LRB-1192/P2
TKK:jld:ph
2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hanle, BB0256 - Reading initiative
For 2011-13 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
This bill creates an appropriation to fund the work of a task force to be created by the governor to assess and improve literacy in elementary school children.
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:
Section 1. 20.505 (4) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
20.505 (4) (c) Literacy initiative. The amounts in the schedule for the costs to develop and implement a program to assess and improve literacy in elementary school children under 2011 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 9101 (1).
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 9101. Nonstatutory provisions; Administration.
(1) Literacy initiative; governor's task force. A task force created by the governor by executive order and charged with developing detailed recommendations for a program to assess and improve literacy in elementary school children may request the department of administration to release funding from the department's appropriation account under section 20.505 (4) (c) of the statutes, as created by this act, for use by the department to implement the recommendations of the task force after the governor has approved the detailed recommendations proposed by the task force.
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