DOA:......Hutter, BB0191 - Dairy Agriculture Resilience Investment Now Grant pilot program
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
AGRICULTURE
Dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program
This bill requires DATCP to create a Dairy Agriculture Resilience Investment Now grant pilot program, under which DATCP is required to provide grants to dairy producers with fewer than 1,000 head of milking cows in order for the dairy producers to undertake projects designed to improve their operational efficiency and resilience. The bill gives DATCP authority to promulgate rules to administer the program.
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. 20.115 (4) (ds) of the statutes is created to read:
20.115 (4) (ds) Dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program. Annually, the amounts in the schedule for providing grants under, and the administration of, the dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program under s. 93.54.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2. 93.54 of the statutes is created to read:
93.54 Dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program. (1) Program. The department shall create a dairy agriculture resilience investment now grant pilot program, under which the department shall provide grants to dairy producers with fewer than 1,000 head of milking cows to fund projects designed to improve the dairy producers’ operational efficiency and resilience.
(2) Rules. The department may promulgate rules to administer this section.
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