(f) The employment of a veteran under this program will may not be in a job while any other individual is on layoff from the same or substantially equivalent job or the opening for which that was created as a result of having terminated the employment of any regular employee or otherwise having reduced the work force with the intention of hiring a veteran under this program.
(g) The employer will may not employ in this program a veteran who is already qualified by training or experience for the job for which training is to be provided.
(h) The employer will shall consider the veteran’s prior applicable training in the field for which he or she is being trained and will and may shorten his or her the training program appropriately accordingly.
(i) Each participating veteran will shall be employed full-time in the program of job training.
(j) The training period under the proposed program is may not be longer or shorter than the training period that employers in the community customarily require new employees to complete in order to become competent in the occupation for which training is to be provided.
(k) There are in the The training establishment or place of employment has such shall have adequate space, equipment, instructional material, and instructor personnel as needed to accomplish the training objective.
(L) The employer will shall keep records adequate to show the progress made by each veteran participating in the program and otherwise to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of the program for at least 3 years. The employer will shall make these records and accounts available for examination by the department as may be required.
section 42.
VA 2.04 (title) is amended to read: VA 2.04 (title) Standard student budgets budget.
section 43.
VA 2.04 is renumbered VA 2.04 (1) and amended to read: (1) Standard Educational budget. A standard educational budget for a single and or married student educational budgets shall include standard living expenses budgets for single or married students, to which shall be added $117.00 per dependent other than spouse per month, and all actual expenses for tuition, course fees, and book and materials costs for the academic year.
(2) Standard living Standard living expenses. (a) Living expenses budgets shall be based upon 9 months living expenses of $7,355 for single veterans or upon 9 months living expenses of $11,289 for married veterans, per academic year.
(b) An amount determined under par. (d) shall be added to the budget per month per dependent not including the student’s spouse.
(c) Standard A budget for standard living expenses budgets and amounts plus the amount to be added to these budgets the budget for dependents shall be increased on July 1 of every year.
(d) by the amounts The amount to be added shall be computed on the basis of the percentage of the increase in the consumer price index for all urban consumers during the preceding calendar year rounded to the nearest dollar.
section 44.
VA 2.05 (2) is amended to read: VA 2.05 (2) Amount of recovery. The department may recover only the portion of the grant to which the applicant would not have been entitled if the correct information had been provided or the grant had been properly calculated, or as a change in circumstances warrants.
section 45.
VA 2.05 (3) is renumbered VA 2.05 (3) (a) and amended to read: VA 2.05 (3) Remedies. (a) The department may request repayment of the amount due under sub. (2).
(b) In lieu of a lump sum payment, the department may enter into an agreement under which the applicant may repay the amount due within a 12-month period.
(c) If the applicant fails to repay the amount due within 30 days of a request for repayment or fails to comply with the terms of a repayment agreement, the department may offset future grants that the applicant may be entitled to under s. 45.20 or 45.21, Stats., until the amount due has been recovered. (d) The department may also suspend other benefits available to the applicant until the amount due has been recovered, except that the department may not suspend benefits available under s. 45.40, Stats. section 46.
VA 2.06 is repealed. section 47.
VA 2.07 (3) (intro.) is amended to read: VA 2.07 (3) Definitions. (intro.) In this section the following terms shall have the designated meanings:
section 48.
VA 2.07 (3) (b) is repealed. section 49.
VA 2.07 (3) (c) is amended to read: VA 2.07 (3) (c) “Evaluation committee” means a committee established to evaluate applications made under this section that is comprised of members at least 1 member of the board of veterans affairs that evaluates applications made under this section and other individuals appointed by the department.
section 50.
VA 2.07 (3) (cm) is created to read: VA 2.07 (3) (cm) “Financially viable” means the ability of the nonprofit organization to meet its financial obligations as they become due for the duration of the grant period.
section 51.
VA 2.07 (3) (d) and (4) (d) are amended to read: VA 2.07 (3) (d) “Nonprofit organization” is means an organization described in section 501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code which that is exempt from federal income tax under s. section 501 (a) of the internal revenue code. (4) (d) It is in current good standing with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions department of financial institutions.
section 52.
VA 2.07 (5) (b) and (c) are renumbered VA 2.07 (5) (b) 1. and (c) 1. and amended to read: VA 2.07 (5) (b) Public notice. 1. The department shall provide reasonable public notice of all solicitations of grant proposals under s. 45.46, Stats. 2. Notice may be made through the print, broadcast, or telecommunications media, including the Internet, at the discretion of the department.
3. The notice shall include the purpose of the grant, the selection criteria, application procedures, and all applicable solicitation deadlines that an applicant is required to meet, or shall contain instructions for obtaining this information.
(c) Application requirements. 1. All applications for a grant under s. 45.46, Stats., shall be submitted to the department as directed in the notice provided under par. (b). 2. All applications shall be fully completed and signed by a representative of the applicant having authority to act for the applicant, and submitted by the required filing deadline.
