March 28, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives Schutt, Armstrong, C. Anderson, Behnke, Bodden, Edming, Kurtz, Moses, Mursau, Novak, Oldenburg, Penterman, Rozar and Tranel, cosponsored by Senators Ballweg, Cowles, Marklein, Nass, Pfaff, Spreitzer, Testin and Wanggaard. Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
AB131,,22An Act to amend 92.06 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes; relating to: membership in county land conservation committees. AB131,,33Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Under current law, each county board must create a land conservation committee and must appoint to the committee a person from the county’s U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (FSA). This bill removes the requirement to appoint an FSA member to a county land conservation committee and replaces it with a requirement to appoint a person who is engaged in an agricultural use. “Agricultural use” is defined as crop or forage production; keeping livestock; beekeeping; nursery, sod, or Christmas tree production; floriculture; aquaculture; fur farming; and forest management.
AB131,,44The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: AB131,15Section 1. 92.06 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read: AB131,,6692.06 (1) (b) 2. The county board shall appoint to the land conservation committee a person who is the chairperson of the county farm service agency committee created under 16 USC 590h (b) or other county farm service agency committee member designated by the chairperson of the county farm service agency committee engaged in an agricultural use, as defined under s. 91.01 (2) (a) 1. to 7.
