This bill increases the maximum amounts that DHS may award each fiscal year in grants to hospitals to support existing graduate medical training programs. Under current law, DHS may not distribute more than $225,000 to a particular hospital or more than $75,000 to fund an individual position in an existing graduate medical training program during a given fiscal year. The bill increases those limits to $450,000 and $150,000 per fiscal year, respectively.

This bill requires DWD to establish and operate a program to provide grants to local workforce development boards to assist individuals whose employment was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and whose employment outcomes have not improved since then. The department must target the program to individuals employed or seeking employment in health care-related fields and individuals who are currently ineligible for services under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

The bill creates a new grant program administered by the Department of Public Instruction and available to school districts and operators of independent charter schools to reimburse the cost of “Grow Your Own” programs. Under the bill, Grow Your Own programs include high school clubs that encourage careers in teaching, payment of costs associated with current staff acquiring education needed for licensure, support for career pathways using dual enrollment, support for partnerships focused on attracting or developing new teachers, or incentives for paraprofessionals to gain licensure. The bill appropriates $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2024-25 for this purpose.

Under current law, DPI operates a teacher improvement program to provide prospective teachers with one-semester internships under the supervision of licensed teachers, in-service activities, and professional staff development research projects.

Under the bill, DPI must provide stipends to individuals who are participating in the teacher improvement program. The stipends are $9,600 per individual per semester and begin in the 2024-25 school year.

The bill provides stipends, through DPI, to student teachers who are completing a teacher preparatory program that is approved by the superintendent of public instruction. The stipends are $2,500 per student teacher per semester and begin in the 2024-25 school year.

The bill provides stipends, through DPI, to teachers who are overseeing a student teacher in their classrooms. The stipends are in the amount of $1,000 per teacher per semester and begin in the 2024-25 school year.

The bill provides $50,000 in funding for the Division for Libraries and Technology in DPI to provide stipend payments to students who are pursuing a degree in library science 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 2024-25 school year.

This bill provides funding and position authority to DWD to conduct outreach to stakeholders and partners to develop new apprenticeship pathways related to health care.

Under current law, DHS is required to award grants for certain community programs. This bill allows DHS to distribute up to $7,225,000 in the 2023-24 fiscal year and up to $14,500,000 in the 2024-25 fiscal year as grants to health care providers and long-term care providers to implement best practices and innovative solutions to increase worker recruitment and retention. The bill increases appropriations to DHS to fund these grants and to support state administration and evaluation of the grant program.

SB1,,6618.08 (2) The capital improvement fund may be expended, pursuant to appropriations, only for the purposes and in the amounts for which the public debts have been contracted, for the payment of principal and interest on loans or on notes, for the payment due, if any, under an agreement or ancillary arrangement entered into under s. 18.06 (8) (a) with respect to any such public debt, for the purposes identified under s. 20.867 (2) (v), (3) (x), and (4) (q), and for expenses incurred in contracting public debt.

SB1,,8818.08 (7) Notwithstanding sub. (3), moneys transferred under 2023 Wisconsin Act 19, section 9251 (1), cannot be commingled with other moneys in the capital improvement fund and all earnings on or income from investments of the moneys transferred under 2023 Wisconsin Act 19, section 9251 (1), and all excess moneys so transferred that are not used to fund building projects authorized in the 2023-25 Authorized State Building Program or are not used to offset cost adjustments with respect to any building project authorized in the 2023-25 Authorized State Building Program, shall be deposited into or transferred to the general fund.

SB1,39Section 3. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:

SB1,,111120.255 (1) (hg) Personnel licensure, teacher supply, information and analysis and teacher improvement. The amounts in the schedule to fund licensure administrative costs under s. 115.28 (7) (d) and 118.19 (10), teacher supply, information and analysis costs under s. 115.29 (5), and teacher improvement under s. 115.41 (1). Ninety percent of all moneys received from the licensure of school and public library personnel under s. 115.28 (7) (d), and all moneys received under s. 115.41 (1), shall be credited to this appropriation.