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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 835
December 22, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives DOYLE, PALMERI, RATCLIFF,
CONSIDINE, STUBBS, MOORE OMOKUNDE, CONLEY, EMERSON, JOERS, SUBECK,
JACOBSON, J. ANDERSON, NEUBAUER, BALDEH, OHNSTAD, CLANCY, SHANKLAND,
SHELTON, SINICKI, VINING, C. ANDERSON and MADISON, cosponsored by Senators
SMITH, LARSON, ROYS, HESSELBEIN, AGARD, TAYLOR and SPREITZER. Referred to
Committee on Environment.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 92.14 (3) (intro.) and 92.14 (5r); and to create 20.115 (7) (f)
and 92.14 (3) (am) of the statutes; relating to: county conservation staff for
climate change resiliency purposes and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, as part of the Soil and Water Resource Management
program, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection provides
funding to counties for county conservation staffing. Current law specifies the
activities that county conservation staff may engage in with funding provided under
this program. This bill provides that this program may be used to fund county
conservation staff who focus on climate change and climate change resiliency. The
bill provides $1,800,000 in GPR funding for this purpose. Under the bill, a county
that seeks funding for this purpose must specifically indicate so in its annual grant
request.
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 835
2023-24 2024-25
20.115Agriculture, trade and consumer
protection, department of
(7) AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
(f)Soil and water management; cli
mate change personnel GPR A -0- 1,800,000
SECTION 2. 20.115 (7) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
20.115 (7) (f) Soil and water management; climate change personnel. The
amounts in the schedule for support of county land conservation personnel under the
soil and water resource management program for the purpose described under s.
92.14 (3) (am).
SECTION 3. 92.14 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
92.14 (3) BASIC ALLOCATIONS TO COUNTIES. (intro.) To help counties fund their
land and water conservation activities, the department shall award an annual grant
from the appropriation under s. 20.115 (7) (c), (f), (qe), or (qf) or s. 20.866 (2) (we) to
any county land conservation committee that has a land and water resource
management plan approved by the department under s. 92.10 (4) (d), and that, by
county board action, has resolved to provide any matching funds required under sub.
(5g). The county may use the grant for land and water resource management
planning and for any of the following purposes, consistent with the approved land
and water resource management plan:
SECTION 4. 92.14 (3) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
92.14 (3) (am) County land conservation personnel who primarily focus on
climate change and climate change resiliency.
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SECTION 5
ASSEMBLY BILL 835
SECTION 5. 92.14 (5r) of the statutes is amended to read:
92.14 (5r) ANNUAL GRANT REQUEST. Every land conservation committee shall
prepare annually a grant request that describes the land and water resource staffing
needs and activities to be undertaken or funded by the county under this chapter and
ss. 281.65 and 281.66 and the funding needed for those purposes. The grant request
shall specifically state any request for funding for climate change personnel under
sub. (3) (am). The grant request shall be consistent with the county's plan under s.
92.10. The land conservation committee shall submit the grant request to the
department.
SECTION 6.0Effective 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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