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- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRB-5267/1 ARG:ads&wlj ASSEMBLY BILL 750 December 3, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives DITTRICH, ARMSTRONG , RILL, D ONOVAN , DUCHOW , GREEN , GUNDRUM , B.
Date of enactment:
J ACOBSON , KAUFERT , M OSES, M URPHY , MURSAU , NEDWESKI , O'CONNOR , PIWOWARCZYK , SNODGRASS , TITTL and W ICHGERS , cosponsored by Senators OMCZYK and H UTTON .
Assembly Bill 750 Date of publication*:
Referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities.
WISCONSIN ACT A N A CT to renumber and amend 38.22 (5);
A N A CT to renumber and amend 38.22 (5);
admission of students to technical college programs.
admission of stu- dents to technical college programs.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Current law requires the Technical College System Board (TCS Board) to promulgate rules establishing technical colleges’ priorities in admitting students who are residents of the technical college district, students who are state residents but not district residents, and students who are not state residents.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen- district board may adopt a policy to reserve program ate and assembly, do enact as follows:
The rules promulgated by the TCS Board also allow a technical college to adopt a policy to reserve a reasonable number of program spaces to accommodate admission of students in special circumstances, subject to approval by the TCS Board.
spaces to accommodate admission of students in special SECTION 1.
Factors that may be considered for special circumstance admission include hardship, school-to-work program participation, special need, and enrollment diversity.
38.22 (5) of the statutes is renumbered circumstances.
This bill allows a technical college to adopt a policy to reserve program spaces to accommodate admission of students in protective services programs, including programs that prepare students to provide law enforcement, paramedic, emergency medical technician, or firefighting services.
Factors that may be considered for spe- 38.22 (5) (a) and amended to read:
The policy is not subject to the TCS Board’s approval.
cial circumstance admission include hardship, school- to-work program participation, special need, school 38.22 (5) (a) The Subject to par.
The bill also codifies, with some modification, the TCS Board’s rule allowing a technical college to reserve program spaces for students in special circumstances.
(b), the board shall partnerships with employers, and enrollment diversity.
- 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-5267/1 ARG:ads&wlj ASSEMBLY BILL 750 SECTION 1 The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
promulgate rules establishing the priority to be given by 2.
S ECTION 1.
38.22 (5) of the statutes is renumbered 38.22 (5) (a) and amended to read:
38.22 (5) (a) The Subject to par.
(b), the board shall promulgate rules establishing the priority to be given by a district board in admitting students who are residents of the district, students who are not residents of the district but are residents of this state, and students who are not residents of this state.
S ECTION 2.
38.22 (5) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
38.22 (5) (b) 1.
(a), and subject to approval by the board, a district board may adopt a policy to reserve program spaces to accommodate admission of students in special circumstances.
(a), a district board in admitting students who are residents a district board may adopt a policy to reserve program of the district, students who are not residents of the dis- trict but are residents of this state, and students who are spaces to accommodate admission of students in protec- tive services programs, including programs that prepare not residents of this state.
Factors that may be considered for special circumstance admission include hardship, school-to-work program participation, special need, school partnerships with employers, and enrollment diversity.
students to provide law enforcement, paramedic, emer- SECTION 2.
2.
38.22 (5) (b) of the statutes is created to gency medical technician, or firefighting services, who read:
Notwithstanding the board’s rules under par.
are sponsored by an employer that provides protective 38.22 (5) (b) 1.
(a), a district board may adopt a policy to reserve program spaces to accommodate admission of students in protective services programs, including programs that prepare students to provide law enforcement, paramedic, emergency medical technician, or firefighting services.
Notwithstanding the board’s rules services in the district of which the district board is in under par.
(END)
(a), and subject to approval by the board, a charge.
* Section 991.11, ISCONSINSTATUTES:
Effective date of acts.
“Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the gov- ernor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”
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