Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB876 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 876
5	5	January 2, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives JOERS, C. ANDERSON, MADISON,
6	6	CLANCY, RATCLIFF, CONLEY, J. ANDERSON, BALDEH, BARE, CONSIDINE, DRAKE,
7	7	JACOBSON, NEUBAUER, PALMERI, SINICKI and STUBBS, cosponsored by Senators
8	8	SPREITZER, ROYS and AGARD. Referred to Committee on Education.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to amend 121.91 (7); and to create 121.91 (4) (m) of the statutes;
11	11	relating to: a school district revenue limit adjustment for the cost of unfunded
12	12	state mandates on school districts.
13	13	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
14	14	Current law generally limits the total amount of revenue per pupil that a school
15	15	district may receive from general school aids and property taxes in a school year to
16	16	the amount of revenue allowed per pupil in the previous school year plus a per pupil
17	17	increase, if any, as provided by law. However, current law also includes several
18	18	adjustments to the general revenue limit. For example, if a school district increases
19	19	the services that it provides by adding responsibility for providing a service
20	20	transferred to it from another governmental unit, the school district's revenue limit
21	21	is increased by the cost of that service.
22	22	This bill creates a school district revenue limit adjustment for costs incurred to
23	23	comply with an unfunded mandate. The bill defines an “unfunded mandate” as a
24	24	state law requirement enacted after the date on which the bill becomes law for a
25	25	school board to take an action or provide a service for which funding is not provided.
26	26	To receive a revenue limit adjustment for an unfunded mandate, a school board must
27	27	submit a request to the Department of Public Instruction that identifies the
28	28	unfunded mandate and the costs incurred to comply with the unfunded mandate and
29	29	DPI must approve the request. If a school district receives state funding to comply
30	30	with an unfunded mandate, the amount of the revenue limit adjustment is reduced
31	31	by the amount of state funding received by the district. The revenue limit
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37	37	adjustment is not available to a school district for any school year during which the
38	38	school board receives state funding equal to or greater than the school district's costs
39	39	incurred to comply with the unfunded mandate.
40	40	For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
41	41	an appendix to this bill.
42	42	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
43	43	enact as follows:
44	44	SECTION 1. 121.91 (4) (m) of the statutes is created to read:
45	45	121.91 (4) (m) 1. In this paragraph, “unfunded mandate” means a requirement
46	46	created in a state law enacted after the effective date of this subdivision .... [LRB
47	47	inserts date], that requires a school board to perform an action or provide a service
48	48	and does not provide funding to the school district for costs incurred to comply with
49	49	the requirement.
50	50	2. The limit otherwise applicable to the school district under sub. (2m) in any
51	51	school year is increased by the amount of the costs incurred by the school district, as
52	52	certified by the department, for an unfunded mandate if all of the following apply:
53	53	a. The school board submits a request to the department to approve the costs
54	54	incurred by the school board in that school year due to the unfunded mandate.
55	55	b. The department approves the request under subd. 2. a. and certifies that the
56	56	basis for the costs is an unfunded mandate and that the costs incurred are due to the
57	57	unfunded mandate.
58	58	3. If a school district receives state funding to comply with an unfunded
59	59	mandate in a school year, the amount of the increase under subd. 2. is reduced by the
60	60	amount of state funding received to comply with the unfunded mandate in that
61	61	school year. If the state funding received is equal to or greater than the amount
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84	84	incurred by the school district to comply with the unfunded mandate, no adjustment
85	85	is made to the limit otherwise applicable to the school district under sub. (2m).
86	86	4. Any additional revenue received by a school district under this paragraph
87	87	shall not be included in the base for determining the school district's limit under sub.
88	88	(2m) for the following school year.
89	89	SECTION 2. 121.91 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
90	90	121.91 (7) Except as provided in subs. (4) (f) 2. and (n) (m) to (qe) and (8), if an
91	91	excess revenue is approved under sub. (3) for a recurring purpose or allowed under
92	92	sub. (4), the excess revenue shall be included in the base for determining the limit
93	93	for the next school year for purposes of this section. If an excess revenue is approved
94	94	under sub. (3) for a nonrecurring purpose, the excess revenue shall not be included
95	95	in the base for determining the limit for the next school year for purposes of this
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97	97	SECTION 3.0Initial applicability.
98	98	(1) This act first applies to the calculation of a school district's revenue limit
99	99	for the school year beginning after the effective date of this subsection.
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