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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 72

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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 Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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: Ballweg (R) , Bernier (R) , Petrowski (R) , Pfaff (D) , Ringhand (D)

18 cosponsors

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

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Tourism, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Feb 11, 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 5, 2021 · Senate

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

  2. Feb 5, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture and Tourism

  3. Feb 9, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Feb 10, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Agriculture and Tourism, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  7. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Mar 11, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Shankland added as a cosponsor

  9. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1