LRB-0883/P1
ZDW:emw
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Vencill, BB0082 - Endangered resources GPR match
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Natural Resources
Fish, game, and wildlife
Endangered resources funding match
Under current law, DNR administers the endangered resources program, which includes improving habitats for endangered or threatened species, conducting the natural heritage inventory, conducting wildlife research and surveys, providing wildlife management services, and providing for wildlife damage control. Current law appropriates to DNR all moneys received from gifts, grants, and bequests for the program. Current law also allows an individual filing an income tax return to designate an additional payment for the program.
Current law appropriates from the general fund to DNR an amount equal to the amount of gifts, grants, and bequests received and any additional payments made for the program, not to exceed $500,000 in a fiscal year. This bill increases the limit to $950,000.
For further information see the state 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:
Section
1. 20.370 (1) (fe) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.370 (1) (fe) Endangered resources — general fund. From the general fund, a sum sufficient in fiscal year 1993-94 and in each fiscal year thereafter that equals the sum of the amount certified in that fiscal year under s. 71.10 (5) (h) 3. for the previous fiscal year and the amounts received under par. (fu) in that fiscal year for the purposes of the endangered resources program, as defined in s. 71.10 (5) (a) 2. The amount appropriated under this subdivision may not exceed $500,000 $950,000 in a fiscal year, except that the amount appropriated under this subdivision in fiscal year 2005-06 may not exceed $364,000 and the amount appropriated under this subdivision in fiscal year 2006-07 may not exceed $364,000.
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