AB298: Bill Text

2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE

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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 298

May 30, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives Tusler, Novak, Brill, Dittrich, Goeben, Gundrum, B. Jacobson, Kaufert, Mursau, Penterman, Snyder, Spiros and Wichgers, cosponsored by Senators James, Feyen, Nass and Wanggaard. Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

AB298,1,3 An Act to repeal 165.88 (3m) (d); to amend 165.88 (4); to create 165.88 (3t) of the statutes; relating to: grants for technical colleges to provide mapping data to law enforcement.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Justice awards grants to school boards and governing bodies of private schools to assist them in submitting interactive critical mapping data for each school building and facility in the district to law enforcement agencies and the Office of School Safety in DOJ. This bill requires OSS to award grants to technical college district boards so they may submit interactive critical mapping data for each of their technical college buildings to law enforcement agencies and OSS.

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:

AB298,1 Section 1. 165.88 (3m) (d) of the statutes is repealed.

AB298,2 Section 2. 165.88 (3t) of the statutes is created to read:

AB298,2,2 165.88 (3t) Grants to technical colleges for interactive critical mapping data. (a) In this subsection:

AB298,2,3 1. “District board” has the meaning given in s. 38.01 (6).

AB298,2,4 2. “Interactive critical mapping data” has the meaning given in sub. (3m) (ac).

AB298,2,8 (b) The office of school safety shall award grants to district boards to be used to submit interactive critical mapping data of the district boards’ technical college buildings to each local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction and to the office of school safety.

AB298,2,12 (c) The office of school safety shall accept applications for the grants under this subsection from the president of the technical college system board, who shall work jointly with the district boards and the local law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction to apply for the grants.

AB298,2,21 (d) Grant moneys awarded under this subsection shall be used for site-specific interactive critical mapping data to enhance security and increase situational awareness for first responders. Any interactive critical mapping data created with grant money under this subsection shall be compatible with platforms and applications used by local, state, and federal public safety officials; may not require local, state, or federal public safety officials or district boards to purchase additional software; and shall include information that can best assist first responders in an emergency, such as building numbers, floors, suite designations, room numbers, or other available relevant location information.

AB298,3 Section 3. 165.88 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB298,3,2 165.88 (4) Report. The department of justice shall submit an annual report to the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance providing an account of the grants awarded under sub. subs. (2), (3m), and (3t) and the expenditures made with the grant moneys.

AB298,3,3 (end)