Amendment SSA1-AB68

AB68-SSA1,2192 Section 2192. 119.55 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2193 Section 2193. 119.61 (1) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1007,20 119.61 (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-SSA1,2194 Section 2194. 119.61 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1007,24 119.61 (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-SSA1,2195 Section 2195. 119.61 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1008,4 119.61 (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-SSA1,2196 Section 2196. 119.61 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1008,11 119.61 (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-SSA1,2197 Section 2197. 119.61 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1008,22 119.61 (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-SSA1,2198 Section 2198. 119.66 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1009,9 119.66 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-SSA1,2199 Section 2199. Subchapter II (title) of chapter 119 [precedes 119.9000] of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2200 Section 2200. 119.9000 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2201 Section 2201. 119.9001 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2202 Section 2202. 119.9002 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2203 Section 2203. 119.9003 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2204 Section 2204. 119.9004 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2205 Section 2205. 119.9005 of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2206 Section 2206. 120.12 (15) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1009,24 120.12 (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-SSA1,2207 Section 2207 . 120.13 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1010,4 120.13 (2) (g) Every self-insured plan under par. (b) shall comply with ss. 49.493 (3) (d), 631.89, 631.90, 631.93 (2), 632.729, 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-SSA1,2208 Section 2208 . 120.13 (2) (g) of the statutes, as affected by 2021 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 2207, is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1010,10 120.13 (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-SSA1,2209 Section 2209. 120.18 (1) (gm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1011,2 120.18 (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-SSA1,2210 Section 2210. 120.18 (1) (o) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,2211 Section 2211. 121.004 (7) (c) 1. a. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1011,8 121.004 (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-SSA1,2212 Section 2212. 121.004 (7) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1011,12 121.004 (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-SSA1,2213 Section 2213. 121.004 (7) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1011,20 121.004 (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-SSA1,2214 Section 2214. 121.02 (1) (L) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1012,2 121.02 (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-SSA1,2215 Section 2215 . 121.02 (1) (L) 4m. of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1012,9 121.02 (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-SSA1,2216 Section 2216. 121.07 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

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.