Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB527 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 527
5	5	October 18, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives SHELTON, J. ANDERSON, JOERS,
6	6	HONG, C. ANDERSON, CLANCY, CONSIDINE, MYERS, VINING, SHANKLAND, BARE,
7	7	MADISON, BALDEH, CABRERA, CONLEY, HAYWOOD, NEUBAUER, OHNSTAD, PALMERI,
8	8	RATCLIFF, SINICKI, SNODGRASS and STUBBS, cosponsored by Senators LARSON, L.
9	9	JOHNSON, SMITH, AGARD, ROYS, HESSELBEIN, SPREITZER and CARPENTER.
10	10	Referred to Committee on Education.
11	11	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
12	12	AN ACT to amend 20.255 (2) (b) and 115.882 of the statutes; relating to: the
13	13	reimbursement rate for special education costs and making an appropriation.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	This bill changes the rate at which the state reimburses school boards,
16	16	operators of independent charter schools, cooperative educational service agencies
17	17	(CESAs), and county children with disabilities education boards (CCDEBs) for costs
18	18	incurred to provide special education and related services to children with
19	19	disabilities and for school age parents programs (eligible costs). Under current law,
20	20	the state reimburses the full cost of special education for children in hospitals and
21	21	convalescent homes for orthopedically disabled children. After those costs are paid,
22	22	the state reimburses remaining eligible costs from the amount remaining in the
23	23	appropriation account at a rate that distributes the full amount appropriated. The
24	24	Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates that, in the 2023-24 school year, the
25	25	reimbursement rate will be 33.3 percent.
26	26	The bill changes the appropriation to a sum sufficient and provides that,
27	27	beginning in the 2023-24 school year, after full payment of hospital and convalescent
28	28	home costs, the remaining costs are reimbursed at 90 percent of eligible costs.
29	29	Currently, the Department of Public Instruction provides 1) special education
30	30	aid to school districts, independent charter schools, CESAs, and CCDEBs; 2) aid to
31	31	school districts, CESAs, and CCDEBs for providing physical or mental health
32	32	treatment services to private school and tribal school pupils; and 3) aid for school age
33	33	parents programs to school districts only.
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37	37	ASSEMBLY BILL 527
38	38	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
39	39	printed as an appendix to this bill.
40	40	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
41	41	enact as follows:
42	42	SECTION 1. 20.255 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
43	43	20.255 (2) (b) Aids for special education and school age parents programs. The
44	44	amounts in the schedule A sum sufficient for the payment of the full cost of special
45	45	education for children in hospitals and convalescent homes under s. 115.88 (4) and
46	46	for the payment of aids for special education and school age parents programs under
47	47	ss. 115.88, 115.93 and 118.255 as provided under s. 115.882.
48	48	SECTION 2. 115.882 of the statutes is amended to read:
49	49	115.882 Payment of state aid; reimbursement rate. Funds appropriated
50	50	under s. 20.255 (2) (b) shall be used first for the purpose of s. 115.88 (4). Costs In the
51	51	2023-24 school year and in each school year thereafter, costs eligible for
52	52	reimbursement from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (b) under ss. 115.88 (1m)
53	53	to (3), (6), and (8), 115.93, and 118.255 (4) shall be reimbursed at a rate set to
54	54	distribute the full amount appropriated for reimbursement for the costs, not to
55	55	exceed 100 percent 90 percent of eligible costs.
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