Text of WI AB 316 (2026)
Grants for LGBTQIA+ rights training for school counselors and school social workers and making an appropriation. (FE)
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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 316
July 8, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives VINING, PHELPS, CRUZ, NEUBAUER,
RIVERA-WAGNER, SNODGRASS, SPAUDE, STROUD, UDELL, ARNEY, CLANCY,
ANDRACA, EMERSON, HONG, JOERS, MADISON, MCCARVILLE, MIRESSE, MOORE
OMOKUNDE, ORTIZ-VELEZ, PALMERI, ROE, SHEEHAN, TENORIO, FITZGERALD,
BARE, PRADO, SUBECK, MAYADEV, DESMIDT, DESANTO, STUBBS, ANDERSON,
JOHNSON and HAYWOOD, cosponsored by Senators SPREITZER, CARPENTER,
DASSLER-ALFHEIM, ROYS, RATCLIFF, HABUSH SINYKIN, L. JOHNSON, KEYESKI,
LARSON, SMITH, HESSELBEIN and DRAKE. Referred to Committee on
Education.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 20.255 (2) (fi) and 115.403 of the statutes; relating to: grants
for LGBTQIA+ rights training for school counselors and school social workers
and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under this bill, the Department of Public Instruction must award grants to
school boards to provide training in LGBTQIA+ rights, in a program developed or
approved by DPI, to school counselors and school social workers employed by school
boards. The bill defines XLGBTQIA+Y as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer,
intersex, or any other nonheterosexual or noncisgender orientation, identity, or
expression.
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:
SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place,
insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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SECTION 1
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20.255 Public instruction, department of
(2)
AIDS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
(fi)
LGBTQIA+ rights training
grants
GPR
A
2,000,000
2,000,000
SECTION 2. 20.255 (2) (fi) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (fi) LGBTQIA+ rights training grants. The amounts in the
schedule for grants under s. 115.403 (2) for training in LGBTQIA+ rights for school
counselors and school social workers.
SECTION 3. 115.403 of the statutes is created to read:
115.403 LGBTQIA+ rights training grants. (1) In this section,
XLGBTQIA+Y means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or any
other nonheterosexual or noncisgender orientation, identity, or expression.
(2) The department shall award grants to school boards to provide training on
the rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals, in a program developed or approved by the
department, to school counselors and school social workers employed by a school
board.
SECTION 4. Effective date.
(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
publication of the 2025 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
(END)
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