Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 311 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 93.23 (1) (a) 1. (intro.) and 93.23 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes; relating to: state aid for prizes awarded
at local fairs.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 93.23 (1) (a) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is
amended to read:
93.23 (1) (a) 1. (intro.) To each county, and any orga-
nized agricultural society, association, or board in the
state that complies with the requirements of this section,
95 percent of the first $8,000 paid in net premiums and
70 percent of all net premiums paid in excess of $8,000
at its annual fair upon livestock, articles of production,
educational exhibits, agricultural implements and tools,
domestic manufactures, mechanical implements, and
productions, but not more than $10,000 $20,000 per fair,
subject to equitable prorating if the total amount due
exceeds the amount available and to all of the following:
SECTION 2. 93.23 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended
to read:
93.23 (1) (a) 2. In order to have a more equitable dis-
tribution of state aid among fairs and to effect wider par-
ticipation and interest by the public in exhibits, the
department may prescribe uniform premium lists setting
forth classes of exhibits which will be approved for the
purposes of state aid, premium awards in such classes and
entry qualifications, fees and charges for exhibitors. All
fairs shall receive aid in the same manner and the depart-
ment may not restrict the number of fairs at which an
exhibitor may participate and be eligible to receive state−
aided premium awards, except that an entity operating a
fair may impose restrictions on the total number of fairs
at which an exhibitor may participate in order to be eligi-
ble for premium awards for exhibits at that fair.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”