the construction and use of graywater systems, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.

Vetoed by the governor.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 620: Groundwater management, water conservation, and granting rule-making authority.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 621: Tax benefits for hiring new employees and granting rule-making authority.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

May 14, 2010

SB 651: Loans to manufacturing businesses for energy improvements, job creation, retooling, or clean energy production; the administration of energy utility programs; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; requiring the exercise of emergency rule-making procedures; and making appropriations.

Became law.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 655: Safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 665: Licensing of individuals using cranes and heavy equipment, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.

Stopped in committee.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 679: Dispensing motor vehicle fuel for persons with disabilities, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 687: Eligibility for grant funding under a maintenance program that applies to private sewage systems.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

Apr 30, 2010

SB 692: An income and franchise tax credit for investments in a community development financial institution and granting rule-making authority.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 695: Targets for the allocation of federal tax credits by the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.

Stopped before the full Senate voted.

Apr 28, 2010

SB 704: Issuance of elevator mechanic's licenses.

Stopped in committee.

Jun 22, 2010

SB 708: Authorized foods under the food stamp program; a deductible and coinsurance under BadgerCare Plus; a minimum copayment and maximum child care hours under Wisconsin Shares; drug testing for eligibility for public assistance; eliminating income eligibility requirements for enrollment in a private school participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program; changing eligibility requirements for persons or families of low and moderate income to receive, directly or indirectly, certain housing, housing assistance, grants, loans, or benefits from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority, the Department of Commerce, and local housing authorities; consideration of the income and assets of a person for purposes of receiving low-income energy assistance; consideration of the income and assets of both parents of a student under 22 years of age for purposes of awarding a grant or scholarship to such a student; prohibiting new claims under the earned income tax credit; increasing the individual income tax personal exemption for dependents; granting rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.

Stopped in committee.

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