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Bills from the 2009–10 session

Assembly Bill 622

Pupils attending a school district under the Open Enrollment Program who are habitually truant

Topics: School: Attendance, School: Attendance: Compulsory, School: Board

Passed the Assembly, then stopped

The Assembly passed it on Apr 15, 2010, but the Senate never voted on it. A bill has to ⁠. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Dec 17, 2009

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Assembly vote, passed

    Passed Apr 15, 2010

  4. Senate vote, stopped here

    Stopped here. The Senate never voted on it.

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to concur in pursuant to ⁠”

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under the current full-time Open Enrollment Program (OEP), a pupil may apply to attend a public school in a school district other than the pupil's resident school district if certain conditions are met. Current law establishes criteria that the nonresident school district may use to determine whether to accept or reject a nonresident pupil. A school board may consider the availability of space in the school or program to which the nonresident pupil has applied, whether the pupil has been expelled from school during the current or two preceding school years for certain specified reasons, whether a disciplinary proceeding involving the pupil is pending, and whether the pupil's individualized education program needs have been evaluated by the resident school district or can be fulfilled in the nonresident school district.

This bill provides that if the nonresident school board determines that a pupil attending the school district under the OEP is habitually truant (absent from school without an acceptable excuse for part or all of five or more school days during any semester) during either semester in the current school year, the school board may prohibit the pupil from attending the school district under the OEP in the succeeding semester or school year.

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The bill also allows a school board to include in its criteria for accepting or rejecting an application from a nonresident pupil to attend the school district under the OEP whether the school board determined that the pupil was habitually truant from the school district during any semester of attendance at the school district in the current or previous school year.

Current law allows the parent of a pupil whose application to attend a nonresident school district was rejected to appeal the decision to the Department of Public Instruction. Similarly, this bill allows an appeal from a decision to reject an application, and from a decision to prohibit a pupil from attending the nonresident school district in the succeeding semester or school year, based upon the pupil's habitual truancy.

Who's behind it

5 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 5 are Democrats.

4 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 9 names

Authors (5)

Signed on in support (4)

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Assembly Committee on Education vote to recommend it

Passed, 10 to 2 · Mar 31, 2010

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by committee on Education, Ayes 10, Noes 2”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Apr 28, 2010

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Apr 16, 2010

    Sent to the Senate Committee on Education.

  3. Apr 16, 2010

    The Senate received it.

  4. Apr 15, 2010

    The Assembly passed it.

  5. Mar 31, 2010

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  6. Mar 31, 2010

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 10 to 2.

  7. Mar 9, 2010

    The committee held a public hearing.

  8. Dec 17, 2009

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Education.

  9. Dec 17, 2009

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Dec 17, 2009 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Smith, Pope-Roberts, Staskunas, Krusick and Molepske Jr.;Cosponsored by Senators Kreitlow, Lehman, Taylor and Darling

  2. Dec 17, 2009 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Education

  3. Mar 9, 2010 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Mar 23, 2010 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Mar 31, 2010 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by committee on Education, Ayes 10, Noes 2

  6. Mar 31, 2010 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Apr 13, 2010 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 11:21 A.M. on 4-15-2010 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 22

  8. Apr 15, 2010 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  9. Apr 15, 2010 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  10. Apr 15, 2010 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  11. Apr 15, 2010 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  12. Apr 15, 2010 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  13. Apr 16, 2010 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  14. Apr 16, 2010 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Education

  15. Apr 28, 2010 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Second chamber's vote

A bill has to pass both the Assembly and the Senate in the same form before it goes to the governor.

Official term: Concurrence. More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Second chamber's vote

A bill has to pass both the Assembly and the Senate in the same form before it goes to the governor.

Official term: Concurrence

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

More in the glossary