LRB-4762/1
RAC:cjs:jf
1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE
March 20, 2000 - Introduced by Representative Seratti. Referred to Committee
on Assembly Organization.
AB890,1,3
1An Act to repeal 16.54 (11m);
to amend 20.370 (5) (bx); and
to create 59.25 (3)
2(rm) of the statutes;
relating to: distribution of national forest income
3payments from the federal government and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, all money received by the state from receipts on national
forest lands must be distributed to school districts in accordance with the number of
acres of national forest land located within the school district boundaries. This
requirement was imposed by
1999 Wisconsin Act 9 (the biennial budget bill). Before
the enactment of
1999 Wisconsin Act 9, all money received by the state from receipts
on national forest lands was required to be distributed to towns in accordance with
the number of acres of national forest land located within the town boundaries. Any
town that received any of these moneys was required to expend at least 50% of the
moneys on public roads in the town. This bill restores the law to the way it was before
the enactment of
1999 Wisconsin Act 9.
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:
AB890,2,93
20.370
(5) (bx)
Resource aids — national forest income aids. All moneys
4received from the U.S. government for allotments to
school districts counties 5containing national forest lands
, and designated for the benefit of public roads in
6such counties, shall be distributed in proportion to the national forest acreage in each
7school district county as certified by the U.S. forest service. Such distribution shall
8be made annually within 60 days after receipt of the money from the federal
9government.
AB890, s. 3
10Section
3. 59.25 (3) (rm) of the statutes is created to read:
AB890,2,1611
59.25
(3) (rm) If the treasurer's county receives national forest income,
12distribute the income to the towns in the county in which national forest lands are
13situated, with each town to receive such proportion of the income as the area of
14national forest lands in the town bears to the area of the national forest lands in the
15entire county. Fifty percent of the amount received by any town shall be expended
16by the town exclusively for the benefit of roads therein.
