AB68: Bill Text

AB68,1181,16 119.23 (11) (e) Notwithstanding sub. (2) (b) and s. 118.60 (2) (be) and (bh), promulgate rules under par. (a) that are consistent with sub. (4v) and s. 118.60 (4v) to ensure that, if a pupil who accepted a space at a private school participating in the program under this section or under s. 118.60 changes the pupil's residence, the pupil will not be counted for purposes of determining whether the participation limit under s. 118.60 (2) (be) or the program cap under sub. (2) (b) or s. 118.60 (2) (bh) that applies to the pupil's new residence has been exceeded.

AB68,2142 Section 2142. 119.33 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2143 Section 2143. 119.44 (2) (a) 5. of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2144 Section 2144. 119.46 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1182,21 119.46 (1) As part of the budget transmitted annually to the common council under s. 119.16 (8) (b), the board shall report the amount of money required for the ensuing school year to operate all public schools in the city under this chapter, including the schools transferred to the superintendent of schools opportunity schools and partnership program under s. 119.33 and to the opportunity schools and partnership program under subch. II, to repair and keep in order school buildings and equipment, including school buildings and equipment transferred to the superintendent of schools opportunity schools and partnership program under s. 119.33 and to the opportunity schools and partnership program under subch. II, to make material improvements to school property, and to purchase necessary additions to school sites. The report shall specify the amount of net proceeds from the sale or lease of city-owned property used for school purposes deposited in the immediately preceding school year into the school operations fund as specified under s. 119.60 (2m) (c) or (5) and the net proceeds from the sale of an eligible school building deposited in the immediately preceding school year into the school operations fund as specified under s. 119.61 (5). The amount included in the report for the purpose of supporting the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program under s. 119.23 shall be reduced by the amount of aid received by the board under s. 121.136 and by the amount specified in the notice received by the board under s. 121.137 (2). The common council shall levy and collect a tax upon all the property subject to taxation in the city, which shall be equal to the amount of money required by the board for the purposes set forth in this subsection, at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected. Such taxes shall be in addition to all other taxes which that the city is authorized to levy. The taxes so levied and collected, any other funds provided by law and placed at the disposal of the city for the same purposes, and the moneys deposited in the school operations fund under ss. 119.60 (1), (2m) (c), and (5) and 119.61 (5) shall constitute the school operations fund.

AB68,2145 Section 2145. 119.49 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1183,3 119.49 (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.

AB68,2146 Section 2146. 119.55 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2147 Section 2147. 119.61 (1) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1183,8 119.61 (1) (a) 4. An individual or group that is pursuing a contract with an entity under s. 118.40 (2r) (b) or the director under s. 118.40 (2x) to operate a school as a charter school.

AB68,2148 Section 2148. 119.61 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1183,12 119.61 (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.

AB68,2149 Section 2149. 119.61 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1183,17 119.61 (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.

AB68,2150 Section 2150. 119.61 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1183,24 119.61 (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.

AB68,2151 Section 2151. 119.61 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1184,10 119.61 (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.

AB68,2152 Section 2152. 119.66 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1184,22 119.66 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.

AB68,2153 Section 2153. Subchapter II (title) of chapter 119 [precedes 119.9000] of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2154 Section 2154. 119.9000 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2155 Section 2155. 119.9001 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2156 Section 2156. 119.9002 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2157 Section 2157. 119.9003 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2158 Section 2158. 119.9004 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2159 Section 2159. 119.9005 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2160 Section 2160. 120.12 (15) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1185,12 120.12 (15) School hours. Establish rules scheduling the hours of a normal school day. The school board may differentiate between the various elementary and high school grades in scheduling the school day. This subsection does not eliminate a school district's duty under subch. IV of ch. 111 to bargain with its employees' collective bargaining representative over any calendaring proposal which is primarily related to wages, hours, or conditions of employment.

AB68,2161 Section 2161 . 120.13 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1185,17 120.13 (2) (g) Every self-insured plan under par. (b) shall comply with ss. 49.493 (3) (d), 631.89, 631.90, 631.93 (2), 632.729, 632.746 (10) (a) 2. and (b) 2., 632.747 (3), 632.798, 632.85, 632.853, 632.855, 632.862, 632.867, 632.87 (4) to (6), 632.871, 632.885, 632.89, 632.895 (9) to (17), 632.896, and 767.513 (4).

AB68,2162 Section 2162 . 120.13 (2) (g) of the statutes, as affected by 2021 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 2161, is amended to read:

AB68,1185,23 120.13 (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, 632.729, 632.746 (1) and (10) (a) 2. and (b) 2., 632.747 (3), 632.798, 632.85, 632.853, 632.855, 632.862, 632.867, 632.87 (4) to (6), 632.871, 632.885, 632.89, 632.895 (9) (8) to (17), 632.896, and 767.513 (4).

