LRB-0848/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Vencill, BB0038 - County sustainable forestry and forest administration grants
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Natural resources
Forestry
County forest administration grants and county sustainable forestry program
This bill separates the existing biennial appropriation for county sustainable forestry grants and county forest administration grants into two separate biennial appropriations.
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. 20.370 (5) (bw) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.370 (5) (bw) Resource aids — county sustainable forestry and county forest administration grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for county sustainable forestry grants under s. 28.11 (5r) and county forest administration grants under s. 28.11 (5m).
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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2. 20.370 (5) (ht) of the statutes is created to read:
20.370 (5) (ht) Resource aids - county forest administration grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for county forest administration grants under s. 28.11 (5m).
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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3. 28.11 (5m) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
28.11 (5m) (a) (intro.) The department may make grants, from the appropriation under s. 20.370 (5) (bw) (ht), to counties having lands entered under sub. (4) to fund all of the following for one professional forester in the position of county forest administrator or assistant county forest administrator:
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4. 28.11 (5m) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:
28.11 (5m) (am) The department may make grants, from the appropriation under s. 20.370 (5) (bw) (ht), to counties having lands entered under sub. (4) to fund up to 50 percent of the costs of a county's annual dues to a nonprofit organization that provides leadership and counsel to that county's forest administrator and that functions as an organizational liaison to the department. The total amount that the department may award in grants under this paragraph in any fiscal year may not exceed $50,000.
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