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2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 827
December 22, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives MYERS, JOERS, JACOBSON,
PALMERI, ANDRACA, BALDEH, CLANCY, CONLEY, CONSIDINE, DRAKE, J. ANDERSON,
MADISON, MOORE OMOKUNDE, NEUBAUER, RATCLIFF, SHELTON, SINICKI,
EMERSON, SUBECK, STUBBS and ORTIZ-VELEZ, cosponsored by Senators
CARPENTER, AGARD, SMITH, HESSELBEIN, L. JOHNSON, LARSON, ROYS, SPREITZER,
TAYLOR and PFAFF. Referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 20.255 (2) (dv) and 115.457 of the
statutes; relating to: an energy efficiency grant program for school districts,
granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill creates a $10,000,000 per year grant program under which the
Department of Public Instruction must award grants to school districts for energy
efficiency projects in school buildings. For the first two school years of the grant
program, DPI must give preference in awarding grants to projects that relate to
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. DPI may promulgate rules to
implement the grant program.
For further information see the state and local 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:
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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SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 827
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20.255Public instruction, department of
(2) AIDS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
(dv)Energy efficiency projects; grantsGPR A 10,000,000 10,000,000
SECTION 2. 20.255 (2) (dv) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (dv) Energy efficiency projects; grants. The amounts in the schedule
for grants to school districts under s. 115.457.
SECTION 3. 115.457 of the statutes is created to read:
115.457 Energy efficiency projects; grants. (1) Beginning in the
2023-2024 school year, the department shall award grants to school districts for
energy efficiency projects in school buildings.
(2) In awarding grants under this section for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school
years, the department shall give preference to projects that relate to heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
(3) The department may promulgate rules to implement this section.
SECTION 4. 119.04 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V and VII of ch. 115, ch. 121 and ss. 66.0235 (3) (c),
66.0603 (1m) to (3), 115.01 (1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343,
115.345, 115.363, 115.364, 115.365 (3), 115.366, 115.367, 115.38 (2), 115.415, 115.445,
115.457, 118.001 to 118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07, 118.075, 118.076, 118.10, 118.12,
118.125 to 118.14, 118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163, 118.164,
118.18, 118.19, 118.196, 118.20, 118.223, 118.225, 118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6), (8), and
(10), 118.245, 118.25, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.292, 118.293, 118.2935, 118.30
to 118.43, 118.46, 118.50, 118.51, 118.52, 118.53, 118.55, 118.56, 120.12 (2m), (4m),
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(5), and (15) to (27), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to (19), (26), (34),
(35), (37), (37m), and (38), 120.137, 120.14, 120.20, 120.21 (3), and 120.25 are
applicable to a 1st class city school district and board but not, unless explicitly
provided in this chapter or in the terms of a contract, to the commissioner or to any
school transferred to an opportunity schools and partnership program.
SECTION 5.0Effective date.
(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
(END)
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