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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 64

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Relating to: technical college farmer tuition assistance grants and making an appropriation. (FE)

Farmer Technical college Technical college system board

  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 creates a tuition assistance grant program under which the Technical

College System Board awards grants to current or prospective farmers in the state

for the purpose of paying no more than 50 percent of tuition costs for enrolling in

Wisconsin technical college courses on farm management or farm finance. A current

or prospective farmer may receive no more than $1,000 in these grants per year for

no more than three years.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: B. Meyers (D) , Doyle (D) , Edming (R) , James (R) , Krug (R) , Moses (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Petryk (R) , Plumer (R) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , VanderMeer (R)

6 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Bernier (R) , Petrowski (R) , Pfaff (D) , Ringhand (D) , Shankland (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Colleges and Universities, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Mar 25, 2021 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. Feb 12, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Oldenburg, VanderMeer, Doyle, Edming, James, Krug, B. Meyers, Moses, Mursau, Novak, Petryk, Plumer, Sinicki, Skowronski, Spreitzer, Tranel and Tusler; cosponsored by Senators Ballweg, Bernier, Petrowski, Pfaff and Ringhand

  2. Feb 12, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities

  3. Feb 17, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 4, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Mar 11, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Mar 11, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Shankland added as a coauthor

  7. Mar 25, 2021 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Colleges and Universities, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  8. Mar 25, 2021 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1