AB 715

Prior to the enactment of the 2011-13 biennial budget act,

2011 Wisconsin Act

32

(Act 32), the total amount of revenue per pupil that a school district could receive

from general school aids and property taxes in any school year was limited to the

amount of revenue increase allowed per pupil in the previous school year increased

by the percentage change in the consumer price index. Act 32 decreased the revenue

limit adjustment for the 2011-12 school year, provided a $50 per pupil adjustment

for the 2012-13 school year, and eliminated the per pupil adjustment for the 2013-14

school year and every school year thereafter.

Several exceptions to the revenue limit exist under current law. For example,

if a school district increases the services that it provides by adding responsibility for

providing a service transferred to it from another governmental unit, its revenue

limit is increased by the cost of that service. Act 32 eliminated a revenue limit

adjustment available to a school district for the cost of employing school nurses. This

bill restores that revenue limit adjustment.