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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 980

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Relating to: requiring the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System to establish collaborative engineering programs involving the University of Wisconsin-Stout and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. (FE)

Technical college University of wisconsin — College of engineering University of wisconsin — Stevens point University of wisconsin — Stout

  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 requires the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

to expand the manufacturing engineering program and the engineering technology

program at UW-Stout to allow participation in these programs through a

collaboration between UW-Stout and UW-Stevens Point. The Northcentral

Technical College may also participate in this collaboration. The collaborative

manufacturing engineering program is taught at the Wausau branch campus of

UW-Stevens Point. The bill becomes effective on July 1, 2023.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Callahan (R) , Edming (R) , Snyder (R) , Spiros (R)

3 cosponsors

Felzkowski (R) , Petrowski (R) , Petryk and Moses

Full history

  1. Feb 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Snyder, Spiros, Edming and Callahan; cosponsored by Senators Petrowski and Felzkowski

  2. Feb 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities

  3. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Representatives Petryk and Moses added as coauthors

  5. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1