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Municipal Bills to Follow this Week
Assembly Tuesday Floor Session:
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AB-492 Solid Waste Facilities. (Rep. Mursau and Senator Jacque) This bill provides an alternative method for a municipality to establish proof of financial responsibility for municipal solid waste facilities. This bill also allows DNR to pay costs associated with closure, long-term care, and corrective action costs for certain solid or hazardous waste facilities.
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AB-622 Business Improvement Districts. (Rep. Donovan and Senator Cabral-Guevara) This bill authorizes two or more municipalities to create a single multijurisdictional business improvement district and makes several other changes to the statutes governing business improvement districts (BIDs) and neighborhood improvement districts (NIDs).
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AB-671 Rehired Annuitants. (Rep. Rettinger and Senator Tomczyk) Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 provides an exception to the annuity suspension requirement for certain retired law enforcement officers and limits the annuity suspension to a period of 60 months. A WRS participating employee must be rehired in a different law enforcement agency then the one from which the person retired, must be at least 55 years old and has had at least one year lapse between retirement and rehiring.
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AB-689 Pay for Performance Grants. (Rep. Dallman and Senator Tomczyk) This bill allows the Dept. of Administration to withhold between 10 and 50 percent of eligible housing and homelessness grant awards implementing a "pay for performance" grant procedure. The bill also allows DOA to designate public property for use as a structured camping facility. A political subdivision may also designate its own public property as a structured camping facility and it must alert DOA of their designation. . DOA must condition temporary residence at a structured camping facility on the completion of mental health or substance use evaluations. The bill also requires DOA to provide for public safety, potable water, and adequate sanitary facilities at each structured camping facility.
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AB-723 Bidding Thresholds. (Rep. Brooks and Senator Stroebel) This bill increases the local government competitive bidding thresholds from $25,000 to $50,000 and requires school districts to utilize competitive bidding.
Senate Tuesday Floor Session: As of 3:30 this afternoon the floor calendar for the Senate was not available.
Assembly Thursday Floor Session:
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AB-312 PFAS. (Rep. Mursau and Senator Wimberger and Cowles) This bill creates a Municipal Grant Program and an Innocent Landowner Grant Program and includes other provisions to address perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The bill has been amended several times to address stakeholder and agency concerns.
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AB-846 and AB-847 EV Charging and Infrastructure. (Rep. VanderMeer and Senator Marklein) The first bill provides an exemption from public utility regulation regarding electric vehicle charging stations, provides opportunity for installation of electric vehicle charging stations by state agencies or local governmental units, and imposes an excise tax on electric vehicle charging. The second bill providing the infrastructure for the funding of the program. Wisconsin in one of two states that needs to modify our statutes to allow a fee per kilowatt hour in order to secure the $78 million in EV federal funding.
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AB-1004 Refugee Resettlement. (Rep. Hurd and Senator Tomczyk) The bill requires local governments to notify each local governmental unit, including school districts, within 100 mile radius when an employee or officer of a local government initially contacts or is contacted by the federal government or a private nonprofit voluntary agency under a federal program regarding refugee resettlement and assistance.
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