Grants for community health centers

This bill increases by $3,000,000 in each fiscal year the funding for grants to community health centers. Under current law, DHS must award grants to each community health center that receives federal grants in an amount calculated by multiplying the amount of state funds available for all community health centers by the fraction obtained by dividing the amount of federal grant moneys that the particular community health center receives by the total amount of federal grant moneys paid to all Wisconsin community health centers. The additional funding provided in the bill is to be divided among community health centers in the same manner as current law.

Grants to free and charitable clinics

This bill incorporates into statutory language the allocation made in 2019 Wisconsin Act 9, the biennial budget act, that requires DHS to give $500,000 in grants annually to free and charitable clinics. The bill also increases the annual grant to free and charitable clinics from $500,000 to $3,500,000

Suicide prevention programming grants

This bill requires DHS to award grants to organizations or coalitions of organizations, including cities, villages, towns, counties, and federally recognized American Indian tribes or bands for suicide prevention programming. A grant recipient must contribute matching funds or in-kind services having a value equal to at least 20 percent of the grant amount.

Grants to prevent suicide by firearm

This bill requires DHS to award grants to organizations or coalitions of organizations, including cities, villages, towns, counties, and federally recognized American Indian tribes or bands, for 1) training staff at a firearm retailer or firearm range on how to recognize a person who may be considering suicide; 2) providing suicide prevention materials for distribution at a firearm retailer or firearm range; or 3) providing voluntary, temporary firearm storage. A grant recipient must contribute matching funds or in-kind services having a value equal to at least 20 percent of the grant amount.

Farmer tuition assistance grants

This bill appropriates $500,000 from the general fund for the creation and funding of a tuition assistance grant program under which the Technical College System Board shall award grants to current or prospective farmers in the state for the purpose of paying no more than 50 percent of tuition costs for enrolling in Wisconsin technical college courses on farm management or farm finance. A current or prospective farmer may receive no more than $1,000 in these grants per year for no more than three years.

Lead service line replacement

This bill appropriates $100,000,000 from the general fund to the environmental improvement program for projects involving forgivable loans to private users of public water systems to cover not more than 50 percent of the cost to replace lead service lines.

Under current law, DOA and DNR administer the safe drinking water loan program (SDWLP), which provides financial assistance from the environmental improvement program to local governmental units and to the private owners of community water systems that serve local governmental units for projects for the planning, designing, construction, or modification of public water systems. DNR establishes a funding list for SDWLP projects and DOA allocates funding for those projects.

Wisconsin Historical Society

This bill increases funding by $2,000,000 for general program operations of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum

This bill increases funding by $300,000 for the Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum.

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:

AB444,1 Section 1 . 13.48 (26m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB444,10,6 13.48 (26m) Lead service line replacement. The legislature finds and determines that the prevalence of lead service lines in connections to public water systems poses a public health hazard and that processes for reducing lead entering drinking water from such pipes requires additional treatment of wastewater. It is therefore in the public interest, and it is the public policy of this state, to assist private users of public water systems in replacing lead service lines.

AB444,2 Section 2 . 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated: - See PDF for table - See PDF for table - See PDF for table

AB444,3 Section 3 . 20.155 (3) (a) of the statutes is created to read:

AB444,12,3 20.155 (3) (a) Broadband expansion grants; general purpose revenue. The amounts in the schedule for broadband expansion grants under s. 196.504 (2).

AB444,4 Section 4 . 20.165 (2) (d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB444,13,3 20.165 (2) (d) Private on-site wastewater treatment system grants and septage study. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for financial assistance under the private on-site wastewater treatment system replacement and rehabilitation program under s. 145.245 and for the septage characterization study under 2021 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 9138 (1).

AB444,5 Section 5 . 20.192 (1) (c) of the statutes is created to read: