LRB-1437/P5
KRP:emw
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kirschbaum, BB0253 - Allocate Fast Forward dollars for grants to create mobile classrooms for job skills training
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
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This bill allows DWD, as part of its workforce training program, commonly referred to as the Fast Forward Program, to allocate up to $1,000,000 to fund grants for the creation and operation of mobile classrooms to provide job skills training to individuals in underserved areas of this state, including inmates at correctional facilities who are preparing for reentry into the workforce. The grant money may be used to purchase capital equipment, such as a mobile or modular unit, that will be used as a mobile classroom and any furniture, equipment, and supplies necessary or desirable for outfitting the mobile classroom. The bill also allows DWD to allocate up to $50,000 in each fiscal year to fund the upkeep and maintenance of those mobile classrooms.
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. 106.27 (1j) of the statutes is created to read:
106.27 (1j) Workforce training program; mobile classrooms. (a) Of the amounts appropriated under s. 20.445 (1) (b), the department may allocate all of the following amounts:
1. Up to $1,000,000 for grants to fund the creation and operation of mobile classrooms.
2. Up to $50,000 in each fiscal year for grants to fund the upkeep and maintenance of the mobile classrooms described under subd. 1.
(b) The mobile classrooms described under par. (a) 1. shall be used to provide job skills training to individuals in underserved areas of this state, including inmates at correctional facilities who are preparing for reentry into the workforce.
(c) Grant money awarded under par. (a) 1. may be used by the grant recipient to purchase capital equipment, such as a mobile or modular unit, that will be used as a mobile classroom, including costs to modify the equipment to make it suitable for classroom instruction, and to purchase and install any furniture, equipment, and supplies necessary or desirable for outfitting the mobile classroom for the job skills training that will be provided in the mobile classroom.
Section
2. 106.27 (2g) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
106.27 (2g) (a) 2. Receive and review applications for grants under subs. (1) and, (1g), and (1j) and prescribe the form, nature, and extent of the information that must be contained in an application for a grant under sub. (1) or, (1g), or (1j).
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