LRB-1226/P3
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Sherwin, BB0225 - GPR TEACH Appropriation
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
State Government
General state government
TEACH program; general purpose revenue funding
Under current law, DOA administers the Technology for Educational Achievement program, known as TEACH. The TEACH program offers telecommunications access to school districts, private schools, cooperative educational service agencies, technical college districts, independent charter school authorizers, juvenile correctional facilities, private and tribal colleges, and public library boards at discounted rates. Currently, the TEACH program is funded from the universal service fund. This bill provides additional general purpose revenue for the TEACH program.
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
1. 20.505 (4) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
20.505 (4) (c) Telecommunications access for educational agencies. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule to make payments to telecommunications providers under contracts under s. 16.971 (13), (14), and (15) to the extent that the amounts due are not paid from the appropriation under sub. (1) (is), and to make payments to telecommunications providers under contracts under s. 16.971 (16) to the extent that the amounts due are not paid from the appropriation under sub. (1) (kL).
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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