LRB-1363/1
RCT:kjf:ph
2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Steinmetz, BB0332 - Eliminate the buy local program
For 2011-13 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Agriculture
Current law requires DATCP to increase awareness and consumption of locally produced foods and to increase the production and improve the distribution of foods for local consumption. DATCP also administers the Buy Local Grant Program, which provides funds for projects designed to increase the local sale of food grown in this state.
This bill eliminates the provisions concerning the promotion of locally produced foods.
For further information see the state 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:
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1. 20.115 (4) (am) of the statutes is repealed.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 93.45 of the statutes is repealed.
Section
3. 93.48 of the statutes is repealed.
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