Amendment SSA1-AB68

AB68-SSA1,1012,13 121.07 (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:

AB68-SSA1,2217 Section 2217. 121.07 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1012,18 121.07 (2) (d) The number of pupils residing in the school district in the previous school year for whom a payment was made under s. 118.40 (2r) (e) to an operator of a charter school established under contract with an entity under s. 118.40 (2r) (b) 1. e., eg., or f. to h. in the previous school year.

AB68-SSA1,2218 Section 2218. 121.07 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1012,22 121.07 (2) (e) The number of pupils residing in the school district in the previous school year for whom a payment was made under s. 118.40 (2r) (f), 2019 stats., in the previous school year.

AB68-SSA1,2219 Section 2219. 121.07 (2) (e) of the statutes, as affected by 2021 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2220 Section 2220. 121.075 of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1013,2 121.075 Two-thirds funding of partial school revenues; appropriation amount in odd fiscal years. (1) In this section:

AB68-SSA1,1013,5 (a) “Partial school revenues" means the sum of state school aids, property taxes levied for school districts, and aid paid to school districts under ss. 79.095 (4) and 79.096 (4), less all of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1013,8 1. 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.

AB68-SSA1,1013,9 2. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 3.

AB68-SSA1,1013,10 3. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (h).

AB68-SSA1,1013,11 4. The amount of any property taxes levied for the purpose of s. 120.13 (19).

AB68-SSA1,1013,13 5. An amount equal to the amount estimated to be paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) multiplied by the applicable percentage in s. 121.08 (4) (b).

AB68-SSA1,1013,15 6. The amount by which the property tax levy for debt service on debt that has been approved by a referendum exceeds $490,000,000.

AB68-SSA1,1013,16 (b) “State school aids" means all of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1013,18 1. The amounts appropriated under s. 20.255 (1) (b) and (2), other than s. 20.255 (2) (aw), (az), (bb), (fm), (fp), (fq), (fr), (fs), (fu), (fv), (k), and (m).

AB68-SSA1,1013,19 2. The amount appropriated under s. 20.505 (4) (es).

AB68-SSA1,1013,23 3. 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).

AB68-SSA1,1013,24 4. The amount appropriated under s. 20.437 (2) (eh).

AB68-SSA1,1014,5 (2) By May 15, 2022, 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.

AB68-SSA1,1014,8 (3) By June 30, 2022, 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.

AB68-SSA1,2221 Section 2221. 121.08 (4) (b) (intro.) and 1. of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 121.08 (4) (b) and amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1014,20 121.08 (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.

AB68-SSA1,2222 Section 2222. 121.08 (4) (b) 2. and 3. of the statutes are repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2223 Section 2223. 121.135 (2) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1015,8 121.135 (2) (a) 1. “Additional general aid" means the amount determined by calculating the percentage of a school district's shared costs that would be paid under s. 121.08 if its membership included each pupil who is a resident of the school district or is attending the school district under s. 118.51 and solely enrolled in a special education program provided by a the county children with disabilities education board that includes the school district in its program under s. 115.817 (2) and the school district's shared costs were increased by the costs of the county children with disabilities education board program for all pupils participating in the county children with disabilities education board program who are residents of the school district or attending the school district under s. 118.51, and multiplying the costs of the county children with disabilities education board program by that percentage.

AB68-SSA1,2224 Section 2224. 121.137 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2225 Section 2225. 121.15 (1m) (a) (intro.) and 3. of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 121.15 (1m) (a) and amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1015,17 121.15 (1m) (a) Notwithstanding subs. (1) and (1g), a portion of state aid to school districts shall be distributed as follows: 3. Beginning beginning in the 1999-2000 school year and ending in the 2020-21 school year, annually the state shall pay distribute a portion of state aid to school districts by paying 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.

AB68-SSA1,2226 Section 2226. 121.41 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1016,2 121.41 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.

AB68-SSA1,2227 Section 2227. 121.42 of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1016,4 121.42 Driver education programs; state aid. (1) In this section:

AB68-SSA1,1016,7 (a) “Driver education program” means an instructional program in driver education approved by the department and operated by a qualified driver education provider or driver school.

AB68-SSA1,1016,8 (b) “Driver school” has the meaning given in s. 343.60 (1).

AB68-SSA1,1016,11 (c) “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.

AB68-SSA1,1016,14 (d) “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.

AB68-SSA1,1016,17 (2) Beginning in the 2022-23 school year, the department shall pay to each qualified driver education provider and driver school the amount determined under sub. (3) if all of the following apply:

AB68-SSA1,1016,22 (a) The qualified driver education provider or driver school demonstrates to the department that for eligible pupils the qualified driver education provider or driver school waived at least 50 percent of the fees the qualified driver education provider or driver school otherwise charges pupils to enroll in and complete the driver education program.

AB68-SSA1,1016,24 (b) By October 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, the qualified driver education provider or driver school reports to the department all of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1017,3 1. The number of eligible pupils who enrolled in and successfully completed a driver education program operated by the qualified driver education provider or driver school in the previous school year.

AB68-SSA1,1017,6 2. The amount the qualified driver education provider or driver school charged a pupil who was not an eligible pupil to enroll in and complete the driver education program in the previous school year.

AB68-SSA1,1017,11 (3) The department shall calculate the amount paid to a qualified driver education provider or driver school under sub. (2) by multiplying the number of eligible pupils the qualified driver education provider or driver school reported under sub. (2) (b) 1. by 50 percent of the amount the qualified driver education provider or driver school reported under sub. (2) (b) 2.

