Total Lobbying Effort

Hours Lobbied on Each Matter

• Legislative Bills/Resolutions

  Lobbying Effort On Legislative Bills And Resolutions

  Assembly Bill 7

  Relating to: civil actions and zoning conditions related to noise that are applicable to bird hunting preserves.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)				8.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 18

  Relating to: appointment and residency of election officials.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)				8.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 24

  Relating to: the method of recounting votes cast with automatic tabulating equipment.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)				8.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 41

  Relating to: creating a local freight bridge program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)				8.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 57

  Relating to: payments for losses of public deposits in failed or failing financial institutions. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)				8.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 20

  Relating to: residency of election officials.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)	4.00 (1%)	19.00 (3%)		31.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 31

  Relating to: creating a local freight bridge program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)	4.00 (1%)			12.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 66

  Relating to: payments for losses of public deposits in failed or failing financial institutions. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)		6.00 (1%)		14.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 114

  Relating to: recall petition requirements.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)	9.00 (2%)	6.00 (1%)		23.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 4

  Relating to: creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (second consideration).

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)				8.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 83

  Relating to: limiting the regulation of wind energy systems by local governments. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  15.00 (2%)				15.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 2

  Relating to: creation of a department of transportation, creation of a transportation fund, and deposit of funds into the transportation fund (second consideration).

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  15.00 (2%)				15.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 183

  Relating to: the applicability of a county shoreland zoning ordinance in a shoreland area annexed by, or incorporated as, a city or village.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  15.00 (2%)	4.00 (1%)	13.00 (2%)		32.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 54

  Relating to: limiting the times for voting by absentee ballots in person.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  23.00 (3%)				23.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 75

  Relating to: the applicability of a county shoreland zoning ordinance in a shoreland area annexed by, or incorporated as, a city or village.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  23.00 (3%)	4.00 (1%)	19.00 (3%)		46.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 122

  Relating to: changing the elements that must be included in a county development plan. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  38.00 (5%)	13.00 (3%)	13.00 (2%)		64.00 (3%)

  Assembly Bill 128

  Relating to: recall petition requirements.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  38.00 (5%)	21.00 (5%)	32.00 (5%)		91.00 (4%)

  Senate Bill 71

  Relating to: limiting the regulation of wind energy systems by local governments. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  38.00 (5%)	4.00 (1%)	6.00 (1%)		48.00 (2%)

  Senate Bill 112

  Relating to: changing the elements that must be included in a county development plan. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  38.00 (5%)	9.00 (2%)	6.00 (1%)		53.00 (2%)

  October 2013 Special Session Assembly Bill 2

  Relating to: expanding the authority of the town of Brookfield in Waukesha County to create tax incremental financing districts. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	4.00 (1%)			4.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 189

  Relating to: incorporations of villages and cities involving more than one town.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	4.00 (1%)			4.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 415

  Relating to: changing the method by which a municipality may collect the costs of razing a building from a property owner. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	4.00 (1%)			4.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 483

  Relating to: local ordinances regulating borrow sites and material disposal sites for certain transportation projects. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	4.00 (1%)			4.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 314

  Relating to: the effect of changes in requirements for development-related permits or authorizations on persons who apply for the permits or authorizations.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	4.00 (1%)	6.00 (1%)		10.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 512

  Relating to: expanding the requirement of county board approval of a town amendment of its zoning ordinances. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	4.00 (1%)			4.00 (< 1%)

  October 2013 Special Session Assembly Bill 3

  Relating to: expanding the authority of the town of Somers in Kenosha County to create tax incremental financing districts. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	9.00 (2%)			9.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 167

  Relating to: actions for damages caused by wind energy systems. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	9.00 (2%)			9.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 476

  Relating to: local regulation of nonmetallic mining; local regulation of air quality; local regulation of water quality; local regulation of the use of explosives in mining, quarrying, and related activities; highway use contracts by local governments; and local regulation of borrow sites and material disposal sites for transportation projects of the Department of Transportation. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	21.00 (5%)	13.00 (2%)		34.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 478

  Relating to: expanding the authority of towns to create tax incremental financing districts. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	21.00 (5%)	13.00 (2%)		34.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 302

  Relating to: high capacity well approvals. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	34.00 (8%)	13.00 (2%)		47.00 (2%)

  Senate Bill 338

  Relating to: expanding the authority of towns to create tax incremental financing districts. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	43.00 (10%)	76.00 (12%)		119.00 (5%)

  Senate Bill 349

  Relating to: local regulation of nonmetallic mining; local regulation of air quality; local regulation of water quality; local regulation of the use of explosives in mining, quarrying, and related activities; highway use contracts by local governments; and local regulation of borrow sites and material disposal sites for transportation projects of the Department of Transportation. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	64.00 (15%)			64.00 (3%)

  Assembly Bill 689

  Relating to: transferring responsibility over biennial updating of voter registration list to the Government Accountability Board. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		6.00 (1%)		6.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 731

  Relating to: the property tax exemption for rented personal property. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		6.00 (1%)		6.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 732

