Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB279 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 279
5	5	May 17, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives SORTWELL, GUSTAFSON, MOSES,
6	6	MURPHY, SAPIK and SCHRAA, cosponsored by Senators TOMCZYK and STROEBEL.
7	7	Referred to Committee on Education.
8	8	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
9	9	AN ACT to amend 67.05 (6a) (a) 2. (intro.) and 115.385 (1) (a) (intro.); and to
10	10	create 67.05 (6a) (a) 3. of the statutes; relating to: restricting a school district's
11	11	authority to increase its revenue limit by referendum.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	Current law generally limits the total amount of revenue a school district may
14	14	receive from general school aids and property taxes in a school year. However, there
15	15	are several exceptions to the revenue limit. One exception to the revenue limit is an
16	16	increase for funds needed to service general obligation debt issued by a school
17	17	district, if the debt was approved by a referendum. This type of referendum is often
18	18	referred to as a capital referendum.
19	19	This bill prohibits a school board from initiating the process for a capital
20	20	referendum for borrowing other than for maintenance expenses if the school district
21	21	received lower than a certain score for pupil achievement in reading and
22	22	mathematics on the most recent school and school district accountability report.
23	23	Specifically, the school board of a school district in which 2,000 or more pupils are
24	24	enrolled is prohibited from initiating the capital referendum process if its overall
25	25	pupil achievement score in reading and mathematics was below 60 points, and a
26	26	school board of a school district in which fewer than 2,000 pupils are enrolled is
27	27	prohibited from initiating the capital referendum process if its overall pupil
28	28	achievement score in reading and mathematics was below 50 points. The bill also
29	29	requires the Department of Public Instruction to use a 100 point scale for certain
30	30	measures that are required to be included in the school and school district
31	31	accountability report, including pupil achievement in reading and mathematics.
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37	37	For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
38	38	an appendix to this bill.
39	39	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
40	40	enact as follows:
41	41	SECTION 1. 67.05 (6a) (a) 2. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
42	42	67.05 (6a) (a) 2. (intro.) Except as provided under subd. 3., pars. (b) and (c), and
43	43	subs. (7) and (15), and subject to the limit on the number of referendums that may
44	44	be called in any calendar year under subd. 2. a., if the board of any school district,
45	45	or the electors at a regularly called school district meeting, by a majority vote adopt
46	46	an initial resolution to raise an amount of money by a bond issue, the school district
47	47	clerk shall, within 10 days, publish notice of such adoption as a class 1 notice under
48	48	ch. 985 or post the notice as provided under s. 10.05. The notice shall state the
49	49	maximum amount proposed to be borrowed, the purpose of the borrowing, that the
50	50	resolution was adopted under this subdivision and the place where and the hours
51	51	during which the resolution may be inspected. The school board shall also do one of
52	52	the following:
53	53	SECTION 2. 67.05 (6a) (a) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
54	54	67.05 (6a) (a) 3. A board of a school district, or the electors at a regularly called
55	55	school district meeting, may not adopt a resolution under subd. 2. that would result
56	56	in an increase to the school district's revenue limit under s. 121.91 (4) (c) if the
57	57	purpose of the borrowing is other than for maintenance expenses and any of the
58	58	following applies to the school district:
59	59	a. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district is 2,000 or more and, on
60	60	the most recent school district accountability report published under s. 115.385 (1),
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85	85	the school district was assigned an overall score for pupil achievement in reading and
86	86	mathematics that is below 60 points.
87	87	b. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district is less than 2,000 and,
88	88	on the most recent school district accountability report published under s. 115.385
89	89	(1), the school district was assigned an overall score for pupil achievement in reading
90	90	and mathematics that is below 50 points.
91	91	SECTION 3. 115.385 (1) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
92	92	115.385 (1) (a) (intro.) Multiple measures, each of which is measured on a 100
93	93	point scale, to determine a school's performance or a school district's improvement,
94	94	including all of the following categorized by English language proficiency, disability,
95	95	income level, and race or ethnicity:
96	96	SECTION 4.0Initial applicability.
97	97	(1) The treatment of s. 67.05 (6a) (a) 3. first applies to a resolution adopted on
98	98	the effective date of this subsection.
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