{"id":2231,"date":"2019-09-04T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/?p=2231&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=2231"},"modified":"2019-09-04T10:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T15:05:20","slug":"senate-hearing-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/2019\/09\/04\/senate-hearing-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families Public Hearing Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families held a public hearing on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. Items discussed included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AB 117\/AB 82- Athlete Agents Act<\/li>\n<li>SB 142\/AB 161- Tuition Benefits for Student Veterans (see below for PDF of written testimony provided by UW System)<\/li>\n<li>SB 55\/AB 51- Minority teacher loan program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Committee also held an Executive Session on SB 42\/AB 38- UW research contracts, which was previously passed by the Assembly. The bill will head to the Senate Floor next.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a public hearing was held for Board of Regents Karen Walsh, Olivia Woodmansee, and Edmund Manydeeds III. A confirmation date for these position has not yet been set.<\/p>\n<p>See video<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiseye.org\/2019\/08\/27\/senate-committee-on-universities-technical-colleges-children-and-families-2\/\">link<\/a> <\/strong>for full recap of both the public hearing and executive session.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee on Universities, Technical Colleges, Children and Families held a public hearing on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. Items discussed included: AB 117\/AB 82- Athlete Agents Act SB 142\/AB 161- Tuition Benefits for Student Veterans (see below for PDF of written testimony provided by UW System) SB 55\/AB 51- Minority teacher loan program The Committee [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}