LRB-1889/P2
EVM:kms&emw
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Aslesen, BB0535 - Traffic calming grants
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
transportation
Transportation aids
Traffic calming grants
Under this bill, DOT must develop and administer a local traffic calming grant program. Under the program, DOT must award grants to political subdivisions for infrastructure projects designed to reduce the speed of vehicular traffic.
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 (2) (ja) of the statutes is created to read:
20.395 (2) (ja) Local traffic calming grants. From the general fund, as a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for the local traffic calming grant program under s. 85.024.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 85.024 of the statutes is created to read:
85.024 Local traffic calming grants. The department shall develop and administer a local traffic calming grant program. From the appropriation under s. 20.395 (2) (ja), the department shall award grants to counties, cities, villages, and towns for infrastructure projects that are eligible for funding under the federal transportation alternatives program and that are designed to reduce the speed of vehicular traffic. The department shall prescribe the form, nature, and extent of information that shall be contained in applications for grants under this section and shall establish criteria for evaluating applications and for awarding grants under this section.
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