  Relating to: payments to counties for designated county forest lands and distribution of amounts paid to municipalities by owners of closed managed forest lands. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		6.00 (1%)		6.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 816

  Relating to: local regulation of nonmetallic mining and preservation of marketable nonmetallic mineral deposits. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		6.00 (1%)		6.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 207

  Relating to: incorporations including territory of two towns.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		6.00 (1%)		6.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 390

  Relating to: expanding the requirement of county board approval of a town amendment of its zoning ordinances. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		6.00 (1%)		6.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 506

  Relating to: transferring responsibility over biennial updating of voter registration list to the Government Accountability Board. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		6.00 (1%)		6.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 414

  Relating to: objecting to property tax assessments. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		32.00 (5%)		32.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 700

  Relating to: eligibility requirements under the managed forest land program relating to parcel size and production of merchantable timber, management plans for managed forest lands, orders adding and withdrawing managed forest land, renewal of orders designating managed forest land, areas of managed forest lands that are open for public access, allowing managed forest lands to be used for recreational activities, regulation of cutting of timber on managed forest land and on forest croplands, withdrawal taxes and fees imposed on the withdrawal of managed forest land and yield taxes imposed for cutting timber from managed forest land, the sale or transfer of managed forest land, expiration of orders designating managed forest land, withdrawal of forest croplands that are held in trust for Indian tribes, a study of the managed forest land program, a report on exempt withdrawals from the managed forest land program and the forest cropland program, elimination of references to the woodland tax law, granting rule-making authority, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		44.00 (7%)		44.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 661

  Relating to: authorizing towns to withdraw from county zoning and requiring certain towns to enact a zoning ordinance and a comprehensive plan. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		63.00 (10%)		63.00 (3%)

  Senate Bill 632

  Relating to: local regulation of nonmetallic mining and preservation of marketable nonmetallic mineral deposits. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		63.00 (10%)		63.00 (3%)

  Senate Bill 509

  Relating to: operation of agricultural vehicles on highways and providing a penalty. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		95.00 (15%)		95.00 (4%)

• Budget Bill Subjects

  Lobbying Effort On Budget Bill Subjects

  Natural Resources: Forestry and Parks

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  8.00 (1%)				8.00 (< 1%)

  Natural Resources: Environmental Quality

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  15.00 (2%)				15.00 (< 1%)

  Transportation: Local Transportation Aid

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  98.00 (13%)				98.00 (4%)

• Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

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

  managed forest land

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  7.53 (1%)	8.59 (2%)			16.12 (< 1%)

  Constitutional amendment to limit transfers of the segregated transportation fund

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  7.53 (1%)			5.62 (1%)	13.15 (< 1%)

  Recalls for local officials

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  7.53 (1%)				7.53 (< 1%)

  wind turbines

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  15.06 (2%)			61.83 (11%)	76.89 (3%)

  DATCAP working lands

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  15.06 (2%)				15.06 (< 1%)

  changes regarding assessment practices

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  15.06 (2%)				15.06 (< 1%)

  Town authority to post weight limits

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  15.06 (2%)				15.06 (< 1%)

  withdrawal from county zoning

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  37.65 (5%)	21.47 (5%)		28.10 (5%)	87.22 (4%)

  transportation aids

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  37.65 (5%)				37.65 (2%)

  levy limits

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  37.65 (5%)				37.65 (2%)

  town TIF authority

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  37.65 (5%)				37.65 (2%)

  annexation and boundary issues

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	4.29 (1%)			4.29 (< 1%)

  LRB 0522 opposition to changes to in person voting

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	8.59 (2%)	12.66 (2%)		21.25 (< 1%)

  voting law changes

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	8.59 (2%)	6.33 (1%)		14.92 (< 1%)

  Implements of Husbandry LRB 2913 suppport

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	21.47 (5%)			21.47 (< 1%)

  frac sand mining

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	21.47 (5%)		22.48 (4%)	43.95 (2%)

  assessment practices LRB 3841 support

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			16.86 (3%)	16.86 (< 1%)

  town withdrawal from county zoning

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			16.86 (3%)	16.86 (< 1%)

  replacements of culverts

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			22.48 (4%)	22.48 (< 1%)

  recognize town official plans

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			22.48 (4%)	22.48 (< 1%)

  supports use of a town website for legal notices and changes to the outside posting requirements

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			28.10 (5%)	28.10 (1%)

  supports elimination of balloon on a string annexation

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			28.10 (5%)	28.10 (1%)

  supports modification of extraterritorial zoning authority

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			28.10 (5%)	28.10 (1%)

  supports elimination of the $5000 per mile without elector meeting approval

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			28.10 (5%)	28.10 (1%)

  supports levy limit exemption from fire and rescue services provided by towns through contracted services

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			33.72 (6%)	33.72 (1%)

  reverse changes caused by the Hegwood V. Towns of Eagle case case

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			33.72 (6%)	33.72 (1%)

  manure drags lines

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			33.72 (6%)	33.72 (1%)