LRB-0978/P2
MDK:jld
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kirschbaum, BB0017 - WTCS program and material fee freeze
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Higher education
In academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19, the bill prohibits technical college district boards from charging fees to resident students for liberal arts, collegiate transfer, postsecondary, or vocational-adult programs that exceed the fees charged in the 2016-17 academic year. In those same academic years, the bill also prohibits the boards from charging materials fees to any student that exceed the fees charged in the 2016-17 academic year.
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:
Section 9143.
Nonstatutory provisions; Technical College System.
(1) Fees.
(a) Resident students. Notwithstanding section 38.24 (1m) (a) and (b) of the statutes, in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years, no technical college district board may charge a fee to a resident student under section 38.24 (1m) (a) or (b) of the statutes that exceeds the amount of the fees charged in the 2016-17 academic year.
(b) Materials. Notwithstanding section 38.24 (1m) (c) of the statutes, in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years, no technical college district board may charge a fee to any student under section 38.24 (1m) (c) of the statutes that exceeds the amount of the fee charged in the 2016-17 academic year.
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