SB45: Bill Text

SB45, s. 2012 Section 2012. 106.12 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,972,14 106.12 (title) Division of connecting education and work Governor's work-based learning board.

SB45, s. 2013 Section 2013. 106.12 of the statutes is renumbered 106.12 (2) and amended to read:

SB45,973,4 106.12 (2) Employment and education program administration. Based on the recommendations of the governor's council on workforce excellence, the division of connecting education and work The board shall plan, coordinate, administer and implement the department's workforce excellence initiatives, programs, policies and funding, the youth apprenticeship and, school-to-work, technical college study grant and work-based learning programs under s. 106.13 (1) and such other employment and education programs as the governor may by executive order assign to the division board. Notwithstanding any limitations placed on the use of state employment and education funds under this section or s. 106.13, or 106.14, 106.15, 106.20 or 106.21 or under an executive order assigning an employment and education program to the division board, the secretary board may issue a general or special order waiving any of those limitations on finding that the waiver will promote the coordination of employment and education services.

SB45, s. 2014 Section 2014. 106.12 (1) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,973,7 106.12 (1) Definition. In this section and ss. 106.13 and 106.14, "board" means the governor's work-based learning board.

SB45, s. 2015 Section 2015. 106.12 (3) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,973,12 106.12 (3) Executive director. The governor shall appoint an executive director of the board outside the classified service to serve at the pleasure of the governor. The executive director shall be in charge of the board's administrative functions.

SB45, s. 2016 Section 2016. 106.13 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,973,15 106.13 (title) Youth apprenticeship and, school-to-work technical college study grant and work-based learning programs.

SB45, s. 2017 Section 2017. 106.13 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,973,23 106.13 (1) The department board shall provide a youth apprenticeship program and that includes the grant programs under subs. (3m) and (4), a school-to-work program in accordance with 20 USC 6101 to 6251, that includes the school-to-work program for children at risk under sub. (4m), a technical college study grant program as described in sub. (4g) and, for youths who are eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families under 42 USC 601 to 619, a work-based learning program.

SB45, s. 2018 Section 2018. 106.13 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,974,5 106.13 (2) The governor's council on workforce excellence, the technical college system board and the department of public instruction shall assist the department of workforce development board in providing the youth apprenticeship program and, the school-to-work program, the technical college study grant program and the work-based learning program under sub. (1).

SB45, s. 2019 Section 2019. 106.13 (2m) of the statutes is renumbered 106.13 (2m) (a) and amended to read:

SB45,974,13 106.13 (2m) (a) After reviewing the recommendations of the governor's council on workforce excellence under s. 106.115 (2) (e), the department The board shall approve occupations, and maintain a list of approved occupations, for the youth apprenticeship program, shall approve the curricula developed under par. (b) for youth apprenticeship programs for those approved occupations and shall approve statewide skill standards for the school-to-work program.

SB45,974,19 (b) From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (ev) 20.292 (1) (m), the department shall technical college system board shall expend not more than $125,000 in each fiscal year to develop curricula for youth apprenticeship programs for occupations approved under this subsection par. (a). In developing that curricula, the technical college system board shall consult with the governor's work-based learning board.

SB45, s. 2020 Section 2020. 106.13 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,974,25 106.13 (3m) (a) In this subsection, "local partnership" means one or more school districts, or any combination of one or more school districts, other public agencies, as defined in sub. (4) (a) 2., nonprofit organizations, as defined in sub. (4) (a) 1., individuals or other persons, who have agreed to be responsible for implementing and coordinating a local youth apprenticeship program.

SB45,975,10 (b) From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (7) (b), the board shall award grants to applying local partnerships for the implementation and coordination of local youth apprenticeship programs. A local partnership shall include in its grant application the identity of each public agency, nonprofit organization, individual and other person who is a participant in the local partnership, a plan to accomplish the implementation and coordination activities specified in subds. 1. to 6. and the identity of a fiscal agent who shall be responsible for receiving, managing and accounting for the grant moneys received under this paragraph. A local partnership that is awarded a grant under this paragraph may use the grant moneys awarded for any of the following implementation and coordination activities:

SB45,975,12 1. Recruiting employers to provide on-the-job training and supervision for youth apprentices and providing technical assistance to those employers.

SB45,975,14 2. Recruiting students to participate in the local youth apprenticeship program and monitoring the progress of youth apprentices participating in the program.

SB45,975,17 3. Coordinating youth apprenticeship training activities within participating school districts and among participating school districts, postsecondary institutions and employers.

SB45,975,20 4. Coordinating academic, vocational and occupational learning, school-based and work-based learning and secondary and postsecondary education for participants in the local youth apprenticeship program.

