2017 Wisconsin Act 71

  Date of enactment: November 27, 2017
2017 Senate Bill 421   Date of publication*: November 28, 2017

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2017 WISCONSIN ACT 71

An Act to create 23.0917 (5g) (f) of the statutes; relating to: amounts obligated under the Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson Stewardship 2000 Program for water infrastructure projects in state parks.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

71,1 Section 1. 23.0917 (5g) (f) of the statutes is created to read:

23.0917 (5g) (f) 1. In this paragraph, “unobligated amount" means the amount by which the annual bonding authority for the subprograms under subs. (3), (4), and (4j) in fiscal year 2016-17 exceeded the amounts that the department obligated from the moneys appropriated under s. 20.866 (2) (ta) for those subprograms for that fiscal year, but not including the amount by which the annual bonding authority for the purpose under sub. (3) (br) in fiscal year 2016-17 exceeded the amount obligated for that purpose in that fiscal year.

2. Of the unobligated amount, the department shall obligate an amount necessary to fund critical health and safety-related water infrastructure projects in state parks, prioritizing projects in those state parks with the highest demand, but not more than $4,500,000.