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Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB667 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 667
5	5	November 14, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives MELOTIK, MOSES, CALLAHAN,
6	6	DITTRICH, GUNDRUM, ORTIZ-VELEZ and BINSFELD, cosponsored by Senators
7	7	FELZKOWSKI, COWLES, TAYLOR, TESTIN and NASS. Referred to Committee on
8	8	Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to amend 38.28 (1m) (a) 1.; and to create 38.34 of the statutes; relating
11	11	to: funding for technical college oral health care programs.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	This bill specifies that the Joint Committee on Finance may provide up to
14	14	$20,000,000 in funding in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium, from the JCF supplemental
15	15	appropriation, for technical college programs to expand the state's oral health care
16	16	workforce. The Technical College System Board, in coordination with the technical
17	17	colleges, may submit a request to JCF for this funding with a plan that identifies each
18	18	technical college that requests funding, the amount of funding requested, and a
19	19	detailed description of the eligible expenditures for which the funding would be used.
20	20	The bill defines “eligible expenditures” as 1) capital expenditures, such as
21	21	expenditures for equipment or facility improvements or expansion; 2) expenditures
22	22	for instructional supplies, teaching materials and resources, consumables, or clinic
23	23	fees; and 3) hiring bonuses of up to $5,000 for oral health care instructors if certain
24	24	requirements are satisfied. The plan must also include requests for 1) up to
25	25	$2,000,000 for Northcentral Technical College to expand current dental hygienist
26	26	and dental assistant programs and for development of a dental therapy program if
27	27	dental therapy becomes an authorized dental practice; 2) up to $1,430,000 for any
28	28	other technical college that offers a dental hygienist program; and 3) up to $1,000,000
29	29	for any technical college that offers no dental program or only a dental assistant
30	30	program, to create a new program or expand an existing program. However, the plan
31	31	may also include, for these technical colleges, requests for additional funding for
32	32	purposes consistent with the bill. The plan must include sufficient information for
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37	37	JCF to determine that 1) the requested funding will be used only for eligible
38	38	expenditures to expand a technical college's existing oral health care program that
39	39	has a capacity limit and a current waiting list or to create a new oral health care
40	40	program after a finding of demonstrated community interest in and need for the
41	41	program; and 2) the technical college will provide 20 percent matching funding,
42	42	except that the technical college must provide no less than 50 percent matching
43	43	funding for instructor hiring bonuses.
44	44	Under the bill, if JCF approves the plan (as proposed or as modified), JCF
45	45	provides funding to the TCS Board. The TCS Board then reimburses each technical
46	46	college for its eligible expenditures under the approved plan if the TCS Board finds
47	47	the technical college complied with the requirements in the bill. If a technical college
48	48	has not requested reimbursement from the TCS Board within 12 months after JCF
49	49	approves the plan or if the technical college informs the TCS Board that it will not
50	50	implement the program changes described in the approved plan, the TCS Board may
51	51	submit a request to JCF to redistribute the funds allocated for that technical college
52	52	to another technical college to be used for a purpose consistent with the bill. The
53	53	request must include certain information and is submitted to JCF for approval under
54	54	a 14-day passive review process.
55	55	The bill also requires a report to the legislature that includes the amount of
56	56	funding each technical college received, a detailed description of all expenditures for
57	57	which the funding was used, and the impact of the funding on the technical college's
58	58	oral health care programs.
59	59	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
60	60	printed as an appendix to this bill.
61	61	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
62	62	enact as follows:
63	63	SECTION 1. 38.28 (1m) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
64	64	38.28 (1m) (a) 1. “District aidable cost" means the annual cost of operating a
65	65	technical college district, including debt service charges for district bonds and
66	66	promissory notes for building programs or capital equipment, but excluding all
67	67	expenditures relating to auxiliary enterprises and community service programs, all
68	68	expenditures funded by or reimbursed with federal revenues, all receipts under ss.
