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AB825 • 2025

a grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation

a grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation

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Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representatives Stubbs, Goodwin, Taylor, Ortiz-Velez, Tenorio, Arney, Rivera-Wagner, McCarville, Prado and Kirsch, cosponsored by Senators James and L. Johnson
Last action
2026-03-23
Official status
A - Education
Effective date
Not listed

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a grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation

a grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation Status: A - Education

What This Bill Does

  • a grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation Status: A - Education

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-23 Asm.

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. 2026-02-03 Asm.

    Fiscal estimate received

  3. 2026-01-07 Asm.

    Representative Palmeri added as a coauthor

  4. 2026-01-06 Asm.

    Introduced by Representatives Stubbs , Goodwin , Taylor , Ortiz-Velez , Tenorio , Arney , Rivera-Wagner , McCarville , Prado and Kirsch ; cosponsored by Senators James and L. Johnson

  5. 2026-01-06 Asm.

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

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a grant program to support parent and guardian volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation
Status: A - Education

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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 825
January 6, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
Stubbs
,
Goodwin
,
Taylor
,
Ortiz-Velez
,
Tenorio
,
Arney
,
Rivera-Wagner
,
McCarville
,
Prado
and
Kirsch
, cosponsored by Senators
James
and
L. Johnson
. Referred to Committee on Education.
AB825,1,4
1
An Act

to amend
118.40 (2r) (e) 2p. a.;
to create
20.255 (2) (dq) and 115.449 of
2
the statutes;
relating to:
a grant program to support parent and guardian
3
volunteer programs in schools, granting rule-making authority, and making
4
an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, the Department of Public Instruction must develop and implement a grant program, under which it awards grants to school districts, independent charter schools, and private schools participating in a parental choice program for the purpose of creating or supporting parent and guardian volunteer programs. The bill requires DPI to begin awarding these grants in the 2026-27 school year.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB825,1
1
Section

1
.
20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place,
2
insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
-
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AB825,2
7
Section

2
.
20.255 (2) (dq) of the statutes is created to read:
AB825,2,9
8
20.255
(2)
(dq)
Volunteer programs; grants.
The amounts in the schedule for
9
grants under s. 115.449 for parent and guardian volunteer programs.
AB825,3
10
Section

3
.
115.449 of the statutes is created to read:
AB825,2,16
11
115.449

Parent and guardian volunteer programs; grants.

(1)
The
12
department shall develop and implement a program to award grants to school
13
boards, governing boards of charter schools established under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x),
14
and governing bodies of private schools participating in a program under s. 118.60
15
or 119.23 to create or support programs that allow or encourage parents and
16
guardians to volunteer in elementary and secondary schools.
AB825,2,18
17
(2)
The department shall award grants under this section beginning in the
18
2026-27 school year.
AB825,2,19
19
(3)
The department shall promulgate rules to implement this section.
AB825,4
20
Section

4
.
118.40 (2r) (e) 2p. a. of the statutes, as affected by 2025 Wisconsin
21
Act 15, is amended to read:
AB825,3,3
22
118.40
(2r)
(e) 2p. a. Add the amounts appropriated in the current fiscal year
23
under s. 20.255 (2), except s. 20.255 (2) (ac), (aw), (az), (bb), (dj),
(dq),
(du), (fc), (fm),
24
(fp), (fq), (fr), (fu), (k), and (m); and s. 20.505 (4) (es); and the amount, as determined
1
by the secretary of administration, of the appropriation under s. 20.505 (4) (s)
2
allocated for payments to telecommunications providers under contracts with
3
school districts and cooperative educational service agencies under s. 16.971 (13).
AB825,3,4
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