Date of enactment: December 6, 2023
2023 Assembly Bill 394 Date of publication*: December 7, 2023
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 86
AN ACT to create 85.27 of the statutes; relating to: a driver education grant program and granting rule−making
authority.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 85.27 of the statutes is created to read:
85.27 Driver education grant program. (1) The
department shall establish and administer a driver educa-
tion grant program. Under the program, from the appro-
priation under s. 20.395 (5) (eq), the department may pro-
vide grants to a provider of a course in driver education
that satisfies all of the following:
(a) The provider is any of the following:
1. A public school providing a course in driver educa-
tion approved by the department of public instruction or
department of transportation.
2. A technical college providing a course in driver
education approved by the technical college system
board.
3. A nonpublic or private school or tribal school, as
defined in s. 115.001 (15m), providing a course in driver
education that meets the minimum standards set by the
department of public instruction.
4. A school licensed by the department under s.
343.61.
(b) The provider provides classroom or behind−the−
wheel driver instruction or both.
(2) (a) The department may provide a grant under
sub. (1) solely for the purpose of funding a course in
driver education for a specified individual who satisfies
the income eligibility criteria for a free or reduced−price
lunch in the federal school lunch program under 42 USC
1758 (b) (1).
(b) The department may provide a grant under sub.
(1) solely for courses in driver education that are
designed to result in an individual obtaining an initial
operator’s license authorizing the operation of only
“Class D” vehicles.
(3) The amount of a grant under sub. (1) may not
exceed the cost that would have been incurred by the indi-
vidual under sub. (2) (a) in taking the course in driver
education.
(4) The department may promulgate rules necessary
to implement this section.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”