AB68,2163 Section 2163 . 120.13 (2) (g) of the statutes, as affected by 2021 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 2162, is amended to read:

AB68,1186,5 120.13 (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, 632.729, 632.746 (1) and (10) (a) 2. and (b) 2., 632.747 (3), 632.798, 632.85, 632.853, 632.855, 632.861, 632.862, 632.867, 632.87 (4) to (6), 632.871, 632.885, 632.89, 632.895 (8) to (17), 632.896, and 767.513 (4).

AB68,2164 Section 2164. 120.18 (1) (gm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1186,21 120.18 (1) (gm) Payroll and related benefit costs for all school district employees in the previous school year. Payroll costs Costs for represented employees shall be based upon the costs of wages of any collective bargaining agreements covering such employees for the previous school year. If, as of the time specified by the department for filing the report, the school district has not entered into a collective bargaining agreement for any portion of the previous school year with the recognized or certified representative of any of its employees, increased costs of wages reflected in the report shall be equal to the maximum wage expenditure that is subject to collective bargaining under s. 111.70 (4) (mb) 2. for the employees limited to the lower of the school district's offer or the representative's offer. The school district shall amend the annual report to reflect any change in such costs as a result of any collective bargaining agreement entered into between the date of filing the report and October 1. Any such amendment shall be concurred in by the certified public accountant licensed or certified under ch. 442 certifying the school district audit.

AB68,2165 Section 2165. 120.18 (1) (o) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2166 Section 2166. 121.004 (7) (c) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1187,2 121.004 (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.

AB68,2167 Section 2167. 121.004 (7) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1187,6 121.004 (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.

AB68,2168 Section 2168. 121.004 (7) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1187,14 121.004 (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.

AB68,2169 Section 2169. 121.02 (1) (L) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1187,21 121.02 (1) (L) 4. Beginning September 1, 1991 2022, as part of the social studies curriculum, include instruction in the history, culture and, tribal sovereignty , and contemporary and historical significant events of the federally recognized American Indian tribes and bands located in this state at least twice once in the elementary grades kindergarten to 2, once in grades 3 to 5, and at least once twice in the high school grades 6 to 8.

AB68,2170 Section 2170 . 121.02 (1) (L) 4m. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,1188,3 121.02 (1) (L) 4m. Beginning September 1, 2022, as part of the high school curriculum, include instruction in the culture, tribal sovereignty, and contemporary and historical significant events of the federally recognized American Indian tribes and bands located in this state at least once in each of the high school grades. In at least one high school grade, the school board shall include the instruction required under this subdivision in the social studies curriculum.

AB68,2171 Section 2171. 121.07 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1188,7 121.07 (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:

AB68,2172 Section 2172. 121.07 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1188,12 121.07 (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.

AB68,2173 Section 2173. 121.07 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1188,16 121.07 (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.

AB68,2174 Section 2174. 121.07 (2) (e) of the statutes, as affected by 2021 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed.

AB68,2175 Section 2175. 121.075 of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,1188,21 121.075 Two-thirds funding of partial school revenues; appropriation amount in odd fiscal years. (1) In this section:

AB68,1188,24 (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:

AB68,1189,3 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.

AB68,1189,4 2. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 3.

AB68,1189,5 3. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (h).

AB68,1189,6 4. The amount of any property taxes levied for the purpose of s. 120.13 (19).

AB68,1189,8 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).

AB68,1189,10 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.

AB68,1189,11 (b) “State school aids" means all of the following:

AB68,1189,13 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).

AB68,1189,14 2. The amount appropriated under s. 20.505 (4) (es).

AB68,1189,18 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).

AB68,1189,19 4. The amount appropriated under s. 20.437 (2) (eh).

AB68,1189,24 (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.

AB68,1190,3 (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.

AB68,2176 Section 2176. 121.08 (4) (b) (intro.) and 1. of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 121.08 (4) (b) and amended to read:

AB68,1190,15 121.08 (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.

AB68,2177 Section 2177. 121.08 (4) (b) 2. and 3. of the statutes are repealed.

AB68,2178 Section 2178. 121.135 (2) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1191,3 121.135 (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.

AB68,2179 Section 2179. 121.137 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68,2180 Section 2180. 121.15 (1m) (a) (intro.) and 3. of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 121.15 (1m) (a) and amended to read:

AB68,1191,12 121.15 (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.

AB68,2181 Section 2181. 121.41 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68,1191,21 121.41 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.

AB68,2182 Section 2182. 121.42 of the statutes is created to read:

AB68,1191,23 121.42 Driver education programs; state aid. (1) In this section:

AB68,1192,3 (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.

AB68,1192,4 (b) “Driver school” has the meaning given in s. 343.60 (1).