Amendment AA3-ASA1-AB56

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1687 Section 1687. 120.13 (14) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,109,22 120.13 (14) (b) 1. If a person who has contracted under par. (a) to provide a child care program is convicted of a serious crime, as defined in s. 48.686 (1) (c), or if a caregiver specified in s. 48.686 (1) (ag) 1. or a nonclient resident, as defined in s. 48.686 (1) (bm), of the subject to a background check under s. 48.686 (2) who operates, works at, or resides at a child care program contracted for under par. (a), is convicted or adjudicated delinquent for committing a serious crime on or after his or her 10th birthday, as defined under s. 48.686 (1) (c), the school board shall rescind the contract of the contractor for the child care program immediately upon providing written notice of the rescission and the grounds for the rescission and an explanation of the process for appealing the rescission.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1688 Section 1688. 120.13 (14) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,110,11 120.13 (14) (b) 2. If a person who has contracted under par. (a) to provide a child care program is the subject of a pending criminal charge alleging that the person has committed a serious crime, as defined in s. 48.686 (1) (c), or if a caregiver specified in s. 48.686 (1) (ag) 1. or a nonclient resident, as defined in s. 48.686 (1) (bm), of the subject to a background check under s. 48.686 (2) who operates, works at, or resides at a child care program contracted for under par. (a) is the subject of a pending criminal charge or delinquency petition alleging that the person has committed a serious crime on or after his or her 10th birthday , as defined in s. 48.686 (1) (c), the school board shall immediately suspend the contract of the contractor for the child care program until the school board obtains information regarding the final disposition of the charge or delinquency petition indicating that the person is not ineligible to provide operate, work at, or reside at a child care program under this subsection.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1689 Section 1689. 120.18 (1) (o) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1690 Section 1690. 121.004 (7) (c) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,110,17 121.004 (7) (c) 1. a. A pupil enrolled in a 5-year-old kindergarten program that requires full-day attendance by the pupil for 5 days a week, but not on any day of the week that pupils enrolled in other grades in the school do not attend school, for an entire school term shall be counted as one pupil.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1691 Section 1691. 121.004 (7) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,110,21 121.004 (7) (c) 2. In subd. 1. a. and b., “full-day" means the length of the school day for pupils in the first grade of the school district operating the 4-year-old or 5-year-old kindergarten program.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1692 Section 1692. 121.004 (7) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,111,4 121.004 (7) (cm) A pupil enrolled in a 4-year-old kindergarten program, including a 4-year-old kindergarten program being phased in under s. 118.14 (3) (b), that provides the required number of hours of direct pupil instruction under s. 121.02 (1) (f) but requires less than full-day attendance by the pupil for 5 days a week shall be counted as 0.6 pupil if the program annually provides at least 87.5 additional hours of outreach activities. In this paragraph, “full-day” has the meaning given in par. (c) 2.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1694 Section 1694. 121.07 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,111,8 121.07 (2) Membership. (intro.) For the purposes of ss. 121.08, 121.09, 121.095, and 121.105, and 121.137, a school district's membership is the sum of all of the following:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1695 Section 1695. 121.07 (6) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,111,13 121.07 (6) (d) The “secondary ceiling cost per member" in the 2001-02 school year and in each school year thereafter is an amount determined by dividing the state total shared cost in the previous school year by the state total membership in the previous school year and multiplying the result by 0.90.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1696 Section 1696. 121.07 (8) of the statutes is renumbered 121.07 (8) (intro.) and amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,111,19 121.07 (8) Guaranteed valuation. (intro.) A school district's primary, secondary and tertiary guaranteed valuations are determined by multiplying the amounts in sub. (7) by the sum of the school district's membership. and an amount calculated as follows:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1697 Section 1697. 121.07 (8) (a) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,111,23 121.07 (8) (a) Determine the number of pupils residing in the school district who satisfy the income eligibility criteria for a free or reduced-price lunch under 42 USC 1758 (b) (1).

