Eliminating an obsolete reference governing pilot payments to Second Chance Partnership to establish a work-based learning program; changing the name of the Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning, the name of the Reference and Loan Library, and the name of the Division for Learning Support, Equity and Advocacy; participation in a public library system; and the appropriation to the Department of Public Instruction for children-at-risk programs (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Public Instruction)

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 libraries that are required by law for the member libraries to participate in the system.

Educare Center of Milwaukee Under current law, money is appropriated to DPI for aid for children-at-risk programs.

2005 Wisconsin Act 25 directed DPI to pay certain amounts from this appropriation to the Educare Center of Milwaukee during the 2005-07 fiscal biennium. This bill eliminates this dated material from the appropriation.

For further information, see the Notes provided by the Law Revision Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.