DOA:......Aslesen, BB0560 - County forest road aids
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
TRANSPORTATION
Highways and local assistance
County forest road aids
Under current law, DOT provides aid to counties for the improvement of public roads within county forests. The current amount of aid is $351 per mile of county forest road. This bill maintains the aid amount for calendar year 2025 and increases the aid amount, per mile of road, to $361 in calendar year 2026 and $373 in calendar year 2027 and each year thereafter.
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. 86.315 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 86.315 (1) (intro.) and amended to read:
86.315 (1) (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.395 (1) (fu), the department shall annually, on March 10, pay to counties having county forests established under ch. 28, for the improvement of public roads within the county forests which are open and used for travel and which are not state or county trunk highways or town roads and for which no aids are paid under s. 86.30, the amount of $351 following amounts per mile of road designated in the comprehensive county forest land use plan as approved by the county board and the department of natural resources.:
(1m) If the amount appropriated under s. 20.395 (1) (fu) is insufficient to make the payments required under this subsection sub. (1), the department shall prorate the amount appropriated in the manner it considers desirable.
Section 2. 86.315 (1) (a) of the statutes is created to read:
86.315 (1) (a) In calendar year 2025, $351.
Section 3. 86.315 (1) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
86.315 (1) (b) In calendar year 2026, $361.
Section 4. 86.315 (1) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
86.315 (1) (c) In calendar year 2027 and each year thereafter, $373.
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