2019 Subject Index to Legislation

Driver education programs offered by school boards, independent charter schools, and CESAs: DPI aid based on eligible pupils [Sec. 153, 1711, 1712; original bill only] - AB56

Dyslexia guidebook for parents, guardians, teachers, and administrators: DPI required to develop, advisory committee provision [A.Amdt.1: financial interest restriction re committee] - AB110

Dyslexia specialist position in DPI, duties specified - AB50

Early College Credit Program and dual enrollment program in technical colleges replaced with requirement that the UW System and technical college district boards implement programs to provide tuition-free courses to eligible high school students [Sec. 154, 229, 352-354, 360, 363, 375-379, 381, 384, 1325, 1418, 1438, 1439, 1561, 1600, 1601, 1685, 1693; original bill only] - AB56

Early College Credit Program and dual enrollment program in technical colleges replaced with requirement that the UW System and technical college district boards implement programs to provide tuition-free courses to eligible high school students [Sec. 154, 229, 352-354, 360, 363, 375-379, 381, 384, 1325, 1418, 1438, 1439, 1561, 1600, 1601, 1685, 1693] - SB59

Eliminate Opportunity Schools and Partnership Programs, teacher licensure based on alternative teacher certification program, limit on school district referenda in a calendar year, and certain Open Enrollment Program transfer amount; annual adjustment to Open Enrollment Program transfer amount formula revised [Sec. 32-36, 151, 164, 400, 755, 761, 769, 770, 776, 823-826, 1410, 1412, 1413, 1480, 1481, 1525-1534, 1536, 1541, 1554, 1556-1560, 1580-1599, 1634-1638, 1640-1645, 1669-1684, 1689, 1719, 1743, 1745, 1769, 1770, 2179] - SB59

Eliminate Opportunity Schools and Partnership Programs, teacher licensure based on alternative teacher certification program, limit on school district referenda in a calendar year, and certain Open Enrollment Program transfer amount; annual adjustment to Open Enrollment Program transfer amount formula revised [Sec. 32-36, 151, 164, 400, 755, 761, 769, 770, 776, 823-826, 1410, 1412, 1413, 1480, 1481, 1525-1534, 1536, 1541, 1554, 1556-1560, 1580-1599, 1634-1638, 1640-1645, 1669-1684, 1689, 1719, 1743, 1745, 1769, 1770, 2179; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, all provisions removed except repeal of Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program, deletes all sections except 761; A.Amdt.1: deletes 761] - AB56

Equalization aid payments to school districts: percentages modified - AB461

Equalization aid payments to school districts: percentages modified - SB415

Esports participation grants to schools: DPI pilot program established - AB1001

Foundations of Reading test scores re certain initial teaching license: DPI required to publish - AB603

Foundations of Reading test scores re certain initial teaching license: DPI required to publish - SB569

Gifted and talented pupils: DPI grants to support revised [Sec. 165, 1562-1566; original bill only] - AB56

Gifted and talented pupils: DPI grants to support revised [Sec. 165, 1562-1566] - SB59

Hours of direct pupil instruction provided virtually by private schools participating in a parental choice program permitted; inclement weather and DPI provisions - AB129

Hours of direct pupil instruction provided virtually by private schools participating in a parental choice program permitted; inclement weather and DPI provisions - SB111

Hours of direct pupil instruction requirement: exception for high performing schools when school is closed due to emergency or inclement weather - SB112

Hours of direct pupil instruction requirement: exception for high performing schools when school is closed due to emergency or inclement weather - AB115

Housing assistance program funding for homeless and low or moderate income families; Interagency Council on Homelessness duties; DPI and WHEDA reports; workforce development and job and income support programs; federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) references; community action agencies grants; public assistance advisory committee created in DHS; sober living residence networks encouraged, grant provision; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services for MA recipients; nonrefundable individual income tax credit for household and dependent care services; urban mass transit aid; children in out-of-home-care and adverse experiences report; funding for Institute for Research on Poverty annual report on poverty in the state - AB508

Housing assistance program funding for homeless and low or moderate income families; Interagency Council on Homelessness duties; DPI and WHEDA reports; workforce development and job and income support programs; federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) references; community action agencies grants; public assistance advisory committee created in DHS; sober living residence networks encouraged, grant provision; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services for MA recipients; nonrefundable individual income tax credit for household and dependent care services; urban mass transit aid; children in out-of-home-care and adverse experiences report; funding for Institute for Research on Poverty annual report on poverty in the state - SB467

Information technology education grants eliminated [Sec. 162, 1335, 1475; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, grants continued, 1475f, deletes 162, 1335, 1475] - AB56

Information technology education grants eliminated [Sec. 162, 1335, 1475] - SB59

Informational materials on instruction re American Indian tribes and bands: DPI to develop and school board distribution requirements - AB106

Lakeland STAR School and Lakeland STAR Academy: DPI grants, matching funds provision [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 163s, t, 9134 (5p), (6p), 9434 (8p)] - AB56

