Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB235 Compare Versions

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1	1	2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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4	4	2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 235
5	5	May 2, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives MAXEY, MELOTIK, BEHNKE, DITTRICH,
6	6	GUNDRUM, MURSAU and O'CONNOR, cosponsored by Senators JAGLER,
7	7	BRADLEY, NASS and STAFSHOLT. Referred to Committee on Workforce
8	8	Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment.
9	9	AN ACT to create 106.145 of the statutes; relating to: workforce literacy grant
10	10	program.
11	11	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
12	12	This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to establish a
13	13	program to award a grant annually to provide workforce literacy services in this
14	14	state. To be eligible to receive the grant, an organization must be a nonprofit entity
15	15	located in this state that provides or supports adult literacy services or community-
16	16	based literacy programs in over half of Wisconsin[s counties. An organization that
17	17	receives a grant may use the money to teach workforce readiness skills, basic
18	18	literacy skills, and digital literacy, to provide GED and HSED preparation and
19	19	testing, to provide other literacy programs related to building and strengthening
20	20	the state[s workforce, or to provide training, programming, supplies, materials, or
21	21	other professional support to an organization that provides direct adult literacy
22	22	services.
23	23	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
24	24	an appendix to this bill.
25	25	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
26	26	enact as follows:
27	27	SECTION 1. 106.145 of the statutes is created to read:
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30	30	3 2025 - 2026 Legislature
31	31	ASSEMBLY BILL 235
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34	34	SECTION 1
35	35	106.145 Workforce literacy grant program. (1) The department shall
36	36	establish a program to provide an annual grant to an organization to support
37	37	workforce literacy in this state.
38	38	(2) To be eligible for a grant under sub. (1), an organization shall meet all of
39	39	the following requirements:
40	40	(a) Be a nonprofit entity.
41	41	(b) Be located in this state.
42	42	(c) Provide adult literacy services or support community-based literacy
43	43	programs in over half of this state[s counties.
44	44	(3) An organization that receives a grant under sub. (2) may use the grant for
45	45	any of the following purposes:
46	46	(a) Teaching workforce readiness skills.
47	47	(b) Providing preparation for and administration of exams to receive general
48	48	educational development certificates and declarations of equivalency of high school
49	49	graduation.
50	50	(c) Teaching digital literacy skills.
51	51	(d) Teaching other literacy programs related to building and strengthening
52	52	this state[s workforce.
53	53	(e) Providing support services, training, programming, supplies, materials, or
54	54	any other professional support to an organization that directly provides any of the
55	55	services or programs described in pars. (a) to (d) to adult learners.
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