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Bills · 2011-2012 Regular Session

AB 314

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closing the parental choice program for eligible school districts to additional school districts.

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

The Biennial Budget Act,

2011 Wisconsin Act 32

(the act), created a parental

choice program for eligible school districts (program). Under the program, a pupil

who resides in an eligible school district may attend a participating private school

if, among other requirements, the pupil is a member of a family that has a total

family income that does not exceed 300 percent of the poverty level. The act defined

an eligible school district as a school district located in whole or in part in a city of

the second class that is eligible to receive state aid as a high poverty school district

and satisfies certain requirements related to equalized value per member and shared

cost per member.

This bill provides that no school district that has not already qualified as an

eligible school district may qualify as an eligible school district after the effective

date of this bill.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brooks (R) , Endsley (R) , Kestell (R) , Krug (R) , Vos (R)

11 cosponsors

Cowles (R) , Ellis (R) , Hansen (D) , Jauch (D) , Lassa (D) , Marklein (R) , Olsen (R) , S. Fitzgerald (R) , Schultz (R) , T. Cullen (D) , Taylor (D)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by committee on Education, Ayes 6, Noes 3

Passed 6–3 Dec 1, 2011 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Oct 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Vos, Kestell, Brooks, Krug and Endsley;Cosponsored by Senators Ellis, Cowles, S. Fitzgerald, Olsen, Jauch, T. Cullen, Taylor, Schultz, Lassa and Hansen

  2. Oct 7, 2011 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Education

  3. Oct 14, 2011 · Assembly

    Representative Marklein added as a coauthor

  4. Oct 19, 2011 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Nov 16, 2011 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Dec 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by committee on Education, Ayes 6, Noes 3

  7. Dec 1, 2011 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Mar 23, 2012 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1