LRB-1487/P5
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Sherwin, BB0341 - GPR grant appropriation for neighborhood investment, health-care infrastructure capital investment, and tourism capital investment
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
state government
General state government
Investment and capital grants programs
This bill creates three new grant programs to be administered by DOA: a neighborhood capital investment grant program; a health-care infrastructure capital grant program; and a tourism capital investment grant program. The bill also creates a new GPR appropriation for the grant programs and allocates moneys during the 2023-25 fiscal biennium.
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. 16.316 of the statutes is created to read:
16.316 Neighborhood capital investment grant program. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (fn), the department shall administer a grant program to provide grants to local governmental units and tribal governments to invest in community and regionally based solutions to deliver innovative public services, including new and improved facilities and projects to build affordable housing, increase access to transit and transportation, and expand access to childcare, or other local workforce needs.
Section 2. 16.317 of the statutes is created to read:
16.317 Health-care infrastructure capital grant program. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (fn), the department shall administer a grant program to provide grants to local governmental units, tribal governments, nonprofit health-care organizations, and health centers that qualify under section 1905 (l) (2) (B) of the federal Social Security Act for capital investments in health care, including infrastructure necessary to expand access to affordable health care, build facilities in areas of high need, and reduce disparities in health-care outcomes and services statewide.
Section 3. 16.318 of the statutes is created to read:
16.318 Tourism capital investment grant program. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (fn), the department shall administer a grant program to provide grants to local governmental units, tribal governments, and nonprofit organizations to strengthen the state's tourism, travel, and lodging economies.
Section 4. 20.505 (1) (fn) of the statutes is created to read:
20.505 (1) (fn) Neighborhood capital investment grant program; health-care infrastructure capital grant program; tourism capital investment grant program. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for the grant programs under ss. 16.316, 16.317, and 16.318.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 9101. Nonstatutory provisions; Administration.
(1) Capital grants programs. During the 2023-25 fiscal biennium, the department of administration shall:
(a) Neighborhood capital investment grant program. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (fn), allocate $150,000,000 to the neighborhood capital investment grant program under s. 16.316. The secretary of administration may reallocate moneys from this program to the programs under ss. 16.317 and 16.318.
(b) Health-care infrastructure capital grant program. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (fn), allocate $100,000,000 to the health-care infrastructure capital grant program under s. 16.317. The secretary of administration may reallocate moneys from this program to the programs under ss. 16.316 and 16.318.
(c) Tourism capital investment grant program. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (1) (fn), allocate $50,000,000 to the tourism capital investment grant program under s. 16.318. The secretary of administration may reallocate moneys from this program to the programs under ss. 16.316 and 16.317.
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