69	69	38.12 (9) and (14), 38.14 (3) and (9), and 118.15 (2) (a), all receipts from grants
70	70	awarded under ss. 38.04 (8), (28), and (31), 38.14 (11), 38.26, 38.27, 38.31, 38.33,
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83	83	38.34, 38.38, and 38.42, all fees collected under s. 38.24, and driver education and
84	84	chauffeur training aids.
85	85	SECTION 2. 38.34 of the statutes is created to read:
86	86	38.34 Funding to expand the oral health care workforce. (1) In this
87	87	section, “eligible expenditures” means any of the following:
88	88	(a) Capital expenditures, such as expenditures for equipment or facility
89	89	improvements or expansion.
90	90	(b) Expenditures for instructional supplies, teaching materials and resources,
91	91	consumables, or clinic fees.
92	92	(c) Instructor bonuses if the requirements in sub. (3) are satisfied.
93	93	(2) (a) In the 2023-25 fiscal biennium, the board, in coordination with district
94	94	boards, may submit to the joint committee on finance a request for funding in the
95	95	2023-25 fiscal biennium, in a total amount not exceeding $20,000,000, for district
96	96	board programs to expand the state's oral health care workforce. Subject to par. (b)
97	97	and sub. (5), the request for funding shall include a plan that identifies each district
98	98	board that requests funding, the amount of funding the district board requests, and
99	99	a detailed description of the eligible expenditures for which the requested funding
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101	101	(b) The plan under par. (a) shall include requests for all of the following:
102	102	1. For the district board of Northcentral Technical College, up to $2,000,000 to
103	103	expand current dental hygienist and dental assistant programs and for development
104	104	of a dental therapy program if dental therapy becomes an authorized dental practice.
105	105	2. For any district board that offers a dental hygienist program on the effective
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107	107	Northcentral Technical College, up to $1,430,000.
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135	135	3. For any district board that offers no dental program or only a dental assistant
136	136	program on the effective date of this subdivision .... [LRB inserts date], up to
137	137	$1,000,000 to create a new program or expand the existing program.
138	138	(c) The requirement under par. (b) does not preclude a request for funding in
139	139	the plan of any additional amount for a district board for a purpose permissible under
140	140	sub. (5).
141	141	(3) (a) Funding provided by the board to a district board under this section may
142	142	be used to pay newly hired instructors a hiring bonus not exceeding $5,000 per
143	143	instructor if all of the following apply:
144	144	1. The instructor is hired into a position that is at least a 0.5 full-time
145	145	equivalent position.
146	146	2. The instructor's work responsibilities require the instructor to devote an
147	147	amount of time at least equal to a 0.5 full-time equivalent position teaching courses
148	148	in an oral health care program.
149	149	3. The district board provides matching funding for the bonus in an amount
150	150	equal to or greater than the amount of the funds provided under this subsection.
151	151	4. The instructor agrees in writing to continue employment with the district
152	152	board for at least 3 years in a position that satisfies the requirements in subds. 1. and
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154	154	5. The district board commits to pay the retention bonus under sub. (4), from
155	155	funds other than the grant awarded under this section, if the conditions in sub. (4)
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157	157	6. The instructor was not employed by the district board, or by any other district
158	158	board, at any time in the 75-day period immediately preceding the effective date of
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189	189	(b) 1. The agreement under par. (a) 4. shall specify that, except as provided in
190	190	subds. 2. to 4., if the instructor discontinues employment with the district board less
191	191	than 3 years after the instructor's first day of employment, the instructor is required
192	192	to repay the hiring bonus as follows:
193	193	a. All of the bonus if the term of employment was less than one year.
194	194	b. Two-thirds of the bonus if the term of employment was at least one year but
195	195	less than 2 years.
196	196	c. One-third of the bonus if the term of employment was at least 2 years but
197	197	less than 3 years.
198	198	2. If the instructor discontinues employment with the district board to begin
199	199	employment with a different district board, in a position that is at least a 0.5
200	200	full-time equivalent position, as an instructor in an oral health care program, the
201	201	repayment requirement under subd. 1. does not apply and the 3-year period under
202	202	par. (a) 4. continues in effect from the instructor's first day of employment with the
203	203	district board that paid the hiring bonus.
