AB 649

This bill increases funding for Wisconsin grants for University of Wisconsin

System students and technical college students and also increases special education

funding.

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

Educational Aids Board, provides grants to postsecondary resident students

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

seniors in specified postsecondary institutions, including UW institutions and

technical colleges.

The bill increases HEAB's biennial appropriation for Wisconsin grants for UW

students by $2,300,000 in each year of the 2021-23 fiscal biennium and for technical

college students by $11,800,000 in each year of the 2021-23 fiscal biennium.

The bill also provides additional funding for special education aid the

Department of Public Instruction pays to school districts, independent charter

schools, cooperative educational service agencies, and county children with

disabilities education boards, for purposes of maintaining compliance with

maintenance of effort requirements of the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act

and the federal American Rescue Plan Act.