Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: an assistance program for water infrastructure in 3rd class and 4th class cities, villages, and towns; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE)
Municipality Municipality — Elections Natural resources department of — Environmental protection Sanitation and sewerage management Town Village Waterworks
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, 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
This bill creates a water infrastructure assistance program for 3rd class and 4th class cities, villages, and towns, and sanitation districts that serve 3rd class or 4th class cities, villages, or towns, for the purpose of financing the construction of water infrastructure system upgrades that are necessary to comply with federal water quality standards.
The bill provides the Department of Natural Resources a $10,000,000 continuing appropriation for the purpose of operating the assistance program and providing assistance payments under the program.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Full history
- Mar 4, 2026 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Ratcliff and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Anderson, Brown, Arney, DeSanto, Fitzgerald, Palmeri, Roe and Sinicki
- Mar 4, 2026 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation and Local Government
- Mar 13, 2026 · Senate
Senator Keyeski added as a coauthor
- Mar 19, 2026 · Senate
Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor
- Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1