Wisconsin Senate Bill 479 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: Failed on April 13 2016 - 100% progression
Action: 2016-04-13 - Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

An Act to renumber and amend 236.10 (1) (c); to amend 59.69 (3) (a), 59.69 (3) (b), 59.69 (3) (e), 59.69 (5) (c), 60.62 (1), 60.62 (3) (a), 236.10 (1) (b) 3. and 236.34 (1) (dm); and to create 59.69 (5m), 59.692 (1p), 60.23 (34), 60.62 (6), 87.30 (1r), 91.36 (9), 236.10 (1m) and 236.34 (2m) of the statutes; 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and certified survey map approval authority from a county if the town in which the subdivision or land is located has withdrawn from county zoning; farmland preservation ordinances of towns that withdraw from county zoning and eligibility in those towns for the farmland preservation tax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)

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and certified survey map approval authority from a county if the town in which the subdivision or land is located has withdrawn from county zoning; farmland preservation ordinances of towns that withdraw from county zoning and eligibility in those towns for the farmland preservation tax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)

Sen. Scott Fitzgerald [R]	Sen. Luther Olsen [R]	Sen. Steve Nass [R]	Rep. Keith Ripp [R]
Rep. Joel Kleefisch [R]	Sen. John Jagler [R]	Sen. Joan Ballweg [R]	Rep. Cindi Duchow [R]
Sen. Rob Hutton [R]	Sen. Andre Jacque [R]	Rep. Adam Jarchow [R]	Rep. Tom Larson [R]
Rep. Joe Sanfelippo [R]	Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-04-13	Senate	Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
2016-02-24	Senate	Fiscal estimate received
2016-02-02	Senate	Available for scheduling
2016-02-02	Senate	Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, and Trade, Ayes 3, Noes 2
2016-02-02	Senate	Report adoption of Senate Amendment 2 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Housing, and Trade, Ayes 3, Noes 2
2016-01-27	Senate	Executive action taken
2016-01-15	Senate	Fiscal estimate received
2016-01-14	Senate	Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senator S. Fitzgerald
2016-01-13	Senate	Fiscal estimate received
2016-01-13	Senate	Fiscal estimate received
2016-01-05	Senate	Public hearing held
2016-01-04	Senate	Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator S. Fitzgerald
2015-12-29	Senate	Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, and Trade
2015-12-29	Senate	Introduced

Type	Source
Summary	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb479
Text	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2015/REG/SB479.pdf