AB68-SSA1,1017,13 (4) The department may promulgate rules to implement and administer this section.

AB68-SSA1,2228 Section 2228. 121.58 (2) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1017,17 121.58 (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 2020-21 school year and $365 $375 per school year thereafter.

AB68-SSA1,2229 Section 2229. 121.58 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1018,9 121.58 (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.

AB68-SSA1,2230 Section 2230. 121.59 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1018,12 121.59 (2) (intro.) Annually the department shall , subject to sub. (3), pay to each eligible school district the amount determined as follows:

AB68-SSA1,2231 Section 2231. 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:

AB68-SSA1,1018,21 121.59 (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:

AB68-SSA1,1018,22 (bm) Multiply the amount under subd. 1. par. (am) by 0.5.

AB68-SSA1,2232 Section 2232. 121.59 (2m) (b) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2233 Section 2233. 121.59 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1019,5 121.59 (3) Aid under this section shall be is paid from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (cq). If the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (cq) is insufficient to pay the full amount of aid under subs. (2) and (2m), the state superintendent shall prorate the payments among the eligible school districts entitled to receive aid under this section.

AB68-SSA1,2234 Section 2234. 121.84 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1019,11 121.84 (4) (b) If a pupil attends school in a school district outside the pupil's school district of residence under par. (a), s. 118.51 (12) (b), (14), (16), and (17) apply to the pupil as if the pupil were attending school in a nonresident school district under s. 118.51. If the pupil is rejected as a result of s. 118.51 (12) (b), s. 118.51 (9) applies.

AB68-SSA1,2235 Section 2235 . 121.90 (1) (h) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1019,15 121.90 (1) (h) In determining a school district's revenue limit for the 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24 school years, the number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the 2020-21 school year is the sum of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1019,16 1. The greater of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1019,17 a. Forty percent of the summer enrollment in the 2019-20 school year.

AB68-SSA1,1019,18 b. Forty percent of the summer enrollment in the 2020-21 school year.

AB68-SSA1,1019,19 2. The greater of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1019,21 a. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the 2019-20 school year, as determined without the exceptions provided in par. (dr).

AB68-SSA1,1019,23 b. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the 2020-21 school year, as determined without the exceptions provided in par. (dr).

AB68-SSA1,2236 Section 2236. 121.90 (2) (am) 4. of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2237 Section 2237. 121.905 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1020,5 121.905 (1) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), in this section, “revenue ceiling" means $9,100 in the 2017-18 school year, $9,400 in the 2018-19 school year, $9,500 in the 2019-20 school year, $9,600 in the 2020-21 school year, $9,700 $10,250 in the 2021-22 school year, and $9,800 $10,500 in the 2022-23 school year and in any subsequent school year.

AB68-SSA1,2238 Section 2238. 121.905 (1) (b) 1. to 3. of the statutes are repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2239 Section 2239. 121.905 (1) (b) 6. and 7. of the statutes are repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2240 Section 2240. 121.905 (3) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1020,18 121.905 (3) (a) 1. Except as provided under subds. 2. and 3., calculate the sum of the amount of state aid received in the previous school year and property taxes levied for the previous school year, excluding property taxes levied for the purpose of s. 120.13 (19) and excluding funds described under s. 121.91 (4) (c), and the costs of the county children with disabilities education board program, as defined in s. 121.135 (2) (a) 2., in the previous year, for pupils who were school district residents or nonresidents who attended the school district under s. 118.51 and solely enrolled in a special education program provided by a the county children with disabilities education board in the previous school year that included the school district in its program under s. 115.817 (2).

AB68-SSA1,2241 Section 2241. 121.905 (3) (c) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1020,22 121.905 (3) (c) 6. For the limit for each of the 2015-16 to 2018-19 school years, for the 2021-22 school year, and for any school year thereafter, make no adjustment to the result under par. (b).

AB68-SSA1,2242 Section 2242. 121.905 (3) (c) 9. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1020,25 121.905 (3) (c) 9. For the limit for the 2021-22 school year, add $200 to the result under par. (b).

AB68-SSA1,2243 Section 2243. 121.905 (3) (c) 10. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1021,3 121.905 (3) (c) 10. For the limit for the 2022-23 school year, add $204 to the result under par. (b).

AB68-SSA1,2244 Section 2244. 121.905 (3) (c) 11. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1021,6 121.905 (3) (c) 11. For the limit for the 2023-24 school year and any school year thereafter, add the result under s. 121.91 (2m) (L) 2. to the result under par. (b).

AB68-SSA1,2245 Section 2245. 121.91 (2m) (i) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1021,11 121.91 (2m) (i) (intro.) Except as provided in subs. (3), (4), and (8), no school district may increase its revenues for any of the 2015-16 to 2018-19 school year or for any school year thereafter years to an amount that exceeds the amount calculated as follows:

AB68-SSA1,2246 Section 2246. 121.91 (2m) (im) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1021,15 121.91 (2m) (im) (intro.) Notwithstanding par. (i) and except Except as provided in subs. (3), (4), and (8), a school district cannot increase its revenues for the 2019-20 school year to an amount that exceeds the amount calculated as follows:

AB68-SSA1,2247 Section 2247. 121.91 (2m) (j) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1021,19 121.91 (2m) (j) (intro.) Notwithstanding par. (i) and except Except as provided in subs. (3), (4), and (8), a school district cannot increase its revenues for the 2020-21 school year to an amount that exceeds the amount calculated as follows:

AB68-SSA1,2248 Section 2248. 121.91 (2m) (k) of the statutes is created to read: