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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 741
December 6, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives AUGUST, KITCHENS, O'CONNOR,
SUBECK, KRUG, PLUMER, NOVAK, PENTERMAN, HURD, BINSFELD, ALLEN,
RETTINGER, MURPHY, BRANDTJEN, MELOTIK, MURSAU, GUSTAFSON, PETRYK,
MICHALSKI, SCHMIDT and DITTRICH, cosponsored by Senators FELZKOWSKI,
BRADLEY, CABRAL-GUEVARA and SPREITZER. Referred to Committee on Children
and Families.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 49.168 of the statutes; relating to: national reading program
grants.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Children and Families to establish a
program to award grants for the provision of books to young children. Under the
grant program, DCF may award grants of no more than $10,000 each to nonprofit
organizations as reimbursement for up to 50 percent of the cost of books that the
organizations provide in partnership with a national reading program that has been
in existence since at least 2003 and that mails age-appropriate books free of charge
to children from birth to age five, regardless of family income.
For further information see the state 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. 49.168 of the statutes is created to read:
49.168 National reading program grants. (1) In this section, “national
reading program” means a national program that has been in existence since at least
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SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 741
2003 and that mails age-appropriate books to children from birth to age 5 at no cost
and regardless of their family income.
(2) The department shall establish a program to award grants, from the
appropriation under s. 20.437 (1) (em), to nonprofit organizations for the provision
of books to young children. A nonprofit organization is eligible for a grant under this
section as reimbursement for up to 50 percent of the costs it incurs in purchasing
books in partnership with a national reading program to provide age-appropriate
books to children from birth to age 5 at no cost and regardless of their family income.
A single grant under this section may not exceed $10,000.
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