DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0193 - Library Intern Stipend Payments
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
EDUCATION
General education and cultural agencies
Library intern stipend payments
The bill requires the Division for Libraries and Technology in DPI to provide stipend payments to students who are enrolled in a library and information sciences master’s degree program and are placed as an intern in a public library or school library. The stipend payments are $2,500 per student per semester, and begin in the 2026-27 school year.
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) (cL) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (3) (cL) Library intern stipend payments. A sum sufficient for library intern stipend payments under s. 43.05 (12m).
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2. 43.05 (12m) of the statutes is created to read:
43.05 (12m) From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (3) (cL), beginning in the 2026-27 school year, provide payments, in the amount of $2,500 per student per semester, to students who are enrolled in a program leading to a master’s degree in library and information sciences and are placed as an intern in a public library or school library. The division may promulgate rules to implement this subsection.
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