6. Current law provides a minimum per pupil revenue limit for school districts, known as the revenue limit ceiling. Current law also provides that during the three school years following a school year in which an operating referendum fails in a school district, the school district's revenue limit ceiling is the revenue limit ceiling that applied in the school year during which the referendum was held. The bill eliminates this consequence for a failed operating referendum.

7. The bill creates a revenue limit adjustment for a school district that incurs costs to remediate lead contamination in drinking water in the school district, including costs to test for the presence of lead in drinking water, to provide safe drinking water, and to replace lead pipe water service lines to school buildings in the school district.

8. Currently, if at least 50 percent of a school district's enrollment is eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch under the federal school lunch program, the school district is eligible for a prorated share of the amount appropriated as high-poverty aid. The bill eliminates this aid beginning in the 2022-23 school year. The bill provides additional state aid for the 2022-23 school year to hold school districts harmless from the loss of high-poverty aid.

9. Under current law, in the school district equalization aid formula, the guaranteed valuations represent the amount of property tax base support that the state guarantees behind each pupil. There are three guaranteed valuations used; each applies to a different level of expenditures. The first level is for expenditures up to the primary cost ceiling of $1,000 per pupil. The second level is for costs per pupil that exceed $1,000 but are less than the secondary cost ceiling, which is set at 90 percent of the prior school year statewide shared cost per pupil. The bill changes the secondary cost ceiling to 100 percent of the prior school year statewide shared cost per pupil.

10. The bill eliminates the school levy property tax credit and the first dollar property tax credit in 2023.

11. The bill provides additional funding of $1,090,000,000 in the 2022-23 school year for general school aid for purposes of maintaining compliance with maintenance of effort requirements of the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act and the federal American Rescue Plan Act.

Technical college and two-year UW campus fee remission program

The bill creates a one-year fee remission program to cover resident tuition and fees at technical colleges and two-year University of Wisconsin System schools (UW branch campuses).

The bill creates a Freedom to Learn Program to provide full fee remission in the 2022-23 academic year to resident students enrolled in technical colleges or UW branch campuses who have completed the federal Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Under the program, students receive full remission of the balance of tuition and fees after other grants and scholarships awarded to the student are applied. The bill creates a sum sufficient appropriation for the UW System to fund the program for UW branch campus students and a sum sufficient appropriation for the Technical College System Board to make grants to technical colleges to fund the program for technical college students. The UW System and TCS Board must establish requirements for the completion of community service as a condition of receiving fee remission under the program.

For further information see the state and 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:

SB1104,1 Section 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated: - See PDF for table - See PDF for table - See PDF for table

SB1104,2 Section 2. 20.155 (1) (a) of the statutes is created to read:

SB1104,7,5 20.155 (1) (a) State broadband office; planning and line extension grants. The amounts in the schedule for the operations of the state broadband office within the public service commission, for broadband planning grants under s. 196.504 (2g), and for financial assistance grants for broadband line extension under s. 196.504 (2r).

SB1104,3 Section 3. 20.155 (3) (a) of the statutes is created to read:

SB1104,7,9 20.155 (3) (a) Broadband expansion grants; general purpose revenue. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for broadband expansion grants under s. 196.504 (2).

SB1104,4 Section 4. 20.155 (3) (r) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB1104,8,2 20.155 (3) (r) Broadband expansion grants; transfers. From the universal service fund, all moneys transferred under s. 196.218 (3) (a) 2s. a., 2015 Wisconsin Act 55, section 9236 (1v), 2017 Wisconsin Act 59, section 9237 (1) and (2) (a), and 2019 Wisconsin Act 9, section 9201 (1), for broadband expansion grants under s. 196.504 (2).

SB1104,5 Section 5. 20.155 (3) (rm) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB1104,8,6 20.155 (3) (rm) Broadband grants; other funding. From the universal service fund, as a continuing appropriation, all moneys transferred under s. 196.218 (3) (a) 2s. b., for broadband expansion grants under s. 196.504 (2).

SB1104,6 Section 6 . 20.255 (2) (ac) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB1104,8,13 20.255 (2) (ac) General equalization aids. The amounts in the schedule A sum sufficient for the payment of educational aids under ss. 121.08, 121.09, 121.095, and 121.105, 121.137 and subch. VI of ch. 121 equal to the amount determined by the joint committee on finance under s. 121.15 (3m) (c) in the 2022-23 fiscal year and biennially thereafter, and equal to the amount determined by law in the 2023-24 fiscal year and biennially thereafter.

SB1104,7 Section 7 . 20.255 (2) (ag) of the statutes is created to read:

SB1104,8,16 20.255 (2) (ag) Hold harmless aid. A sum sufficient for hold harmless aid to school districts under s. 121.10.

SB1104,8 Section 8 . 20.285 (1) (cm) of the statutes is created to read:

SB1104,8,20 20.285 (1) (cm) Freedom to learn program. A sum sufficient for the program under s. 36.27 (3t). No moneys may be encumbered under this paragraph after June 30, 2023.

SB1104,9 Section 9 . 20.292 (1) (b) of the statutes is created to read: