Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

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4	4	2023 SENATE BILL 774
5	5	December 8, 2023 - Introduced by Senators SMITH, LARSON, ROYS, HESSELBEIN,
6	6	AGARD, TAYLOR and SPREITZER, cosponsored by Representatives DOYLE,
7	7	PALMERI, RATCLIFF, CONSIDINE, STUBBS, MOORE OMOKUNDE, CONLEY, EMERSON,
8	8	JOERS, SUBECK, JACOBSON, J. ANDERSON, NEUBAUER, BALDEH, OHNSTAD, CLANCY,
9	9	SHANKLAND, SHELTON, SINICKI, VINING, C. ANDERSON and MADISON. Referred to
10	10	Committee on Agriculture and Tourism.
11	11	AN ACT to amend 92.14 (3) (intro.) and 92.14 (5r); and to create 20.115 (7) (f)
12	12	and 92.14 (3) (am) of the statutes; relating to: county conservation staff for
13	13	climate change resiliency purposes and making an appropriation.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	Under current law, as part of the Soil and Water Resource Management
16	16	program, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection provides
17	17	funding to counties for county conservation staffing. Current law specifies the
18	18	activities that county conservation staff may engage in with funding provided under
19	19	this program. This bill provides that this program may be used to fund county
20	20	conservation staff who focus on climate change and climate change resiliency. The
21	21	bill provides $1,800,000 in GPR funding for this purpose. Under the bill, a county
22	22	that seeks funding for this purpose must specifically indicate so in its annual grant
23	23	request.
24	24	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
25	25	printed as an appendix to this bill.
26	26	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
27	27	enact as follows:
28	28	SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
29	29	the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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36	36	SECTION 1 SENATE BILL 774
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38	38	20.115Agriculture, trade and consumer
39	39	protection, department of
40	40	(7) AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
41	41	(f)Soil and water management; cli
42	42	mate change personnel GPR A -0- 1,800,000
43	43	SECTION 2. 20.115 (7) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
44	44	20.115 (7) (f) Soil and water management; climate change personnel. The
45	45	amounts in the schedule for support of county land conservation personnel under the
46	46	soil and water resource management program for the purpose described under s.
47	47	92.14 (3) (am).
48	48	SECTION 3. 92.14 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
49	49	92.14 (3) BASIC ALLOCATIONS TO COUNTIES. (intro.) To help counties fund their
50	50	land and water conservation activities, the department shall award an annual grant
51	51	from the appropriation under s. 20.115 (7) (c), (f), (qe), or (qf) or s. 20.866 (2) (we) to
52	52	any county land conservation committee that has a land and water resource
53	53	management plan approved by the department under s. 92.10 (4) (d), and that, by
54	54	county board action, has resolved to provide any matching funds required under sub.
55	55	(5g). The county may use the grant for land and water resource management
56	56	planning and for any of the following purposes, consistent with the approved land
57	57	and water resource management plan:
58	58	SECTION 4. 92.14 (3) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
59	59	92.14 (3) (am) County land conservation personnel who primarily focus on
60	60	climate change and climate change resiliency.
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86	86	SECTION 5
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88	88	SECTION 5. 92.14 (5r) of the statutes is amended to read:
89	89	92.14 (5r) ANNUAL GRANT REQUEST. Every land conservation committee shall
90	90	prepare annually a grant request that describes the land and water resource staffing
91	91	needs and activities to be undertaken or funded by the county under this chapter and
92	92	ss. 281.65 and 281.66 and the funding needed for those purposes. The grant request
93	93	shall specifically state any request for funding for climate change personnel under
94	94	sub. (3) (am). The grant request shall be consistent with the county's plan under s.
95	95	92.10. The land conservation committee shall submit the grant request to the
96	96	department.
97	97	SECTION 6.0Effective date.
98	98	(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
99	99	publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
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