SB56 • 2025

the use of federal capitalization grant funds for lead service line replacement

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This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Senators Quinn and Tomczyk, cosponsored by Representatives Green, Armstrong, Behnke, Mursau, O'Connor, Tucker and Tusler
Last action: 2025-07-02
Official status: S - Enacted into law
Effective date: Not listed

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the use of federal capitalization grant funds for lead service line replacement

the use of federal capitalization grant funds for lead service line replacement Status: S - Enacted into law

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the use of federal capitalization grant funds for lead service line replacement Status: S - Enacted into law

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Bill History

2025-07-02 Sen.
Report approved by the Governor on 7-1-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 8
2025-07-02 Sen.
Published 7-2-2025
2025-06-25 Sen.
Report correctly enrolled
2025-06-25 Sen.
Presented to the Governor on 6-25-2025 by directive of the Majority Leader
2025-06-24 Asm.
Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up
2025-06-24 Asm.
Read a second time
2025-06-24 Asm.
Ordered to a third reading
2025-06-24 Asm.
Rules suspended
2025-06-24 Asm.
Read a third time and concurred in
2025-06-24 Asm.
Ordered immediately messaged
2025-06-24 Sen.
Received from Assembly concurred in
2025-06-20 Asm.
Withdrawn from Committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 6-24-2025
2025-05-27 Asm.
Read first time and referred to committee on Rules
2025-05-16 Asm.
Fiscal estimate received
2025-05-15 Sen.
Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senators Ratcliff , Carpenter , Dassler-Alfheim , Drake , Habush Sinykin , Hesselbein , L. Johnson , Keyeski , Larson , Roys , Smith , Spreitzer , Wall and Wirch
2025-05-15 Sen.
Senate Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Senators Larson , Carpenter and Spreitzer
2025-05-15 Sen.
Read a second time
2025-05-15 Sen.
Senate Substitute Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 15
2025-05-15 Sen.
Point of order that Senate Substitute Amendment 2 was not germane well taken
2025-05-15 Sen.
Decision of the Chair stands as the judgment of the Senate, Ayes 18, Noes 15
2025-05-15 Sen.
Ordered to a third reading
2025-05-15 Sen.
Rules suspended to give bill its third reading
2025-05-15 Sen.
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 17, Noes 16
2025-05-15 Sen.
Ordered immediately messaged
2025-05-15 Asm.
Received from Senate
2025-05-13 Sen.
Placed on calendar 5-15-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)
2025-05-06 Sen.
Executive action taken
2025-05-06 Sen.
Report passage recommended by Committee on Utilities and Tourism , Ayes 3, Noes 2
2025-05-06 Sen.
Available for scheduling
2025-04-30 Sen.
Public hearing held
2025-03-17 Sen.
Fiscal estimate received
2025-02-21 Sen.
Introduced by Senators Quinn and Tomczyk ; cosponsored by Representatives Green , Armstrong , Behnke , Mursau , O'Connor , Tucker and Tusler
2025-02-21 Sen.
Read first time and referred to Committee on Utilities and Tourism

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the use of federal capitalization grant funds for lead service line replacement
Status: S - Enacted into law

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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 56
February 21, 2025 - Introduced by Senators
Quinn
and
Tomczyk
, cosponsored by Representatives
Green
,
Armstrong
,
Behnke
,
Mursau
,
O'Connor
,
Tucker
and
Tusler
. Referred to Committee on Utilities and Tourism.
SB56,1,2
1
An Act

to amend
281.61 (2r) (e) of the statutes;
relating to:
the use of federal
2
capitalization grant funds for lead service line replacement.
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.
Current law specifies several allowable methods of providing financial assistance under the SDWLP, one of which is using funds received as federal capitalization grants. There is, however, a prohibition on using those funds to provide principal forgiveness to a private owner of a community water system. This bill provides that this prohibition does not apply to the use of federal capitalization grants for forgiveness of loans for the replacement of 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:
SB56,1
1
Section

1
.
281.61 (2r) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB56,2,8
2
281.61
(2r)
(e) Using funds received as federal capitalization grants under
42
3
USC 300j-12
, any other method that is consistent with the federal program for safe
4
drinking water state loan funds under
42 USC 300j-12
or any other federal law
5
providing funding for or otherwise relating to that program, except that funds
6
received as federal capitalization grants may not be used to provide principal
7
forgiveness
, other than forgiveness of loans for the replacement of lead service lines,

8
to a private owner of a community water system.
SB56,2,9
9
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