Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AJR29 Compare Versions

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4	4	2025 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 29
5	5	April 23, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives MOSES, KITCHENS, ALLEN, TRANEL,
6	6	WITTKE, PENTERMAN, GUNDRUM, O'CONNOR, ARMSTRONG, SPAUDE, DESMIDT,
7	7	MIRESSE, PETERSEN, SNODGRASS, DITTRICH, SHEEHAN, TITTL, KNODL,
8	8	WICHGERS, PRADO, CALLAHAN, KREIBICH, SUBECK, SINICKI, MURPHY, BEHNKE,
9	9	PALMERI, MELOTIK, CLANCY, MADISON, GOODWIN, ROE, JOHNSON, GOEBEN
10	10	and KAUFERT, cosponsored by Senators FEYEN, CABRAL-GUEVARA, TOMCZYK,
11	11	JACQUE, WALL, ROYS, RATCLIFF, HESSELBEIN, DRAKE, LARSON, NASS,
12	12	DASSLER-ALFHEIM and SPREITZER. Referred to Committee on Rules.
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15	15	Relating to: celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin.
16	16	Whereas, the construction industry is one of our nation's largest industries,
17	17	and those in the skilled trades work in critical, rewarding, high-paying, high-
18	18	demand jobs that cannot be outsourced overseas; and
19	19	Whereas, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors, more than
20	20	one in four construction workers are over 55 years old, and the construction
21	21	industry will need to attract an estimated half million additional workers on top of
22	22	the normal pace of hiring in 2025; and
23	23	Whereas, Wisconsin's world-renowned registered apprentice program,
24	24	established in 1912, is the oldest in the nation and allows anyone to participate in
25	25	structured, on-the-job training with classroom instruction where they earn while
26	26	they learn; and
27	27	Whereas, Youth Apprenticeship, which Wisconsin started in 1991 as a first
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42	42	program of its kind in the nation, is a strong connector to registered apprenticeship
43	43	programs; and
44	44	Whereas, the State of Wisconsin has invested significant tax dollars to
45	45	encourage apprenticeship in the form of incentives and grants and passed reforms
46	46	like allowing EdVest accounts to be used for apprenticeship costs, ratio reform, and
47	47	allowing high school students to participate in registered adult apprenticeships;
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49	49	Whereas, those investments paid off when, last year, Wisconsin had an all-
50	50	time record high number of apprentices in the history of the program, with over
51	51	17,000 apprentices, many of which were in the construction trades, breaking the
52	52	previous records set in 2022 and 2023; and
53	53	Whereas, last year, Wisconsin announced an all-time high of 9,932 youth
54	54	apprentices enrolled during the 2023-24 school year, with a record 6,671 employers
55	55	participating; and
56	56	Whereas, National Skilled Trades Day was created to help raise awareness of
57	57	the important work of those men and women who build the places where we all live,
58	58	work, play, worship, learn, and heal; now, therefore, be it
59	59	Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the Wisconsin
60	60	State Legislature celebrates May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin.
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