LRB-1679/P2
FFK:amn&skw
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hynek, BB0460 - Reach out and read Appropriation
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Primary and secondary education
Reach Out and Read Wisconsin
This bill requires the state superintendent of public instruction to annually distribute an amount appropriated to DPI to Reach Out and Read, Inc., for the early literacy program operated by its affiliate Reach Out and Read Wisconsin. The mission of Reach Out and Read, Inc., is to give young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together.
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. 20.255 (3) (ft) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (3) (ft) Reach Out and Read. The amounts in the schedule for payments to Reach Out and Read, Inc., under s. 115.28 (70).
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 115.28 (70) of the statutes is created to read:
115.28 (70) Reach Out and Read. Annually distribute the amounts appropriated under s. 20.255 (3) (ft) to Reach Out and Read, Inc., a Massachusetts nonstock corporation, for the early literacy program operated in this state by its affiliate, known as Reach Out and Read Wisconsin.
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