AB56: Bill Text

AB56,888,25 119.49 (4) The common council shall levy and collect a tax upon all taxable property in the city, in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are levied and collected, which that shall be sufficient to pay the interest on all school bonds issued under this subchapter which chapter that are outstanding and to pay such part of the principal of such school bonds as becomes due during the ensuing school year.

AB56,1673 Section 1673. 119.61 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,889,4 119.61 (2) (b) The board shall submit a copy of the inventory required under par. (a) to the commissioner, the superintendent of schools, the city clerk, the department, and the joint committee on finance.

AB56,1674 Section 1674. 119.61 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,889,9 119.61 (2) (c) In addition to the inventory required under par. (a), the board shall annually notify the commissioner, the superintendent of schools, the city clerk, the department, and the joint committee on finance any time a change is made to the use of a school building.

AB56,1675 Section 1675. 119.61 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,889,16 119.61 (3) (a) If, within 60 days after receipt of the inventory required under sub. (2) (a) or of a notice under sub. (2) (c), either the commissioner or the superintendent of schools submits a letter of interest regarding an eligible school building, the common council shall immediately proceed to add the commissioner or the superintendent of schools, respectively, as an agent of the board on any existing lease for the eligible school building between the common council and the board.

AB56,1676 Section 1676. 119.61 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,890,2 119.61 (3) (b) If, no more than 60 days after providing the commissioner and the superintendent of schools with a copy of the inventory under sub. (2) (a) or of a notice under sub. (2) (c), neither the commissioner nor the superintendent of schools has not submitted a letter of interest under par. (a), the city clerk shall post a public notice on the city's Internet site. The city clerk shall include in the public notice under this subsection the address of and the information specified under sub. (2) (a) 1. and 8. for each school building identified on the inventory under sub. (2) (a), or on the notice under sub. (2) (c), that is an eligible school building. The city clerk shall include in the public notice a request for and instructions for submitting letters of interest from persons interested in purchasing an eligible school building.

AB56,1677 Section 1677. 119.66 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,890,14 119.66 Interest in contracts forbidden. During the term for which elected or appointed and for 2 years after the expiration of the term, no member of the board may be employed by the board or by the department of employee trust funds in any capacity for which a salary or emolument is provided by the board or the department of employee trust funds. No board member, superintendent of schools, assistant superintendent, other assistant, teacher or other employee of the board may have any interest in the purchase or sale of property by the city for the use or convenience of the schools. No contract made in violation of this section is valid. Any consideration paid by the city for a purchase or sale prohibited by this section may be recovered in an action at law in the name of the city. Any person violating this section shall be removed from any position held under this subchapter chapter.

AB56,1678 Section 1678. Subchapter II (title) of chapter 119 [precedes 119.9000] of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,1679 Section 1679. 119.9000 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,1680 Section 1680. 119.9001 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,1681 Section 1681. 119.9002 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,1682 Section 1682. 119.9003 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,1683 Section 1683. 119.9004 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,1684 Section 1684. 119.9005 of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,1685 Section 1685. 120.12 (17) of the statutes is repealed.

AB56,1686 Section 1686. 120.13 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,891,4 120.13 (2) (g) Every self-insured plan under par. (b) shall comply with ss. 49.493 (3) (d), 631.89, 631.90, 631.93 (2), 632.728, 632.746 (1) and (10) (a) 2. and (b) 2., 632.747 (3), 632.798, 632.85, 632.853, 632.855, 632.867, 632.87 (4) to (6), 632.885, 632.89, 632.895 (9) (8) to (17), 632.896, and 767.513 (4).

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

AB56,891,15 120.13 (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.

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

AB56,892,4 120.13 (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.

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

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

AB56,892,10 121.004 (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.

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

AB56,892,14 121.004 (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.

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

AB56,892,22 121.004 (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.

AB56,1693 Section 1693. 121.05 (1) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB56,892,25 121.05 (1) (a) 5. Pupils attending a technical college under s. 118.15 (1) (b) and pupils attending an institution of higher education under s. 118.55.

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

AB56,893,4 121.07 (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:

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

AB56,893,9 121.07 (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.

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

AB56,893,15 121.07 (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:

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

AB56,893,19 121.07 (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).

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

AB56,893,21 121.07 (8) (b) Multiply the number of pupils under par. (a) by 0.2.

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

AB56,894,8 121.08 (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.

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

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

AB56,894,12 121.10 Hold harmless aid. (1) In this section, “state aid" means the sum of the following:

AB56,894,14 (a) The payments made to a school district under ss. 121.08 and 121.105 and subch. VI.

AB56,894,16 (b) The payments that would be made to a school district under s. 121.136 if s. 121.136 were still applicable.

AB56,894,18 (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.

AB56,894,23 (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.

AB56,895,4 (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:

AB56,895,6 1. Divide the school district's membership in the preceding school year by the school district's membership in the 2nd preceding school year.

AB56,895,9 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.

AB56,895,15 (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.

AB56,895,17 (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.

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

AB56,895,21 121.105 (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.

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

AB56,896,3 121.105 (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.

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

AB56,896,11 121.105 (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:

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

AB56,896,14 121.105 (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.

AB56,896,19 (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.

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

AB56,896,21 121.136 (3) No aid may be paid under this section after June 30, 2020.

AB56,1707 Section 1707. 121.137 of the statutes is repealed.

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

AB56,897,2 121.15 (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.

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

AB56,897,6 121.15 (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.

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

AB56,897,8 121.15 (3m) (a) In this subsection:

AB56,897,11 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:

AB56,897,14 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.

AB56,897,15 b. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 3.

AB56,897,16 c. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (h).

AB56,897,17 d. The amount of any property taxes levied for the purpose of s. 120.13 (19).

AB56,897,20 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.

AB56,897,22 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.

AB56,898,4 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.