Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB220 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 220
5	5	April 3, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives ROZAR, EDMING, SHANKLAND, PALMERI
6	6	and SNYDER, cosponsored by Senators JAMES, TOMCZYK and SPREITZER.
7	7	Referred to Committee on Environment.
8	8	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
9	9	AN ACT to create 20.115 (7) (qg) of the statutes; relating to: funding for the
10	10	Fenwood Creek watershed pilot project.
11	11	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
12	12	This bill creates an unfunded appropriation from the environmental fund for
13	13	the purpose of providing grants to the Fenwood Creek pilot project in Marathon
14	14	County to reduce watershed phosphorus and sediment levels. The bill requires the
15	15	Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to request that the Joint
16	16	Committee on Finance supplement this appropriation in each year of the 2023-25
17	17	fiscal biennium for this purpose, in an amount up to $607,000 in each year. The bill
18	18	also requires DATCP to include a request for funding for this purpose in its 2025-27
19	19	budget request. Under the bill, DATCP must also submit reports to the legislature
20	20	before the end of the 2024, 2025, and 2026 fiscal years on how the grant money has
21	21	been spent and the results of the Fenwood Creek pilot project in reducing watershed
22	22	phosphorus and sediment levels.
23	23	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
24	24	printed as an appendix to this bill.
25	25	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
26	26	enact as follows:
27	27	SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
28	28	the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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34	34	SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 220
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36	36	20.115Agriculture, trade and consumer
37	37	protection, department of
38	38	(7) AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
39	39	(qg)Fenwood Creek watershed pilot
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41	41	SECTION 2. 20.115 (7) (qg) of the statutes is created to read:
42	42	20.115 (7) (qg) Fenwood Creek watershed pilot project. From the
43	43	environmental fund, the amounts in the schedule for the purpose of providing grants
44	44	to the Fenwood Creek pilot project in Marathon County to reduce watershed
45	45	phosphorus and sediment levels.
46	46	SECTION 3.0Nonstatutory provisions.
47	47	(1) SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING REQUEST. In each year of the 2023-25 fiscal
48	48	biennium, the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection shall
49	49	request under s. 13.101 (3) that the joint committee on finance supplement the
50	50	appropriation under s. 20.115 (7) (qg) with sufficient funds from the environmental
51	51	fund for the purpose of providing grants to the Fenwood Creek pilot project in
52	52	Marathon County to reduce watershed phosphorus and sediment levels. The
53	53	committee may supplement that appropriation for that purpose, in an amount up to
54	54	$607,000 in each year of the fiscal biennium, without finding that an emergency
55	55	exists under s. 13.101 (3) (a) 1.
56	56	(2) REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE. No later than June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025,
57	57	and June 30, 2026, the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection
58	58	shall submit to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature in the manner
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85	85	ASSEMBLY BILL 220
86	86	provided under s. 13.172 (3) reports on how grant money provided to the Fenwood
87	87	Creek pilot project has been spent and the results of that project in reducing
88	88	watershed phosphorus and sediment levels.
89	89	(3) 2025-27 BIENNIAL BUDGET REQUEST. In submitting information under s. 16.42
90	90	for purposes of the 2025-27 biennial budget bill, the department of agriculture, trade
91	91	and consumer protection shall include a request to provide funding for the Fenwood
92	92	Creek pilot project in Marathon County to reduce watershed phosphorus and
93	93	sediment levels.
94	94	SECTION 4.0Effective date.
95	95	(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
96	96	publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
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