Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB688 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 688
5	5	November 27, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives SCHUTT, DITTRICH, GOEBEN,
6	6	BALDEH, ROZAR, O'CONNOR, RETTINGER, BRANDTJEN and BEHNKE, cosponsored
7	7	by Senators JAGLER, BALLWEG, STROEBEL, MARKLEIN and NASS. Referred to
8	8	Committee on Education.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to repeal 118.40 (2r) (g), 118.40 (2x) (f) and 121.07 (2) (d) and (f); and to
11	11	amend 121.085 and 121.90 (1) (g) of the statutes; relating to: reductions to
12	12	state aid paid to school districts for payments to certain independent charter
13	13	schools.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	This bill repeals reductions to state aid paid to school districts for per pupil
16	16	payments to independent charter schools authorized by the Office of Educational
17	17	Opportunity in the UW System, the chancellor of an institution in the UW System
18	18	other than the UW-Milwaukee or UW-Parkside, a technical college district board
19	19	other than the Milwaukee area technical college district board, the county executive
20	20	of Waukesha County, the college of Menominee Nation, or the Lac Courte Oreilles
21	21	Ojibwa community college (a “new charter school authorizer”).
22	22	Under current law, per pupil payments to an independent charter school
23	23	authorized by a new charter school authorizer are paid from sum sufficient
24	24	appropriations, ensuring that full payments are made to independent charter
25	25	schools. Current law also requires DPI to reduce each school district's equalization
26	26	aid by an amount equal to the total per pupil payments paid to these independent
27	27	charter schools that are attributable to pupils residing in that school district. If a
28	28	school district does not receive equalization aid sufficient to cover the aid reduction,
29	29	the balance is reduced from other state aid received by the school district. These aid
30	30	reductions are deposited in the general fund. In general, these reductions reimburse
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37	37	the general fund for per pupil payments made to independent charter schools that
38	38	are authorized by new charter school authorizers.
39	39	The bill eliminates reductions to equalization aid for per pupil payments made
40	40	to these independent charter schools beginning in the 2024-25 school year. The
41	41	2021-23 biennial budget eliminated reductions to equalization aid for payments
42	42	made to independent charter schools authorized by the City of Milwaukee, the
43	43	chancellor of UW-Milwaukee, the chancellor of UW-Parkside, or the Milwaukee
44	44	area technical college district board, also known as legacy charter school authorizers.
45	45	Under current law, a pupil for whom a per pupil payment was made to an
46	46	independent charter school authorized by a new charter school authorizer in the
47	47	previous year is included in the pupil's resident school district's membership for
48	48	purposes of calculating general state aids. A school district's membership in the
49	49	previous school year is a factor used to calculate equalization aid. Additionally,
50	50	under current law, pupils attending an independent charter school authorized by a
51	51	new charter school authorizer are included in their resident school district's pupil
52	52	count for purposes of calculating revenue limits.
53	53	The bill repeals both of these provisions. Under the bill, a pupil attending an
54	54	independent charter school authorized by a new charter school authorizer is not
55	55	included in the pupil's resident school district membership beginning in the 2025-26
56	56	school year and is not counted as enrolled in the pupil's resident school district for
57	57	purposes of revenue limits beginning in the 2024-25 school year.
58	58	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
59	59	printed as an appendix to this bill.
60	60	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
61	61	enact as follows:
62	62	SECTION 1. 118.40 (2r) (g) of the statutes is repealed.
63	63	SECTION 2. 118.40 (2x) (f) of the statutes is repealed.
64	64	SECTION 3. 121.07 (2) (d) and (f) of the statutes are repealed.
65	65	SECTION 4. 121.085 of the statutes is amended to read:
66	66	121.085 State aid; other reductions. (1) The department shall make state
67	67	aid adjustments under s. 118.51 (16) and (17) before making a reduction under s.
68	68	115.7915 (4m) (f), 118.40 (2r) (g) or (2x) (f), or 118.60 (4d) (b).
69	69	(2) For purposes of ss. 115.7915 (4m) (f) 2., 118.40 (2r) (g) 2. and (2x) (f) 2., and
70	70	118.60 (4d) (b) 2., a school district's aid under s. 121.08 is insufficient to cover a
71	71	reduction if, after making state aid adjustments under s. 118.51 (16) and (17), the
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86	86	amount of the school district's aid under s. 121.08 is insufficient to cover all of the
87	87	reductions under ss. 115.7915 (4m) (f) 1., 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. and (2x) (f) 1., and 118.60
88	88	(4d) (b) 1.
89	89	(3) The state superintendent shall ensure that the aid reductions under ss.
90	90	115.7915 (4m) (f) 1., 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. and (2x) (f) 1., and 118.60 (4d) (b) 1. lapse to the
91	91	general fund.
92	92	SECTION 5. 121.90 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
93	93	121.90 (1) (g) In Beginning in the 2017-18 school year and in each ending in
94	94	the 2023-24 school year thereafter, the “number of pupils enrolled" shall include the
95	95	total number of pupils residing in the school district who on the 3rd Friday of
96	96	September of each appropriate school year attend a charter school established under
97	97	a contract with an entity under s. 118.40 (2r) (b) 1. e. to h. or a charter school
98	98	established under a contract with the director under s. 118.40 (2x).
99	99	SECTION 6.0Initial applicability.
100	100	(1) The treatment of s. 118.40 (2r) (g) and (2x) (f) first applies to state aid paid
101	101	in the 2024-25 school year.
102	102	SECTION 7.0Effective dates. This act takes effect on the day after publication,
103	103	except as follows:
104	104	(1) The treatment of s. 121.07 (2) (d) and (f) takes effect on July 1, 2025.
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