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2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1215
April 11, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives MADISON, DOYLE, RATCLIFF, BALDEH,
BARE, CLANCY, JOERS, MOORE OMOKUNDE and STUBBS. Referred to Committee
on Government Accountability and Oversight.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 20.490 (3m) and 234.47 of the statutes; relating to: grants and
loans for housing cooperative infrastructure improvements and making an
appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill creates a housing cooperative infrastructure improvements loan and
grant program, under which the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development
Authority may issue loans and award grants to housing cooperatives for
infrastructure improvements. Under the bill, a recipient of a loan or grant may use
the moneys received for additions, alterations, or repairs to housing and communal
property owned by the housing cooperative to maintain it in a decent, safe, and
sanitary condition or to restore it to that condition, to reduce the cost of owning or
occupying dwelling units, to conserve energy, and to extend the economic or physical
life of structures. Such additions may include storm shelters and community
facilities. Under the bill, WHEDA may target the program to housing cooperatives
that own manufactured or mobile home communities and housing cooperatives that
own multi-family apartment complexes.
For further information see the state 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:
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SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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20.490 Wisconsin Housing and Economic
Development Authority
(3m) INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT ASSISTANCE
(a)Housing cooperative infrastruc
ture improvement loan and
grant program GPR C 10,000,000 -0-
SECTION 2. 20.490 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
20.490 (3m) INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT ASSISTANCE. (a) Housing cooperative
infrastructure improvement loan and grant program. As a continuing appropriation,
the amounts in the schedule for housing cooperative infrastructure improvement
loans and grants under s. 234.47.
SECTION 3. 234.47 of the statutes is created to read:
234.47 Housing cooperative infrastructure improvements loan and
grant program. (1) DEFINITIONS. In this section:
(a) “Housing cooperative” means a cooperative incorporated under ch. 185 or
organized under ch. 193 that owns residential property that is used or intended to
be used, in whole or in part, by the members of the cooperative as their homes or
primary residences.
(b) “Manufactured home” has the meaning given in s. 101.91 (2).
(c) “Manufactured or mobile home community” means any plot or plots of
ground upon which 3 or more manufactured or mobile homes that are occupied for
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dwelling or sleeping purposes are located. “Manufactured or mobile home
community” does not include a farm where the occupants of the manufactured or
mobile homes are the father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or sister of the farm
owner or operator or where the occupants of the manufactured or mobile homes work
on the farm.
(d) “Mobile home” has the meaning given under s. 101.91 (10), but does not
include a recreational vehicle, as defined in s. 340.01 (48r).
(2) ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF PROGRAM. (a) The authority shall
establish and administer a housing cooperative infrastructure loan and grant
program for the purpose of issuing loans and awarding grants under this subsection.
(b) From the appropriation under s. 20.490 (3m) (a), the authority may issue
loans and award grants to housing cooperatives for infrastructure improvements.
The authority may target the program to housing cooperatives that own
manufactured or mobile home communities and housing cooperatives that own
multi-family apartment complexes.
(c) A recipient of a loan or grant under this subsection may use moneys received
under this subsection for additions, alterations, or repairs to housing and communal
property owned by the housing cooperative to maintain it in a decent, safe, and
sanitary condition or to restore it to that condition, to reduce the cost of owning or
occupying dwelling units, to conserve energy, and to extend the economic or physical
life of structures. Such additions may include storm shelters and community
facilities.
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(3) POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. The authority shall establish policies and
procedures to administer the housing cooperative infrastructure improvements loan
and grant program.
(END)
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