LRB-1850/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Aslesen, BB0524 - Establish a transit capital assistance grant program
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
transportation
Transportation aids
Transit capital assistance grants
This bill requires DOT to establish a transit capital assistance grant program, under which DOT awards grants to eligible applicants for the replacement of public transit vehicles.
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. 20.395 (1) (bt) of the statutes is created to read:
20.395 (1) (bt) Transit capital assistance grants. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for transit capital assistance grants under s. 85.203.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 85.203 of the statutes is created to read:
85.203 Transit capital assistance grants. (1) In this section:
(a) “Eligible applicant" has the meaning given in s. 85.20 (1) (b).
(b) “Public transit vehicle" means any vehicle used for providing transportation service to the general public that is eligible for replacement under settlement guidelines, as defined in s. 16.047 (1) (b).
(2) The department shall administer a transit capital assistance grant program. From the appropriation under s. 20.395 (1) (bt), the department shall award grants to eligible applicants for the replacement of public transit vehicles. The department shall establish criteria for awarding grants under this section.
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