204	204	3. If a district board pays an instructor a hiring bonus under par. (a) and the
205	205	instructor is terminated for cause less than 3 years after the instructor's first day of
206	206	employment, the instructor is required to repay all of the bonus.
207	207	4. If a district board pays an instructor a hiring bonus under par. (a) and the
208	208	instructor is terminated for a reason other than cause, including as a result of
209	209	budgetary constraints or program changes, the instructor is not required to repay the
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211	211	(c) An instructor who is simultaneously employed by 2 district boards may not
212	212	receive more than one bonus under this subsection.
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239	239	(4) The district board shall pay to an instructor who receives a hiring bonus
240	240	under sub. (3) a retention bonus in the amount of $5,000 if, 5 years after the date the
241	241	bonus under sub. (3) was paid, the instructor remains employed by the district board
242	242	in a position that meets the requirements under sub. (3) (a) 1. and 2.
243	243	(5) The plan under sub. (2) shall include sufficient information for the joint
244	244	committee on finance to determine that, for each district board program for which
245	245	funding is requested, all of the following requirements are satisfied:
246	246	(a) Funding will be used only for eligible expenditures to expand a district
247	247	board's existing oral health care program that has a capacity limit and a current
248	248	waiting list for program admission or to create a new oral health care program
249	249	offered by the district board after the district board's finding of demonstrated
250	250	community interest in and need for the program.
251	251	(b) Except as provided in sub. (3) (a) 3., the district board will provide matching
252	252	funding, from sources other than this section, of at least 20 percent of the amount
253	253	requested in the plan to pay costs associated with the district board's new or
254	254	expanded oral health care program.
255	255	(6) If the joint committee on finance determines that the requirements in subs.
256	256	(2) and (5) are satisfied, the joint committee on finance may approve the plan and
257	257	request for funding, as proposed or as modified.
258	258	(7) Upon approval under sub. (6), the joint committee on finance may provide
259	259	funding from the appropriation under s. 20.865 (4) (a), in an amount determined by
260	260	the joint committee on finance but not exceeding a total of $20,000,000, to the board
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289	289	(8) (a) From the funding received under sub. (7), the board shall reimburse each
290	290	district board for its eligible expenditures under the approved plan if the board finds
291	291	the district board complied with the requirements under this section.
292	292	(b) If a district board has not requested reimbursement from the board within
293	293	12 months after the joint committee on finance approves the plan or if the district
294	294	board informs the board that it will not implement the program changes described
295	295	in the approved plan, the board may submit a request to the joint committee on
296	296	finance to redistribute the funds allocated for that district board to another district
297	297	board to be used for a purpose consistent with this section. The request shall identify
298	298	each district board to which funding is to be reallocated and the amount to be
299	299	reallocated to each, along with a detailed description of the eligible expenditures for
300	300	which the reallocated funding would be used. The request shall also include the
301	301	same information that was required under sub. (5) for the original plan.
302	302	(c) If, within 14 working days after receiving the request under par. (b), the
303	303	cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance do not notify the board that the
304	304	committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the request, the
305	305	request is considered approved and the board may implement the reallocation of
306	306	funding proposed in the request. If, within 14 working days after the date of the
307	307	request, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the board that the committee has
308	308	scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the request, the request is approved
309	309	only upon the committee's express approval, as requested or as modified.
310	310	(d) From reallocated funding approved under par. (c), the board shall reimburse
311	311	a district board for its approved eligible expenditures if the board finds the district
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339	339	(9) Not later than January 1, 2026, a district board that receives funding under
340	340	this section shall report to the board the amount of funding the district board
341	341	received, a detailed description of all expenditures for which the funding was used,
342	342	and the impact of the funding on the district board's oral health care programs. Not
343	343	later than March 1, 2026, the board shall submit to the chief clerk of each house of
344	344	the legislature for distribution to the appropriate standing committees under s.
345	345	13.172 (3) a report summarizing this information received from the district boards.
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