SB288: Bill Text

SB288,10,25 36.12 (2) (a) 4. Provide periods within which the complainant and the institution or center must act for each procedural step leading to the issuance of a final decision and for appeal of the final decision to the chancellor of the institution or dean of the center.

SB288, s. 30 Section 30. 36.12 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,11,3 36.12 (3) (a) The number of complaints received at each institution and center alleging a violation of sub. (1) and the disposition of each such complaint.

SB288, s. 31 Section 31. 36.17 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,11,11 36.17 (2) Limited appointments apply to the following positions: president, provost, vice president, associate vice president, assistant vice president, chancellor, vice chancellor, associate chancellor, assistant chancellor, associate vice chancellor, assistant vice chancellor, center system college campus dean, secretary of the board, associate secretary of the board, assistant secretary of the board, trust officer and assistant trust officer and such other administrative positions as the board determines at the time of the appointment.

SB288, s. 32 Section 32. 36.25 (26) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,11,15 36.25 (26) Day care centers. A center college campus may establish a day care center and may use funds received from the appropriation under s. 20.285 (1) (a) to operate it.

SB288, s. 33 Section 33. 36.27 (2) (a) 1. to 6. of the statutes are amended to read:

SB288,11,19 36.27 (2) (a) 1. Any adult student who has been a bona fide resident of the state for 12 months next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which such student registers at a university or center an institution.

SB288,11,23 2. Any minor student, if one or both of the student's parents have been bona fide residents of this state for at least 12 months next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which the student registers at a university or center an institution.

SB288,12,2 3. Any adult student who is a dependent of his or her parents under 26 USC 152 (a), if one or both of the student's parents have been bona fide residents of this state for at least 12 months next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which the student registers at a university or center an institution.

SB288,12,6 4. Any minor student who has resided substantially in this state during the years of minority and at least 12 months next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which such student registers at a university or center an institution.

SB288,12,10 5. Any minor student under guardianship in this state pursuant to ch. 48 or 880 whose legal guardian has been a bona fide resident of this state for at least 12 months next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which such student registers at a university or center an institution.

SB288,12,19 6. Any adult student who has been employed as a migrant worker for at least 2 months each year for 3 of the 5 years next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which the student registers at a university or center an institution, or for at least 3 months each year for 2 of the 5 years next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which the student registers at a university or center an institution, any adult student whose parent or legal guardian has been so employed while the student was a minor and any minor student whose parent or legal guardian has been so employed. In this subdivision, "migrant worker" has the meaning specified in s. 103.90 (5).

SB288, s. 34 Section 34. 36.27 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,12,25 36.27 (2) (c) Any student who is a graduate of a Wisconsin high school and whose parents are bona fide residents of this state for 12 months next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which the student registers at a university or center an institution or whose last surviving parent was a bona fide resident of this state for the 12 months preceding death is entitled to the exemption under par. (a).

SB288, s. 35 Section 35. 36.27 (2) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,13,9 36.27 (2) (cm) Any person continuously employed full time in this state, who was relocated to this state by his or her current employer or who moved to this state for employment purposes and accepted his or her current employment before applying for admission to an institution or center and before moving, and the spouse and dependents of any such person, are entitled to the exemption under par. (a) if the student demonstrates an intent to establish and maintain a permanent home in Wisconsin according to the criteria under par. (e). In this paragraph, "dependents" has the meaning given in 26 USC 152 (a).

SB288, s. 36 Section 36. 36.27 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,13,14 36.27 (2) (d) Any person who has not been a bona fide resident of the state for 12 months next preceding the beginning of any semester or session for which such person registers at a university or center an institution, except as provided in this subsection, is not exempt from the payment of the nonresident tuition.

SB288, s. 37 Section 37. 36.43 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,13,17 36.43 (4) A procedure for handling and resolving complaints within each center and institution.

SB288, s. 38 Section 38. 36.51 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,13,25 36.51 (2) Any center college campus or institution approved by the board may establish a system to provide the opportunity for authorized elderly persons to participate in its meal program. If a center college campus or institution desires to establish such a service, it shall develop a plan for the provision of food services for elderly persons and submit the plan to the board. Annually, the board shall notify the department of education public instruction of the approved centers and institutions.

SB288, s. 39 Section 39. 36.51 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,14,6 36.51 (3) Each plan shall provide at least one meal per day for each day that school is in regular session. The center college campus or institution may provide additional service at other times in its discretion, if the number of eligible persons in the area is of sufficient size, in the opinion of the board, so that unwarranted production expense is not incurred.