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1698 Section 1698. 121.07 (8) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,111,25 121.07 (8) (b) Multiply the number of pupils under par. (a) by 0.2.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1699 Section 1699. 121.08 (4) (b) (intro.) and 1. of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 121.08 (4) (b) and amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,112,12 121.08 (4) (b) The amount of state aid that the school district operating under ch. 119 is eligible to be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) shall also be reduced by the amount calculated as follows: 1. Multiply the amounts paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) in the 2009-10 school year by 41.6 percent, and multiply by multiplying the amounts paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) in the 2010-11 to 2012-13 school years by 38.4 percent. Beginning in the 2013-14 school year, multiply the amounts paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) in the current school year by a percentage determined by subtracting 3.2 percentage points from the percentage that was applied under this subdivision paragraph in the previous school year. This subdivision paragraph does not apply after the 2024-25 school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1700 Section 1700. 121.08 (4) (b) 2. and 3. of the statutes are repealed.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1701 Section 1701. 121.10 of the statutes is created to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,112,16 121.10 Hold harmless aid. (1) In this section, “state aid" means the sum of the following:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,112,18 (a) The payments made to a school district under ss. 121.08 and 121.105 and subch. VI.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,112,20 (b) The payments that would be made to a school district under s. 121.136 if s. 121.136 were still applicable.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,112,22 (c) The amount that would be received by a school district under s. 79.10 (4) and (5m) if s. 79.10 (4) and (5m) were still applicable.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,113,2 (2) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), in the 2020-21 school year, if a school district would receive less in equalization aid under s. 121.08 in the current school year before any adjustment is made under s. 121.15 (4) (b) than it would have received in state aid in the current school year, the department shall pay to the school district the amount equal to the difference.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,113,8 (b) If a school district from which territory was detached to create a new school district under s. 117.105 would receive in equalization aid under s. 121.08 in the school year beginning on the first July 1 following the effective date of the reorganization less than the amount determined as follows, the department shall pay to the school district the difference between the former amount and the amount determined as follows:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,113,10 1. Divide the school district's membership in the preceding school year by the school district's membership in the 2nd preceding school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,113,13 2. Multiply the amount of state aid that would have been received by the school district in the preceding school year, as adjusted under s. 121.15 (4) (b) in the current school year, by the quotient under subd. 1.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,113,19 (3) In the school year in which a school district consolidation takes effect under s. 117.08 or 117.09 and in each of the subsequent 4 school years, if the consolidated school district's equalization aid is less than the aggregate state aid to which the consolidating school districts would have been eligible in the school year prior to the school year in which the consolidation takes effect, the department shall pay the difference to the consolidated school district.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,113,21 (4) Additional aid under this section shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ag). No aid may be paid under this section after the 2020-21 school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1702 Section 1702. 121.105 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,113,25 121.105 (1) In Except as provided in sub. (5), in this section “state aid" means the sum of the payments provided to a school district under this section and ss. 121.08, 121.85 and 121.86.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1703 Section 1703. 121.105 (2) (am) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,114,7 121.105 (2) (am) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., if a school district would receive less in state aid in the current school year before any adjustment is made under s. 121.15 (4) (b) than an amount equal to 85 90 percent of the amount of state aid that it received in the previous school year, as adjusted under s. 121.15 (4) (b) in the current school year, its state aid for the current school year shall be increased to an amount equal to 85 90 percent of the state aid received in the previous school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1704 Section 1704. 121.105 (2) (am) 2. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,114,15 121.105 (2) (am) 2. (intro.) If a school district from which territory was detached to create a new school district under s. 117.105 would receive in state aid in the school year beginning on the first July 1 following the effective date of the reorganization less than 85 90 percent of the amount determined as follows, its state aid in the school year beginning on the first July 1 following the effective date of the reorganization shall be increased to an amount equal to 85 90 percent of the amount determined as follows:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1705 Section 1705. 121.105 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,114,18 121.105 (5) (a) In this subsection, “state aid” means the sum of the payments provided to a school district under this section and s. 121.08.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,114,23 (b) If, after making the adjustments under subs. (2), (3), and (4), a school district would receive less in state aid in the current school year before any adjustment is made under s. 121.15 (4) (b) than an amount equal to $3,000 multiplied by the school district's membership, the school district's state aid shall be increased to an amount equal to $3,000 multiplied by the school district's membership.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1706 Section 1706. 121.136 (3) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,114,25 121.136 (3) No aid may be paid under this section after June 30, 2020.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1707 Section 1707. 121.137 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1708 Section 1708. 121.15 (1m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,6 121.15 (1m) (a) 3. Beginning in the 1999-2000 school year and ending in the 2018-19 school year, annually the state shall pay to school districts, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac), $75,000,000 on the 4th Monday in July of the following school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1709 Section 1709. 121.15 (1m) (a) 4. of the statutes is created to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,10 121.15 (1m) (a) 4. Beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, annually the state shall pay to school districts, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac), $1,090,000,000 on the 4th Monday in July of the following school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1710 Section 1710. 121.15 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,12 121.15 (3m) (a) In this subsection:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,15 1. “Partial school revenues" means the sum of state school aids, property taxes levied for school districts, and aid paid to school districts under s. 79.095 (4), less all of the following:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,18 a. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 2. due to a school board's increasing the services that it provides by adding responsibility for providing a service transferred to it from another school board.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,19 b. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 3.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,20 c. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (h).

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,21 d. The amount of any property taxes levied for the purpose of s. 120.13 (19).

