Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB887 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 887
5	5	January 2, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives HAYWOOD, BARE, EMERSON,
6	6	OHNSTAD, MOORE OMOKUNDE, STUBBS, RATCLIFF, JOERS, C. ANDERSON, PALMERI,
7	7	SINICKI, JACOBSON, ANDRACA, HONG, MADISON, DRAKE, CLANCY and GOYKE,
8	8	cosponsored by Senators L. JOHNSON, CARPENTER, TAYLOR, ROYS, SPREITZER,
9	9	LARSON, AGARD and HESSELBEIN. Referred to Committee on Energy and
10	10	Utilities.
11	11	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
12	12	AN ACT to amend 20.866 (2) (td); and to create 13.48 (26m) and 281.61 (8) (b)
13	13	of the statutes; relating to: bonding for lead service line replacement and
14	14	granting bonding authority.
15	15	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
16	16	Under current law, the Department of Administration and the Department of
17	17	Natural Resources administer the safe drinking water loan program (SDWLP),
18	18	which provides financial assistance from the environmental improvement program
19	19	to local governmental units and to the private owners of community water systems
20	20	that serve local governmental units for projects for the planning, designing,
21	21	construction, or modification of public water systems. DNR establishes a funding list
22	22	for SDWLP projects, and DOA allocates funding for those projects.
23	23	Under current law, the state may contract up to $74,950,000 in public debt for
24	24	the SDWLP. This bill increases the bonding authority for the program by
25	25	$200,000,000 and requires DOA to allocate up to $200,000,000 of the authorized
26	26	public debt to projects involving forgivable loans to private users of public water
27	27	systems to cover not more than 50 percent of the cost to replace lead service lines.
28	28	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
29	29	printed as an appendix to this bill.
30	30	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
31	31	enact as follows:
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36	36	SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 887
37	37	SECTION 1. 13.48 (26m) of the statutes is created to read:
38	38	13.48 (26m) LEAD SERVICE LINE REPLACEMENT. The legislature finds and
39	39	determines that the prevalence of lead service lines in connections to public water
40	40	systems poses a public health hazard and that processes for reducing lead entering
41	41	drinking water from such pipes requires additional treatment of wastewater. It is
42	42	therefore in the public interest, and it is the public policy of this state, to assist
43	43	private users of public water systems in replacing lead service lines.
44	44	SECTION 2. 20.866 (2) (td) of the statutes is amended to read:
45	45	20.866 (2) (td) Safe drinking water loan program. From the capital
46	46	improvement fund, a sum sufficient to be transferred to the environmental
47	47	improvement fund for the safe drinking water loan program under s. 281.61. The
48	48	state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $71,400,000 for this
49	49	purpose. The state may contract additional public debt in an amount up to
50	50	$3,550,000 $274,950,000 for this purpose.
51	51	SECTION 3. 281.61 (8) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
52	52	281.61 (8) (b) The department of administration shall allocate not more than
53	53	$200,000,000 from proceeds of public debt authorized under s. 20.866 (2) (td) to
54	54	projects involving forgivable loans to private users of public water systems to cover
55	55	not more than 50 percent of the cost to replace lead service lines.
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