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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 2,
TO ASSEMBLY BILL 640
February 16, 2024 - Offered by Representative Dittrich.
AB640-ASA2,1,3 1An Act to amend 115.28 (7) (a) and 118.19 (3) (a); and to create 118.198 of the
2statutes; relating to: a license to teach based on working as a paraprofessional
3 in a school district.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB640-ASA2,1 4Section 1 . 115.28 (7) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 2023 Wisconsin Act 20,
5is amended to read:
AB640-ASA2,2,126 115.28 (7) (a) License all teachers for the public schools of the state; make rules
7establishing standards of attainment and procedures for the examination and
8licensing of teachers within the limits prescribed in ss. 118.19 (2) and (3), 118.191,
9118.1915, 118.192, 118.193, 118.194, 118.195, and , 118.197, and 118.198; prescribe
10by rule standards, requirements, and procedures for the approval of teacher
11preparatory programs leading to licensure, including a requirement that, to be

1approved by the state superintendent, a teacher preparatory program shall
2demonstrate that it provides instruction that prepares teachers to teach reading and
3language arts using science-based early reading instruction, as defined in s. 118.015
4(1c) (b), and does not provide instruction on teaching reading and language arts that
5incorporates 3-cueing, as defined in s. 118.015 (1c) (c), and a requirement that,
6beginning on July 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, each teacher preparatory
7program located in this state shall submit to the department a list of individuals who
8have completed the program and who have been recommended by the program for
9licensure under this subsection, together with each individual's date of program
10completion, from each term or semester of the program's most recently completed
11academic year; file in the state superintendent's office all papers relating to state
12teachers' licenses; and register each such license.
AB640-ASA2,2 13Section 2 . 118.19 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read: