LRB-1508/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Rice, BB0347 - Housing Safety Grants Pilot Program
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Housing
Rental housing safety grants
This bill establishes a pilot program under which DOA must award one or more grants to a first class city (presently only Milwaukee) for activities that support the improvement of rental housing safety in the city, including the enhancement or creation of a property inspection program and the development and launch of a searchable online database that discloses the history of rental properties within the city. The bill authorizes DOA to establish program guidelines for the grant program under this subsection. Under the bill, the grant program sunsets on June 30, 2025.
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. 16.3067 of the statutes is created to read:
16.3067 Rental housing safety grants. (1) Grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.505 (7) (fs), the department shall award one or more grants to a 1st class city for activities that support the improvement of rental housing safety in the city, including the enhancement or creation of a property inspection program and the development and launch of a searchable online database that discloses the history of rental properties within the city. The department may establish program guidelines for the grant program under this subsection.
(2) Sunset. No grants may be awarded under sub. (1) after June 30, 2025.
Section
2. 20.505 (7) (fs) of the statutes is created to read:
20.505 (7) (fs) Rental housing safety grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for grants to a 1st class city under s. 16.3067.
****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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