Subjects

Town — Board

30 bills across 6 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.

• 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
• AB 882 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. Vetoed 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
• SB 967 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. Died at session end 2025
• AB 224 Relating to: terms of office for local government officers. Died at session end 2021
• SB 297 Relating to: terms of office for local government officers. Died at session end 2021
• AB 86 Relating to: changing the official bond requirements for town municipal judges. (FE) Became law 2019
• SB 94 Relating to: changing the official bond requirements for town municipal judges. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 661 Relating to: the way town board vacancies are filled; public notice requirements for governmental meetings; appointment and removal procedures for certain town officeholders; a process for an applicant to appeal a permit denial to the governing body of a city, village, or town; wages paid to an elected town officer who also serves as a town employee; and the term of appointed town assessors. (FE) Became law 2019
• SB 584 Relating to: the way town board vacancies are filled; public notice requirements for governmental meetings; appointment and removal procedures for certain town officeholders; a process for an applicant to appeal a permit denial to the governing body of a city, village, or town; wages paid to an elected town officer who also serves as a town employee; and the term of appointed town assessors. (FE) 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 64 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Became law 2017
• AB 109 Relating to: modifying the requirements for certain towns to withdraw from county zoning. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 826 Relating to: limiting city and village authority to annex town territory. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• 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 568 Relating to: terminating a tenancy for criminal activity or drug-related criminal activity; disposition of personal property left in rental property by a trespasser; preexisting sprinkler ordinances that are stricter than the multifamily dwelling code; towing vehicles illegally parked on private property; terminating certain tenancies for breaches other than failure to pay rent; limitations on the authority of political subdivisions to regulate rental units, historic properties, and signs; prohibiting local governmental units from imposing real property purchase or residential real property occupancy requirements; creating a criminal penalty; and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 706 Relating to: authorizing a town meeting to direct a town board to change the number of commissioners of certain town sanitary district commissions. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 966 Relating to: local authority to modify highway speed restrictions. 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 486 Relating to: authorizing a town meeting to direct a town board to change the number of commissioners of certain town sanitary district commissions. (FE) Became law 2015
• SB 739 Relating to: limiting city and village authority to annex town territory. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 761 Relating to: local authority to modify highway speed restrictions. Died at session end 2015
• AB 512 Relating to: expanding the requirement of county board approval of a town amendment of its zoning ordinances. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 661 Relating to: authorizing towns to withdraw from county zoning and requiring certain towns to enact a zoning ordinance and a comprehensive plan. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 207 Relating to: incorporations including territory of two towns. Became law 2013
• SB 338 Relating to: expanding the authority of towns to create tax incremental financing districts. (FE) Became law 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 688 Relating to: limiting city and village authority to annex town territory. (FE) Died at session end 2013