Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: open enrollment (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Public Instruction).
School — Attendance Statutes — Revision
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill eliminates an expired provision of the open enrollment program. The
bill also eliminates a provision in the open enrollment program that permits a school
district to deny the transfer of a pupil into or out of the school district if the transfer
would increase racial imbalance in the school district. In December 2007, the
Wisconsin attorney general issued an opinion finding this provision to be
unenforceable based upon a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in
Parents Involved
in Community Schools, et al. v. Seattle School District No. 1
, 551 U.S. 701 (2007).
Sponsors
Full history
- Jan 12, 2017 · Assembly
Introduced by Representative Ott, by request of Department of Public Instruction
- Jan 12, 2017 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Jan 19, 2017 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Mar 8, 2017 · Assembly
Representative Kitchens added as a coauthor
- Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1