LRB-1503/P1
MCP:cdc
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hutter, BB0351 - Meat talent development grant program
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
agriculture
Meat processing tuition and curriculum development grants
This bill requires DATCP to provide grants to universities, colleges, and technical colleges to reimburse tuition costs of students enrolled in a meat processing program and for curriculum development of those meat processing programs. Each tuition reimbursement covers up to 80 percent of the tuition cost for enrolling in a meat processing program, limited to a maximum reimbursement of $7,500.
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. 20.115 (3) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
20.115 (3) (f) Meat processing tuition and curriculum development grants. The amounts in the schedule for providing meat processing tuition grants and curriculum development grants under s. 93.525.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 93.525 of the statutes is created to read:
93.525 Meat processing tuition and curriculum development grants. (1) From the appropriation under s. 20.115 (3) (f), the department shall provide grants to universities, colleges, and technical colleges located in this state that have programs in meat processing to reimburse tuition costs of students enrolled in a meat processing program and for curriculum development for the meat processing program.
(2) Each tuition reimbursement made with a grant received under this section shall reimburse a student for not more than 80 percent of the first $9,375 of the tuition cost for enrolling in a meat processing program.
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