LRB-0950/P2
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0098 - Grants for Milk Coolers and Dispensers
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Primary and secondary education
Grants for milk coolers and dispensers
This bill creates a grant program for purchasing milk coolers and milk dispensers that cost less than $5,000 per unit. Under the bill, DPI must award a grant for this purpose to educational entities that participate in the National School Lunch program, including school districts, independent charter schools, private schools, the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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) (bj) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (bj) Grants for milk coolers and dispensers. The amounts in the scheduled for grants under s. 115.342
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 115.342 of the statutes is created to read:
115.342 Grants for milk coolers and dispensers. (1) In this section:
(a) “Educational agency” means a school board, an operator of a charter school under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x), a private school, a tribal school, an operator of a residential care center for children and youth, as defined in s. 115.76 (14g), the director of the program under s. 115.52, and the director of the center under s. 115.525.
(a) “Eligible milk equipment” means a milk cooler or dispenser that has a purchase price of less than $5,000.
(2) From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (bj), the department shall awards grants to educational agencies participating in the federal school lunch program under
42 USC 1751 to
1769j for the purpose of purchasing eligible milk equipment. An educational agency shall specify in its application for a grant under this section the eligible milk equipment that it intends to purchase with the grant and the cost of each unit. The department may award a grant under this section of up to $5,000 per unit of eligible milk equipment.
(3) If the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (bj) in any fiscal year is insufficient to pay the full amount requested by all applicants under sub. (2), the department shall prorate the payments among the applicants.
(4) The department may promulgate rules to implement and administer this section.
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