Subjects

County — Board

58 bills across 7 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.

• AB 152 Relating to: bid requirement for publication and printing of county board proceedings, notices, and advertisements in counties having a population of 250,000 or more and at least two English newspapers published daily. Died at session end 2025
• AB 282 Relating to: local government rules of proceedings and consideration of ordinances or resolutions for which enactment or adoption previously failed. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 306 Relating to: time limits on local unit of government chief executive officer emergency power proclamations. Died at session end 2025
• SB 162 Relating to: bid requirement for publication and printing of county board proceedings, notices, and advertisements in counties having a population of 250,000 or more and at least two English newspapers published daily. Became law 2025
• SB 290 Relating to: local government rules of proceedings and consideration of ordinances or resolutions for which enactment or adoption previously failed. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 310 Relating to: time limits on local unit of government chief executive officer emergency power proclamations. Became law 2025
• AB 1070 Relating to: the restrictiveness of shoreland zoning ordinances. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1144 Relating to: filling vacancies on a county board. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AJR 121 Relating to: custody of the county jail and its inmates (first consideration). Died at session end 2025
• SB 1042 Relating to: the restrictiveness of shoreland zoning ordinances. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1099 Relating to: filling vacancies on a county board. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SJR 113 Relating to: custody of the county jail and its inmates (first consideration). Died at session end 2025
• AB 131 Relating to: membership in county land conservation committees. Became law 2023
• AB 720 Relating to: local authority to modify highway speed restrictions. Died at session end 2023
• SB 147 Relating to: membership in county land conservation committees. Died at session end 2023
• SB 684 Relating to: local authority to modify highway speed restrictions. Died at session end 2023
• AB 1159 Relating to: the restrictiveness of shoreland zoning ordinances. Died at session end 2023
• AJR 100 Relating to: custody of the county jail and its inmates (first consideration). Died at session end 2023
• AB 60 Relating to: publication of proceedings of meetings held by certain governmental bodies. Died at session end 2021
• SB 55 Relating to: publication of proceedings of meetings held by certain governmental bodies. Died at session end 2021
• AB 224 Relating to: terms of office for local government officers. Died at session end 2021
• AB 369 Relating to: timeline for local redistricting in Wisconsin following the 2020 federal decennial census. Vetoed 2021
• SB 297 Relating to: terms of office for local government officers. Died at session end 2021
• SB 385 Relating to: timeline for local redistricting in Wisconsin following the 2020 federal decennial census. Died at session end 2021
• AB 1110 Relating to: the restrictiveness of shoreland zoning ordinances. Died at session end 2021
• SB 1090 Relating to: the restrictiveness of shoreland zoning ordinances. Died at session end 2021
• AB 502 Relating to: transfer of the authority to represent the public interest in proceedings under the Children's Code. Became law 2019
• AB 681 Relating to: requiring a supermajority county board vote to enact ordinances that affect only towns. Died at session end 2019
• SB 432 Relating to: transfer of the authority to represent the public interest in proceedings under the Children's Code. Died at session end 2019
• SB 641 Relating to: requiring a supermajority county board vote to enact ordinances that affect only towns. Died at session end 2019
• SB 914 Relating to: meetings of governing bodies of local governmental units during a state of emergency. Died at session end 2019
• AB 1038 Relating to: state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (FE) Became law 2019
• AB 70 Relating to: publication of proceedings of meetings held by certain governmental bodies. Died at session end 2017
• SB 42 Relating to: publication of proceedings of meetings held by certain governmental bodies. Died at session end 2017
• AB 338 Relating to: sale of public lands owned by the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands to the state; county management of certain state lands; merit scholarships for certain University of Wisconsin System students; the obligation of moneys for land acquisition under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship 2000 Program; and making an appropriation (at the request of the state treasurer). (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 636 Relating to: removal of certain county officers. (FE) Became law 2017
• AB 923 Relating to: increasing the authority of a county executive from a populous county and other counties and reducing the authority of a county board, budgeting procedures for populous counties, certain other counties, and cities, villages, and towns, and the method for establishing the compensation of county supervisors and county elective officers. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 270 Relating to: sale of public lands owned by the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands to the state; county management of certain state lands; merit scholarships for certain University of Wisconsin System students; the obligation of moneys for land acquisition under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship 2000 Program; and making an appropriation (at the request of the state treasurer). (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 582 Relating to: removal of certain county officers. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 777 Relating to: increasing the authority of a county executive from a populous county and other counties and reducing the authority of a county board, budgeting procedures for populous counties, certain other counties, and cities, villages, and towns, and the method for establishing the compensation of county supervisors and county elective officers. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Died at session end 2015
• AB 47 Relating to: membership of boards of commissioners established for public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts. (FE) Became law 2015
• SB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Became law 2015
• AB 546 Relating to: creating a student loan reimbursement program for individuals who relocate to certain rural counties, authorizing non-rural counties to create a similar student loan reimbursement program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 563 Relating to: authorizing towns located in populous counties to withdraw from county zoning; requiring certain towns to enact a zoning ordinance and a comprehensive plan; removing plat and certified survey map approval authority from a county if the town in which the subdivision or land is located has withdrawn from county zoning; farmland preservation ordinances of towns that withdraw from county zoning and eligibility in those towns for the farmland preservation tax credit; and prohibiting restrictions on land that is not shoreland or that is not within a floodplain. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 704 Relating to: tribal college and county joint libraries. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 727 Relating to: changing the responsibility for distributing and receiving certain documents from the secretary of state to the secretary of administration and changing certain notice requirements related to annexations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 966 Relating to: local authority to modify highway speed restrictions. Died at session end 2015
• SB 416 Relating to: creating a student loan reimbursement program for individuals who relocate to certain rural counties, authorizing non-rural counties to create a similar student loan reimbursement program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 479 Relating to: authorizing towns located in populous counties to withdraw from county zoning; requiring certain towns to enact a zoning ordinance and a comprehensive plan; removing plat and certified survey map approval authority from a county if the town in which the subdivision or land is located has withdrawn from county zoning; farmland preservation ordinances of towns that withdraw from county zoning and eligibility in those towns for the farmland preservation tax credit; and prohibiting restrictions on land that is not shoreland or that is not within a floodplain. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 569 Relating to: changing the responsibility for distributing and receiving certain documents from the secretary of state to the secretary of administration and changing certain notice requirements related to annexations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 717 Relating to: tribal college and county joint libraries. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 761 Relating to: local authority to modify highway speed restrictions. Died at session end 2015
• AB 40 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 512 Relating to: expanding the requirement of county board approval of a town amendment of its zoning ordinances. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 623 Relating to: a program for installing lighting on tax delinquent properties and properties in foreclosure and charging an additional fee for filing a foreclosure action to be used for lighting installation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 390 Relating to: expanding the requirement of county board approval of a town amendment of its zoning ordinances. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 487 Relating to: a program for installing lighting on tax delinquent properties and properties in foreclosure and charging an additional fee for filing a foreclosure action to be used for lighting installation. (FE) Died at session end 2013