Amendment SA3-AB183

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

SENATE AMENDMENT 3, To 1995 ASSEMBLY BILL 183

March 27, 1996 - Offered by Senators Farrow, Drzewiecki, Welch, Zien, Fitzgerald, Buettner, Petak, Rosenzweig, Schultz, Rude, Weeden, Darling and Panzer.

AB183-SA3,1,2 At the locations indicated, amend the bill, as shown by assembly substitute amendment 1, as follows:

AB183-SA3,1,4 1. Page 1, line 2: delete "System" and substitute "and technical college systems".

AB183-SA3,1,6 2. Page 1, line 11: decrease the dollar amount for fiscal year 1996-97 by $15,000 to decrease funding for the purpose for which the appropriation is made.

AB183-SA3,1,7 3. Page 1, line 11: after that line insert: - See PDF for table

AB183-SA3,1,8 4. Page 1, line 14: after that line insert:

AB183-SA3,1,9 " Section 2m. 20.292 (1) (am) of the statutes is created to read:

AB183-SA3,1,11 20.292 (1) (am) Fee remissions. The amounts in the schedule for the fee remissions under s. 38.24 (5).".

AB183-SA3,1,12 5. Page 2, line 20: after that line insert:

AB183-SA3,2,1 " Section 1m. 38.24 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

AB183-SA3,2,2 38.24 (5) Fee remissions. (a) In this subsection:

AB183-SA3,2,6 1. "Fire fighter" means any person employed by this state or any political subdivision of this state as a member or officer of a fire department whose duties include fire fighting or fire fighting training or a member of a volunteer fire department whose duties include fire fighting or fire fighting training.

AB183-SA3,2,7 2. "Law enforcement officer" has the meaning given in s. 165.85 (2) (c).

AB183-SA3,2,13 (b) The district board shall grant full remission of fees under sub. (1m) (a) and (b) to any resident student who is enrolled in a program leading to an associate of arts degree, a collegiate transfer program or a vocational diploma program and who is the child of a fire fighter or law enforcement officer who was killed in the line of duty in this state. The student must be the child of a fire fighter or law enforcement officer who was so killed when the child was under the age of 21 or before the child was born.

AB183-SA3,2,18 (c) The fee remission under par. (b) shall remain in effect until completion of a sufficient number of credits to complete the program in which the student is enrolled, except that a student must be in good academic standing to receive the remission for the next semester and may not receive a remission for more than 3 consecutive years.

AB183-SA3,2,21 (d) If the appropriation under s. 20.292 (1) (am) in any fiscal year is insufficient to fully fund the fee remissions under par. (b), the district board shall notify the joint committee on finance.".

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