Total Lobbying Effort

Hours Lobbied on Each Matter

• Legislative Bills/Resolutions

  Lobbying Effort On Legislative Bills And Resolutions

  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
  	51.00 (5%)			51.00 (1%)

  October 2013 Special Session Assembly Bill 4

  Relating to: increasing the amount of the supplement to the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	102.00 (10%)			102.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 385

  Relating to: changes to the local room tax. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	102.00 (10%)			102.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 522

  Relating to: requiring a city, village, town, or county to share with overlying taxation jurisdictions certain payments for potential services received from a tax-exempt entity. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	102.00 (10%)			102.00 (2%)

  Senate Bill 179

  Relating to: miscellaneous provisions related to rental and vehicle towing practices and eviction proceedings, prohibitions on enacting ordinances that place certain limitations or requirements on landlords, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	102.00 (10%)			102.00 (2%)

  Senate Bill 252

  Relating to: authorizing a city or village to require the Department of Revenue to redetermine the value of the tax incremental base of certain tax incremental districts. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	102.00 (10%)	87.00 (10%)		189.00 (4%)

  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
  	102.00 (10%)			102.00 (2%)

  Senate Bill 414

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

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		44.00 (5%)		44.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 598

  Relating to: changing the method for charging interest that may be charged on special assessments and changing the interest rate paid on claims for certain unlawfully assessed property taxes and creating an exception for local levy limits. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		87.00 (10%)		87.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 835

  Relating to: limiting the security a town or municipality may require as a condition of plat approval.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		87.00 (10%)		87.00 (2%)

  Senate Bill 517

  Relating to: collection of certain utility arrearages by a municipal utility and the provision of municipal utility service to tenants. (FE)

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		131.00 (15%)		131.00 (3%)

• Budget Bill Subjects

  Lobbying Effort On Budget Bill Subjects

  General Fund Taxes/Tax Administration

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  137.00 (10%)				137.00 (3%)

  Shared Revenue and Tax Relief: Direct Aid Payments

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  274.00 (20%)				274.00 (7%)

  Shared Revenue and Tax Relief: Property Taxation

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  342.00 (25%)				342.00 (8%)

  Transportation: Departmentwide

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  342.00 (25%)				342.00 (8%)

• Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

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

  Technical changes to sec. 66.0602(2m)(b), as created by 2013 Act 20, requiring municipalities to reduce their levy limit by amount of fee increases for certain services formerly on the levy.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	50.83 (5%)			50.83 (1%)

  Retaining ability of munciipalities and municipal utilities to place unpaid tenant utility charges on the landlord's property tax bill.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  	50.83 (5%)			50.83 (1%)

  Using part of $912 million revenue surplus in the current budget to restore cuts to shared revenue and other municipal programs the state made in 2012 to solve the state's budget problems.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  		87.30 (10%)		87.30 (2%)

  Support for DOT's proposal for addressing the shortfall in the state's Transportation Fund.

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			47.53 (5%)	47.53 (1%)

  The activities and recommendations of the Legislative Council Special Committee on Tax Incremental Financing

  2013 January - June	2013 July - December	2014 January - June	2014 July - December	Total
  			47.53 (5%)	47.53 (1%)