“I don’t think this is over. That’s my fear,” said Jorgensen. “I think there’s somebody out there who wants all and everything. I don’t know who it is, but the Republicans are listening to him.”

Foreign ownership of land became a hot topic in early 2013 when Gov. Scott Walker tried to change the state law through a provision in his 2013-15 budget.

It was pulled amid opposition from state farmers and bipartisan criticism from legislators. Walker said he put in the provision as a technical fix that would determine if state law provided an exception for countries that signed the GATS treaty.

The Assembly Organization Committee then voted last January on a motion written by Vos requesting a formal opinion on the matter from Van Hollen.

The vote was by paper ballot and the results weren’t announced. That drew the ire of Jorgensen, a committee member.