SB 348

Second Chance Partnership

Under current law, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) makes

payments to Second Chance Partnership, a nonprofit corporation operating a

program in which children at risk participate in apprenticeships while earning high

school diplomas. This bill eliminates a nonstatutory reference to

2005 Wisconsin Act

25

, section

9137 (3q)

; that section provided funding in the 2005-06 and 2006-07

school years to the Second Chance Partnership to create a pilot work-based learning

program.

Name changes

Under current law, there is within DPI a Division for Libraries, Technology, and

Community Learning. Under this bill, the name of the division is changed to the

Division for Libraries and Technology.

Under current law, DPI must maintain a Reference and Loan Library to

supplement the collections of other libraries in the state by providing certain special

materials that are not generally available from local libraries or other local or

state-level resource providers and to provide certain information services to other

libraries in the state and state employees. This bill changes the name of the

Reference and Loan Library to the Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning

Service.

This bill changes the name of the Division for Learning Support, Equity and

Advocacy in DPI to the Division for Learning Support.

Participation in a public library system

Under current law, a municipal, county, or joint public library may participate

in a public library system if it has a written agreement with the system board to

provide to any system resident the same library services that are provided to the

residents of the municipality or county that established the member library, with two

exceptions: a municipal, county, or joint public library may give preference to its

residents in group programs and may provide remote access to a library's database

only to its residents.

Current law also provides that a public library system is eligible for state aid

if it has written agreements to provide to any system resident the same library

services that are provided to the residents of the municipality or county that

established the member library, with one exception: the system may give preference

to its residents in group programs.

This bill reconciles these two provisions. The bill provides that a public library

system is eligible for state aid if it has the written agreements with all of its member