- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRBs0139/1LRB-4684/1 ARG:cjsARG:cjs&amn ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 549 October 31,20, 2023 - OfferedIntroduced by RepresentativeRepresentatives M ICHALSKIICHALSKI, .ITTRICH, M AXEY, M URPHY, NEDWESKI , O CONNOR , P ENTERMAN , PETRYK , EDMING and G REEN , cosponsored by Senators S TAFSHOLT and N ASS.
Referred to Committee on Workforce Development and Economic Opportunities.
If an instructor who received a hiring bonus remains employed with the technical college in a similar capacity five years later, the LRBs0139/1 - 2024 Legislature - 2 - ARG:cjs technical college must pay the instructor, from its own funds, a retention bonus of $5,000.
- 2024 Legislature - 2 - LRB-4684/1 ARG:cjs&amn ASSEMBLY BILL 549 The bill also requires the TCS Board to award one-time grants of up to $1,000,000 to technical colleges to purchase manufacturing or advanced manufacturing equipment or to enhance facilities for manufacturing or advanced manufacturing instruction.
A grant may be awarded only if the technical college provides at least an equal amount of matching funding,funding. which may include in-kind contributions.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
LRBs0139/1LRB-4684/1 - 2024 Legislature - 3 - ARG:cjsARG:cjs&amn SECTION 3 ASSEMBLY BILL 549 20.292 (1) (fh) Manufacturing capital improvement grants.
38.04 (8), (28), and (31), 38.14 (11), 38.26, 38.27, 38.31, 38.33, LRBs0139/1 - 2024 Legislature - 4 - ARG:cjsLRB-4684/1 ARG:cjs&amn ASSEMBLY BILL 549 SECTION 6 38.35, 38.38, and 38.42 and 2023 Wisconsin Act ....
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The instructor was not employed by the district board, or by any other district board, at any time in the 75-day period immediately preceding the effective date of this subdivision ....
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LRBs0139/1 - 2024 Legislature - 6 - ARG:cjs SECTION 7 4.
(a) and the instructor is terminated for a reason other than cause, including as a result of - 2024 Legislature - 6 - LRB-4684/1 ARG:cjs&amn ASSEMBLY BILL 549 S ECTION 7 budgetary constraints or program changes, the instructor is not required to repay the bonus.
LRBs0139/1 - 2024 Legislature - 7 - ARG:cjs SECTION 7 (5) The board shall award grants under this section from the appropriation under s.
LRB-4684/1 - 2024 Legislature - 7 - ARG:cjs&amn SECTION 8 ASSEMBLY BILL 549 SECTION 8.0Nonstatutory provisions.
20.292 (1) (fh), in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium, the board shall award grants not exceeding $1,000,000 to district boards to purchase manufacturing or advanced manufacturing equipment or to enhance facilities for manufacturing or advanced manufacturing instruction.
For purposes of this paragraph, matching funding may be provided directly by the district board or indirectly through a 3rd-party donation and may include the dollar value of in-kind contributions of equipment or other property.
The amount of the grant received, the amount of matching funds provided by the district board, including the value of any in-kind contributions, and the total project cost.
LRBs0139/1 - 2024 Legislature - 8 - ARG:cjs S ECTION 8 2.
- 2024 Legislature - 8 - LRB-4684/1 ARG:cjs&amn ASSEMBLY BILL 549 SECTION 9.Effective9 SECTION 9.0Effective dates.