Read the full stored bill text
Wisconsin Legislature: AB765: Bill Text
Skip navigation
Home
Documents
Senate
Assembly
Committees
Service Agencies
Docs
Options
Help
2025 Biennium
Statutes
Admin. Rules
Indices
Miscellaneous
Archives
Home
Bill, Rule, and Appointment Histories
Senators
Representatives
Committees
Text of Introduced Proposals
Amendment Text
Acts
Veto Messages
Enrolled Bills
Votes
Assembly and Senate Floor Calendars
Schedule of Committee Activities
Assembly and Senate Journals
Committee Records (ROCPs)
Legislative Rules
All Session-Related Documents
Subject Index to Acts
Subject Index to Legislation
Subject Index to Journals
Author Index to Legislation
Subject Index to Clearinghouse Rules
Miscellaneous Budget Documents
Executive Orders
Rulings of the Chair
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules
Opinions of the Attorney General
Town Law Forms
Law
Districts
Session
Drafting Files
Feeds
Preferences
Show tree
Hide tree
Feedback
Help
Home
Senate Home
Senators
Committees
Session
Chief Clerk
Sergeant at Arms
Civics Education
Human Resources
Assembly Home
Representatives
Committees
Session
Chief Clerk
Sergeant at Arms
Human Resources
Schedule
Joint
Senate
Assembly
Study
Legislative Audit Bureau
Legislative Council
Legislative Fiscal Bureau
Legislative Human Resources Office
Legislative Reference Bureau
Legislative Technology Services Bureau
Menu
»
2025
»
Related Documents
»
Proposal Text
»
AB765: Bill Text
Up
Up
2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-5243/1
ZDW:cdc
2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 765
December 17, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives
Haywood
,
Palmeri
,
Miresse
,
Billings
,
Andraca
,
Anderson
,
Arney
,
Bare
,
Brown
,
Clancy
,
Cruz
,
DeSanto
,
DeSmidt
,
Emerson
,
Fitzgerald
,
Goodwin
,
Hong
,
Hysell
,
J. Jacobson
,
Joers
,
Johnson
,
Kaufert
,
Kirsch
,
Madison
,
Mayadev
,
McCarville
,
Moore Omokunde
,
Neubauer
,
Phelps
,
Prado
,
Rivera-Wagner
,
Roe
,
Sheehan
,
Sinicki
,
Snodgrass
,
Spaude
,
Stroud
,
Stubbs
,
Subeck
,
Taylor
,
Tenorio
,
Udell
and
Vining
, cosponsored by Senators
L. Johnson
,
Habush Sinykin
,
Carpenter
,
Dassler-Alfheim
,
Drake
,
Hesselbein
,
Keyeski
,
Larson
,
Pfaff
,
Ratcliff
,
Roys
,
Smith
,
Spreitzer
,
Wall
and
Wirch
. Referred to Committee on Energy and Utilities.
AB765,1,3
1
An Act
to amend
20.866 (2) (td);
to create
13.48 (26m) and 281.61 (8) (b) of the
2
statutes;
relating to:
bonding for lead service line replacement and granting
3
bonding authority.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the Department of Administration and the Department of Natural Resources 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.
Under current law, the state may contract up to $74,950,000 in public debt for the SDWLP. This bill increases the bonding authority for the program by $200,000,000 and requires DOA to allocate up to $200,000,000 of the authorized public debt to 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.
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:
AB765,1
1
Section
1
.
13.48 (26m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB765,2,7
2
13.48
(26m)
Lead service line replacement.
The legislature finds and
3
determines that the prevalence of lead service lines in connections to public water
4
systems poses a public health hazard and that processes for reducing lead entering
5
drinking water from such pipes requires additional treatment of wastewater. It is
6
therefore in the public interest, and it is the public policy of this state, to assist
7
private users of public water systems in replacing lead service lines.
AB765,2
8
Section
2
.
20.866 (2) (td) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB765,2,14
9
20.866
(2)
(td)
Safe drinking water loan program.
From the capital
10
improvement fund, a sum sufficient to be transferred to the environmental
11
improvement fund for the safe drinking water loan program under s. 281.61. The
12
state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed
$71,400,000 for this
13
purpose. The state may contract additional public debt in an amount up to
14
$3,550,000
$274,950,000
for this purpose.
AB765,3
15
Section
3
.
281.61 (8) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
AB765,2,19
16
281.61
(8)
(b) The department of administration shall allocate not more than
17
$200,000,000 from proceeds of public debt authorized under s. 20.866 (2) (td) to
18
projects involving forgivable loans to private users of public water systems to cover
19
not more than 50 percent of the cost to replace lead service lines.
AB765,2,20
20
(end)
Down
Down
/2025/related/proposals/ab765
true
proposaltext
/2025/related/proposals/ab765
proposaltext/2025/REG/AB765
proposaltext/2025/REG/AB765
section
true
Menu
»
2025
»
Related Documents
»
Proposal Text
»
AB765: Bill Text
×
Details for
PDF view
Link
(Permanent link)
Bookmark this location
View toggle
Go to top of document
Search in this chapter
Search in this section
Search in this agency
Search in this chapter group
Search in this chapter
Search in this section
Cross references for section
Acts affecting this section
References to this
1970 Statutes Annotations
Appellate Court Citations
Administrative Code Index
Reference lines
Clear highlighting