Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SB276 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 SENATE BILL 276
5	5	May 15, 2023 - Introduced by Senators TOMCZYK and STROEBEL, cosponsored by
6	6	Representatives SORTWELL, GUSTAFSON, MOSES, MURPHY, SAPIK and SCHRAA.
7	7	Referred to Committee on Education.
8	8	AN ACT to amend 67.05 (6a) (a) 2. (intro.) and 115.385 (1) (a) (intro.); and to
9	9	create 67.05 (6a) (a) 3. of the statutes; relating to: restricting a school district's
10	10	authority to increase its revenue limit by referendum.
11	11	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
12	12	Current law generally limits the total amount of revenue a school district may
13	13	receive from general school aids and property taxes in a school year. However, there
14	14	are several exceptions to the revenue limit. One exception to the revenue limit is an
15	15	increase for funds needed to service general obligation debt issued by a school
16	16	district, if the debt was approved by a referendum. This type of referendum is often
17	17	referred to as a capital referendum.
18	18	This bill prohibits a school board from initiating the process for a capital
19	19	referendum for borrowing other than for maintenance expenses if the school district
20	20	received lower than a certain score for pupil achievement in reading and
21	21	mathematics on the most recent school and school district accountability report.
22	22	Specifically, the school board of a school district in which 2,000 or more pupils are
23	23	enrolled is prohibited from initiating the capital referendum process if its overall
24	24	pupil achievement score in reading and mathematics was below 60 points, and a
25	25	school board of a school district in which fewer than 2,000 pupils are enrolled is
26	26	prohibited from initiating the capital referendum process if its overall pupil
27	27	achievement score in reading and mathematics was below 50 points. The bill also
28	28	requires the Department of Public Instruction to use a 100 point scale for certain
29	29	measures that are required to be included in the school and school district
30	30	accountability report, including pupil achievement in reading and mathematics.
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36	36	For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
37	37	an appendix to this bill.
38	38	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
39	39	enact as follows:
40	40	SECTION 1. 67.05 (6a) (a) 2. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
41	41	67.05 (6a) (a) 2. (intro.) Except as provided under subd. 3., pars. (b) and (c), and
42	42	subs. (7) and (15), and subject to the limit on the number of referendums that may
43	43	be called in any calendar year under subd. 2. a., if the board of any school district,
44	44	or the electors at a regularly called school district meeting, by a majority vote adopt
45	45	an initial resolution to raise an amount of money by a bond issue, the school district
46	46	clerk shall, within 10 days, publish notice of such adoption as a class 1 notice under
47	47	ch. 985 or post the notice as provided under s. 10.05. The notice shall state the
48	48	maximum amount proposed to be borrowed, the purpose of the borrowing, that the
49	49	resolution was adopted under this subdivision and the place where and the hours
50	50	during which the resolution may be inspected. The school board shall also do one of
51	51	the following:
52	52	SECTION 2. 67.05 (6a) (a) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
53	53	67.05 (6a) (a) 3. A board of a school district, or the electors at a regularly called
54	54	school district meeting, may not adopt a resolution under subd. 2. that would result
55	55	in an increase to the school district's revenue limit under s. 121.91 (4) (c) if the
56	56	purpose of the borrowing is other than for maintenance expenses and any of the
57	57	following applies to the school district:
58	58	a. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district is 2,000 or more and, on
59	59	the most recent school district accountability report published under s. 115.385 (1),
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84	84	the school district was assigned an overall score for pupil achievement in reading and
85	85	mathematics that is below 60 points.
86	86	b. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district is less than 2,000 and,
87	87	on the most recent school district accountability report published under s. 115.385
88	88	(1), the school district was assigned an overall score for pupil achievement in reading
89	89	and mathematics that is below 50 points.
90	90	SECTION 3. 115.385 (1) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
91	91	115.385 (1) (a) (intro.) Multiple measures, each of which is measured on a 100
92	92	point scale, to determine a school's performance or a school district's improvement,
93	93	including all of the following categorized by English language proficiency, disability,
94	94	income level, and race or ethnicity:
95	95	SECTION 4.0Initial applicability.
96	96	(1) The treatment of s. 67.05 (6a) (a) 3. first applies to a resolution adopted on
97	97	the effective date of this subsection.
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