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Bills from the 2009–10 session

Assembly Bill 798

Accepting pupils under the full-time Open Enrollment Program

Topics: School, School: Attendance

Stopped before the full Assembly voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Assembly never voted on it. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Mar 3, 2010

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Assembly vote, stopped here

    Stopped here. The full Assembly never voted on it.

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass 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, 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. If a nonresident school district receives more applications than there are spaces available, the school district must determine which pupils to accept on a random basis after giving preference to pupils and to siblings of pupils who are already attending the nonresident school district.

This bill also requires a nonresident school district that is a union high school district (a district operating only grades 9 to 12) to give preference to pupils who are attending an underlying elementary school district (a district operating only grades kindergarten to 8) of the nonresident school district under the Open Enrollment Program.

Read the full summary

Current law establishes criteria that a school district must use to determine whether to accept or reject a nonresident pupil. For example, a school board may consider the availability of space in the school or program to which the nonresident pupil has applied. The school board may include in its count of occupied spaces pupils attending the school district for whom tuition is paid, and pupils and their siblings who have applied to attend the school district and are already attending public school in the nonresident school district.

This bill allows a school board of a union high school district to include in its count of occupied spaces pupils who are currently attending an underlying elementary school district of the nonresident school district under the Open Enrollment Program.

Who's behind it

3 lawmakers are its ⁠. 2 are Republicans and 1 is a Democrat.

2 more lawmakers ⁠.

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Authors (3)

Signed on in support (2)

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Assembly Committee on Education vote to recommend it

Passed, 12 to 0 · 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 12, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Apr 28, 2010

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Mar 31, 2010

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  3. Mar 31, 2010

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 12 to 0.

  4. Mar 9, 2010

    The committee held a public hearing.

  5. Mar 3, 2010

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Education.

  6. Mar 3, 2010

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Mar 3, 2010 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Pasch, Nass and Townsend;Cosponsored by Senators Darling and Kedzie

  2. Mar 3, 2010 · 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 12, Noes 0

  6. Mar 31, 2010 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

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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

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

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