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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 1101

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Relating to: grants to encourage individuals to pursue a career in teaching or to facilitate teacher licensure, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Public instruction department of School — Administration School — Charter school Teacher — Certificate

  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

The bill creates a new grant program administered by the Department of Public Instruction and available to school boards and operators of independent charter schools to reimburse the cost of “Grow Your Own” programs. Under the bill, Grow Your Own programs include high school clubs that encourage careers in teaching, payment of costs associated with current staff acquiring education needed for licensure, support for career pathways using dual enrollment, support for partnerships focused on attracting or developing new teachers, or incentives for paraprofessionals to gain licensure. The bill appropriates $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 for this purpose.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Hysell (D) , Joers (D) , Kirsch (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Stroud (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D) , Vining (D)

10 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Pfaff (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Full history

  1. Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sheehan, Joers, McCarville, Anderson, Clancy, Fitzgerald, Stroud, Udell, Arney, Bare, Brown, Emerson, Hysell, Kirsch, Miresse, Ortiz-Velez, Palmeri, Sinicki, Tenorio, Vining and Andraca; cosponsored by Senators Keyeski, Larson, Roys, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, Hesselbein, Pfaff, Spreitzer, Wirch and Ratcliff

  2. Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  4. Mar 25, 2026 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received