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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 103

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: entrepreneurial assistance grants and making an appropriation.

Business Colleges and universities Economic development corporation, wisconsin Industrial development Technical college

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill authorizes the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

(WEDC) to award a grant of up to $3,000 to a new business for expenses related to

hiring, as a paid intern, a student enrolled at an institution of higher education who

studies business, engineering, information technology, or a similar field

(entrepreneurial assistance grant). Under the bill, a new business is a business

organized in this state no earlier than five years before the business applies for an

entrepreneurial assistance grant. Additionally, if WEDC awards an entrepreneurial

assistance grant to three or more businesses to fund internships for students

enrolled at a single institution of higher education, and the institution develops a

program to support internships funded by these grants, WEDC may award an

additional grant of up to $25,000 to the institution. Finally, this bill requires WEDC

to allocate at least $125,000 in each fiscal year to fund grants authorized under the

bill and to submit a report on the effectiveness of those grants to the legislature no

later than February 1, 2019.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barca (D) , Barnes (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Considine (D) , Doyle (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Jorgensen (D) , Kahl (D) , Kolste (D) , Mason (D) , Meyers (D) , Milroy (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stuck (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Young (D) , Zamarripa (D)

7 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Harris Dodd (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Lassa (D) , Ringhand (D) , Wirch (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Jobs and the Economy and take up, Ayes 36, Noes 61

Failed 36–61 Nov 3, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Mar 20, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Barca, Spreitzer, Sinicki, Pope, Milroy, Hebl, Zamarripa, Wachs, Ohnstad, Subeck, Considine, Berceau, Bowen, Kolste, Sargent, Goyke, Billings, Mason, Jorgensen, Kahl, Barnes, Meyers, Genrich, Young, Doyle, Stuck, Shankland and Hesselbein; cosponsored by Senators Lassa, Ringhand, L. Taylor, Harris Dodd, Wirch, Carpenter and Erpenbach

  2. Mar 20, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Jobs and the Economy

  3. Nov 3, 2015 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Jobs and the Economy and take up, Ayes 36, Noes 61

  4. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1