LRB-1251/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kirschbaum, BB0247 - Youth Services
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
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Grants to local workforce development boards
This bill creates a grant program administered by DWD to provide grants to local workforce development boards for youth services and training. Under the program, DWD must provide grants for tutoring, mentoring, supportive services, paid and unpaid work experiences, preapprenticeship programs, internships, on-the-job training, occupational skills training, leadership development opportunities, counseling, financial literacy education, entrepreneurial skills training, and education regarding labor market information, employment information, and postsecondary education and training preparation.
The bill also creates a new continuing GPR appropriation to DWD for the purpose of providing grants under the local workforce development board youth services and training grant program.
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. 20.445 (1) (bj) of the statutes is created to read:
20.445 (1) (bj) Local workforce development boards; grants for youth services and training. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for grants to local workforce development boards under s. 106.112.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 106.112 of the statutes is created to read:
106.112 Local workforce development boards youth service and training grants. (1) Youth service grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (bj), the department shall award grants to local workforce development boards established under
29 USC 3122 for youth services and training in school and outside school settings. Grants awarded under this section may be used for any of the following purposes:
(a) Tutoring, paid and unpaid work experiences, preapprenticeship programs, and internships.
(b) On-the-job training, occupational skills training, and education offered concurrently with workforce preparation and training.
(c) Leadership development opportunities, supportive services, mentoring, follow-up services, and counseling.
(d) Financial literacy education and entrepreneurial skills training.
(e) Education related to labor market information and employment information, and postsecondary education and training preparation.
(2) Implementation. To implement this section, the department shall do all of the following:
(a) Promulgate rules prescribing procedures and criteria for awarding grants under sub. (1) and the information with respect to those grants that must be contained in the reports required under sub. (3).
(b) Receive and review applications for grants under sub. (1) (a) to (e) and prescribe the form, nature, and extent of the information that must be contained in an application for such a grant.
(c) Require annual reports from local workforce development boards that receive grants that describe how the board expended the grant moneys and the outcomes the board achieved, including the number of youth who participated in the programs and services funded in part or wholly by the grant moneys.
(3) Annual report. Annually, by December 31, the department shall submit a report to the governor and the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance providing an account of the department's activities and expenditures under this section during the preceding fiscal year and detailing the amounts expended for each of the grants provided under sub. (2) during that fiscal year.
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