Total Lobbying Effort

Hours Lobbied on Each Matter

• Legislative Bills/Resolutions

  Lobbying Effort On Legislative Bills And Resolutions

  Senate Bill 137

  Relating to: nitrate testing pilot program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  2.00 (1%)	2.00 (1%)			4.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 252

  Relating to: a flood risk reduction pilot project and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  2.00 (1%)	2.00 (1%)			4.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 91

  Relating to: buying and selling water pollution credits through a central clearinghouse. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  3.00 (2%)	4.00 (2%)			7.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 113

  Relating to: buying and selling water pollution credits through a central clearinghouse. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	2.00 (1%)			2.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 148

  Relating to: nitrate testing pilot program, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	2.00 (1%)			2.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 631

  Relating to: a general permit for hydrologic restoration projects and creating a hydrologic restoration and management advisory council.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	2.00 (1%)			2.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 575

  Relating to: farmland preservation implementation grants, agreements, and tax credits and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	4.00 (2%)	11.00 (5%)		15.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 637

  Relating to: farmland preservation implementation grants, agreements, and tax credits and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	6.00 (3%)	11.00 (5%)	1.00 (1%)	18.00 (3%)

  Senate Bill 808

  Relating to: livestock facility siting and expansion and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		2.00 (1%)		2.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 800

  Relating to: supporting the Center for Watershed Science and Education, creating a hydrogeologist position, funding research on phosphorus recovery and reuse, creating grant programs for counties to test wells and provide public education, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		5.00 (2%)	1.00 (1%)	6.00 (< 1%)

  Senate Bill 722

  Relating to: supporting the Center for Watershed Science and Education, creating a hydrogeologist position, funding research on phosphorus recovery and reuse, creating grant programs for counties to test wells and provide public education, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		5.00 (2%)		5.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 790

  Relating to: county conservation staffing and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		91.00 (40%)	87.00 (95%)	178.00 (26%)

  Senate Bill 723

  Relating to: county conservation staffing and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		91.00 (40%)		91.00 (13%)

  Assembly Bill 795

  Relating to: grants and funding for water stewardship certification, a grazing coordinator position, producer-led watershed protection grants, lake protection, soil and water conservation, and crop insurance premium rebates for cover crops; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  			1.00 (1%)	1.00 (< 1%)

  Assembly Bill 796

  Relating to: creating a pilot grant program for farmers to reduce nitrate loading, funding research for nitrate loading reduction methods, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  			1.00 (1%)	1.00 (< 1%)

  January 2020 Special Session Assembly Bill 3

  Relating to: promoting production of value-added agricultural products; creating an organic farming education grant program, a grazing education grant program, and a farm to fork grant program; providing resource conservation technical assistance; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  			1.00 (1%)	1.00 (< 1%)

• Budget Bill Subjects

  Lobbying Effort On Budget Bill Subjects

  Natural Resources: Departmentwide

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  17.00 (10%)				17.00 (2%)

  Dept of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  85.00 (50%)				85.00 (12%)

• Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

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

  DATCP Farmland Preservation Program

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  1.71 (1%)				1.71 (< 1%)

  Supporting adequate funding of the nonpoint source pollution program.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  17.05 (10%)				17.05 (2%)

  Supporting funding of county conservation staffing and supporting grants, and cost-share grants in the DATCP budget.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  42.63 (25%)				42.63 (6%)

  LRB-4950/3 - relating to required setbacks, application fees, and rules for livestock facility siting and expansion.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	2.07 (1%)			2.07 (< 1%)

  Appointment of Brad Pfaff as Secretary-Designee of the Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	2.07 (1%)			2.07 (< 1%)

  LRB-4749 - amending the Farmland Preservation Program and related tax credits.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	2.07 (1%)			2.07 (< 1%)

  Livestock Facility Siting (ATCP 51)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	10.34 (5%)			10.34 (1%)

  LRB-3633/P8 - amending the Farmland Preservation Program and related tax credits.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	31.01 (15%)			31.01 (4%)

  LRB-3915/1 - increases state funding for county land and water conservation staff by $2,960,900 in fiscal year 2020-21.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	134.39 (65%)			134.39 (19%)