176 Relating to: creating a commission on financial aid consolidation and modernization.

Date of enactment: April 2, 2012
2011 Assembly Bill 144 Date of publication*: April 16, 2012

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2009-10 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2011 WISCONSIN ACT 176

An Act relating to: creating a commission on financial aid consolidation and modernization.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . Nonstatutory provisions.

(1) Commission on financial aid consolidation and modernization. There is created in the higher educational aids board a commission on financial aid consolidation and modernization consisting of the following members:

(a) The executive secretary of the higher educational aids board.

(b) The chairperson of the higher educational aids board, the student members of the higher educational aids board specified in section 15.67 (1) (a) 5. and 6. and (b) 3. of the statutes, and one other higher educational aids board member of the chairperson's designation.

(c) Two representatives of the University of Wisconsin System appointed by the executive secretary of the higher educational aids board.

(d) Two representatives of the Wisconsin technical college system appointed by the executive secretary of the higher educational aids board.

(e) Two representatives of the Wisconsin association of independent colleges and universities appointed by the executive secretary of the higher educational aids board.

(f) One member of the assembly appointed by the speaker of the assembly.

(g) One member of the senate appointed by the senate majority leader.

(2) Duties of the commission. The commission on financial aid consolidation and modernization shall study all of the following:

(a) The potential for consolidating all grant programs administered by the higher educational aids board into a single, comprehensive, need-based grant program.

(b) Options for providing grant aid for students who are attending Wisconsin institutions of higher education at less than full-time credit loads.

(3) Report of the commission. The commission on financial aid consolidation and modernization shall report its recommendations to the higher educational aids board, and to the legislature in the manner provided in section 13.172 (2) of the statutes, by December 1, 2012, after which the commission shall terminate its activities and shall cease to exist.