Amendment ASA1-AB810

AB810-ASA1,3,18 (d) Duties; advisory committee. By no later than April 15, 2021, the advisory committee shall submit to the department an advisory report on the contents and design of the financial information portal. In the advisory report, the committee shall include recommendations to the department on all of the following:

AB810-ASA1,3,21 1. The categories of information that will be accessible to the public through the financial information portal. In developing the recommendations under this subdivision, the committee shall consider at least all of the following categories:

AB810-ASA1,3,22 a. Instructional programming.

AB810-ASA1,3,23 b. Instructional personnel.

AB810-ASA1,3,24 c. Instructional operations.

AB810-ASA1,3,25 d. Facility maintenance and operations.

AB810-ASA1,4,1 e. Pupil transportation.

AB810-ASA1,4,2 f. School administration.

AB810-ASA1,4,3 g. System administration.

AB810-ASA1,4,4 h. Staff development or professional development.

AB810-ASA1,4,5 i. Pension and health care costs.

AB810-ASA1,4,6 j. Pupil participation in open enrollment under s. 118.51.

AB810-ASA1,4,7 k. Pupil participation in part-time open enrollment under s. 118.52.

AB810-ASA1,4,8 l. Pupil participation in the early college credit program under s. 118.55.

AB810-ASA1,4,12 2. For each category recommended under subd. 1., the financial data that will be accessible to the public through the financial information portal. In developing recommendations under this subdivision, the advisory committee shall consider at least all of the following for each category:

AB810-ASA1,4,13 a. The total amount of local, state, and federal funds received.

AB810-ASA1,4,15 b. For state funds received, the appropriation or program from which the funds were disbursed.

AB810-ASA1,4,16 c. The costs and expenditures related to pupil enrollment.

AB810-ASA1,4,17 d. The per pupil and per school costs.

AB810-ASA1,4,21 3. On whether the department's hardware, software, data collection methods, training, maintenance, communications, data security, and installation specifications for reporting information are appropriate for the financial information portal, as recommended by the advisory committee.

AB810-ASA1,4,25 4. The resources necessary to implement and maintain the financial information portal, as recommended by the advisory committee, and to what extent the department can implement and maintain the financial information portal with its existing resources.

AB810-ASA1,5,2 (e) Duties; department. By no later than 45 days after receiving the advisory report under par. (d), the department shall do all of the following:

AB810-ASA1,5,6 1. Respond in writing to the advisory committee as to whether the department will implement each recommendation in the advisory report. If the department responds that it will not implement a recommendation in the advisory report, the department shall include its reasons for not implementing the recommendation.

AB810-ASA1,5,8 2. Deliver a copy of the response under subd. 1 . and a copy of the advisory report the department received under par. (d ) to the joint committee on finance.

AB810-ASA1,5,20 (f) Review by the joint committee on finance. If the cochairpersons of the joint committee on finance do not notify the department that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the department's response to the advisory report within 14 working days after the date of receipt of the department's response under par. (e) 2., the department may implement the recommendations, as modified in the department's response. If, within 14 working days after the date of the department's response, the cochairpersons of the committee notify the department that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the department's response to the recommendations made in the advisory report under par. (d), the department may not implement any of the recommendations until the committee approves the department's plan to implement or reject each recommendation in the advisory report.

AB810-ASA1,5,21 (g) Implementation of recommendations; department.

AB810-ASA1,6,2 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., the department shall implement the recommendations related to the financial information portal, including any modifications approved under par. (f ), by no later than the first day of the 13th month following the date on which the department may implement the recommendations under par. (f).

AB810-ASA1,6,4 2. The department may delay providing financial information for schools in the financial information portal until the 2023-24 school year.

AB810-ASA1,6,5 (h) Termination. The advisory committee terminates on January 1, 2024.

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