AB118: Bill Text

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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE

2021 Assembly BILL 118

February 24, 2021 - Introduced by Representatives Duchow, Kitchens, Thiesfeldt and Skowronski, cosponsored by Senators Ballweg, Testin and Feyen. Referred to Committee on Education.

AB118,1,2 An Act relating to: full-time open enrollment to attend a fully virtual program offered by a nonresident school district during the 2021-22 school year.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

During the 2021-22 school year, this bill allows a pupil to attend a fully virtual option offered by a nonresident school board or a charter school located in a nonresident school district under the full-time open enrollment program. Under the bill, a fully virtual option is an option offered by a school board or a charter school under which a pupil receives all of his or her instruction through the Internet and the pupil and the instructional staff member providing the instruction are geographically remote from each other. The bill specifies that a fully virtual option is located in the school district governed by the school board that offers the option of the school district in which the charter school offering the option is located.

Under current law, a pupil may attend a public school in a nonresident school district under the full-time open enrollment program. Current law does not specify where a virtual program other than a virtual charter school is located for purposes of the full-time open enrollment program.

For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB118,1 Section 1. Nonstatutory provisions.

AB118,2,3 (1) Full-time open enrollment; fully virtual option in the 2021-22 school year.

AB118,2,4 (a) In this subsection:

AB118,2,5 1. “Charter school” has the meaning given in s. 118.51 (1) (ad).

AB118,2,11 2. “Fully virtual option” means an option offered to pupils by a school board or charter school under which all of the instruction is provided through means of the Internet, and the pupils receiving the instruction and instructional staff providing the instruction are geographically remote from each other. “Fully virtual option” does not include an option offered by a virtual charter school, as defined in s. 115.001 (16).

AB118,2,12 3. “Nonresident school district" has the meaning given in s. 118.51 (1) (c).

AB118,2,15 (b) In the 2021-22 school year, a pupil may attend a fully virtual option in a nonresident school district under s. 118.51. For purposes of this paragraph, a fully virtual option is considered to be located in the following school district:

AB118,2,17 1. If a school board offers the fully virtual option, in the school district governed by the school board.

AB118,2,19 2. If a charter school offers the fully virtual option, in the school district in which the charter school is located.

AB118,2,20 (End)