Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB835 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 835
5	5	December 22, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives DOYLE, PALMERI, RATCLIFF,
6	6	CONSIDINE, STUBBS, MOORE OMOKUNDE, CONLEY, EMERSON, JOERS, SUBECK,
7	7	JACOBSON, J. ANDERSON, NEUBAUER, BALDEH, OHNSTAD, CLANCY, SHANKLAND,
8	8	SHELTON, SINICKI, VINING, C. ANDERSON and MADISON, cosponsored by Senators
9	9	SMITH, LARSON, ROYS, HESSELBEIN, AGARD, TAYLOR and SPREITZER. Referred to
10	10	Committee on Environment.
11	11	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
12	12	AN ACT to amend 92.14 (3) (intro.) and 92.14 (5r); and to create 20.115 (7) (f)
13	13	and 92.14 (3) (am) of the statutes; relating to: county conservation staff for
14	14	climate change resiliency purposes and making an appropriation.
15	15	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
16	16	Under current law, as part of the Soil and Water Resource Management
17	17	program, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection provides
18	18	funding to counties for county conservation staffing. Current law specifies the
19	19	activities that county conservation staff may engage in with funding provided under
20	20	this program. This bill provides that this program may be used to fund county
21	21	conservation staff who focus on climate change and climate change resiliency. The
22	22	bill provides $1,800,000 in GPR funding for this purpose. Under the bill, a county
23	23	that seeks funding for this purpose must specifically indicate so in its annual grant
24	24	request.
25	25	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
26	26	printed as an appendix to this bill.
27	27	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
28	28	enact as follows:
29	29	SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
30	30	the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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37	37	SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 835
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39	39	20.115Agriculture, trade and consumer
40	40	protection, department of
41	41	(7) AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
42	42	(f)Soil and water management; cli
43	43	mate change personnel GPR A -0- 1,800,000
44	44	SECTION 2. 20.115 (7) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
45	45	20.115 (7) (f) Soil and water management; climate change personnel. The
46	46	amounts in the schedule for support of county land conservation personnel under the
47	47	soil and water resource management program for the purpose described under s.
48	48	92.14 (3) (am).
49	49	SECTION 3. 92.14 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
50	50	92.14 (3) BASIC ALLOCATIONS TO COUNTIES. (intro.) To help counties fund their
51	51	land and water conservation activities, the department shall award an annual grant
52	52	from the appropriation under s. 20.115 (7) (c), (f), (qe), or (qf) or s. 20.866 (2) (we) to
53	53	any county land conservation committee that has a land and water resource
54	54	management plan approved by the department under s. 92.10 (4) (d), and that, by
55	55	county board action, has resolved to provide any matching funds required under sub.
56	56	(5g). The county may use the grant for land and water resource management
57	57	planning and for any of the following purposes, consistent with the approved land
58	58	and water resource management plan:
59	59	SECTION 4. 92.14 (3) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
60	60	92.14 (3) (am) County land conservation personnel who primarily focus on
61	61	climate change and climate change resiliency.
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87	87	SECTION 5
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89	89	SECTION 5. 92.14 (5r) of the statutes is amended to read:
90	90	92.14 (5r) ANNUAL GRANT REQUEST. Every land conservation committee shall
91	91	prepare annually a grant request that describes the land and water resource staffing
92	92	needs and activities to be undertaken or funded by the county under this chapter and
93	93	ss. 281.65 and 281.66 and the funding needed for those purposes. The grant request
94	94	shall specifically state any request for funding for climate change personnel under
95	95	sub. (3) (am). The grant request shall be consistent with the county's plan under s.
96	96	92.10. The land conservation committee shall submit the grant request to the
97	97	department.
98	98	SECTION 6.0Effective date.
99	99	(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
100	100	publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
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