Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB1219 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1219
5	5	April 11, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives MADISON, HAYWOOD, BALDEH,
6	6	DRAKE, MOORE OMOKUNDE, MYERS, STUBBS, CLANCY and BARE, cosponsored by
7	7	Senators L. JOHNSON, SPREITZER and LARSON. Referred to Committee on Labor
8	8	and Integrated Employment.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT relating to: study of guaranteed employment grant program and
11	11	making an appropriation.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to study the
14	14	creation of a job guarantee and full employment grant program. Under the program,
15	15	DWD and municipalities provide grants to public and nonprofit employers in the
16	16	care economy to provide certain job opportunities in positions covered by a collective
17	17	bargaining unit to individuals with disabilities, heads of households with incomes
18	18	that are 150 percent or less than the federal poverty line, individuals who have been
19	19	unemployed for extended periods, individuals who were previously incarcerated,
20	20	and individuals between 18 and 24 years old. The bill requires DWD to submit a
21	21	report with the findings and recommendations.
22	22	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
23	23	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 1.0Nonstatutory provisions.
27	27	(1) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT GRANT STUDY. The department of
28	28	workforce development shall conduct a study of the requirements to create a grant
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35	35	SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 1219
36	36	program administered by the department of workforce development or a
37	37	municipality to award grants to public and nonprofit entities in the care economy to
38	38	create and offer guaranteed jobs in positions that are covered by a collective
39	39	bargaining agreement, for at least 100 days of 8 hours per day at a pay rate of $20
40	40	per hour. In this subsection, “care economy” means job sectors that prioritize care
41	41	for people, communities, and the environment, and includes health care, child care,
42	42	elder and disability care, social services, public transportation, sustainability,
43	43	conservation or climate change mitigation, public infrastructure, education, public
44	44	and social housing, and criminal legal reform. The study shall determine the number
45	45	of positions required, the cost, the number of individuals who would be eligible for
46	46	a position under the grant program, paid training strategies for jobs offered under
47	47	the program, and strategies to create pathways to and opportunities for full-time
48	48	employment. Eligible employers would be able to use grant money to create and offer
49	49	jobs in 25-day increments to any of the following:
50	50	(a) Individuals between 18 and 24 years old.
51	51	(b) Individuals with a disability.
52	52	(c) Heads of households whose household income is 150 percent or less of the
53	53	nonfarm federal poverty line for the continental United States, as defined in 42 USC
54	54	9902 (2).
55	55	(d) Individuals who have been unemployed and searching for a job for 27 weeks
56	56	or more, or who have been unemployed for 3 of the preceding 5 years, except that
57	57	employers of such individuals would no longer be eligible for a grant under the
58	58	program for individuals who have been employed by the same employer for more
59	59	than 12 consecutive months.
60	60	(e) Individuals who were previously incarcerated.
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88	88	SECTION 1
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90	90	(2) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT REPORT. No later than 18 months after
91	91	the effective date of this subsection, the department of workforce development shall
92	92	submit a report with its written findings and recommendations resulting from the
93	93	study under sub. (1) to the governor and to the chief clerk of each house of the
94	94	legislature for distribution to the appropriate standing committees in the manner
95	95	provided under s. 13.172 (3).
96	96	SECTION 2.0Fiscal changes.
97	97	(1) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT GRANT STUDY. In the schedule under
98	98	s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of workforce development under
99	99	s. 20.445 (1) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2023-24 is increased by $250,000
100	100	to conduct the study under SECTION 1 (1) of this act and to create the report under
101	101	SECTION 1 (2) of this act.
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