Bills by subject

Municipality: Ordinance

80 bills and resolutions. 21 became law and 25 never got a public hearing. They span 2 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2011–12 session.

This is the Legislature's own subject heading, not our category, so a bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under this term. Each count comes from the bill's official history.

Latest activity

The 5 bills on this subject with the newest recorded action.

AB 40 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law. Last action Aug 2, 2012
AB 703 The age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a criminal law, a civil law, or a municipal ordinance and who has not previously been adjudicated delinquent is subject to circuit court or municipal court rather than juvenile court jurisdiction.
Stopped in committee. Last action May 18, 2012
SB 395 Homemade wine and fermented malt beverages.
Became law. Last action Apr 5, 2012
AB 702 Second and subsequent charges of possession of marijuana under a local ordinance.
Stopped in committee. Last action Apr 4, 2012
AB 41 Preemption of city, village, town, or county ordinances requiring employers to provide employees with leave from employment to deal with family, medical, or health issues.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted. Last action Mar 23, 2012

Every bill on this subject

2011–12 session: 45

Aug 2, 2012
AB 40: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2011 legislature.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 41: Preemption of city, village, town, or county ordinances requiring employers to provide employees with leave from employment to deal with family, medical, or health issues.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 57: Certain controlled substances and providing a penalty.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Dec 12, 2011
AB 63: Closing hours for certain alcohol beverage retailers.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 120: The possession and consumption of alcohol beverages by drivers and passengers on commercial quadricycles, municipal authority to regulate the operation of commercial quadricycles, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 155: Prohibiting ordinances that place certain limits on landlords.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 173: Local ordinances, determining the lawful presence of a person arrested for or charged with a crime or certain civil violations, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 234: Ordinances, regulations, resolutions, or other restrictions of local governmental units that restrict hunting with a bow and arrow.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Nov 21, 2011
AB 265: The definition of bicycle; manual turn signals for bicyclists; lighting of bicycles, motor bicycles, and electric personal assistive mobility devices; overtaking and passing vehicles; the operation of bicycles equipped with metal-studded tires; and moped parking.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 281: A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 23, 2012
AB 286: Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to bar or terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony and preempting cities, villages, towns, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 295: Requiring a referendum before a municipality or county may impose a local motor vehicle registration fee.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 385: Making a contribution to a crime prevention organization as a surcharge or as an allowable cost in a criminal case, as a condition of probation, or as a surcharge in a forfeiture case.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 403: The length of time for which a variance applies.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 561: Miscellaneous landlord-tenant provisions and prohibiting a local government from imposing a moratorium on eviction actions.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 562: Limiting the authority of a city, village, or town to enact a development moratorium ordinance.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 569: The immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal of motor vehicles for multiple nonmoving traffic violations.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 610: Authorizing local governments to appoint traffic control attendants.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 617: Lodging establishments and restricting a local government's ability to prohibit or restrict a person from renting out of the person's residential dwelling.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 618: Outdoor advertising signs that are relocated because of state highway projects.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 668: Terminating a tenancy for criminal activity and requiring notice to landlord of nuisance investigation by law enforcement agency.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 4, 2012
AB 702: Second and subsequent charges of possession of marijuana under a local ordinance.
Stopped in committee.
May 18, 2012
AB 703: The age at which a person who is alleged to have violated a criminal law, a civil law, or a municipal ordinance and who has not previously been adjudicated delinquent is subject to circuit court or municipal court rather than juvenile court jurisdiction.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 708: Prohibiting the display on the consolidated court automation programs of records of municipal ordinance violations committed by persons seventeen years of age.
Stopped in committee.
May 9, 2011
SB 23: Preemption of city, village, town, or county ordinances requiring employers to provide employees with leave from employment to deal with family, medical, or health issues.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 32: Ordinances establishing standards for places of employment and public buildings.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 44: Closing hours for certain alcohol beverage retailers.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Jul 7, 2011
SB 54: Certain controlled substances and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Dec 12, 2011
SB 107: Prohibiting ordinances that place certain limits on landlords.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 142: The possession and consumption of alcohol beverages by drivers and passengers on commercial quadricycles, municipal authority to regulate the operation of commercial quadricycles, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 187: A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from rule-making procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 207: Permitting an employer to refuse to employ or to bar or terminate from employment an individual who has been convicted of a felony and who has not been pardoned for that felony and preempting cities, villages, towns, and counties from adopting provisions concerning employment discrimination based on arrest or conviction record that prohibit activity that is allowed under the state fair employment law.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 265: Local airports and authority to enact aerial approach ordinances.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 300: The length of time for which a variance applies.
Became law.
Apr 5, 2012
SB 395: Homemade wine and fermented malt beverages.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 405: Listing frac sand mining as a conditional or prohibited use in certain types of zoning ordinances.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 439: Authorizing local governments to appoint traffic control attendants to direct traffic at or near special events and vehicle owner liability for failure to follow directions of traffic control attendants.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 454: The role of the clerk of a circuit court in filing the oath and bond of a municipal judge; signatures on citations or complaints alleging a violation of a municipal ordinance; the fee for a transcript of an electronic recording of municipal court proceedings; and the authority of a municipal court judge to order a default judgment against a defendant who fails to appear at trial (suggested as remedial legislation by the Law Revision Committee).
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 458: Authorizing local governments to appoint traffic control attendants for special events.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 466: Miscellaneous landlord-tenant provisions and prohibiting a local government from imposing a moratorium on eviction actions.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 482: Lodging establishments and restricting a local government's ability to prohibit or restrict an individual from renting his or her home.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 493: Outdoor advertising signs that are relocated because of state highway projects.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 504: Limiting the authority of a city, village, or town to enact a development moratorium ordinance.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 521: The immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal of motor vehicles for multiple nonmoving traffic violations.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 541: Making a contribution to a crime prevention organization as a surcharge or as an allowable cost in a criminal case, as a condition of probation, or as a surcharge in a forfeiture case.
Stopped in committee.

2009–10 session: 35

Apr 28, 2010
AB 41: A state minimum wage, permitting the enactment of local living wage ordinances, and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 90: The operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 134: The extension for objecting to property tax assessments.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 147: Regulating the amount of a forfeiture for failure to remove snow.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 183: The immobilization or removal, impoundment, and disposal of motor vehicles for multiple nonmoving traffic violations.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 19, 2010
AB 213: Establishing and changing compensation for city and village elective offices; signing village contracts; bidding procedure for village public construction contracts; officer-of-the-peace status of village officers; publication by the city clerk of fund receipts and disbursements; village and 4th class city regulation of political signs; liability of counties and cities for mob damage; means of providing police and fire protection by cities and villages; holdover status of appointed city and village officers; use of the s. 32.05 procedure in villages for certain housing and urban renewal condemnation; and application of public contract bidder prequalification to 1st class cities.
Became law.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 256: Regulation of wind energy systems and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 379: Allowing a municipality or a county to charge a registration fee for animal-drawn vehicles.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 402: The operation of neighborhood electric vehicles on county trunk highways.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 435: The operation of all-terrain vehicles on highways for the purpose of certain types of access and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.

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