AB228: Bill Text

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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE

2005 Assembly BILL 228

March 16, 2005 - Introduced by Representatives Loeffelholz, Pettis, Musser, Davis, Freese, Van Roy, Hahn, Hines, Rhoades and Ott, cosponsored by Senators Roessler, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Miller and Hansen. Referred to Committee on Workforce Development.

AB228,1,5 An Act to renumber 20.445 (1) (e); to amend 106.13 (1), 106.13 (3m) (b) (intro.) and 106.13 (4) (d); and to create 106.13 (3m) (f) of the statutes; relating to: increasing funding for local youth apprenticeship grants for programs that are targeted at providing training in the areas of health care and health care technology and making appropriations.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Governor's Work-Based Learning Board (GWBLB), which is attached to the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), awards grants to local partnerships for the implementation and coordination of local youth apprenticeship programs under which employers are recruited to provide on-the-job training and supervision for students who are recruited to participate in those programs. Currently, $1,100,000 in general purpose revenues (GPR) is appropriated in each of fiscal years 2003-04 and 2004-05 for those grants. This bill increases the amount appropriated for those grants by $1,400,000 GPR in each of fiscal years 2005-06 and 2006-07 for the purpose of providing grants for programs that are targeted at providing training and state-required exit testing in the areas of health care and health care technology.

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:

AB228, s. 1 Section 1. 20.445 (1) (e) of the statutes is renumbered 20.445 (7) (b).

AB228, s. 2 Section 2. 106.13 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB228,2,4 106.13 (1) The department board shall provide a youth apprenticeship program that includes the grant programs under subs. (3m) and (4).

AB228, s. 3 Section 3. 106.13 (3m) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB228,2,16 106.13 (3m) (b) (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (e) (7) (b), the board shall award grants to applying local partnerships for the implementation and coordination of local youth apprenticeship programs. A local partnership shall include in its grant application the identity of each public agency, nonprofit organization, individual, and other person who is a participant in the local partnership, a plan to accomplish the implementation and coordination activities specified in subds. 1. to 6., and the identity of a fiscal agent who shall be responsible for receiving, managing, and accounting for the grant moneys received under this paragraph. Subject to par. (c), a local partnership that is awarded a grant under this paragraph may use the grant moneys awarded for any of the following implementation and coordination activities:

AB228, s. 4 Section 4. 106.13 (3m) (f) of the statutes is created to read:

AB228,2,21 106.13 (3m) (f) The board shall establish eligibility criteria for a grant under this subsection. Those criteria shall ensure that those grants will be distributed throughout all geographic areas of the state and in both rural and urban communities.

AB228, s. 5 Section 5. 106.13 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB228,3,6 106.13 (4) (d) The board shall establish eligibility criteria for a grant under this subsection. That Those criteria shall specify that eligibility for a grant shall be limited to small employers, as determined by the board, and to employers providing on-the-job training in employment areas determined by the board. Notwithstanding sub. (5), those criteria need not be promulgated as rules.

AB228, s. 6 Section 6. Appropriation changes.

AB228,3,16 (1) Local youth apprenticeship grants for health care and health care technology training. In the schedule under section 20.005 (3) of the statutes for the appropriation to the department of workforce development under section 20.445 (7) (b) of the statutes, as affected by the acts of 2005, the dollar amount is increased by $1,400,000 for fiscal year 2005-06 and by $1,400,000 for fiscal year 2006-07 to increase funding for the purpose of providing grants under section 106.13 (3m) (b) of the statutes, as affected by this act, for programs that are targeted at providing training and state-required exit testing in the areas of health care and health care technology.

AB228, s. 7 Section 7. Effective date.

AB228,3,20 (1) Local youth apprenticeship grants for health care and health care technology training. This act takes effect on the day after publication or on the 2nd day after publication of the 2005-07 biennial budget, whichever is later.

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