Bills · 2011-2012 Regular Session

SB 174

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

Introduced, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

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.

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Senate: Report passage recommended by committee on Education, Ayes 6, Noes 1

Passed 6–1 Oct 6, 2011 official source full page

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

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs and take up, Ayes 37, Noes 58

Failed 37–58 Feb 16, 2012 official source full page