Total Lobbying Effort

Hours Lobbied on Each Matter

• Legislative Bills/Resolutions

  Lobbying Effort On Legislative Bills And Resolutions

  Assembly Bill 85

  Relating to: state health-based groundwater quality standards for certain groundwater contaminants.

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

  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
  15.00 (5%)				15.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 227

  Relating to: allowing local governments to regulate pesticides.

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

  Senate Bill 17

  Relating to: workforce training grants for seminars in high-demand fields to teach new skills and provide micro-credentials and making an appropriation. (FE)

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

  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
  15.00 (5%)		4.00 (2%)		19.00 (3%)

  Senate Bill 188

  Relating to: regulating hemp, 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
  15.00 (5%)				15.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 21

  Relating to: testing of private wells, compensation for well contamination and abandonment, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  30.00 (10%)				30.00 (4%)

  Senate Bill 109

  Relating to: state health-based groundwater quality standards for certain groundwater contaminants.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  30.00 (10%)				30.00 (4%)

  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
  30.00 (10%)	12.00 (8%)			42.00 (6%)

  Senate Bill 463

  Relating to: labeling food as a type of dairy product or as a dairy ingredient and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	8.00 (5%)			8.00 (1%)

  Senate Bill 464

  Relating to: labeling a food product as meat and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	9.00 (6%)			9.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 794

  Relating to: public notice and comment period for certain groundwater standards. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		8.00 (4%)		8.00 (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
  		8.00 (4%)		8.00 (1%)

  Assembly Bill 700

  Relating to: notifying counties of certain water pollution violations, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		12.00 (6%)		12.00 (2%)

  Assembly Bill 842

  Relating to: providing funding related to PFAS programs and positions, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		60.00 (31%)		60.00 (8%)

• Budget Bill Subjects

  Lobbying Effort On Budget Bill Subjects

  Dept of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  15.00 (5%)			15.00 (14%)	30.00 (4%)

  General Fund Taxes: Other Tax Provisions

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

  Transportation: Departmentwide

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  15.00 (5%)	28.00 (18%)	19.00 (10%)		62.00 (8%)

  Natural Resources: Departmentwide

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  			24.00 (22%)	24.00 (3%)

• Administrative Rulemaking Proceedings

  Lobbying Effort On Administrtive Rulemaking Proceedings

  Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (ATCP)

  Food processing plants

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  30.00 (10%)	12.00 (8%)			42.00 (6%)

  Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (ATCP)

  Grain dealers and grain warehouse keepers; milk contractors

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	12.00 (8%)			12.00 (2%)

  Department of Natural Resources (NR)

  Numerical standards to minimize the concentration of polluting substances in groundwater

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	23.00 (15%)			23.00 (3%)

  Department of Natural Resources (NR)

  Surface water quality criteria and analytical methods for poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) including PFOS, PFOA, and any other PFAS for the purpose of protecting public health, and the procedures in the Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“WPDES”) permitting program to implement the new water quality criteria

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	25.00 (16%)			25.00 (3%)

  Department of Natural Resources (NR)

  The promulgation of new drinking water maximum contaminant levels for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) including Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  	25.00 (16%)			25.00 (3%)

  Department of Workforce Development (DWD)

  COVID-19 protections for migrant workers

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		31.00 (16%)	15.00 (14%)	46.00 (6%)

  Department of Natural Resources (NR)

  Regulating fire fighting foam that contains certain contaminants

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  			23.00 (21%)	23.00 (3%)

• Topics Not Yet Assigned A Bill Or Rule Number

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

  legislation to eliminate the business personal property tax.

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  30.00 (10%)				30.00 (4%)

  Covid-19 response and communication

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  		51.84 (27%)		51.84 (7%)

  Emergency Rule 2045, including changes to NR 159

  2019 January - June	2019 July - December	2020 January - June	2020 July - December	Total
  			23.76 (22%)	23.76 (3%)