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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 235
May 2, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives MAXEY, MELOTIK, BEHNKE, DITTRICH,
GUNDRUM, MURSAU and O'CONNOR, cosponsored by Senators JAGLER,
BRADLEY, NASS and STAFSHOLT. Referred to Committee on Workforce
Development, Labor, and Integrated Employment.
AN ACT to create 106.145 of the statutes; relating to: workforce literacy grant
program.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to establish a
program to award a grant annually to provide workforce literacy services in this
state. To be eligible to receive the grant, an organization must be a nonprofit entity
located in this state that provides or supports adult literacy services or community-
based literacy programs in over half of Wisconsin[s counties. An organization that
receives a grant may use the money to teach workforce readiness skills, basic
literacy skills, and digital literacy, to provide GED and HSED preparation and
testing, to provide other literacy programs related to building and strengthening
the state[s workforce, or to provide training, programming, supplies, materials, or
other professional support to an organization that provides direct adult literacy
services.
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. 106.145 of the statutes is created to read:
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SECTION 1
106.145 Workforce literacy grant program. (1) The department shall
establish a program to provide an annual grant to an organization to support
workforce literacy in this state.
(2) To be eligible for a grant under sub. (1), an organization shall meet all of
the following requirements:
(a) Be a nonprofit entity.
(b) Be located in this state.
(c) Provide adult literacy services or support community-based literacy
programs in over half of this state[s counties.
(3) An organization that receives a grant under sub. (2) may use the grant for
any of the following purposes:
(a) Teaching workforce readiness skills.
(b) Providing preparation for and administration of exams to receive general
educational development certificates and declarations of equivalency of high school
graduation.
(c) Teaching digital literacy skills.
(d) Teaching other literacy programs related to building and strengthening
this state[s workforce.
(e) Providing support services, training, programming, supplies, materials, or
any other professional support to an organization that directly provides any of the
services or programs described in pars. (a) to (d) to adult learners.
(END)
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