Date of enactment:
2023 Assembly Bill 67 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 36.49 (4) of the statutes; relating to: the award of Wisconsin Merit scholarships to University
of Wisconsin System students.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 36.49 (4) of the statutes is amended to
read:
36.49 (4) Award the balance in annual scholarships
called “Wisconsin Merit scholarships,” which shall be
based only on merit, to students who are enrolled in an
institution or college campus and who have either gradu-
ated from high school in this state or been granted a high
school diploma by the administrator of a home−based
private educational program, as defined in s. 115.001
(3g), in this state. The board shall determine merit based
on a performance on standardized college entrance
examinations and, if applicable, cumulative high school
grade point averages. An annual scholarship awarded to
a student under this subsection shall equal $5,000. This
subsection does not apply beginning on April 1, 2023.
* 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.”