Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 791

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: the private on-site wastewater treatment system replacement or rehabilitation grant program. (FE)

Municipality — Finance Safety and professional services department of Sanitation and sewerage management Sunset

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

2017 Wisconsin Act 59

, the 2017 biennial budget act, repealed, effective June

30, 2021, a grant program the Department of Safety and Professional Services

administers to provide grants to persons and businesses that are served by failing

private on-site wastewater treatment systems (POWTS), which are commonly

known as septic tanks. This bill delays the elimination of the POWTS grant program

to June 30, 2023.

The bill requires DSPS to prepare literature that describes the eligibility for

receiving a POWTS grant for a residence. Under the bill, DSPS supplies the

literature to counties, and counties must distribute the literature to recipients of

public benefits.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DSPS

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Rural Development, Ayes 8, Noes 4

Passed 8–4 Feb 13, 2020 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Rural Development, Ayes 9, Noes 3

Passed 9–3 Feb 13, 2020 official source full page