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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 413

February 22, 2022 - Offered by Representatives Stubbs, Haywood, Baldeh, Drake, Moore Omokunde, Anderson, Billings, Brostoff, Conley, Considine, Emerson, Goyke, Hong, B. Meyers, Neubauer, S. Rodriguez, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Subeck, Vining and Vruwink.

AB413-ASA1,1,5 An Act to amend 230.08 (2) (fs); and to create 15.04 (4), 15.105 (25), 15.107 (20), 16.02, 20.923 (6) (ak), 20.923 (6) (ar) and 230.08 (2) (ym) of the statutes; relating to: creating the Council for Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Equity and Inclusion, funding for UW System and special education aid, and making an appropriation.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates the Council for Equity and Inclusion and the Office for Equity and Inclusion, both attached to the Department of Administration. Under the bill, the council must do all of the following: establish and annually update a statewide plan for equity and inclusion in this state; designate individuals to coordinate with the Office for Equity and Inclusion to implement and enforce the plan established by the council; review individual agency plans for equity and inclusion; and submit annual reports of activities and updates to the statewide plan for equity and inclusion to the governor and the legislature. Under the bill, the Office for Equity and Inclusion must establish programs to implement and enforce the plan established by the Council for Equity and Inclusion.

Also, under the bill, the head of each executive branch entity represented on the Council for Equity and Inclusion must appoint an officer for equity and inclusion, and each such officer must develop and implement an annual plan for equity and inclusion that must be submitted to the council for review and approval. The bill also authorizes five full-time equivalent GPR positions for the Office for Equity and Inclusion and one full-time equivalent position for each of the executive branch entities represented on the Council for Equity and Inclusion.

The bill also provides additional funding for the University of Wisconsin System under its general program operations appropriation and for special education aid for school districts, independent charter schools, cooperative educational service agencies, and county children with disabilities education boards for purposes of maintaining compliance with maintenance of effort requirements of the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act and the federal American Rescue Plan Act.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB413-ASA1,1 Section 1 . 15.04 (4) of the statutes is created to read:

AB413-ASA1,2,5 15.04 (4) Officer for equity and inclusion. The head of each department or entity listed in s. 15.107 (20) (b) to (v) shall appoint an officer for equity and inclusion to serve at the pleasure of the head of the department or entity outside the classified service.