LRB-2078/P1
ZDW:ahe
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hamer, BB0396 - Snowmobile enforcement
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Natural resources
Recreation
1. Snowmobile enforcement
Under current law, funding for certain DNR functions pertaining to snowmobiles, including enforcement, safety training, and fatality reporting, is provided from the conservation fund and from tribal gaming compact program revenues. Under this bill, the funding amounts currently provided from gaming revenues are replaced with general program revenue.
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:
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1. 20.370 (3) (ak) of the statutes is repealed.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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2. 20.370 (3) (ma) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.370 (3) (ma) General program operations — state funds. From the general fund, the amounts in the schedule for regulatory and enforcement operations under chs. 30, 31 and 280 to 299 and ss. 44.47, 59.692, 59.693, 61.351, 61.353, 61.354, 62.231, 62.233, 62.234 and 87.30, for reimbursement of the conservation fund for expenses incurred for actions taken under s. 323.12 (2) (c), and for enforcement of the treaty-based, off-reservation rights to fish, hunt, and gather held by members of federally recognized American Indian tribes or bands, for snowmobile enforcement operations under ss. 350.055, 350.12 (4) (a) 2m., 3., and 3m., and 350.155, and for safety training and fatality reporting.
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3. 20.505 (8) (hm) 8k. of the statutes is repealed.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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4. 350.12 (4) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
350.12 (4) (a) Enforcement, administration and related costs. (intro.) The moneys appropriated from s. 20.370 (3) (ak) and (aq) and (ma), (5) (es) and (9) (mu) and (mw) may be used for the following:
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5. 350.12 (4) (a) 3m. of the statutes is amended to read:
350.12 (4) (a) 3m. The cost of state law enforcement efforts as appropriated under s. 20.370 (3) (ak) and (aq) and (ma); and
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6. 350.12 (4) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:
350.12 (4) (am) Enforcement aids to department. Of the amounts appropriated under s. 20.370 (3) (ak) and (aq) and (ma), the department shall allocate $26,000 in each fiscal year to be used exclusively for the purchase of snowmobiles or trailers to carry snowmobiles, or both, to be used in state law enforcement efforts.
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