LRB-2535/1
EHS:amn&skw
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
January 30, 2020 - Introduced by Representatives Shankland, VanderMeer,
Tusler, Subeck, Anderson, Dittrich, Emerson, Gruszynski, Hebl,
Skowronski, Spiros, Stubbs, C. Taylor, Tranel, Vruwink, Zamarripa, Pope
and Spreitzer, cosponsored by Senators Testin,
Carpenter, Larson and
Smith. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
AB829,1,4
1An Act to create 20.370 (1) (fq), 20.370 (6) (dd) and 23.22 (2) (g) of the statutes;
2relating to: grants to map, control, eradicate, monitor, and minimize the
3spread of wild parsnip, funding for the Bureau of Natural Heritage
4Conservation, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Natural Resources, under its statewide
program to control invasive species, to award up to $100,000 in each fiscal year in
grants to local governments or American Indian tribes or bands that have declared
wild parsnip to be a noxious weed for projects on public or private land to map,
control, eradicate, monitor, and minimize the spread of wild parsnip. The bill allows
a grant recipient to collaborate with a regional conservation organization on a project
funded by the grant.
The bill appropriates $50,000 in each fiscal year in the 2019-21 fiscal biennium
to the Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation.
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:
AB829,1
1Section
1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
2the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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AB829,2
3Section 2
. 20.370 (1) (fq) of the statutes is created to read:
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20.370
(1) (fq)
Bureau of natural heritage conservation. The amounts in the
5schedule for staff for the bureau of natural heritage conservation.
AB829,3
6Section 3
. 20.370 (6) (dd) of the statutes is created to read:
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20.370
(6) (dd)
Environmental aids — wild parsnip management grants. From
8the general fund, as a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for
9grants under s. 23.22 (2) (g).
AB829,4
10Section
4. 23.22 (2) (g) of the statutes is created to read:
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23.22
(2) (g) Under the program established under par. (a) and from the
12appropriation under s. 20.370 (6) (dd), the department shall award up to $100,000
13in grants to counties, cities, villages, towns, or federally recognized American
14Indians tribes or bands in each fiscal year for projects to map, control, eradicate,
15monitor, and minimize the spread of wild parsnip on public or private land. To be
16eligible for a grant under this paragraph, an applicant must have, by ordinance or
1resolution, declared wild parsnip to be a noxious weed. A weed commissioner may
2apply for a grant under this paragraph on behalf of a county, city, village, or town.
3The recipient of a grant may collaborate with a regional conservation organization
4on a project funded by the grant. The department may promulgate rules to
5administer this grant program.