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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 897

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Relating to: funding for Wisconsin grants for technical college and University of Wisconsin System students and making an appropriation. (FE)

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  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 increases the appropriation for Wisconsin grants for technical college

and University of Wisconsin System students.

Under current law, the Wisconsin grant program, administered by the Higher

Educational Aids Board (HEAB), provides grants to postsecondary resident students

enrolled at least half time and registered as freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or

seniors in specified postsecondary institutions, including technical colleges and UW

System institutions. Wisconsin grants for UW System students are funded from an

appropriation in which the appropriation amount is calculated by HEAB by adding

the average percentage increase in undergraduate academic fees at the institutions

within the UW System to the amount appropriated in the previous year.

This bill increases HEAB's biennial appropriation for Wisconsin grants for

technical college students by $27,849,500 in fiscal year 2015-16 and in fiscal year

2016-17 and adds $2,895,400 annually to HEAB's appropriation for Wisconsin

grants for UW System students.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Considine (D) , Danou (D) , Goyke (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Johnson (D) , Jorgensen (D) , Kahl (D) , Kessler (D) , Kolste (D) , Meyers (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Zamarripa (D) , Zepnick (D)

5 cosponsors

C. Larson (D) , Harris Dodd (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Ringhand (D) , Vinehout (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 9, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Shankland, Wachs, Berceau, Jorgensen, Hesselbein, Billings, Brostoff, Considine, Danou, Goyke, Johnson, Kahl, Kessler, Kolste, Meyers, Ohnstad, Pope, Sargent, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Subeck, C. Taylor, Zamarripa and Zepnick; cosponsored by Senators Ringhand, Vinehout, C. Larson, Harris Dodd and L. Taylor

  2. Feb 9, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities

  3. Feb 25, 2016 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1