{"id":2776,"date":"2020-02-17T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/?p=2776&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=2776"},"modified":"2020-02-17T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T21:17:28","slug":"assembly-session-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/2020\/02\/17\/assembly-session-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Session on February 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly will be in session on Tuesday, February 18, starting at 1:00 p.m., and will hear the following bills relating to UW System:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB703\">AB-703<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Tax Exemption: <\/strong>a sales and use tax exemption for building materials that become a part of a facility for the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB796\">AB-796<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Nitrate Reduction Pilot<\/strong>: creating a pilot grant program for farmers to reduce nitrate loading, funding research for nitrate loading reduction methods, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB799\">AB-799<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Water Policy Office<\/strong>: creating an office of water policy and making an appropriation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB800\">AB-800<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Well Testing Grants<\/strong>: supporting the Center for Watershed Science and Education, creating a hydrogeologist position, funding research on phosphorus recovery and reuse, creating grant programs for counties to test wells and provide public education, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/document\/session\/2019\/REG\/AB801\">AB-801<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Freshwater Collaborative<\/strong>: funding a University of Wisconsin System freshwater collaborative and making an appropriation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly will be in session on Tuesday, February 18, starting at 1:00 p.m., and will hear the following bills relating to UW System: AB-703\u00a0Tax Exemption: a sales and use tax exemption for building materials that become a part of a facility for the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority. AB-796\u00a0Nitrate Reduction Pilot: creating [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look-ahead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}