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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 698
December 2, 2025 - Introduced by Senators
Wall
,
Dassler-Alfheim
,
Hesselbein
,
Keyeski
and
Ratcliff
, cosponsored by Representatives
Mursau
,
Palmeri
,
Bare
,
Clancy
,
DeSmidt
,
Madison
,
Melotik
,
Miresse
,
Phelps
,
Roe
,
Stroud
,
Stubbs
and
Johnson
. Referred to Committee on Insurance, Housing, Rural Issues and Forestry.
SB698,1,2
1
An Act
to amend
20.370 (2) (cr), 77.88 (2) (ac) 1. and 77.88 (5m) of the statutes;
2
relating to:
managed forest land recording fees.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the Department of Natural Resources administers the managed forest land (MFL) program, under which the owner of a parcel of land designated as MFL makes an annual acreage share payment in lieu of property taxes. In exchange, the owner must comply with certain forestry practices and, subject to exceptions, must open the land to the public for recreational activities. Certain actions relating to a parcel designated as MFL must be recorded by the appropriate register of deeds, and DNR must pay any required fee for the recording.
Under current law, MFL may be transferred from one owner to another with payment of a $100 fee, which is deposited into the conservation fund. Of that amount, $30 is credited to a DNR appropriation for the payment of registers of deeds fees. Land may also be withdrawn from the MFL program with payment of a $300 fee.
Under this bill, $100 transfer fees and $300 withdrawal fees are deposited into the conservation fund and credited to the DNR appropriation for the payment of fees to the registers of deeds.
For further information see the state and 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:
SB698,1
1
Section
1
.
20.370 (2) (cr) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB698,2,5
2
20.370
(2)
(cr)
Forestry — recording fees.
From the conservation fund, all
3
moneys received under ss. 77.82 (2m) (d) and (4) and 77.88
(1) (c),
(2) (ac) 1.
, 2., and
4
3., (am), and (c), (3), (3j) (c), and (3m)
for the payment of fees to the registers of
5
deeds under s. 77.91 (5).
SB698,2
6
Section
2
.
77.88 (2) (ac) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB698,2,21
7
77.88
(2)
(ac) 1. If the land transferred under par. (a) meets the eligibility
8
requirements under s. 77.82 (1) (a), (ag), and (b), the land shall continue to be
9
designated as managed forest land if the transferee, within 30 days after a transfer
10
of ownership, files a form provided by the department signed by the transferee. By
11
signing the form, the transferee certifies to the department an intent to comply
12
with the existing management plan for the land and any amendments to the plan.
13
The transferee shall provide proof that each person holding any encumbrance on
14
the land agrees to the designation. The transferee may designate an area of the
15
transferred land closed to public access as provided under s. 77.83. The department
16
shall issue an order continuing the designation of the land as managed forest land
17
under the new ownership. The transferee shall pay a $100 fee that will accompany
18
the report. The fee shall be deposited in the conservation fund
. Twenty dollars of
19
the fee or a different amount of the fee as may be established under subd. 2. shall be
20
and
credited to the appropriation under s. 20.370 (2) (cr). The department shall
21
immediately notify each person entitled to notice under s. 77.82 (8).
SB698,3
22
Section
3
.
77.88 (5m) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB698,3,4
1
77.88
(5m)
Withdrawal fee.
The withdrawal fee assessed by the
2
department under subs. (1) (c), (2) (ac) 2.
and 3.
, (am), and (c), (3),
and
(3j) (c), and
3
(3m) shall be $300.
The fee shall be deposited in the conservation fund and credited
4
to the appropriation under s. 20.370 (2) (cr).
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5
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