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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1203
April 11, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives VINING, MOORE OMOKUNDE,
PALMERI, CONSIDINE, NEUBAUER, SNODGRASS, CABRERA, RATCLIFF, CLANCY, J.
ANDERSON, ANDRACA, BARE, CONLEY, DRAKE, EMERSON, JOERS, SINICKI, SUBECK
and MADISON, cosponsored by Senators SPREITZER, CARPENTER, HESSELBEIN, L.
JOHNSON, LARSON, SMITH and WIRCH. Referred to Committee on State Affairs.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 20.255 (2) (fi) and 115.403 of the statutes; relating to: grants
for LGBTQIA+ rights training for school counselors and school social workers
and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, the Department of Public Instruction must award grants to
school boards to provide training in LGBTQIA+ rights, in a program developed or
approved by DPI, to school counselors and school social workers employed by school
boards. The bill defines “LGBTQIA+” as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,
intersex, or any other nonheterosexual or noncisgender orientation, identity, or
expression.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 1203
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20.255Public instruction, department of
(2) AIDS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
(fi)LGBTQIA+ rights training
grants GPR A 2,000,000 2,000,000
SECTION 2. 20.255 (2) (fi) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (fi) LGBTQIA+ rights training grants. The amounts in the schedule
for grants under s. 115.403 (2) for training in LGBTQIA+ rights for school counselors
and school social workers.
SECTION 3. 115.403 of the statutes is created to read:
115.403 LGBTQIA+ rights training grants. (1) In this section,
“LGBTQIA+” means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or any other
nonheterosexual or noncisgender orientation, identity, or expression.
(2) The department shall award grants to school boards to provide training on
the rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals, in a program developed or approved by the
department, to school counselors and school social workers employed by a school
board.
(END)
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