Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 837

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Relating to: purchase and renovation of a center for the employment of blind and visually impaired individuals, sale of the existing center, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Administration department of — Budget and fiscal issues Blind and visually impaired Building commission state Bus and truck Employment Milwaukee county Organization miscellaneous

Introduced, stopped here
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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill amends the 2019-21 Authorized State Building Program to add a

grant to Wiscraft, Inc., doing business as Beyond Vision, to assist in the purchase and

renovation of a new facility in Milwaukee County for the employment of blind and

visually impaired individuals and the provision of related services to those

individuals. The project has a combined cost of $11,000,000 ($5,000,000 in general

fund supported borrowing authority and $6,000,000 in gifts, grants, and other

receipts). Under the bill, the Department of Administration is required to sell the

existing land and facilities occupied by Wiscraft, Inc., to the highest bidder and

deposit the proceeds of the sale in the budget stabilization fund.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DOA

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Jobs and the Economy, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Mar 26, 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 recommended by Committee on Jobs and the Economy, Ayes 13, Noes 1

Passed 13–1 Mar 26, 2020 official source full page