{"id":2741,"date":"2020-02-10T15:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/?p=2741&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=2741"},"modified":"2020-02-10T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:10:06","slug":"assembly-committee-on-colleges-and-universities-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/2020\/02\/10\/assembly-committee-on-colleges-and-universities-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities- February 6 executive session recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held an executive session on Thursday, February 6, and heard the following bills related to UW System:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/proposals\/reg\/asm\/bill\/ab684\"><strong>AB 684<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#8211; Tuition Grants:<\/strong>\u00a0 veteran-related tuition grants for certain veterans and dependents enrolled in private nonprofit institutions of higher education and making an appropriation.\u00a0 <strong><em>Passed including <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/related\/amendments\/ab684\/aa1_ab684\"><strong><em>Amendment 1<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> in a 16-0 vote.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/related\/proposals\/ab801\"><strong>AB 801<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u2013 Freshwater Collaborative:<\/strong>\u00a0funding a University of Wisconsin System freshwater collaborative and making an appropriation. <strong><em>Passed in a 16-0 vote.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/related\/proposals\/ab800\"><strong>AB 800<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u2013 Groundwater Quality:\u00a0<\/strong>supporting the Center for Watershed Science and Education, creating a hydrogeologist position, funding research on phosphorus recovery and reuse, creating grant programs for counties to test wells and provide public education, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. <strong><em>Passed including <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/related\/amendments\/ab800\/aa1_ab800\"><strong><em>Amendment 1<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> in a 16-0 vote.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held an executive session on Thursday, February 6, and heard the following bills related to UW System: AB 684&#8211; Tuition Grants:\u00a0 veteran-related tuition grants for certain veterans and dependents enrolled in private nonprofit institutions of higher education and making an appropriation.\u00a0 Passed including Amendment 1 in a 16-0 [&#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-2741","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\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}