Date of enactment: March 29, 2024
2023 Assembly Bill 1103 Date of publication*: March 30, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 262
AN ACT to repeal 118.19 (2); and to amend 115.28 (7) (a) and 115.341 (1) of the statutes; relating to: requirements
for school breakfast reimbursement and repealing a teaching license requirement (suggested as remedial legislation
by the Department of Public Instruction).
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 115.28 (7) (a) of the statutes, as affected
by 2023 Wisconsin Act 20, is amended to read:
115.28 (7) (a) License all teachers for the public
schools of the state; make rules establishing standards of
attainment and procedures for the examination and
licensing of teachers within the limits prescribed in ss.
118.19 (2) and (3), 118.191, 118.1915, 118.192, 118.193,
118.194, 118.195, and 118.197; prescribe by rule stan-
dards, requirements, and procedures for the approval of
teacher preparatory programs leading to licensure,
including a requirement that, to be approved by the state
superintendent, a teacher preparatory program shall
demonstrate that it provides instruction that prepares
teachers to teach reading and language arts using sci-
ence−based early reading instruction, as defined in s.
118.015 (1c) (b), and does not provide instruction on
teaching reading and language arts that incorporates
3−cueing, as defined in s. 118.015 (1c) (c), and a require-
ment that, beginning on July 1, 2012, and annually there-
after, each teacher preparatory program located in this
state shall submit to the department a list of individuals
who have completed the program and who have been rec-
ommended by the program for licensure under this sub-
section, together with each individual’s date of program
completion, from each term or semester of the program’s
most recently completed academic year; file in the state
superintendent’s office all papers relating to state teach-
ers’ licenses; and register each such license.
SECTION 2. 115.341 (1) of the statutes is amended to
read:
115.341 (1) From the appropriation under s. 20.255
(2) (cm), the state superintendent shall reimburse each
school board 15 cents for each breakfast served at a
school that meets the requirements of 7 CFR 220.8 or
220.8a, whichever is applicable, and shall reimburse
each governing body of a private school or tribal school
15 cents for each breakfast served at the private school or
tribal school that meets the requirements of 7 CFR 220.8
or 220.8a, whichever is applicable.
SECTION 3. 118.19 (2) of the statutes is repealed.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”