DOA:......Vencill, BB0192 - Wildfire suppression reimbursement
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
NATURAL RESOURCES
Forestry
Wildfire suppression reimbursement
Under current law, DNR administers the fire suppression aids program, which provides grants to counties, cities, villages, towns, and fire suppression organizations to assist with the cost of training and supplies for fire suppression. This bill appropriates to DNR, from the conservation fund, a sum sufficient to reimburse local fire departments under the program.
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. 20.370 (5) (fy) of the statutes is created to read:
20.370 (5) (fy) Resource aids — wildfire suppression reimbursement. From the moneys received by the department for forestry activities, a sum sufficient to reimburse local fire departments under the fire suppression aids program under s. 26.145.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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