Senate Bill 2

Workforce training grants to technical colleges, workforce training grants for collaborative projects among school districts, technical colleges, and businesses, workforce training grants and services to enhance employment opportunities for persons with disabilities, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Stopped before the full Senate voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Senate never voted on it. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

Introduced, passed

Jan 30, 2014
Committee, passed

Approved
Senate vote, stopped here

Stopped here. The full Senate never voted on it.
Assembly vote, not reached
Governor, not reached
Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Mar 24, 2014: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

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Committee

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

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Cost estimate

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Roll call

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Current law requires the Department of Workforce Development (DWD) to establish a statewide workforce investment system to meet the employment, training, and educational needs of persons in this state; to plan, coordinate, administer, and implement a youth apprenticeship program and such other employment and education programs as the governor may assign to DWD; to make grants to persons providing employment and training activities to dislocated workers; and to award grants to public and private organizations for the development and implementation of workforce training programs for the training of both new and incumbent employees of businesses in this state.

This bill decreases the general purpose revenue supplemental appropriation to the Joint Committee on Finance by $35,400,000 in the 2013-15 state fiscal biennium and increases the workforce training program grants appropriation to DWD by that amount in that biennium and requires DWD to allocate that amount for all of the following:

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1. Grants to technical colleges for the reduction of waiting lists for enrollment in programs and courses in high-demand fields, as determined by DWD.

2. Grants for collaborative projects among school districts, technical colleges, and businesses to provide high school pupils with industry-recognized certifications in high-demand fields, as determined by DWD.

3. Grants to public and private organizations or services provided by DWD to enhance employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.

4. Administration of the grants under the bill to technical colleges, grants under the bill for collaborative projects, and grants or services under the bill to enhance employment opportunities for persons with disabilities and, if DWD determines that the full amount of the appropriation increase under the bill will not be needed for those grants and services and for that administration, grants for workforce training programs for the training of new and incumbent employees under current law.

The bill requires DWD, in submitting information to the Department of Administration for purposes of the 2015-17 biennial budget act, to submit information for the workforce training program grants appropriation as though the increase in the dollar amount in that appropriation under the bill had not been made.

As a result, the amount of that increase is not included in the base amount for the 2015-17 biennial budget.

Who's behind it

The Committee on Senate Organization introduced it at the governor's request.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Joint Committee on Finance vote to recommend it

Passed, 12 to 4 · Feb 20, 2014

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 12, Noes 4”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

Mar 24, 2014

The session ended, and the bill died with it.
Feb 20, 2014

The committee voted to recommend passing it, 12 to 4.
Feb 19, 2014

The committee held a public hearing.
Jan 31, 2014

A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.
Jan 30, 2014

Sent to the Joint Committee on Finance.
Jan 30, 2014

Introduced in the Senate.

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Jan 30, 2014 · Senate
Introduced by Committee on Senate Organization, by request of Governor Scott Walker
Jan 30, 2014 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Joint Committee on Finance
Jan 31, 2014 · Senate
Fiscal estimate received
Feb 19, 2014 · Senate
Public hearing held
Feb 19, 2014 · Senate
Executive action taken
Feb 20, 2014 · Senate
Report passage recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 12, Noes 4
Feb 20, 2014 · Senate
Available for scheduling
Mar 24, 2014 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1