SB45,975,22 5. Assisting employers in identifying and training workplace mentors and matching youth apprentices and mentors.

SB45,975,24 6. Any other implementation or coordination activity that the board may direct or permit the local partnership to perform.

SB45, s. 2021 Section 2021. 106.13 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,976,12 106.13 (4) (b) From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (7) (em), the department board may award a grant to a public agency or a nonprofit organization, or to an employer that is responsible for the on-the-job training and supervision of a youth apprentice. A public agency or non-profit organization that receives a grant under this subsection shall use the funds awarded under the grant to award training grants to employers that provide on-the-job training and supervision for youth apprentices. Subject to par. (c), a training grant provided under this subsection may be awarded to an employer for each youth apprentice who receives at least 180 hours of paid on-the-job training from the employer during a school year, as defined in s. 115.001 (13). The amount of a training grant may not exceed $500 per youth apprentice per school year. A training grant may not be awarded for any specific youth apprentice for more than 2 school years.

SB45, s. 2022 Section 2022. 106.13 (4) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,976,19 106.13 (4) (c) Notwithstanding par. (b), the department board may award a training grant under this subsection to an employer that provides less than 180 hours of paid on-the-job training for a youth apprentice during a school year, as defined in s. 115.001 (13), if the department board determines that it would be beneficial for the youth apprentice to receive on-the-job training from more than one employer.

SB45, s. 2023 Section 2023. 106.13 (4g) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,976,24 106.13 (4g) (a) From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (7) (c), the board may award study grants to high school graduates who meet or exceed a grade point average determined by the board and who enroll full-time in a technical college district school under ch. 38 within one year after graduation from high school.

SB45,977,4 (b) The board shall establish requirements, including a minimum grade point average requirement, that a student must meet to be eligible to receive a study grant under par. (a). Notwithstanding sub. (5), those requirements need not be promulgated as rules.

SB45, s. 2024 Section 2024. 106.13 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,977,7 106.13 (5) The department board shall promulgate rules to administer this section.

SB45, s. 2025 Section 2025. 106.14 (1) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, section 2679, is amended to read:

SB45,977,12 106.14 (1) The department From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (7) (g), the board may award grants to nonprofit corporations and public agencies for the provision of career counseling centers throughout the state.

SB45, s. 2026 Section 2026. 106.14 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,977,17 106.14 (3) Any nonprofit corporation or public agency may apply for a grant to operate a career counseling center under this section. The department board shall review the applications submitted under this subsection according to procedures and criteria established by the department board.

SB45, s. 2027 Section 2027. 106.14 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,977,24 106.14 (4) Amounts awarded under sub. (3) may be paid in instalments and shall range from 25% to 75% of the total cost of operating the career counseling center, except that after 3 years of receiving grant funds under this section a grant recipient may receive no more than 50% of the total cost of operating the career counseling center. The department board shall require the grant recipient to provide the remaining percentage share of the total project cost.

SB45, s. 2028 Section 2028. 106.18 of the statutes is repealed.

SB45, s. 2029 Section 2029. 106.215 (10) (g) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,978,11 106.215 (10) (g) 1. A person who is employed as a corps enrollee for a 6-month to one-year period of continuous employment, as determined by standards adopted by the board, and who receives a satisfactory employment evaluation upon termination of employment is entitled to an incentive payment of $500 prorated in the same proportion as the number of hours of employment completed by that person bears to 2,080 hours or an education voucher that is worth at least double the monetary value of the prorated incentive payment, but not more than $2,600 $2,800 prorated in the same proportion as the number of hours of employment completed by that person bears to 2,080 hours. No corps enrollee may receive more than 2 incentive payments or 4 education vouchers.

SB45, s. 2030 Section 2030. 108.20 (2m) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 39, section 146, is amended to read:

SB45,979,6 108.20 (2m) From the moneys not appropriated under s. 20.445 (1) (ge), (gf) and (gg) which are received by the administrative account as interest and penalties under this chapter, the department shall pay the benefits chargeable to the administrative account under s. 108.07 (5) and the interest payable to employers under s. 108.17 (3m) and may pay interest due on advances to the unemployment reserve fund from the federal unemployment account under title XII of the social security act, 42 USC 1321 to 1324, may make payments to satisfy a federal audit exception concerning a payment from the fund or any federal aid disallowance involving the unemployment insurance program, or may make payments to the fund if such action is necessary to obtain a lower interest rate or deferral of interest payments on advances from the federal unemployment account under title XII of the social security act or may transfer moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.445 (1) (gd) to the appropriation under s. 20.445 (7) (k) for the payment of career counseling center grants under s. 106.14, except that any interest earned pending disbursement of federal employment security grants under s. 20.445 (1) (n) shall be credited to the general fund. Any moneys reverting to the administrative account from the appropriations under s. 20.445 (1) (ge) and (gf) shall be utilized as provided in this subsection.

