LRB-1399/P4
KRP/MIM/FFK:wlj&skw
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0476 - Energy Efficiency Grant Program; Office of Environmental Justice
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
Energy efficiency grant program
This bill creates a grant program under which DPI must award grants to school districts for energy efficiency projects in school buildings. For the first two school years of the grant program, DPI must give preference in awarding grants to projects that relate to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. DPI, in consultation with the office of environmental justice, may promulgate rules to implement the grant program.
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:
Section
1. 20.255 (2) (dv) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (dv) Energy efficiency projects; grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for grants to school districts under s. 115.457.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 115.457 of the statutes is created to read:
115.457 Energy efficiency projects; grants. (1) Beginning in the 2021-22 school year, the department shall award grants to school districts for energy efficiency projects in school buildings.
(2) In awarding grants under this section for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, the department shall give preference to projects that relate to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.
(3) The department, in consultation with the office of environmental justice, may promulgate rules to implement this section.
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