Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SB240 Compare Versions

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1	1	2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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4	4	2025 SENATE BILL 240
5	5	May 9, 2025 - Introduced by Senators JAGLER, BRADLEY, NASS and STAFSHOLT,
6	6	cosponsored by Representatives MAXEY, MELOTIK, BEHNKE, DITTRICH,
7	7	GUNDRUM, MURSAU and O'CONNOR. Referred to Committee on Government
8	8	Operations, Labor and Economic Development.
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10	10	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
11	11	AN ACT to create 106.145 of the statutes; relating to: workforce literacy grant
12	12	program.
13	13	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
14	14	This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to establish a
15	15	program to award a grant annually to provide workforce literacy services in this
16	16	state. To be eligible to receive the grant, an organization must be a nonprofit entity
17	17	located in this state that provides or supports adult literacy services or community-
18	18	based literacy programs in over half of Wisconsin[s counties. An organization that
19	19	receives a grant may use the money to teach workforce readiness skills, basic
20	20	literacy skills, and digital literacy, to provide GED and HSED preparation and
21	21	testing, to provide other literacy programs related to building and strengthening
22	22	the state[s workforce, or to provide training, programming, supplies, materials, or
23	23	other professional support to an organization that provides direct adult literacy
24	24	services.
25	25	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
26	26	an appendix to this bill.
27	27	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
28	28	enact as follows:
29	29	SECTION 1. 106.145 of the statutes is created to read:
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32	32	3 2025 - 2026 Legislature
33	33	SENATE BILL 240
34	34	- 2 - LRB-2842/1
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36	36	SECTION 1
37	37	106.145 Workforce literacy grant program. (1) The department shall
38	38	establish a program to provide an annual grant to an organization to support
39	39	workforce literacy in this state.
40	40	(2) To be eligible for a grant under sub. (1), an organization shall meet all of
41	41	the following requirements:
42	42	(a) Be a nonprofit entity.
43	43	(b) Be located in this state.
44	44	(c) Provide adult literacy services or support community-based literacy
45	45	programs in over half of this state[s counties.
46	46	(3) An organization that receives a grant under sub. (2) may use the grant for
47	47	any of the following purposes:
48	48	(a) Teaching workforce readiness skills.
49	49	(b) Providing preparation for and administration of exams to receive general
50	50	educational development certificates and declarations of equivalency of high school
51	51	graduation.
52	52	(c) Teaching digital literacy skills.
53	53	(d) Teaching other literacy programs related to building and strengthening
54	54	this state[s workforce.
55	55	(e) Providing support services, training, programming, supplies, materials, or
56	56	any other professional support to an organization that directly provides any of the
57	57	services or programs described in pars. (a) to (d) to adult learners.
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