Amendment SA1-AB68

SENATE AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 68

June 30, 2021 - Offered by Senators Larson, L. Taylor and Carpenter.

AB68-SA1,1,2 At the locations indicated, amend the bill, as shown by assembly substitute amendment 2, as follows:

AB68-SA1,1,4 1. Page 54, line 1: delete the material beginning with that line and ending on page 63, line 11, and substitute: - See PDF for table

AB68-SA1,12,2 2. Page 240, line 25: delete the material beginning with that line and ending on page 241, line 5.

AB68-SA1,12,4 3. Page 335, line 16: delete the material beginning with that line and ending on page 340, line 3.

AB68-SA1,12,5 4. Page 391, line 17: delete lines 17 to 25.

AB68-SA1,12,6 5. Page 397, line 13: delete lines 13 to 17.

AB68-SA1,12,7 6. Page 399, line 16: delete lines 16 to 18.

AB68-SA1,12,8 7. At the appropriate places, insert all of the following:

AB68-SA1,12,9 “ Section 1. 13.94 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,13,4 13.94 Legislative audit bureau. (intro.) There is created a bureau to be known as the “Legislative Audit Bureau," headed by a chief known as the “State Auditor." The bureau shall be strictly nonpartisan and shall at all times observe the confidential nature of any audit currently being performed. Subject to s. 230.35 (4) (a) and (f), the state auditor or designated employees shall at all times with or without notice have access to all departments and to any books, records , or other documents maintained by the departments and relating to their expenditures, revenues, operations, and structure, including specifically any such books, records, or other documents that are confidential by law, except as provided in sub. (4) and except that access to documents of counties, cities, villages, towns , or school districts is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (m) and except that access to documents of the opportunity schools and partnership programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 is limited to work performed in connection with audits authorized under sub. (1) (os). In the discharge of any duty imposed by law, the state auditor may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths and take testimony and cause the deposition of witnesses to be taken as prescribed for taking depositions in civil actions in circuit courts.

AB68-SA1,2 Section 2. 13.94 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,13,19 13.94 (1) (b) At the state auditor's discretion or as the joint legislative audit committee directs, audit the records of each department. Audits of the records of a county, city, village, town, or school district may be performed only as provided in par. (m). Audits of the records of the opportunity schools and partnership programs under s. 119.33, subch. IX of ch. 115, and subch. II of ch. 119 may be performed only as provided in par. (os). After completion of any audit under this paragraph, the bureau shall file with the chief clerk of each house of the legislature, the governor, the department of administration, the legislative reference bureau, the joint committee on finance, the legislative fiscal bureau, and the department audited, a detailed report of the audit, including the bureau's recommendations for improvement and efficiency and including specific instances, if any, of illegal or improper expenditures. The chief clerks shall distribute the report to the joint legislative audit committee, the appropriate standing committees of the legislature, and the joint committee on legislative organization.

AB68-SA1,3 Section 3. 13.94 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,14,2 13.94 (1) (e) Make such special examinations of the accounts and financial transactions of any department, agency, or officer as the legislature, joint legislative audit committee, or joint committee on legislative organization directs. Examinations of the accounts and transactions of a county, city, village, town, or, subject to par. (os), of a school district, may be performed only as authorized in par. (m).

AB68-SA1,4 Section 4. 13.94 (1) (os) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SA1,5 Section 5. 13.94 (1s) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,14,10 13.94 (1s) (a) Except as otherwise provided in par. (c), the legislative audit bureau may charge any department for the reasonable cost of auditing services performed at the request of a department or at the request of the federal government that the bureau is not required to perform under sub. (1) (b) or (c) or any other law. This paragraph does not apply to counties, cities, villages, towns, or school districts or to the opportunity schools and partnership programs under sub. (1) (os).

AB68-SA1,6 Section 6. 16.9945 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,15,2 16.9945 (1) Competitive grants. (intro.) In fiscal years 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21, the The department may annually award grants on a competitive basis to eligible school districts and to eligible public libraries for the purpose of improving information technology infrastructure. For purposes of awarding grants under this section, “improving information technology infrastructure” includes purchasing and installing on a bus a portable device that creates an area of wireless Internet coverage and purchasing for individuals to temporarily borrow from a school or for patrons to check out from a public library a portable device that creates an area of wireless Internet coverage. In awarding grants to eligible school districts under this section, the department shall give priority to applications for school districts in which the percentage of pupils who satisfy the income eligibility criteria under 42 USC 1758 (b) (1) for a free or reduced-price lunch is greater than in other applicant school districts. The department shall require an applicant for a grant under this section to provide all of the following:

AB68-SA1,7 Section 7. 16.9945 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,15,8 16.9945 (2) Eligible school districts. A school district is eligible for a grant under this section in a fiscal year biennium if the school district's membership in the previous most recent school year for which finalized school year data is available, as determined in the first year of the fiscal biennium, divided by the school district's area in square miles is 16 or less.

