AB827: Bill Text

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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE

2015 Assembly BILL 827

January 29, 2016 - Introduced by Representative Krug, cosponsored by Senator Gudex. Referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities.

AB827,1,3 An Act to amend 20.445 (1) (ga); and to create 106.20 of the statutes; relating to: marketing of employment and training opportunities to former University of Wisconsin System students and making an appropriation.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to 1) prepare a packet of information describing the employment and training opportunities that are available to former students of the universities and two-year college campuses within the University of Wisconsin System who have not graduated from a university or college campus within the UW System and 2) within two months after the beginning of each semester or session of the UW System, send a copy of the packet to each individual who was enrolled in a university or college campus within the UW System in the preceding semester, but who is not enrolled in, and who has not graduated from, any university or college campus within the UW System.

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:

AB827,1 Section 1. 20.445 (1) (ga) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB827,2,4 20.445 (1) (ga) Auxiliary services. All moneys received from fees collected under ss. 102.16 (2m) (d), 103.005 (15) and, 106.09 (7), and 106.20 (3) for the delivery of services under ss. 102.16 (2m) (f), 103.005 (15) and , 106.09, and 106.20 (3) and ch. 108.

AB827,2 Section 2. 106.20 of the statutes is created to read:

AB827,2,19 106.20 Marketing of opportunities to former University of Wisconsin System students. (1) The department shall prepare a packet of information describing the employment and training opportunities that are available to former students of the institutions and college campuses within the University of Wisconsin System who have not graduated from an institution or college campus within that system and advising those former students how to obtain additional information about those opportunities. The packet may describe those opportunities on a regional or local basis, if the department has information about those opportunities that is specific to the regional or local areas of this state, and may include or reference materials about those opportunities that have been prepared by a technical college, by a private organization providing apprenticeship training, or by a private organization providing training in collaboration with a technical college. The department shall update the information contained in the packet before the beginning of each semester or session of the University of Wisconsin System.

AB827,3,2 (2) (a) Subject to par. (b), within 2 months after the beginning of each semester or session of the University of Wisconsin System, each institution or college campus within the University of Wisconsin System shall compile and transmit to the department a list of the names and addresses of all individuals who were enrolled in the institution or college campus in the preceding semester, but who are not enrolled in, and who have not graduated from, any institution or college campus within that system, and the department shall send a copy of the packet of information prepared under sub. (1) to each individual so listed.

AB827,3,7 (b) An institution or college campus within the University of Wisconsin System may not include in the list compiled under par. (a) the name and address of any individual who has informed the institution or college campus under 20 USC 1232g (5) (B) that directory information about the individual may not be released without the prior consent of the individual.

AB827,3,13 (3) The department shall fund the costs of printing and postage of the packet of information prepared under sub. (1) from the appropriation accounts under s. 20.445 (1) (a) and (ga). If the department includes in the packet of information prepared under sub. (1) materials that have been prepared by a private organization, the department may charge the private organization for the cost of printing, and the proportionate cost of posting, those materials.

AB827,3 Section 3. Initial applicability.

AB827,3,17 (1) Marketing of opportunities to former University of Wisconsin System students. This act first applies beginning with the first semester or session following the effective date of this subsection.

AB827,3,18 (End)