Law and Legislation

Legislative Updates (pdf files)

January 2010

 

Archive (1998 - 2009)

January 2010

 

Archive (1998 - 2009)

Upper Midwest APA Conference Updates - compiled by Brian Ohm

Legislative Update
Planning Related Cout Decisions - August 2007 - August 2008

ASSEMBLY  BILLS

AB 18 – Tax Credit for Historic Rehabilitation

AB 25 - Relating to school board approval of subdivision plats

AB 90 – Relating to the operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow-no-wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake.

AB 92 - 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.

Companion Bill to SB 55 (see analysis below)

AB 109 - Relating to authorizing a city or village to extend the life of a tax incremental district for one year to benefit housing in the city or village.

AB 113  - Relating to changes to economic development tax benefit programs, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and requiring the exercise of rule−making authority.

Consolidation of economic development zone programs

AB 165 - Relating to expanding the types of property that may be specially assessed by a neighborhood improvement district.

AB 174 –Authoring sharing of tax increments by certain remediation tax incremental districts.

AB 180 – changes to and extension of the Environmental Results Program, extension of the Environmental Improvement Program and the length of a compliance schedule under that program, and reporting requirements for certain environmental programs.

Companion bill to SB 126

AB 205 – adopting changes to the Internal Revenue Code for state income tax purposes related to deductions for energy efficient commercial building.

AB 213 - relating to 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.

AB 243 - relating to delaying the implementation date of the comprehensive planning statute for certain local governmental units.

AB 256 – relating to the regulation of wind energy systems.

AB 260 – related to extraterritorial plat approval on basis of land's use.

AB 270 - relating to utility aid payments to towns and counties for production plants that generate electricity from wind power.

AB 271 - relating to professional land surveyors, the practice of professional land surveying, surveying land abutting navigable waters, and granting rule−making authority.

AB 282 – relating to the creation of regional transit authorities and making appropriations.

AB 288 – Relating to education and work experience requirements for registration as a professional engineer and examinations for professional engineering credentials.

AB 338 – relating to retaining the real estate transfer fee.

AB 399 – Relating to costs eligible for reimbursement under the Local Roads Improvement Program administered by the Department of Transportation.

AB 408 - Relating to financial assistance related to bioenergy feedstocks, biorefineries, and conversion to biomass energy.

AB 426 - Relating to authorizing the designation of a tax incremental district as distressed and expanding the use of donor tax incremental districts.

AB 451 - Relating to registration of construction contractors.

AB 501  - relating to attachment of territory to public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts and changing boundaries of proposed public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts.

AB 516  - relating to requirements for approval of construction of nuclear power plants.

SENATE  BILLS

SB 12  -  Relating to the operation of motorboats, other than personal watercraft, at slow−no−wake speed within a given distance of the shoreline of a lake.

SB 47 - Designating portions of the Totogatic River as a wild river

SB 50 - Legislative oversight of expenditure of federal economic stimulus funds

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.

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

 Consolidation of economic development zone programs

SB 78 - Protections for tenants in foreclosure actions

SB 81 - Authorizing a city or village to extend the life of a tax incremental district for one year to benefit housing in the city or village.

SB 117 -- Relating to extraterritorial plat approval on basis of land’s use.

SB 131 - Relating to authorizing the cities of Cudahy and Oak Creek to use environmental remediation tax increments generated by one environmental tax incremental district to benefit another environmental remediation tax incremental district.

SB 132  - Relating to expanding the life of a tax incremental district in the city of Racine.

SB 144 – Authorizing sharing of tax increments by certain environmental remediation tax incremental districts.

SB 145 – determining the value of billboards for personal property tax purposes.

SB 172 – Relating to limiting a city’s and village’s use of direct annexation and authorizing limited tow challenges to an annexation.

SB 173 – relating to the removal of nonconforming outdoor advertising signs.

SB 185 – relating to the regulation of wind energy systems.

SB 205 - relating to the creation of regional transit authorities and making appropriations.

SB 270 - Relating to limiting the searchability of a governmental Internet listing of property taxes assessed.

SB 276 - Relating to requiring governmental bodies of school districts and certain political subdivisions to post meeting notices and minutes on their Web sites.

SB 277 - Relating to costs eligible for reimbursement under the Local Roads Improvement Program administered by the Department of Transportation.

SB 279 - Relating to financial assistance related to bioenergy feedstocks, biorefineries, and conversion to biomass energy. Companion Bill to AB 408 (see above)

SB 291 - Relating to authorizing the designation of a tax incremental district as distressed and expanding the use of donor tax incremental districts.

 SB 291 is a companion bill to AB 426 - see analysis above.

SB 300  - Relating to certain areas of land subject to managed forest land orders that were part of a parcel of land under single ownership that exceeded 8,000 acres in size.

SB 301 -  relating to the application of shoreland zoning ordinances to certain unincorporated areas.

SB 314 -  relating to traditional neighborhood development ordinances, mixed-use zoning, and the state housing strategy plan.

SB 343 -  relating to the rail passenger service assistance and promotion program.

SB 348  -  relating to declarations creating marina condominiums and technical corrections to the laws governing marina condominiums.