AB68-SA1,8 Section 8. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 1m. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,15,11 16.9945 (2m) (a) 1m. “Rural territory” means any territory located outside of urban areas.

AB68-SA1,9 Section 9. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SA1,10 Section 10. 16.9945 (2m) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,15,16 16.9945 (2m) (a) 3. “Urbanized “Urban area” means an urban area, as defined by the U.S. bureau of the census, with a population of 50,000 or more that is located in this state.

AB68-SA1,11 Section 11. 16.9945 (2m) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 16.9945 (2m) (b) and amended to read:

AB68-SA1,15,24 16.9945 (2m) (b) A public library, including a library branch, is eligible for a grant under this section in a fiscal year biennium if the population of the municipality within which the public library or library branch is located, as determined in the first year of the fiscal biennium, is 20,000 or less and if the public library or library branch is located in one of the following areas of the state: a rural territory.

AB68-SA1,12 Section 12. 16.9945 (2m) (b) 1. to 3. of the statutes are repealed.

AB68-SA1,13 Section 13. 16.9945 (3m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,16,4 16.9945 (3m) (a) If the population of the municipality within which the eligible public library or library branch, as defined in sub. (2m) (a) 1., is located is 2,000 or less, $5,000.

AB68-SA1,14 Section 14. 16.9945 (3m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,16,8 16.9945 (3m) (b) If the population of the municipality within which the eligible public library or library branch, as defined in sub. (2m) (a) 1., is located is at least 2,001 but less than 5,000, $7,500.

AB68-SA1,15 Section 15. 16.9945 (3m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,16,12 16.9945 (3m) (c) If the population of the municipality within which the eligible public library or library branch, as defined in sub. (2m) (a) 1., is located is at least 5,000 but less than 20,001, $10,000.

AB68-SA1,16 Section 16. 16.9945 (4) of the statutes is renumbered 16.9945 (4) (a) and amended to read:

AB68-SA1,16,17 16.9945 (4) (a) The Except as provided in par. (b), the department cannot may not award grants under this section that total more than $3,000,000 in the 2019-20 or 2020-21 any fiscal year.

AB68-SA1,17 Section 17. 16.9945 (4) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,16,22 16.9945 (4) (b) In the second fiscal year of a fiscal biennium, the department may increase the maximum amount under par. (a) by an amount equal to the difference between the maximum amount under par. (a) and the amount the department awarded in the first fiscal year of the fiscal biennium.

AB68-SA1,18 Section 18. 16.9945 (4m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,17,3 16.9945 (4m) Notification. The department, at least annually, shall provide all school districts and public libraries located in this state that are eligible for grants under this section with information regarding how to apply for grants.

AB68-SA1,19 Section 19. 16.9945 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,17,6 16.9945 (5) Sunset. The department may not award grants under this section after June 30, 2021 2025.

AB68-SA1,20 Section 20. 16.995 (2) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SA1,21 Section 21. 16.997 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,17,15 16.997 (2) (b) Establish eligibility requirements for an educational agency to participate in the program established under sub. (1) and to receive additional telecommunications access under s. 16.998, including a requirement that a charter school sponsor use data lines to benefit pupils attending the charter school and a requirement that Internet access to material that is harmful to children, as defined in s. 948.11 (1) (b), is blocked on the computers of juvenile correctional facilities that are served by data links lines subsidized under this section.

AB68-SA1,22 Section 22. 16.997 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,17,21 16.997 (2) (d) Require an educational agency to pay the department not more than $250 per month for each data line that is provided to the educational agency under the program established under sub. (1), except that the charge may not exceed $100 per month for each data line that relies on a transport medium that operates at a speed of 1.544 megabits less than one gigabit per second.

AB68-SA1,23 Section 23. 16.997 (2) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,18,2 16.997 (2) (f) Ensure that juvenile correctional facilities an educational agency that receive receives access under this section to data lines or that receive receives additional access under s. 16.998 to data lines and bandwidth use uses those data lines and that bandwidth only primarily for educational purposes.

AB68-SA1,24 Section 24. 16.997 (2g) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SA1,25 Section 25. 16.997 (2r) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SA1,26 Section 26. 20.255 (1) (hg) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,18,13 20.255 (1) (hg) Personnel licensure, teacher supply, information and analysis and teacher improvement. The amounts in the schedule All moneys received from the licensure of school and public library personnel under s. 115.28 (7) (d) and all moneys received under s. 115.41, to fund licensure administrative costs under s. ss. 115.28 (7) (d) and 118.19 (10), teacher supply, information and analysis costs under s. 115.29 (5), and teacher improvement under s. 115.41. Ninety percent of all moneys received from the licensure of school and public library personnel under s. 115.28 (7) (d), and all moneys received under s. 115.41, shall be credited to this appropriation.

