DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0164 - Grants for Water Bottle Filling Stations
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
EDUCATION
Primary and secondary education
Water bottle filling station grants
This bill requires DPI to award grants to school districts and independent charter schools to modify water fountains to include water bottle filling stations that provide filtered drinking water.
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) (dw) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (dw) Water bottle filling station; grants. The amounts in the schedule for grants to school districts and independent charter schools under s. 115.335.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2. 115.335 of the statutes is created to read:
115.335 Water bottle filling stations; grants. (1) Beginning in the 2026-27 school year, the department shall award grants to school districts and operators of charter schools established under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x) to modify water fountains to include water bottle filling equipment that includes a water filtration component.
(2) The department may promulgate rules to implement and administer this section.
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