LRB-3693/2
MGG:wlj:rs
2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE
February 24, 2010 - Introduced by Representatives Roth, Bies, Gunderson,
Kaufert, Kestell, Knodl, LeMahieu, Murtha, Petersen, Petrowski,
Spanbauer, Tauchen, Townsend and Vos, cosponsored by Senators
Grothman, Olsen and Schultz. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.
AB774,1,3
1An Act to create 23.0917 (8) (f) of the statutes;
relating to: prohibiting the
2acquisition of land using stewardship funding if the acquisition results in
3adjacent landowners being denied access to their land.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law authorizes the state to incur pubic debt for certain conservation
activities under the stewardship program, which is administered by the Department
of Natural Resources. The state may incur this debt to provide funding to acquire
land for the state for conservation purposes and may also use the funding to award
grants or state aid to certain local governmental units and nonprofit conservation
organizations to acquire lands for conservation purposes (stewardship funding).
This bill prohibits the expenditure of stewardship funding if the expenditure
is for an acquisition that will result in an adjacent landowner not having access to
the landowner's land or that will result in the landowner having to pay for an
easement access to the landowner land.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB774, s. 1
4Section
1. 23.0917 (8) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
AB774,2,5
123.0917
(8) (f) The department may not obligate moneys from the
2appropriation under s. 20.866 (2) (ta) to be used for the acquisition of land if the
3acquisition will result in an owner of land that is adjacent to the acquired land being
4denied access to the owner's land or in the owner having to pay for an easement or
5conveyance to gain access to the owner's land.
