republic-os/legislation/us/states/wi/2019/ab-661.md

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Bill	Relating to: the way town board vacancies are filled; public notice requirements for governmental meetings; appointment and removal procedures for certain town officeholders; a process for an applicant to appeal a permit denial to the governing body of a city, village, or town; wages paid to an elected town officer who also serves as a town employee; and the term of appointed town assessors. (FE)	Relating to: the way town board vacancies are filled; public notice requirements for governmental meetings; appointment and removal procedures for certain town officeholders; a process for an applicant to appeal a permit denial to the governing body of a city, village, or town; wages paid to an elected town officer who also serves as a town employee; and the term of appointed town assessors. (FE)	us/states/wi	Wisconsin Legislature	2019	AB 661	Wisconsin AB 661 (2019)	bill		enacted	B. Meyers Ballweg Brooks Doyle Duchow Edming Felzkowski James Kitchens Krug Kulp Kurtz Magnafici Milroy Mursau Novak Oldenburg Petersen Petryk Quinn Schraa Summerfield Swearingen Tittl Tusler VanderMeer Vruwink Wichgers Wittke	2	33	1	2019-12-05T06:00:00+00:00	2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d28f97ec-0002-4f0c-9f2c-b7a32ea86888	http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab661	dd2329871b6b95eb1749e139fd49f17bc5c83d137b644919d9dfb38211148a50	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wi

Wisconsin AB 661 (2019) — Relating to: the way town board vacancies are filled; public notice requirements for governmental meetings; appointment and removal procedures for certain town officeholders; a process for an applicant to appeal a permit denial to the governing body of a city, village, or town; wages paid to an elected town officer who also serves as a town employee; and the term of appointed town assessors. (FE)

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Assembly Amendment 1 (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Report passage recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 9, Noes 0 — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Meyers — primary (person)
• Ballweg — primary (person)
• Brooks — primary (person)
• Doyle — primary (person)
• Duchow — primary (person)
• Edming — primary (person)
• Felzkowski — primary (person)
• James — primary (person)
• Kitchens — primary (person)
• Krug — primary (person)
• Kulp — primary (person)
• Kurtz — primary (person)
• Magnafici — primary (person)
• Milroy — primary (person)
• Mursau — primary (person)
• Novak — primary (person)
• Oldenburg — primary (person)
• Petersen — primary (person)
• Petryk — primary (person)
• Quinn — primary (person)
• Schraa — primary (person)
• Summerfield — primary (person)
• Swearingen — primary (person)
• Tittl — primary (person)
• Tusler — primary (person)
• VanderMeer — primary (person)
• Vruwink — primary (person)
• Wichgers — primary (person)
• Wittke — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-12-05T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced by Representatives Quinn, Summerfield, Ballweg, Brooks, Doyle, Duchow, Edming, Felzkowski, James, Kitchens, Krug, Kulp, Kurtz, Magnafici, B. Meyers, Milroy, Mursau, Novak, Oldenburg, Petersen, Petryk, Schraa, Swearingen, Tittl, Tusler, VanderMeer, Wichgers, Wittke and Vruwink; cosponsored by Senators Jacque, Tiffany, Bernier, Bewley, LeMahieu, Marklein, Ringhand and Schachtner introduction
• 2019-12-05T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2019-12-12T06:00:00+00:00 Representative Duchow withdrawn as a coauthor
• 2019-12-12T06:00:00+00:00 Public hearing held
• 2019-12-13T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received
• 2020-01-03T06:00:00+00:00 Fiscal estimate received
• 2020-01-23T06:00:00+00:00 Executive action taken
• 2020-01-28T06:00:00+00:00 Report passage recommended by Committee on Local Government, Ayes 9, Noes 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-01-28T06:00:00+00:00 Referred to committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2020-02-06T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Quinn amendment-introduction
• 2020-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Rules and take up
• 2020-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2020-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Assembly Amendment 1 adopted amendment-passage
• 2020-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading
• 2020-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2020-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and passed passage
• 2020-02-18T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Assembly
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization referral-committee
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Available for scheduling
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Senate Organization and take up
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read a second time reading-2
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered to a third reading
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Rules suspended
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Read a third time and concurred in passage
• 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00 Ordered immediately messaged
• 2020-02-20T06:00:00+00:00 Received from Senate concurred in
• 2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 LRB correction
• 2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 LRB correction (Assembly Amendment 1)
• 2020-02-25T06:00:00+00:00 Report correctly enrolled on 2-25-2020
• 2020-02-28T06:00:00+00:00 Presented to the Governor on 2-28-2020 by directive of the Speaker executive-receipt
• 2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00 Report approved by the Governor on 3-3-2020. 2019 Wisconsin Act 140 executive-signature
• 2020-03-04T06:00:00+00:00 Published 3-4-2020

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d28f97ec-0002-4f0c-9f2c-b7a32ea86888. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Wisconsin legislature records).