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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
August 31, 2021 - Introduced by Representatives Armstrong, Tittl, Ohnstad,
Ramthun, Rozar, Tauchen, Thiesfeldt, VanderMeer, Tusler and
Skowronski, cosponsored by Senators Cowles,
Bewley, Feyen, Jacque and
Petrowski. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
AB517,1,4
1An Act to renumber and amend 66.1105 (20m) (a) 1.;
to amend 66.1106 (1)
2(d); and
to create 66.1105 (20m) (a) 1. b. of the statutes;
relating to:
3environmental pollution in an environmental remediation tax incremental
4district.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law allows a city, village, town, or county to create an environmental
remediation tax incremental district so that the tax increments generated by the
district may be used to pay the costs of remediating environmental pollution on
contiguous parcels of property that are located in the district. For purposes of an
environmental remediation tax incremental district, “environmental pollution”
means contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land, or waters of the
state, or making the air, land, or waters of the state injurious to public health,
harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal, or
plant life. This bill modifies that definition of “environmental pollution” so that it
includes substances that if released into the air, land, or waters of the state due to
the redevelopment of an existing structure would be harmful to public health or
harmful for commercial or recreational use.
For further information see the 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:
AB517,1
1Section
1. 66.1105 (20m) (a) 1. of the statutes is renumbered 66.1105 (20m)
2(a) 1. (intro.) and amended to read:
AB517,2,43
66.1105
(20m) (a) 1. (intro.) “Environmental pollution"
has the meaning given 4means all of the following:
AB517,2,5
5a. Environmental pollution, as defined in s. 299.01 (4).
AB517,2
6Section
2. 66.1105 (20m) (a) 1. b. of the statutes is created to read:
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66.1105
(20m) (a) 1. b. Substances that if released into the air, land, or waters
8of the state due to the redevelopment of an existing structure would be harmful to
9public health or harmful for commercial or recreational use.
AB517,3
10Section
3. 66.1106 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
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66.1106
(1) (d) “Environmental pollution" has the meaning given in s.
292.01
12(4) 66.1105 (20m) (a) 1., except that “environmental pollution" does not include any
13damage caused by runoff from land under agricultural use.
