AB 1057

This bill prohibits University of Wisconsin System institutions and Wisconsin

technical colleges from reducing gift aid that the institution or technical college has

offered to a student because the student has received a private scholarship unless

certain circumstances apply. “Gift aid” is defined in the bill as all financial aid that

is not a loan or work-study program and includes grants, scholarships, tuition

waivers, and third-party payments. A UW System institution may reduce the

amount of a student's offered gift aid in order to comply with the National Collegiate

Athletic Association's individual or team financial aid restrictions, and a technical

college may reduce the amount of a student's offered gift aid in order to comply with

the National Junior College Athletic Association's individual or team financial aid

restrictions. Additionally, an institution or technical college may reduce the amount

of offered gift aid if the student's total gift aid from all sources exceeds the student's

financial need, and the institution or technical college may further reduce a student's

offered gift aid if the institution or technical college receives approval to do so from

the organization that has awarded the private scholarship that triggered the

student's total gift aid exceeding the student's financial need.