LRB-1881/P2
MIM:wlj&klm
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Sherwin, BB0580 - Equity Grant Consolidation
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
state government
General state government
Equity grant program and diversity, equity, and inclusion
This bill requires DOA to provide grants to public, private, and nonprofit entities in this state that promote diversity and advance equity and inclusion. The bill also makes a new appropriation to DOA to administer the equity grant program and for diversity, equity, and inclusion activities overseen by DOA.
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. 16.281 of the statutes is created to read:
16.281 Equity grant program. The department shall develop and administer a program to provide grants to public, private, and nonprofit entities in this state that promote diversity and advance equity and inclusion.
Section
2. 20.505 (1) (ft) of the statutes is created to read:
20.505 (1) (ft) Equity grant program and diversity, equity, and inclusion activities. The amounts in the schedule for the equity grant program administered by the department of administration under s. 16.281 and diversity, equity, and inclusion activities overseen by the department of administration, as determined by the secretary of administration.
****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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