Bill > AB357

Introduced Session

Current law provides that the Department of Workforce Development may award technical education equipment grants to school districts for certain purposes, including for the enhancement or improvement of a technical education facility or for the acquisition of equipment that is used in advanced manufacturing or construction fields in the workplace, together with any software necessary for the operation of that equipment and any instructional material necessary to train pupils in the operation of that equipment. As a condition of receiving a grant, a grant recipient must provide matching funds, in the form of money or the monetary value of equipment. The match must be 200 percent of the grant amount awarded if any of the match is contributed from school district funds, or 100 percent if the match is purely from other sources. This bill makes the following changes to the program: 1. Revises the purposes for which grants may be awarded. Under the bill, grant moneys may be used for additional specified purposes, such as the construction of a new technical education facility and instructional training on the use of tools and equipment used in technical education. 2. Requires the match to be the amount of the grant awarded, regardless of whether any of the match is contributed from school district funds. The bill also allows a match to be provided by someone other than a grant recipient and allows any in-kind contribution to count toward the match requirement, including software, tools, and equipment. For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

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David Armstrong (R)*,  Lindee Brill (R)*,  Steve Doyle (D)*,  Joan Fitzgerald (D)*,  Benjamin Franklin (R)*,  Chanz Green (R)*,  Rick Gundrum (R)*,  Andrew Hysell (D)*,  Tara Johnson (D)*,  Joel Kitchens (R)*,  Rob Kreibich (R)*,  Dave Maxey (R)*,  Vincent Miresse (D)*,  Dave Murphy (R)*,  Jeff Mursau (R)*,  Amanda Nedweski (R)*,  Greta Neubauer (D)*,  Todd Novak (R)*,  Joe Sheehan (D)*,  Christine Sinicki (D)*,  Kristin Dassler-Alfheim (D),  Dora Drake (D),  Jodi Habush Sinykin (D),  Brad Pfaff (D),  Rob Stafsholt (R),  Jamie Wall (D), 

Laid on the table (on 02/12/2026)

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