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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE
March 6, 1996 - Introduced by Representatives Ourada, Duff, Baumgart, Powers,
Musser, Ziegelbauer, Olsen, Seratti, Goetsch, Ainsworth and Lorge,
cosponsored by Senators Buettner and Breske. Referred to Committee on
Labor and Employment.
AB986,1,4
1An Act to amend 20.143 (1) (c), 20.445 (1) (bc), 20.445 (1) (jm), 106.15 (3) (intro.),
2106.15 (4) (intro.), 106.15 (5) (intro.) and 106.15 (7) (title); and
to create 106.15
3(5m) of the statutes;
relating to: assistance for dislocated workers, granting
4rule-making authority and making appropriations.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the department of industry, labor and human relations
(DILHR), to be renamed the department of industry, labor and job development
(DILJD) effective on July 1, 1996, provides grants from federal funds received under
the federal job training partnership act (JTPA) and from state general purpose
revenue (GPR) and program revenue (PR) funds, to persons providing training
programs and related employment services to dislocated workers, that is, workers
who have been terminated or laid off from employment and who are unlikely to
return to their previous occupation or industry, workers who have been terminated
from employment as a result of a business closing or mass layoff, workers who have
been unemployed long-term and who have limited opportunity for reemployment
and self-employed individuals such as farmers who are unemployed as a result of
general economic conditions or natural disaster.
Currently no GPR funds are provided in the 1995-97 state fiscal biennium for
grants by DILHR or DILJD to assist dislocated workers. Instead, the department
of development (DOD) is authorized to provide funding before July 1, 1996, from the
Wisconsin development fund to the private industry council (PIC) serving
Milwaukee County to fund a job training and employment services program for
employes of the Briggs and Stratton Corporation who were laid off from that
corporation's facility in Wauwatosa and to the PIC serving Grant County to fund a
job training and employment services program for employes of FDL Foods, Inc., who
are Wisconsin residents and who were laid off from that corporation's facility in
Dubuque, Iowa.
This bill eliminates the authority of DOD to provide moneys from the Wisconsin
development fund to assist dislocated workers and instead provides $100,000 in
fiscal year 1996-97 for DILJD to provide grants to assist dislocated workers if all of
the following conditions apply:
1. The person applying for the grant is eligible to receive funding to assist
dislocated workers under the federal JTPA, but no funding is available under the
federal JTPA or any other federal or state job training program to fund the training
and related employment services provided for dislocated workers by that person.
2. The person applying for the grant submits a plan to DILJD detailing the
proposed use of the grant proceeds and the secretary of industry, labor and job
development approves that plan.
3. The person applying for the grant enters into a written agreement with
DILJD that specifies the conditions for use of the grant proceeds, including reporting
and auditing requirements.
4. The person applying for the grant agrees in writing to submit to DILJD,
within 6 months after expending the full amount of the grant, a report detailing how
the grant proceeds were used.
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:
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20.143
(1) (c)
Wisconsin development fund, grants and loans and
4reimbursements. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for grants and loans under
5ss. 560.62, 560.625, 560.63 and 560.66; for loans under s. 560.16;
and for
6reimbursements under s. 560.167
; and for the grants under 1995 Wisconsin Act 27,
7section 9116 (7gg), and 1995 Wisconsin Act 119, section 2 (1). No moneys may be
8expended from this appropriation to assist dislocated workers who are eligible for
9assistance under s. 106.15.
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120.445
(1) (bc)
Assistance for dislocated workers. The amounts in the schedule
2for providing grants under s. 106.15
(5m).
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20.445
(1) (jm)
Dislocated worker program grants. All moneys received from
6the business closing surcharge under s. 109.07 (4m), for providing grants under s.
7106.15
(5m).
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106.15
(3) (title)
Grants from federal funds. (intro.) From the
appropriation 11appropriations under s. 20.445 (1)
(bc), (jm), (mb) and (mc), the department shall
12make grants to persons providing to dislocated workers programs offering training
13and related employment services including but not limited to the following:
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106.15
(4) (title)
Grant Federal grant approval. (intro.) No grant may be
17awarded under
this section sub. (3) unless
both all of the following occur:
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106.15
(5) Substate plan or application review. (intro.) In reviewing substate
21plans and applications for funding under
this section
sub. (3), the dislocated workers
22committee and the secretary shall consider all of the following:
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23Section
7. 106.15 (5m) of the statutes is created to read:
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106.15
(5m) Grants from state funds. (a) From the appropriations under s.
2520.445 (1) (bc) and (jm), the department shall make grants to persons who are eligible
1to receive funding under sub. (3) and who apply for a grant under this subsection if
2all of the following apply:
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1. No funding is available from the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (mb) or
4(mc) or from any other federal or state job training program to fund the training and
5related employment services provided for dislocated workers by the person applying
6for the grant.
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2. The person applying for the grant submits a plan to the department detailing
8the proposed use of the grant proceeds, the dislocated workers committee approves
9the plan and refers its decision to the secretary and the secretary, after receiving that
10referral, approves the plan.
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3. The person applying for the grant enters into a written agreement with the
12department that specifies the conditions for use of the grant proceeds, including
13reporting and auditing requirements.
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4. The person applying for the grant agrees in writing to submit to the
15department the report required under par. (b) by the time required under par. (b).
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(b) Any person who receives a grant under this subsection shall submit to the
17department, within 6 months after expending the full amount of the grant, a report
18detailing how the grant proceeds were used.
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106.15
(7) (title)
Funding
Federal funding.
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22Section
9.
Appropriation changes; industry, labor and job
development.
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23(1)
Assistance for dislocated workers. In the schedule under section 20.005
24(3) of the statutes for the appropriation to the department of industry, labor and job
1development under section 20.445 (1) (bc) of the statutes, as affected by the acts of
21995, the dollar amount is increased by $100,000 for fiscal year 1996-97 to increase
3funding for the purpose for which the appropriation is made.
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5(1)
This act takes effect on July 1, 1996, or on the day after publication,
6whichever is later.
