Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SB187 Compare Versions

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4	4	2025 SENATE BILL 187
5	5	April 14, 2025 - Introduced by Senators L. JOHNSON, DRAKE, HESSELBEIN, LARSON,
6	6	SPREITZER and WIRCH, cosponsored by Representatives MADISON, HAYWOOD,
7	7	MOORE OMOKUNDE, ARNEY, GOODWIN, RIVERA-WAGNER, STUBBS, TAYLOR,
8	8	BARE, BROWN, CLANCY, DESMIDT, FITZGERALD, HONG, JOERS, KIRSCH,
9	9	MIRESSE, PHELPS, PRADO, ROE, TENORIO and UDELL. Referred to Committee
10	10	on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development.
11	11	AN ACT relating to: study of guaranteed employment grant program and
12	12	making an appropriation.
13	13	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
14	14	This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to study the
15	15	creation of a job guarantee and full employment grant program. Under the
16	16	program, DWD and municipalities provide grants to public and nonprofit
17	17	employers in the care economy to provide certain job opportunities in positions
18	18	covered by a collective bargaining unit to individuals with disabilities, heads of
19	19	households with incomes that are 150 percent or less than the federal poverty line,
20	20	individuals who have been unemployed for extended periods, individuals who were
21	21	previously incarcerated, and individuals between 18 and 24 years old. The bill
22	22	requires DWD to submit a report with the findings and recommendations.
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. Nonstatutory provisions.
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35	35	(1) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT GRANT STUDY. The department of
36	36	workforce development shall conduct a study of the requirements to create a grant
37	37	program administered by the department of workforce development or a
38	38	municipality to award grants to public and nonprofit entities in the care economy to
39	39	create and offer guaranteed jobs in positions that are covered by a collective
40	40	bargaining agreement, for at least 100 days of 8 hours per day at a pay rate of $20
41	41	per hour. In this subsection, Xcare economyY means job sectors that prioritize care
42	42	for people, communities, and the environment, and includes health care, child care,
43	43	elder and disability care, social services, public transportation, sustainability,
44	44	conservation or climate change mitigation, public infrastructure, education, public
45	45	and social housing, and criminal legal reform. The study shall determine the
46	46	number of positions required, the cost, the number of individuals who would be
47	47	eligible for a position under the grant program, paid training strategies for jobs
48	48	offered under the program, and strategies to create pathways to and opportunities
49	49	for full-time employment. Eligible employers would be able to use grant money to
50	50	create and offer jobs in 25-day increments to any of the following:
51	51	(a) Individuals between 18 and 24 years old.
52	52	(b) Individuals with a disability.
53	53	(c) Heads of households whose household income is 150 percent or less of the
54	54	nonfarm federal poverty line for the continental United States, as defined in 42
55	55	USC 9902 (2).
56	56	(d) Individuals who have been unemployed and searching for a job for 27
57	57	weeks or more, or who have been unemployed for 3 of the preceding 5 years, except
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84	84	SECTION 1
85	85	that employers of such individuals would no longer be eligible for a grant under the
86	86	program for individuals who have been employed by the same employer for more
87	87	than 12 consecutive months.
88	88	(e) Individuals who were previously incarcerated.
89	89	(2) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT REPORT. No later than 18 months
90	90	after the effective date of this subsection, the department of workforce development
91	91	shall submit a report with its written findings and recommendations resulting
92	92	from the study under sub. (1) to the governor and to the chief clerk of each house of
93	93	the legislature for distribution to the appropriate standing committees in the
94	94	manner provided under s. 13.172 (3).
95	95	SECTION 2. Fiscal changes.
96	96	(1) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT GRANT STUDY. In the schedule
97	97	under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of workforce
98	98	development under s. 20.445 (1) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2025-26 is
99	99	increased by $250,000 to conduct the study under SECTION 1 (1) of this act and to
100	100	create the report under SECTION 1 (2) of this act.
101	101	SECTION 3. Effective date.
102	102	(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
103	103	publication of the 2025 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
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