SB45, s. 2031 Section 2031. 110.07 (1) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,979,15 110.07 (1) (a) (intro.) The secretary shall employ not to exceed 385 more than 400 traffic officers. Such The state traffic patrol consists of the traffic officers, in addition to the person designated to head them whose position shall be in the classified service, shall constitute the and, if certified under s. 165.85 (4) (b) 1. as qualified to be a law enforcement officer, the division administrator who is counted under s. 230.08 (2) (e) 12. and whose duties include supervising the state traffic patrol. The division administrator may not be counted under this paragraph. Members of the state traffic patrol, and shall:

SB45, s. 2032 Section 2032. 110.07 (6) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,979,20 110.07 (6) The division administrator who is counted under s. 230.08 (2) (e) 12. and whose duties include supervising the state traffic patrol shall be designated superintendent of the state traffic patrol, if he or she is certified under s. 165.85 (4) (b) 1. as qualified to be a law enforcement officer.

SB45, s. 2033 Section 2033. 111.09 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,980,7 111.09 (2m) The commission shall assess and collect a fee from any party who requests that the commission assemble a panel of individuals who are not members or employes of the commission to act as an arbitrator to resolve a dispute involving the interpretation or application of a collective bargaining agreement under s. 111.10. Any fee assessed and collected under this subsection shall be in addition to any fee assessed and collected under sub. (2). The commission shall promulgate rules establishing a schedule of fees to be paid under this subsection. Fees required to be paid under this subsection shall be paid at the time of filing the request and any such request may not be considered filed until the date that the fee is paid. Fees collected under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.425 (1) (h).

SB45, s. 2034 Section 2034. 111.70 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,980,13 111.70 (1) (j) "Municipal employer" means any city, county, village, town, metropolitan sewerage district, school district, family care district or any other political subdivision of the state which that engages the services of an employe and includes any person acting on behalf of a municipal employer within the scope of the person's authority, express or implied.

SB45, s. 2035 Section 2035. 111.70 (4) (m) (title), 1., 2. and 4. of the statutes are amended to read:

SB45,980,16 111.70 (4) (m) (title) Prohibited subjects of bargaining; school districts.

SB45,980,23 1. Reassignment of municipal employes who perform services for a board of school directors under ch. 119, with or without regard to seniority, as a result of a decision of the board of school directors municipal employer to contract with an individual or group a person to operate a school as a charter school, as defined in s. 115.001 (1), or to convert a school to a charter school, or the impact of any such reassignment on the wages, hours or conditions of employment of the municipal employes who perform those services.

SB45,981,3 2. Reassignment of municipal employes who perform services for a board of school directors, with or without regard to seniority, as a result of the decision of the board municipal employer to close or reopen a school under s. 119.18 (23) 118.36, or the impact of any such reassignment on the wages, hours or conditions of employment of the municipal employes who perform those services.

SB45,981,7 4. Any decision of a board of school directors municipal employer to contract with a school or agency to provide educational programs under s. 119.235 118.37, or the impact of any such decision on the wages, hours or conditions of employment of the municipal employes who perform services for the board municipal employer.

SB45, s. 2036 Section 2036. 111.71 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,981,19 111.71 (2m) The commission shall assess and collect a fee from any party who requests that the commission assemble a panel of individuals who are not members or employes of the commission to act as an arbitrator to resolve a dispute involving the interpretation or application of a collective bargaining agreement under s. 111.70 (4) (c) 2. or (cm) 4. Any fee assessed and collected under this subsection shall be in addition to any fee assessed and collected under sub. (2). The commission shall promulgate rules establishing a schedule of fees to be paid under this subsection. Fees required to be paid under this subsection shall be paid at the time of filing the request and any such request may not be considered filed until the date that the fee is paid. Fees collected under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.425 (1) (h).

SB45, s. 2037 Section 2037. 111.91 (2) (r) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,981,22 111.91 (2) (r) The requirements related to offering point-of-service coverage under s. 609.23.

SB45, s. 2038 Section 2038. 111.94 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,982,9 111.94 (2m) The commission shall assess and collect a fee from any party who requests that the commission assemble a panel of individuals who are not members or employes of the commission to act as an arbitrator to resolve a dispute involving the interpretation or application of a collective bargaining agreement under s. 111.86. Any fee assessed and collected under this subsection shall be in addition to any fee assessed and collected under sub. (2). The commission shall promulgate rules establishing a schedule of fees to be paid under this subsection. Fees required to be paid under this subsection shall be paid at the time of filing the request and any such request may not be considered filed until the date that the fee is paid. Fees collected under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.425 (1) (h).