Mathematics partnership grant for MPS created, UW Milwaukee provision [Sec. 142, 1668] - SB59

Mathematics partnership grant for MPS created, UW Milwaukee provision [Sec. 142, 1668; original bill only] - AB56

Mental health program aids for schools to hire and retain pupil services professionals, mental health and school climate training programs and grants, and bullying prevention grants [Sec. 137, 155, 1417, 1419, 1420, 1426, 1427, 1429-1437] - SB59

Mental health program aids for schools to hire and retain pupil services professionals, mental health and school climate training programs and grants, and bullying prevention grants [Sec. 137, 155, 1417, 1419, 1420, 1426, 1427, 1429-1437; original bill only] - AB56

Minority teacher grant program created for school districts to attract minority teachers; minority teacher loan program sunsetted [Sec. 163, 389, 1442, 9320 (1)] - SB59

Minority teacher grant program created for school districts to attract minority teachers; minority teacher loan program sunsetted [Sec. 163, 389, 1442, 9320 (1); original bill only] - AB56

Online dyslexia awareness training for school district employees: DPI to develop or adopt and school boards must require - AB601

Online dyslexia awareness training for school district employees: DPI to develop or adopt and school boards must require - SB552

Online early learning pilot program for low-income children in certain school districts established; DPI duties and reports and matching funds provisions [S.Amdt.1: reporting provision expanded, definitions and 1st class city provisions added] - SB595

Online early learning pilot program for low-income children in certain school districts established; DPI duties and reports and matching funds provisions - AB662

Part-time open enrollment program expanded and renamed the course choice program; DPI duties - AB849

Part-time open enrollment program expanded and renamed the course choice program; DPI duties - SB789

Personal electronic computing devices grant program in DPI eliminated [Sec. 143, 1460-1464, 9434 (3)] - SB59

Personal electronic computing devices grant program in DPI eliminated [Sec. 143, 1460-1464, 9434 (3); original bill only] - AB56

Private school choice programs, independent charter schools, Special Needs Scholarship Program re 2020 public health emergency: DPI may waive state education statutes and administrative rules; not withholding program payments; cash and investment balance requirement does not apply; hours of instruction waiver; and parental choice program application deadline for 2020-2021 extended [Sec. 57, 60-66, 105 (22), (23)] [A.Amdt.4: further revisions] - AB1038

Private school choice programs, independent charter schools, Special Needs Scholarship Program re 2020 public health emergency: DPI may waive state education statutes and administrative rules; not withholding program payments; cash and investment balance requirement does not apply; hours of instruction waiver; and parental choice program application deadline for 2020-2021 extended [Sec. 57, 60-66, 105 (22), (23)] - SB932

Public school financing changes: LFB, DPI, and DOA to certify to JCF amount for two-thirds funding; counting pupils; per pupil adjustments; revenue limit ceiling and adjustments; school district equalization aid formula; high-poverty aid eliminated; school levy property tax credit and first dollar property tax credit sunsetted [Sec. 140, 141, 1074-1077, 1690-1692, 1695-1698, 1701-1706, 1708-1710, 1720, 1722-1742, 1744, 9134 (1), 9334 (1)] - SB59

Public school financing changes: LFB, DPI, and DOA to certify to JCF amount for two-thirds funding; counting pupils; per pupil adjustments; revenue limit ceiling and adjustments; school district equalization aid formula; high-poverty aid eliminated; school levy property tax credit and first dollar property tax credit sunsetted [Sec. 140, 141, 1074-1077, 1690-1692, 1695-1698, 1701-1706, 1708-1710, 1720, 1722-1742, 1744, 9134 (1), 9334 (1); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, revenue limit adjustment modified, counting pupils provision removed, sunset for school levy tax credit and first dollar credit removed, revenue limit increase to remediate lead contamination removed, 1722f, 1728g, deletes 1074-1077, 1690-1692, 1727, 1728, 1731, 1744; A.Amdt.1: further revisions, 1722d-k, deletes 1722f, 1728g] - AB56

Pupil examination requirements do not apply and DPI prohibited from publishing school accountability reports in the 2019-2020 school year [Sec. 54-56, 58, 59, 67-74, 105 (21)] - SB932

Pupil examination requirements do not apply and DPI prohibited from publishing school accountability reports in the 2019-2020 school year [Sec. 54-56, 58, 59, 67-74, 105 (21)] - AB1038

Pupil transportation aid to school districts and independent charter school operators, summer class provision [Sec. 1713, 1714, 9334 (3); original bill only] - AB56

Pupil transportation aid to school districts and independent charter school operators, summer class provision [Sec. 1713, 1714, 9334 (3)] - SB59

Reciprocal teaching license provisions revised - SB184

Reciprocal teaching license provisions revised - AB195

Revenue limit adjustment for school districts for energy efficiency projects modified; resolution, report, and LAB audit provisions - AB553

