Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1189
5	5	April 9, 2024 - Introduced by Representative MCGUIRE. Referred to Committee on
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8	8	AN ACT to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 20.255 (2) (dq) and 115.453 of the
9	9	statutes; relating to: grants for participation in esports competitions and
10	10	making an appropriation.
11	11	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
12	12	This bill creates a pilot program under which the Department of Public
13	13	Instruction awards grants to eligible teams for expenses related to participating in
14	14	esports competitions. Under the bill, an esports competition is an organized,
15	15	multiplayer video game competition. To be eligible for an esports participation grant,
16	16	a team must consist of pupils and at least one mentor and must demonstrate to DPI
17	17	that it will provide matching funds equal to the amount of the grant. Under the bill,
18	18	DPI must administer the esports participation grant pilot program in the 2024-25,
19	19	2025-26, and 2026-27 school years. Finally, the bill requires DPI to publish a list
20	20	of grant recipients on its website and to submit a report on the pilot program to the
21	21	legislature.
22	22	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
23	23	printed as an appendix to this bill.
24	24	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
25	25	enact as follows:
26	26	SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
27	27	the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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36	36	20.255Public instruction, department of
37	37	(2) AIDS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
38	38	(dq)Esports participation grant pro
39	39	gram GRP A -0- 250,000
40	40	SECTION 2. 20.255 (2) (dq) of the statutes is created to read:
41	41	20.255 (2) (dq) Esports participation grant program. The amounts in the
42	42	schedule for grants to eligible teams under s. 115.453. No moneys may be
43	43	encumbered from this appropriation after June 30, 2027.
44	44	SECTION 3. 115.453 of the statutes is created to read:
45	45	115.453 Esports participation grants; pilot program. (1) In this section:
46	46	(a) “Allowable expenses" includes equipment, software, fees, and supplies
47	47	required to participate in an esports competition and a stipend for a mentor of an
48	48	eligible team.
49	49	(b) “Eligible team" means a team that consists of pupils and at least one mentor.
50	50	(c) “Esports competition" means an organized, multiplayer video game
51	51	competition.
52	52	(2) (a) By no later than April 1, 2025, April 1, 2026, and April 1, 2027,
53	53	respectively, the department shall notify school boards, operators of charter schools
54	54	under s. 118.40 (2r) and (2x), governing bodies of private schools, and administrators
55	55	of home-based private educational programs that applications for grants to
56	56	participate in one or more esports competitions will be accepted from eligible teams
57	57	until a date set forth in the notice. As a condition of receiving a grant under this
58	58	section, an applicant eligible team shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the
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86	86	department that the applicant eligible team will provide matching funds in an
87	87	amount equal to the amount awarded under this section.
88	88	(b) In the 2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27 school years, from the appropriation
89	89	under s. 20.255 (2) (dq), the department shall award grants to eligible teams selected
90	90	from the applicants under par. (a). Grant funds awarded under this section may be
91	91	applied only towards allowable expenses. The department may not award more than
92	92	$10,000 to an eligible team in a school year.
93	93	(3) The department shall publish on its website a list of grant recipients and
94	94	submit to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3)
95	95	a report on the program under this section.
96	96	SECTION 4. 119.04 (1) of the statutes, as affected by 2023 Wisconsin Act 12, is
97	97	amended to read:
98	98	119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V and VII of ch. 115, ch. 121 and ss. 66.0235 (3) (c),
99	99	66.0603 (1m) to (3), 115.01 (1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343,
100	100	115.345, 115.363, 115.364, 115.365 (3), 115.366, 115.367, 115.38 (2), 115.415, 115.445,
101	101	115.453, 118.001 to 118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07, 118.075, 118.076, 118.10, 118.12,
102	102	118.124, 118.125 to 118.14, 118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163,
103	103	118.164, 118.18, 118.19, 118.196, 118.20, 118.223, 118.225, 118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6),
104	104	(8), and (10), 118.245, 118.25, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.292, 118.293, 118.2935,
105	105	118.30 to 118.43, 118.46, 118.50, 118.51, 118.52, 118.53, 118.55, 118.56, 120.12 (2m),
106	106	(4m), (5), and (15) to (27), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to (19), (26),
107	107	(34), (35), (37), (37m), and (38), 120.137, 120.14, 120.20, 120.21 (3), and 120.25 are
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134	134	provided in this chapter or in the terms of a contract, to the commissioner or to any
135	135	school transferred to an opportunity schools and partnership program.
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