AB390: Bill Text

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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE

2019 Assembly BILL 390

August 28, 2019 - Introduced by Representatives Shankland, Skowronski, Anderson, Billings, Bowen, Cabrera, Emerson, Fields, Hesselbein, Kolste, Neubauer, Sargent, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck, C. Taylor, Vruwink, Zamarripa and Brostoff, cosponsored by Senators Hansen, Bewley, Larson, Ringhand, Schachtner, Smith and L. Taylor. Referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities.

AB390,1,2 An Act relating to: funding for Wisconsin grants for University of Wisconsin System students and technical college students and making an appropriation.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill increases the appropriations for Wisconsin grants for University of Wisconsin System students and technical college students.

Under current law, the Wisconsin grant program, administered by the Higher Educational Aids Board, provides grants to postsecondary resident students enrolled at least half time and registered as freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors in specified postsecondary institutions, including UW schools and technical colleges.

This bill increases HEAB's biennial appropriation for Wisconsin grants for UW students by $27,000,000 in each year of the 2019-21 fiscal biennium and for technical college students by $18,000,000 in each year of the 2019-21 fiscal biennium.

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:

AB390,1 Section 1. Fiscal changes.

AB390,2,8 (1) Wisconsin grants to University of Wisconsin students. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the higher educational aids board under s. 20.235 (1) (fe), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2019-20 is increased by $27,000,000 to increase funding for the purpose for which the appropriation is made. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the higher educational aids board under s. 20.235 (1) (fe), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2020-21 is increased by $27,000,000 to increase funding for the purpose for which the appropriation is made.

AB390,2,16 (2) Wisconsin grants to technical college students. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the higher educational aids board under s. 20.235 (1) (ff), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2019-20 is increased by $18,000,000 to increase funding for the purpose for which the appropriation is made. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the higher educational aids board under s. 20.235 (1) (ff), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2020-21 is increased by $18,000,000 to increase funding for the purpose for which the appropriation is made.

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