AB56-ASA1-AA3,115,24 e. An amount equal to the amount estimated to be paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) multiplied by the sum of the applicable percentages specified in s. 121.08 (4) (b) 1. and 2.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,116,2 f. The amount by which the property tax levy for debt service on debt that has been approved by a referendum exceeds $490,000,000.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,116,9 2. “State school aids" means the amounts appropriated under s. 20.255 (1) (b) and (2), other than s. 20.255 (2) (az), (bb), (fm), (fp), (fq), (fr), (fu), (fv), (k), and (m), the amount appropriated under s. 20.505 (4) (es), and the amount, as determined by the secretary of administration, of the appropriation under s. 20.505 (4) (s) allocated for payments to telecommunications providers under contracts with school districts and cooperative educational service agencies under s. 16.971 (13), and to make information technology infrastructure grants under s. 16.9945.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,116,14 (b) By May 15, 2021, and annually by May 15 thereafter, the department, the department of administration, and the legislative fiscal bureau shall jointly certify to the joint committee on finance an estimate of the amount necessary to appropriate under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) in the following school year to ensure that state school aids equal two-thirds of partial school revenues.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,116,17 (c) By June 30, 2020, and biennially by June 30 thereafter, the joint committee on finance shall determine the amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) in the following school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1711 Section 1711. 121.41 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,117,2 121.41 Driver education programs ; fees. A school board, operator of a charter school authorized under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x), cooperative educational service agency, or the technical college system board may establish and collect reasonable fees for any driver education program or part of a program which is neither required for nor credited toward graduation. The school board, operator of a charter school authorized under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x), cooperative educational service agency, or the technical college system board may waive any fee established under this subsection for any indigent pupil.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1712 Section 1712. 121.42 of the statutes is created to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,117,4 121.42 Driver education programs; state aid. (1) In this section:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,117,7 (a) “Driver education program” means an instructional program in driver education approved by the department and operated by a qualified driver education provider.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,117,10 (b) “Eligible pupil” means a pupil who met the income eligibility standard for a free or reduced-price lunch in the federal school lunch program under 42 USC 1758 (b) (1) in the previous school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,117,13 (c) “Qualified driver education provider” means a school board, the operator of a charter school authorized under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x), or a cooperative educational service agency.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,117,17 (2) Beginning in the 2020-21 school year, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (cv) and subject to sub. (4), the department shall pay to each qualified driver education provider the amount determined under sub. (3) if all of the following apply:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,117,21 (a) The qualified driver education provider demonstrates to the department that for eligible pupils the qualified driver education provider reduced the fees the qualified driver education provider otherwise charges pupils to enroll in and complete the driver education program.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,117,25 (b) By October 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, the qualified driver education provider reports to the department the number of eligible pupils who enrolled in and successfully completed a driver education program operated by qualified driver education in the previous school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,118,3 (3) The department shall calculate the amount paid to a qualified driver education provider under sub. (2) by multiplying the number of eligible pupils reported under sub. (2) (b) by the lesser of the following:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,118,4 (a) Two hundred dollars.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,118,6 (b) The amount by which the qualified driver education provider reduced fees under sub. (2) (a) in the previous school year.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,118,9 (4) If the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (cv) in any fiscal year is insufficient to pay the full amount of aid under sub. (2), the department shall prorate the aid payments among the entitled qualified driver education providers.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,118,11 (5) The department may promulgate rules to implement and administer this section.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1713 Section 1713. 121.58 (2) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,118,15 121.58 (2) (a) 4. For each pupil so transported whose residence is more than 12 miles from the school attended, $300 $365 per school year in the 2016-17 2018-19 school year and $365 $375 per school year thereafter.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1714 Section 1714. 121.58 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,119,7 121.58 (4) State aid for summer class transportation. Annually on or before October 1 of the year in which transportation is provided under s. 118.50 (3) (b) or 121.54 (4), or under s. 121.54 (10) if the transportation is provided by the nonresident school district that a pupil attends under s. 118.51 or 121.84 (4), the school district clerk shall file with the department a report, containing such information as the department requires, on transportation provided by the school board to and from summer classes. Upon receipt of such report and if the summer classes meet the requirements of s. 121.14 (1) (a) 1. or 2., state aid shall be paid for such transportation. A school district which that provides such transportation shall be paid state aid for such transportation at the rate of $10 per pupil transported to and from public school whose residence is at least 2 miles and not more than 5 miles by the nearest traveled route from the public school attended, and $20 per pupil transported to and from public school whose residence is more than 5 miles by the nearest traveled route from the public school attended, if the pupil is transported 30 days or more. The state aid shall be reduced proportionately if the pupil is transported less than 30 days.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1715 Section 1715. 121.59 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,119,10 121.59 (2) (intro.) Annually the department shall , subject to sub. (3), pay to each eligible school district the amount determined as follows:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1716 Section 1716. 121.59 (2m) (a) (intro.), 1. and 2. of the statutes are renumbered 121.59 (2m) (intro.), (am) and (bm), and 121.59 (2m) (intro.) and (bm), as renumbered, are amended to read:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,119,19 121.59 (2m) (intro.) Beginning in the 2017-18 school year and in any school year thereafter, if a If an eligible school district was eligible to receive aid under sub. (2) in the immediately preceding school year but is ineligible to receive aid in the current school year because the number under sub. (2) (d) is not a positive number, the state superintendent shall, subject to par. (b) sub. (3), pay to that eligible school district the amount determined as follows:

AB56-ASA1-AA3,119,20 (bm) Multiply the amount under subd. 1. par. (am) by 0.5.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1717 Section 1717. 121.59 (2m) (b) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56-ASA1-AA3,1718 Section 1718. 121.59 (3) of the statutes is amended to read: