Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB542 Compare Versions

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5	5	October 18, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives CALLAHAN, SPIROS, ALLEN,
6	6	ARMSTRONG, BRANDTJEN, DITTRICH, DONOVAN, EDMING, GOEBEN, GREEN,
7	7	MICHALSKI, MURSAU, NEDWESKI, O'CONNOR, ORTIZ-VELEZ, RETTINGER,
8	8	RODRIGUEZ, SCHMIDT, STEFFEN and SUMMERFIELD, cosponsored by Senators
9	9	WANGGAARD, JAMES, CABRAL-GUEVARA, FEYEN, L. JOHNSON and QUINN. Referred
10	10	to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.
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12	12	AN ACT to repeal 165.88 (3m) (d); to amend 165.88 (4); and to create 165.88 (3p)
13	13	of the statutes; relating to: grants to schools to acquire proactive firearm
14	14	detection software and making an appropriation.
15	15	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
16	16	Under current law, the Department of Justice awards grants to schools to
17	17	improve school safety. Currently DOJ awards grants to fund eligible expenditures
18	18	such as training, safety-related upgrades to buildings, equipment, and facilities,
19	19	and expenditures to provide blueprints or mapping data to law enforcement.
20	20	This bill requires DOJ to award grants of up to $325,000 to schools to acquire
21	21	proactive firearm detection software and provides $4,000,000 in the 2023-25 fiscal
22	22	biennium for the grants. Under the bill, schools must apply for the grants jointly
23	23	with the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the school. If the funding is
24	24	insufficient to award grants to all eligible applicants, the bill requires DOJ to award
25	25	the grants to qualified applicants in the order that the applications were received.
26	26	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
27	27	an appendix to this bill.
28	28	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
29	29	enact as follows:
30	30	SECTION 1. 165.88 (3m) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
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36	36	SECTION 2 ASSEMBLY BILL 542
37	37	SECTION 2. 165.88 (3p) of the statutes is created to read:
38	38	165.88 (3p) GRANTS TO SCHOOLS FOR FIREARM DETECTION SOFTWARE. (a) From the
39	39	appropriation under s. 20.455 (2) (f), the department of justice shall award grants to
40	40	school boards and governing bodies of private schools to acquire proactive firearm
41	41	detection software.
42	42	(b) The department shall accept applications for the grants under this
43	43	subsection from school district administrators, or governing bodies of private
44	44	schools, that are working jointly with local law enforcement agencies with
45	45	jurisdiction over the school.
46	46	(c) Grant moneys awarded under this subsection shall be used to acquire
47	47	proactive firearm detection software that complies with all of the following:
48	48	1. The software is developed in the United States.
49	49	2. The software is designated as qualified anti-terrorism technology under 6
50	50	USC 441 et seq.
51	51	3. The software is designed to integrate with existing school security cameras
52	52	or other school security alert systems.
53	53	4. The artificial intelligence software is written and programmable to follow
54	54	authorized protocol autonomously, or the software is managed directly by the
55	55	contracted vendor though a constantly monitored operations center that is staffed
56	56	by highly trained analysts, to rapidly communicate possible seen or unseen threats
57	57	to end users.
58	58	5. The software has been successfully deployed in another school district or to
59	59	a commercial user.
60	60	(d) A grant awarded under par. (a) may not exceed $325,000.
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89	89	(e) If the moneys allocated for the grants under this subsection in a fiscal
90	90	biennium are insufficient to pay all qualified applicants under par. (b), the
91	91	department shall award grants to the qualified applicants in order of application
92	92	until the allocated funds are depleted.
93	93	SECTION 3. 165.88 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
94	94	165.88 (4) REPORT. The department of justice shall submit an annual report to
95	95	the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance providing an account of the
96	96	grants awarded under sub. subs. (2), (3m), and (3p) and the expenditures made with
97	97	the grant moneys.
98	98	SECTION 4.0Fiscal changes.
99	99	(1) GRANT FUNDING. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation
100	100	to the department of justice under s. 20.455 (2) (f), the dollar amount for the 2023-24
101	101	fiscal year is increased by $4,000,000 to implement the grant program under s.
102	102	165.88 (3p).
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