AB68-SA1,27 Section 27. 20.255 (2) (ac) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,18,20 20.255 (2) (ac) General equalization aids. The amounts in the schedule A sum sufficient equal to, in the 2022-23 fiscal year and biennially thereafter, the amount determined by the joint committee on finance under s. 121.075 (3) and, in the 2021-22 fiscal year and biennially thereafter, the amount determined by law for the payment of educational aids under ss. 121.08, 121.09, 121.095, and 121.105, 121.137 and subch. VI of ch. 121.

AB68-SA1,28 Section 28. 20.255 (2) (ap) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SA1,29 Section 29. 20.255 (2) (az) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,18,24 20.255 (2) (az) Special Needs Scholarship Program. A sum sufficient to make the payments under s. 115.7915 (4m) (a), (cm), and (e) and (4p).

AB68-SA1,30 Section 30. 20.255 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,19,5 20.255 (2) (b) Aids for special education and school age parents programs. The amounts in the schedule A sum sufficient for the payment of the full cost of special education for children in hospitals and convalescent homes under s. 115.88 (4) and for the payment of aids for special education and school age parents programs under ss. 115.88, 115.93 and 118.255 as provided under s. 115.882.

AB68-SA1,31 Section 31. 20.255 (2) (cc) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,19,9 20.255 (2) (cc) Bilingual-bicultural education aids English learner categorical aid. The amounts in the schedule for bilingual-bicultural education programs aid under subch. VII of ch. 115 s. 115.995.

AB68-SA1,32 Section 32. 20.255 (2) (cg) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,19,14 20.255 (2) (cg) Tuition payments; full-time open enrollment transfer payments. The amounts in the schedule for payment of tuition under subch. V of ch. 121 and full-time open enrollment transfer payments under s. 118.51 (16) (b) 2. and (17) (c) 2. and (cm) 2.

AB68-SA1,33 Section 33. 20.255 (2) (ch) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,19,18 20.255 (2) (ch) Capacity-building grants for licensed educators. The amounts in the schedule for grants to increase licensure of bilingual teachers and teachers of English as a 2nd language under s. 115.958.

AB68-SA1,34 Section 34. 20.255 (2) (co) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,19,21 20.255 (2) (co) Supplemental nutrition aid. A sum sufficient for payments under s. 115.342.

AB68-SA1,35 Section 35. 20.255 (2) (cv) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,19,24 20.255 (2) (cv) Driver education aid. A sum sufficient for driver education aid for qualified driver education providers under s. 121.42.

AB68-SA1,36 Section 36. 20.255 (2) (cx) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,20,4 20.255 (2) (cx) Aid for transportation; early college credit program. The amounts in the schedule to reimburse parents and guardians under s. 118.55 (7g) for the transportation of pupils attending a course at an institution of higher education and taking the course for high school credit.

AB68-SA1,37 Section 37. 20.255 (2) (cy) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,20,11 20.255 (2) (cy) Aid for transportation; open enrollment and early college credit program. The amounts in the schedule to reimburse parents for the costs of transportation of open enrollment pupils under ss. 118.51 (14) (b) and 118.52 (11) (b) and for the payment of state aid under s. 118.55 (7g) for the transportation of pupils attending a course at an institution of higher education and receiving credit for the course under s. 118.55 (3) (b).

AB68-SA1,38 Section 38. 20.255 (2) (da) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,20,15 20.255 (2) (da) Aid for school mental Mental health programs and pupil wellness aid. The amounts in the schedule for aid to school districts and independent charter schools employ, hire, and retain pupil services professionals under s. 115.364.

AB68-SA1,39 Section 39. 20.255 (2) (dk) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,20,19 20.255 (2) (dk) Out-of-school time programs; grants. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for out-of-school time program grants under s. 115.449.

AB68-SA1,40 Section 40. 20.255 (2) (dn) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,20,23 20.255 (2) (dn) Computer science licensure; grants. The amounts in the schedule for grants under s. 115.435 to assist school district employees in obtaining licenses or permits to teach computer science.

AB68-SA1,41 Section 41. 20.255 (2) (dv) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SA1,21,2 20.255 (2) (dv) Energy efficiency projects; grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for grants to school districts under s. 115.457.

AB68-SA1,42 Section 42. 20.255 (2) (fm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SA1,21,5 20.255 (2) (fm) Charter schools. A sum sufficient to make the payments to charter schools under s. 118.40 (2r) (e), (f), and (fm).