Revenue limit adjustment for school districts for energy efficiency projects modified; resolution, report, and LAB audit provisions - SB494

Robot-assisted educational programs for pupils with autism: CESA grants [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 146e, 1437p] - AB56

Robotics league participation grants program [Sec. 1472-1474] - SB59

Robotics league participation grants program [Sec. 1472-1474] - AB56

School and school district accountability report to include information on music, dance, drama, and visual arts participation - SB64

School and school district accountability report to include information on music, dance, drama, and visual arts participation - AB67

School breakfast program: eligibility expanded and reimbursement to schools that ceased operations prohibited [Sec. 1424, 1425] - SB59

School breakfast program: eligibility expanded and reimbursement to schools that ceased operations prohibited [Sec. 1424, 1425; original bill only] - AB56

School day milk program expanded [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1425f] - AB56

School district accountability report: exclude data from juvenile detention facility or residential care center for children, conditions set - AB908

School district accountability report: exclude data from juvenile detention facility or residential care center for children, conditions set - SB823

School performance improvement grant eliminated [Sec. 156, 1440, 1441, 9434 (4)] - AB56

School performance improvement grant eliminated [Sec. 156, 1440, 1441, 9434 (4)] - SB59

School Safety, Office of, transferred from DOJ to DPI [Sec. 41, 236, 239, 313, 1414, 1415, 1517, 1518, 1524, 1535, 1639, 1785-1788, 1792-1797, 1855, 9127 (1), 9427 (1); original bill only] - AB56

School Safety, Office of, transferred from DOJ to DPI [Sec. 41, 236, 239, 313, 1414, 1415, 1517, 1518, 1524, 1535, 1639, 1785-1788, 1792-1797, 1855, 9127 (1), 9427 (1)] - SB59

Science competition participation pilot grant program for pupils in grades 6 to 12: DPI to award; matching funds and sunset provisions - SB459

Science competition participation pilot grant program for pupils in grades 6 to 12: DPI to award; matching funds and sunset provisions - AB587

Sparsity aid: additional school districts eligible for [Sec. 1451-1458, 9434 (2); original bill only] - AB56

Sparsity aid: additional school districts eligible for [Sec. 1451-1458, 9434 (2)] - SB59

Sparsity aid for school districts: expanding eligibility and creating a second tier - AB196

Sparsity aid for school districts: expanding eligibility and creating a second tier - SB182

Special education funding changes [Sec. 145, 146, 1510-1516, 9334 (8), 9434 (5)] - SB59

Special education funding changes [Sec. 145, 146, 1510-1516, 9334 (8), 9434 (5); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, supplemental special education aid repealed, deletes 145, 1510, 1511, 1514-1516, 9334 (8)] - AB56

Special Needs Scholarship Program changes [Sec. 144, 1482-1493, 1495-1509, 1603, 1613, 1625, 1626, 1647, 1659, 1660, 9134 (3); original bill only] - AB56

Special Needs Scholarship Program changes [Sec. 144, 1482-1493, 1495-1509, 1603, 1613, 1625, 1626, 1647, 1659, 1660, 9134 (3)] - SB59

Special Needs Scholarship Program phased out; pupil enrollment cap in statewide, Milwaukee, and Racine parental choice programs; DPI duties - AB730

Special Needs Scholarship Program phased out; pupil enrollment cap in statewide, Milwaukee, and Racine parental choice programs; DPI duties - SB658

State aid to resident school district of pupil attending private school under the parental choice program: DPI cannot make certain reductions unless electors approve by referendum - SB661

State aid to resident school district of pupil attending private school under the parental choice program: DPI cannot make certain reductions unless electors approve by referendum - AB729

Student teacher hourly wage: school boards required to pay and DPI to reimburse - SB849

Supplemental per pupil aid [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 142f, 1464f; A.Amdt.1: further revisions] - AB56

Teacher development, training, and recruitment grants combined and transferred from DWD to DPI [Sec. 224, 225, 230, 1328, 1329, 1340-1342, 1550-1553; original bill only] - AB56

Teacher development, training, and recruitment grants combined and transferred from DWD to DPI [Sec. 224, 225, 230, 1328, 1329, 1340-1342, 1550-1553] - SB59

Teacher prepatory program approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction: requirements modified - AB594

Teacher prepatory program approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction: requirements modified - SB554

Technical education equipment grants to school districts transferred from DWD to DPI [Sec. 228, 1339; original bill only] - AB56

Technical education equipment grants to school districts transferred from DWD to DPI [Sec. 228, 1339] - SB59

Teen dating violence prevention education required in schools and each school board must adopt a policy; DPI duties and model health curriculum provision - SB420

Teen dating violence prevention education required in schools and each school board must adopt a policy; DPI duties and model health curriculum provision - AB378

Tribal language revitalization grants: adding American Indian heritage, language, and cultural instruction program grants for certain children; DPI may contract with Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council to implement and administer [Sec. 139, 278, 1476-1479; original bill only] - AB56