Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SJR26 Compare Versions

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4	4	2025 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 26
5	5	April 16, 2025 - Introduced by Senators FEYEN, CABRAL-GUEVARA, DRAKE,
6	6	HESSELBEIN, JACQUE, RATCLIFF, ROYS, TOMCZYK and WALL, cosponsored by
7	7	Representatives MOSES, KITCHENS, ALLEN, ARMSTRONG, BEHNKE, CALLAHAN,
8	8	CLANCY, DESMIDT, DITTRICH, GOEBEN, GOODWIN, GUNDRUM, JOHNSON,
9	9	KAUFERT, KNODL, KREIBICH, MADISON, MIRESSE, MURPHY, O'CONNOR,
10	10	PALMERI, PENTERMAN, PETERSEN, PRADO, ROE, SHEEHAN, SINICKI,
11	11	SNODGRASS, SPAUDE, SUBECK, TITTL, TRANEL, WICHGERS and WITTKE.
12	12	Referred to Committee on Senate Organization.
13	13	Relating to: celebrating May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin.
14	14	Whereas, the construction industry is one of our nation's largest industries,
15	15	and those in the skilled trades work in critical, rewarding, high-paying, high-
16	16	demand jobs that cannot be outsourced overseas; and
17	17	Whereas, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors, more than
18	18	one in four construction workers are over 55 years old, and the construction
19	19	industry will need to attract an estimated half million additional workers on top of
20	20	the normal pace of hiring in 2025; and
21	21	Whereas, Wisconsin's world-renowned registered apprentice program,
22	22	established in 1912, is the oldest in the nation and allows anyone to participate in
23	23	structured, on-the-job training with classroom instruction where they earn while
24	24	they learn; and
25	25	Whereas, Youth Apprenticeship, which Wisconsin started in 1991 as a first
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40	40	program of its kind in the nation, is a strong connector to registered apprenticeship
41	41	programs; and
42	42	Whereas, the State of Wisconsin has invested significant tax dollars to
43	43	encourage apprenticeship in the form of incentives and grants and passed reforms
44	44	like allowing EdVest accounts to be used for apprenticeship costs, ratio reform, and
45	45	allowing high school students to participate in registered adult apprenticeships;
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47	47	Whereas, those investments paid off when, last year, Wisconsin had an all-
48	48	time record high number of apprentices in the history of the program, with over
49	49	17,000 apprentices, many of which were in the construction trades, breaking the
50	50	previous records set in 2022 and 2023; and
51	51	Whereas, last year, Wisconsin announced an all-time high of 9,932 youth
52	52	apprentices enrolled during the 2023-24 school year, with a record 6,671 employers
53	53	participating; and
54	54	Whereas, National Skilled Trades Day was created to help raise awareness of
55	55	the important work of those men and women who build the places where we all live,
56	56	work, play, worship, learn, and heal; now, therefore, be it
57	57	Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the Wisconsin
58	58	State Legislature celebrates May 7, 2025, as Skilled Trades Day in Wisconsin.
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