Total Lobbying Effort

Hours Lobbied on Each Matter

• Legislative Bills/Resolutions

  Lobbying Effort On Legislative Bills And Resolutions

  Senate Bill 128

  Relating to: regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  18.00 (1%)		14.00 (1%)		32.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 24

  Relating to: insurance coverage of modifications to undamaged portions of property to match repaired portions of property.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	5.00 (1%)			5.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 525

  Relating to: automobile insurance coverage limits and proof of financial responsibility.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	5.00 (1%)			5.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 53

  Relating to: extending the employer notification program administered by the Department of Transportation to noncommercial motor vehicle drivers.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	11.00 (2%)	14.00 (1%)		25.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 236

  Relating to: requiring that certain high school agriculture courses be counted as science credits.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	11.00 (2%)			11.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 360

  Relating to: discharges of ballast water and related substances into the waters of the state, aquatic nuisance species, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	11.00 (2%)			11.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 425

  Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	11.00 (2%)			11.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 190

  Relating to: renewals and extensions of business contracts.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	16.00 (3%)	14.00 (1%)		30.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 271

  Relating to: professional land surveyors, the practice of professional land surveying, surveying land abutting navigable waters, and granting rule-making authority.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	16.00 (3%)	14.00 (1%)		30.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 429

  Relating to: driving a motor vehicle while using a wireless telecommunications device and providing a penalty.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	16.00 (3%)	27.00 (2%)		43.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 628

  Relating to: the sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	16.00 (3%)	14.00 (1%)		30.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 32

  Relating to: extending the employer notification program administered by the Department of Transportation to noncommercial motor vehicle drivers.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	21.00 (4%)	27.00 (2%)		48.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 401

  Relating to: creation of renewable resource credits by electric providers and granting rule-making authority.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	21.00 (4%)	14.00 (1%)		35.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 639

  Relating to: creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for certain amounts relating to health savings accounts that may be deducted from, or are exempt from, federal income taxes.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		14.00 (1%)		14.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 717

  Relating to: the agricultural producer security program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		14.00 (1%)		14.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 527

  Relating to: the agricultural producer security program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		14.00 (1%)		14.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 540

  Relating to: political disbursements by corporations and cooperative associations and the scope of regulated activity under the campaign finance law.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		14.00 (1%)		14.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 857

  Relating to: exemption for interstate natural gas companies from certain requirements regarding real estate transactions and court actions, creation and powers of municipal electric companies, and exemption from certificate of public convenience and necessity for certain electric transmission line projects.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		14.00 (1%)		14.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 859

  Relating to: semiannual meetings of small winery cooperative wholesalers.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		14.00 (1%)		14.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 471

  Relating to: health care plans operated by cooperative associations.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		27.00 (2%)		27.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 748

  Relating to: suspension of the requirement that certain milk contractors pay an assessment into the agricultural producer security fund.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		27.00 (2%)		27.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 482

  Relating to: the minimum sale price of prescription drugs.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		41.00 (3%)		41.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 683

  Relating to: health care plans operated by cooperative associations.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		41.00 (3%)	5.00 (1%)	46.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 528

  Relating to: methods of voting by members of a cooperative.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		41.00 (3%)		41.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 756

  Relating to: the dairy and livestock investment tax credits.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		41.00 (3%)		41.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 434

  Relating to: the sale of unpasteurized milk, buttermilk, butter, and cream.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		95.00 (7%)		95.00 (2%)

  Senate Bill 450

  Relating to: goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		325.00 (24%)	15.00 (3%)	340.00 (8%)

  Assembly Bill 649

  Relating to: goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, for construction of zero net energy buildings and for energy conservation; information, analyses, reports, education, and training concerning greenhouse gas emissions and climate change; energy efficiency and renewable resource programs; renewable energy requirements of electric utilities and retail cooperatives; requiring electric utilities to purchase renewable energy from certain renewable facilities in their service territories; authority of the Public Service Commission over nuclear power plants; motor vehicle emission limitations; a low carbon standard for transportation fuels; the brownfield site assessment grant program, the main street program, the brownfields grant program, the forward innovation fund, grants to local governments for planning activities, the transportation facilities economic assistance and development program, a model parking ordinance; surface transportation planning by the Department of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; environmental evaluations for transportation projects; idling limits for certain vehicles; energy conservation codes for public buildings, places of employment, one- and two-family dwellings, and agricultural facilities; design standards for state buildings; energy efficiency standards for certain consumer audio and video devices, boiler inspection requirements; greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by certain state agencies and state assistance to school districts in achieving energy efficiencies; creating an exception to local levy limits for amounts spent on energy efficiency measures; creating an energy crop reserve program; identification of private forest land, promoting sequestration of carbon in forests, qualifying practices and cost-share requirements under the forest grant program established by the Department of Natural Resources; air pollution permits for certain stationary sources reducing greenhouse gas emissions; allocating a portion of existing tax-exempt industrial development revenue bonding to clean energy manufacturing facilities and renewable power generating facilities; requiring a report on certain programs to limit greenhouse gas emissions; granting rule-making authority; requiring the exercise of rule-making authority; and providing a penalty.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		339.00 (25%)	15.00 (3%)	354.00 (9%)