SB288, s. 40 Section 40. 36.51 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,14,12 36.51 (4) Any center college campus or institution that operates a food services plan for elderly persons under this section shall make facilities available for service to elderly persons at every facility that provides hot food service to its students. Upon application, the board may grant exceptions from compliance with this subsection for reasons of safety, convenience or insufficient interest in a given neighborhood.

SB288, s. 41 Section 41. 36.51 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,14,21 36.51 (5) Meals may be served at schools where they are served to students or at any site more convenient to the majority of authorized elderly persons interested in the service. Food may be transported to authorized elderly persons who are unable to leave their homes or distributed to nonprofit organizations for such purposes. However, no state funds under this section may be used for food delivery to individual homes. The board may require consolidation of programs between centers college campuses and institutions and between schools if such a procedure will be convenient and economical.

SB288, s. 42 Section 42. 36.51 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,15,4 36.51 (6) The center college campus or institution may file a claim with the department of education public instruction for reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred, excluding capital equipment costs, but not to exceed 15% of the cost of the meal or 50 cents per meal, whichever is less. Any cost in excess of the lesser amount may be charged to participants. If the department of education public instruction approves the claim, it shall certify that payment is due and the state treasurer shall pay the claim from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (cn).

SB288, s. 43 Section 43. 36.51 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,15,12 36.51 (7) All meals served must meet the approval of the board, which shall establish minimum nutritional standards and reasonable expenditure limits consistent with the standards and limits established by the department of education public instruction under s. 115.345 (6). The board shall give special consideration to the dietary problems of elderly persons in formulating a nutritional plan. However, no center college campus or institution may be required to provide special foods for individual persons with allergies or medical disorders.

SB288, s. 44 Section 44. 36.51 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,15,19 36.51 (8) Participants in a program under this section may be required to document their Wisconsin residency in a manner approved by the board. The board may issue identification cards to such persons if necessary. A center college campus or institution may admit nonresidents who would otherwise qualify into its program, but no state funds under this section may be used to subsidize any portion of the meals served to such persons.

SB288, s. 45 Section 45. 38.12 (8) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,15,25 38.12 (8) (b) The district boards shall actively coordinate, with the institutions and centers within the university of Wisconsin system, the sharing of programs and facilities, including the collegiate transfer program, adult education and evening courses and part-time student and associate degree programs, in order to reduce the duplication of such programs and facilities.

SB288, s. 46 Section 46. 38.28 (1m) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,16,6 38.28 (1m) (a) 2. "District aidable cost" for any district that does not have an institution or center college campus located in the district does not include costs associated with the collegiate transfer program at the district school. In this subdivision, "institution" and "center " college campus" have the meanings specified under s. 36.05.

SB288, s. 47 Section 47. 38.28 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,16,14 38.28 (4) From the appropriation under s. 20.292 (1) (dm), the board shall annually pay to any district that does not have an institution or center college campus located within the district an amount equal to that portion of the instructional costs of the district's collegiate transfer program not supported by fees and tuition that is equal to the state support of similar programs in the university of Wisconsin system, as determined by the board. In this subsection, "institution" and "center "college campus" have the meanings specified under s. 36.05.

SB288, s. 48 Section 48. 39.145 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,16,20 39.145 (1) (a) A school board, the board of control of a cooperative educational service agency, a technical college district board or an institution or center within the university of Wisconsin system may individually or in any combination request the educational communications board to assist in funding the development of a distance education project using fiber optics or other appropriate technologies.

SB288, s. 49 Section 49. 39.41 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,17,6 39.41 (2) (a) If a designated scholar under sub. (1m) is admitted to and enrolls, on a full-time basis, by September 30 of the academic year immediately following the school year in which the senior was designated a scholar, in a center or an institution within the university of Wisconsin system or in a technical college district school that is participating in the program under this section, the scholar shall receive a higher education scholarship that exempts the scholar from all tuition and fees, including segregated fees, at the center, institution or district school for one year, subject to the availability of funds, except that the maximum scholarship for a scholar who receives an original scholarship for the 1996-97 academic year or for any academic year thereafter may not exceed $2,250 per academic year.

SB288,17,16 (b) For each year that a scholar who receives a scholarship under par. (a) is enrolled full time, maintains at least a 3.0 grade point average, or the equivalent as determined by the center, institution or district school, and makes satisfactory progress toward an associate or a bachelor's degree, the student shall be exempt from all tuition and fees, including segregated fees, in the subsequent year, subject to the availability of funds, except that the maximum scholarship for a scholar who receives an original scholarship for the 1996-97 academic year or for any academic year thereafter may not exceed $2,250 per academic year. No scholar is eligible for an exemption for more than 4 years at a center or institution in the University of Wisconsin System or more than 3 years at a district school.

