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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
October 1, 2019 - Introduced by Representatives Considine, Kulp, Spreitzer,
Kolste, Vruwink, L. Myers, Hebl, Sargent, Billings, Edming, Pope,
Ohnstad, Subeck, Anderson, Skowronski, Brostoff, Hesselbein, Neubauer,
Shankland, Zamarripa, Bowen, Fields, Doyle, Stuck, Haywood and C.
Taylor, cosponsored by Senators Testin,
Schachtner, Carpenter, L. Taylor,
Ringhand, Miller and Erpenbach. Referred to Committee on Colleges and
Universities.
AB494,1,3
1An Act to create 20.285 (1) (em) and 36.25 (56) of the statutes;
relating to:
2creating University of Wisconsin System positions for farm succession planning
3and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
to create two positions to advance farm succession planning programs. The first
position is a specialist within the Center for Dairy Profitability to assist in the
financial aspects of farm succession management. The center is part of the College
of Agricultural and Life Sciences of the UW-Madison. The second position is a
specialist within the farm management program of the Division of Extension of the
UW-Madison to assist in developing and delivering programs at the local level and
focus on research, training, and joint programming with county-based agriculture
educators throughout the state.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB494,1
4Section
1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
5the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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See PDF for table 
AB494,2
1Section
2. 20.285 (1) (em) of the statutes is created to read:
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20.285
(1) (em)
Farm succession planning positions. The amounts in the
3schedule for the positions created under s. 36.25 (56).
AB494,3
4Section
3. 36.25 (56) of the statutes is created to read:
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36.25
(56) Farm succession planning. The Board of Regents shall create the
6following 2 full-time positions to be funded from the appropriation under s. 20.285
7(1) (em) to advance farm succession planning programs:
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(a) One specialist within the Center for Dairy Profitability of the College of
9Agricultural and Life Sciences of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to assist in
10the financial aspects of farm succession management.
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(b) One specialist within the farm management program of the Division of
12Extension of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to assist in developing and
13delivering programs at the local level and focus on research, training, and joint
14programming with county-based agriculture educators throughout the state.