  Assembly Bill 220

  Relating to: regulation of telecommunications utilities and alternative telecommunications utilities, and public utility accounting filing requirements.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			5.00 (1%)	5.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 469

  Relating to: authority of the Public Service Commission over certain telecommunications utilities, telecommunications access charges, universal service fund contributions based on interconnected voice over Internet protocol service, tandem switching provider electronic call records, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			5.00 (1%)	5.00 (< 1%)

• Budget Bill Subjects

  Lobbying Effort On Budget Bill Subjects

  Public Service Commission: Agencywide

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  18.00 (1%)				18.00 (< 1%)

  Shared Revenue and Property Tax Relief: Property Tax Credits

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  18.00 (1%)				18.00 (< 1%)

  Justice

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  35.00 (2%)				35.00 (< 1%)

  Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Departmentwide and Resource Management

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  53.00 (3%)				53.00 (1%)

  Financial Institutions

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  106.00 (6%)				106.00 (3%)

  Transportation: Transportation Finance

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  1129.00 (64%)				1129.00 (27%)

  Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection: Trade and Consumer Protection

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			10.00 (2%)	10.00 (< 1%)

• Administrative Rulemaking Proceedings

  Lobbying Effort On Administrtive Rulemaking Proceedings

  Commerce

  Comm 2, 5, and 16, relating to electrical construction, certification and inspection.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		14.00 (1%)		14.00 (< 1%)

  Commerce

  Comm 5, relating to licenses, certifications and registrations mandated as a result of legislation enacted during the 2007-2008 session.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		14.00 (1%)	15.00 (3%)	29.00 (< 1%)

  Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

  ATCP 92, weights and measures licensing and fees.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		27.00 (2%)	99.00 (20%)	126.00 (3%)

• Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

  Lobbying Effort On Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

  nuclear power

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  17.64 (1%)	10.70 (2%)			28.34 (< 1%)

  wind power

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  17.64 (1%)	16.05 (3%)	13.54 (1%)	14.86 (3%)	62.09 (1%)

  stray voltage

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  17.64 (1%)				17.64 (< 1%)

  advanced renewable tariff

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  35.28 (2%)	64.18 (12%)			99.46 (2%)

  generating energy from biomass such as manure and wood products

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  35.28 (2%)				35.28 (< 1%)

  Legislation implementing the recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on Global Warming

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  35.28 (2%)	64.18 (12%)	40.62 (3%)		140.08 (3%)

  Health Benefit Purchasing Cooperatives (Co-op Care)

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  52.92 (3%)				52.92 (1%)

  Cooperative health Care

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  70.56 (4%)			19.82 (4%)	90.38 (2%)

  PSC Docket 5-EI-148 Advanced Renewable Tariff Development

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	10.70 (2%)		4.95 (1%)	15.65 (< 1%)

  Creation of a Low Carbon Fuel Standard either in Climate Change Legislation or other Legislation

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	10.70 (2%)		4.95 (1%)	15.65 (< 1%)

  Proposed legislation that would modify the state Agricultural Chemical Cleanup Program.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	10.70 (2%)			10.70 (< 1%)

  Agricultural Producer Security

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	32.09 (6%)			32.09 (< 1%)

  Electronic voting

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	32.09 (6%)			32.09 (< 1%)

  LRB 3883 Draft legislation that would create goals and regulations aimed at the reduction of greenhouse gases.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	32.09 (6%)			32.09 (< 1%)

  LRB 3593, relating to health care plans operated by cooperative associations

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	42.79 (8%)	13.54 (1%)		56.33 (1%)

  Requesting support for a letter from legislators to WI. Congressional delegation in support of Capper-Volstead law.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		27.08 (2%)		27.08 (< 1%)

  telecommunication cooperative retained earnings

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			14.86 (3%)	14.86 (< 1%)

  Renewable Resource Credits

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			19.82 (4%)	19.82 (< 1%)

  Relating to the review of standards in ATCP 51, pertaining to livestock facility siting

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			24.77 (5%)	24.77 (< 1%)

  Dept. of Commerce reorganization

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			34.68 (7%)	34.68 (< 1%)