SB288,17,22 (c) Subject to sub. (4), for each year the student is exempt from tuition and fees under par. (a) or (b), the department shall pay the center, institution or district school, on behalf of the student, an amount equal to 50% of the student's tuition and fees, except that the maximum payment for a student who receives an original scholarship for the 1996-97 academic year or for any academic year thereafter may not exceed $1,125 per academic year.

SB288, s. 50 Section 50. 39.41 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,18,7 39.41 (4) (a) The department shall make the payments under subs. (2) (c) and (3) only if the center, institution, district school or private institution matches the amount of the payment from institutional funds, gifts or grants. Beginning in the 1992-93 school year, the matching requirement under this paragraph for the centers and institutions within the university of Wisconsin system shall be satisfied by payments of an amount equal to the total payments from the centers and institutions made under this paragraph in the 1991-92 school year and, if such payments are insufficient to satisfy the matching requirement, by the waiver of academic fees established under s. 36.27.

SB288, s. 51 Section 51. 39.41 (5) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,18,13 39.41 (5) (a) Each center or institution within the university of Wisconsin system, technical college district school and private institution of higher education that wishes to participate in the scholarship program under this section shall notify the department by October 1 prior to the academic year in which the institution wishes to participate.

SB288, s. 52 Section 52. 40.02 (57) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,18,17 40.02 (57) "University" means any college, school or department under the control and management of the board of regents of the university of Wisconsin system under ch. 36.

SB288, s. 53 Section 53. 45.25 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,18,22 45.25 (1) Administration. The department of veterans affairs shall administer a tuition and fee reimbursement program for eligible veterans enrolling as undergraduates in any institution or center within the university of Wisconsin system or enrolling in any technical college under ch. 38.

SB288, s. 54 Section 54. 45.25 (3) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 255, is amended to read:

SB288,19,11 45.25 (3) (a) An individual who meets the requirements under sub. (2), upon satisfactory completion of an undergraduate semester in any institution or center within the university of Wisconsin system or a semester at any technical college district school under ch. 38, may be reimbursed for up to 50% of the individual's tuition and fees, other than textbooks and other costs, charged by the institution, center or school, or the difference between the individual's tuition and fees and the grants or scholarships, including those made under s. 21.49, that the individual receives specifically for the payment of the tuition or fees, whichever is less. Reimbursement is available only for tuition and fees that are part of a curriculum that is relevant to a degree in a particular course of study at the institution, center or school.

SB288, s. 55 Section 55. 45.25 (3) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,19,15 45.25 (3) (b) 4. Contain the signatures of both the applicant and a representative of the institution, center or school certifying that the applicant has satisfactorily completed the semester.

SB288, s. 56 Section 56. 45.25 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,19,21 45.25 (4) (a) An individual is not eligible for reimbursement under sub. (2) for more than 120 credits of part-time study or 8 full semesters of full-time study at any institution or center within the university of Wisconsin system or 60 credits of part-time study or 4 full semesters of full-time study at a technical college under ch. 38.

SB288, s. 57 Section 57. 59.56 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,20,2 59.56 (4) (title) University centers college campuses. The board may appropriate money for the construction, remodeling, expansion, acquisition or equipping of land, buildings and facilities for a university of Wisconsin center college campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (6m), if the operation of it has been approved by the board of regents.

SB288, s. 58 Section 58. 66.51 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,20,11 66.51 (1) (a) Every county or city, or both jointly, may construct, purchase, acquire, develop, improve, operate or maintain a county or city building, or both jointly, for a courthouse, safety building, city hall, hospital, armory, library, auditorium and music hall, municipal parking lots or other parking facilities, or municipal center or any combination thereof, or a university of Wisconsin center college campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (6m), if the operation of such center college campus has been approved by the board of regents of the university of Wisconsin system.