SB45, s. 2039 Section 2039. 114.20 (11) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,982,16 114.20 (11) Issuance of certificate of registration; display of certificate; refunds. Upon payment of a registration fee or transfer of registration fee, the department shall issue evidence of registration which shall be displayed at all times in the manner prescribed by the department. A refund may be made for aircraft registration fees paid in error as determined by the department. Refunds under this section shall be paid out of the appropriation under s. 20.395 ( 4) (aq).

SB45, s. 2040 Section 2040. 115.28 (24) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,982,24 115.28 (24) Priority in awarding grants. Give priority in awarding grants to local community organizations under sub. (21) and to school boards under ss. 115.36 and 115.362 115.361, and in awarding grants from federal funds received under 20 USC 2301 to 2471, 20 USC 4601 to 4665 and 29 USC 1602 (b) (1), to programs that provide more than one of the educational services specified under sub. (21), s. 115.36, 115.362 115.361, 115.915, 118.01 (2) (d) 7. or 8. or 118.153 or 20 USC 2301 to 2471, 20 USC 4601 to 4665 or 29 USC 1602 (b) (1).

SB45, s. 2041 Section 2041. 115.28 (25) of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,983,3 115.28 (25) School technology resource grants. Consult with the technology for educational achievement in Wisconsin board before awarding school technology resource grants under 20 USC 6842.

SB45, s. 2042 Section 2042. 115.28 (39) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,983,10 115.28 (39) Alcohol and other drug abuse report. By July 1, 1998, and biennially by July 1 thereafter, evaluate the effectiveness of the programs under ss. 115.36, and 115.361 and 115.362 and submit a report to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2). To satisfy this reporting requirement as it pertains to s. 115.361, the department may incorporate into the report under this subsection the report required under s. 115.361 (7) (c) (2).

SB45, s. 2043 Section 2043. 115.355 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,983,16 115.355 Assistance to schools for instruction on adoption. The department shall annually and upon request disseminate to appropriate public school staff information about materials and services available through the state adoption center under s. 48.551 48.55 which may serve as resources for instruction on adoption for pupils in grades kindergarten through 12.

SB45, s. 2044 Section 2044. 115.36 (3) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,983,21 115.36 (3) (a) (intro.) The department shall, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (g) (kd), fund school district projects designed to assist minors experiencing problems resulting from the use of alcohol or other drugs or to prevent alcohol or other drug abuse by minors. The department shall:

SB45, s. 2045 Section 2045. 115.361 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:

SB45,984,2 115.361 Alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and intervention programs. (1) A school board may apply to the department for a grant to fund an alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and intervention program. The department shall pay grants awarded under this section from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (dm) and shall promulgate rules to implement and administer this section.

SB45,984,6 (2) The department shall collect and analyze information about the programs funded under this section, evaluate their effectiveness and submit a report of the evaluation to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) and to the governor by July 1, 2000, and biennially by July 1 thereafter.

SB45, s. 2046 Section 2046. 115.3615 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB45,984,20 115.3615 Head start supplement. From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (eh) (kh), the state superintendent shall distribute funds to agencies determined by the state superintendent to be eligible for designation as head start agencies under 42 USC 9836 to provide comprehensive health, educational, nutritional, social and other services to economically disadvantaged children and their families. The state superintendent shall distribute the funds in a manner consistent with 42 USC 9831 to 9852 except that there is no matching fund requirement. The state superintendent shall give preference in funding under this section to an agency that is agencies that are receiving federal funds under 42 USC 9831 to 9852 and to agencies that operate full-time or early head start programs. Funds distributed under this section may be used to match available federal funds under 42 USC 9831 to 9852 only if the funds are used to secure additional federal funds for the purposes under this section.

SB45, s. 2047 Section 2047. 115.362 of the statutes is repealed.

SB45, s. 2048 Section 2048. 115.363 of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,984,25 115.363 Smoking prevention programs. (1) The department shall award grants to school districts for smoking prevention programs in grades kindergarten to 8.

SB45,985,2 (2) The department shall award grants under this section from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (c). No grant may exceed $10,000.

SB45,985,4 (3) The department shall promulgate rules to implement and administer this section.

SB45, s. 2049 Section 2049. 115.406 of the statutes is created to read:

SB45,985,9 115.406 Grant program for staff development. (1) From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (fL), the state superintendent shall award grants for staff development to school districts, cooperative educational service agencies and other persons.