Total Lobbying Effort

Hours Lobbied on Each Matter

• Legislative Bills/Resolutions

  Lobbying Effort On Legislative Bills And Resolutions

  Assembly Bill 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.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  50.00 (5%)				50.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 260

  Relating to: extraterritorial plat approval on basis of land's use.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  50.00 (5%)	43.00 (5%)	142.00 (15%)		235.00 (7%)

  Assembly Bill 239

  Relating to: limiting a city's and village's use of direct annexation and authorizing limited town challenges to an annexation.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  100.00 (10%)	43.00 (5%)	47.00 (5%)		190.00 (6%)

  Senate Bill 321

  Relating to: operation of neighborhood electric vehicles.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	43.00 (5%)			43.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 466

  Relating to: municipal quotas for retail intoxicating liquor licenses.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	43.00 (5%)			43.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 399

  Relating to: authorizing two or more cities, villages, towns, or counties, or a combination of such political subdivisions, to create a commission to issue conduit revenue bonds and exercise eminent domain authority and exempting from taxation interest on such bonds.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	43.00 (5%)			43.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 412

  Relating to: changing certain administrative procedures under the tax incremental financing program.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	43.00 (5%)			43.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 383

  Relating to: municipal court elections, judges, and procedure, and providing penalties.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	87.00 (10%)	47.00 (5%)		134.00 (4%)

  Assembly Bill 426

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

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	130.00 (15%)			130.00 (4%)

  Assembly Bill 282

  Relating to: the creation of regional transit authorities and making appropriations.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		47.00 (5%)		47.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 661

  Relating to: county and municipal expenditures for emergency services.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		47.00 (5%)		47.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 601

  Relating to: comprehensive planning.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		47.00 (5%)		47.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 843

  Relating to: energy conservation standards for the construction of certain buildings, energy and environmental design standards for state buildings, structures, and facilities, energy and environmental design standards for school district facilities and other local government buildings, leasing of state buildings, structures, and facilities, standards for the construction and use of graywater systems, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		47.00 (5%)		47.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 291

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

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		142.00 (15%)		142.00 (4%)

  Assembly Bill 65

  Relating to: different property tax levy rates for parts of cities, villages, towns, counties, and school districts added by attachments to school districts, consolidations, and boundary changes under cooperative agreements (first consideration).

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			28.00 (5%)	28.00 (< 1%)

• Budget Bill Subjects

  Lobbying Effort On Budget Bill Subjects

  Revenue: Tax Administration

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  100.00 (10%)				100.00 (3%)

  Shared Revenue and Property Tax Relief: Direct Aid Payments

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  100.00 (10%)				100.00 (3%)

  Shared Revenue and Property Tax Relief: Property Taxation

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  100.00 (10%)				100.00 (3%)

  Shared Revenue and Property Tax Relief: Local Revenue Options

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  100.00 (10%)				100.00 (3%)

  Workforce Development: Departmentwide

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  100.00 (10%)				100.00 (3%)

• Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

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

  Enabling municipalities to allow the use of NEV’s on state highways within urban areas, including crossing state highways.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  50.16 (5%)				50.16 (1%)

  In exchange for removing "rent use", enable municipalities to license residential housing facilities qualifying for property tax exemption as property owned by churches and educational, and benevolent associations.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  50.16 (5%)				50.16 (1%)

  Allow municipalities to levy a First Responders Surcharge on wireless and land-line telephone customers whose primary billing addresses are within the municipality.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  50.16 (5%)				50.16 (1%)

  Reverse the Walgreen's decision. Specify that property tax assessments by the income approach of leased retail property must be based on the actual contracted rental terms.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  50.16 (5%)				50.16 (1%)

  Rescind the requirement that municipalities use Stewardship dollars to fund nature based outdoor recreation projects only.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	43.38 (5%)	47.26 (5%)		90.64 (3%)

  Smart Growth repair bill that defines what it means to be "consistant" with the comprehensive plan.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	43.38 (5%)			43.38 (1%)

  Repeal of maintenance of effort on emergency services requirement included in 2009 Act 28.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  	43.38 (5%)		27.89 (5%)	71.27 (2%)

  Modifying subdivision platting requirements in ch. 236.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  		47.26 (5%)		47.26 (1%)

  A series of changes to the collective bargaining laws governing municipalities to provide management with the flexability it needs to weather the economic downturn.

  2009 January - June	2009 July - December	2010 January - June	2010 July - December	Total
  			83.66 (15%)	83.66 (2%)