SB288, s. 59 Section 59. 67.05 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,21,20 67.05 (5) (b) No city or village may issue any bonds for any purposes other than for water systems, lighting works, gas works, bridges, street lighting, street improvements, street improvement funding, hospitals, airports, harbor improvements, river improvements, breakwaters and protection piers, sewerage, garbage disposal, rubbish or refuse disposal, any combination of sewage, garbage or refuse or rubbish disposal, parks and public grounds, swimming pools and band shells thereon, veterans housing projects, paying the municipality's portion of the cost of abolishing grade crossings, for the construction of police facilities and combined fire and police safety buildings, for the purchase of sites for engine houses, for fire engines and other equipment of the fire department, for construction of engine houses, and for pumps, water mains, reservoirs and all other reasonable facilities for fire protection apparatus or equipment for fire protection, for parking lots or other parking facilities, for school purposes, for libraries, for buildings for the housing of machinery and equipment, for acquiring and developing sites for industry and commerce as will expand the municipal tax base, for financing the cost of low-interest mortgage loans under s. 66.38, for providing financial assistance to blight elimination, slum clearance, community development, redevelopment and urban renewal programs and projects under ss. 66.405 to 66.425, 66.43, 66.431, 66.4325, 66.435 and 66.46 or for university of Wisconsin system centers college campuses, as defined in s. 36.05 (6m), until the proposition for their issue for the special purpose thereof has been submitted to the electors of the city or village and adopted by a majority vote. Except as provided under sub. (15), if the common council of any city or the village board of any village declares its purpose to raise money by issuing bonds for any purpose other than those above specified, it shall direct by resolution, which shall be recorded at length in the record of its proceedings, the clerk to call a special election for the purpose of submitting the question of bonding to the city or village electors. If a number of electors of a city or village equal to at least 15% of the votes cast for governor at the last general election in their city or village sign and file a petition conforming to the requirements of s. 8.40 with the city or village clerk requesting submission of the resolution, the city or village may not issue bonds for financing the cost of low-interest mortgage loans under s. 66.38 without calling a special election to submit the question of bonding to the city or village electors for their approval.

SB288, s. 60 Section 60. 116.01 of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,22,6 116.01 Purpose. The organization of school districts in Wisconsin is such that the legislature recognizes the need for a service unit between the school district and the department. The cooperative educational service agencies are designed to serve educational needs in all areas of Wisconsin by serving as a link both between school districts and between school districts and the state. Cooperative educational service agencies may provide leadership, coordination and education services to school districts, University of Wisconsin System institutions and centers and technical colleges. Cooperative educational service agencies may facilitate communication and cooperation among all public and private schools, agencies and organizations that provide services to pupils.

SB288, s. 61 Section 61. 116.032 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,22,11 116.032 (1) Subject to subs. (2) to (5), for the purpose of providing services to pupils a board of control may contract with school districts, University of Wisconsin System institutions and centers, technical college district boards, private schools, and agencies or organizations that provide services to pupils.

SB288, s. 62 Section 62. 118.37 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,22,15 118.37 (1) Definition. In this section, "institution of higher education" means a center or an institution within the university of Wisconsin system, a technical college or a private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in this state.

SB288, s. 63 Section 63. 118.37 (5) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,22,19 118.37 (5) (a) If the pupil is attending a center or an institution within the university of Wisconsin system, the actual cost of tuition, fees, books and other necessary materials directly related to the course.

SB288, s. 64 Section 64. 120.12 (17) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,22,25 120.12 (17) University of Wisconsin system tuition. Pay the tuition of any pupil enrolled in the school district and attending a center or an or institution within the university of Wisconsin system if the pupil is not participating in the program under s. 118.37, the course the pupil is attending at the university is not offered in the school district and the pupil will receive high school credit for the course.

SB288, s. 65 Section 65. 233.04 (7) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,23,7 233.04 (7) (g) A provision that protects the board of regents from all liability associated with the management, operation, use or maintenance of the on-campus facilities. No such provision shall make the authority liable for the acts or omissions of any officer, employe or agent of the board of regents, including any student who is enrolled at an institution or center within the University of Wisconsin System, unless the officer, employe or agent acts at the direction of the authority.

SB288, s. 66 Section 66. 233.17 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,23,12 233.17 (2) (a) No officer, employe or agent of the board of regents, including any student who is enrolled at an institution or center within the University of Wisconsin System, is an agent of the authority unless the officer, employe or agent acts at the express written direction of the authority.

SB288, s. 67 Section 67. 254.61 (5) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,23,17 254.61 (5) (f) Any center college campus, as defined in s. 36.05 (4) (6m), institution as defined in s. 36.51 (1) (b) or technical college that serves meals only to the students enrolled in the center college campus, institution or school or to authorized elderly persons under s. 36.51 or 38.36.

SB288, s. 68 Section 68. 609.655 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,23,21 609.655 (1) (c) "School" means a technical college; a center or an institution within the university of Wisconsin system; and any institution of higher education that grants a bachelor's or higher degree.

SB288, s. 69 Section 69. 895.515 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB288,24,3 895.515 (1) (b) "Institution of higher education" means a center or an institution within the University of Wisconsin System, a technical college or a private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in this state.

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