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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 835

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Relating to: sparsity aid, the revenue limit ceiling for school districts, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Public instruction, department of Referendum School — Finance School — State aid

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Revenue limit ceiling

This bill increases the revenue limit ceiling for school districts to $9,400 in the

2018-19 school year, and then increases the ceiling by $100 each school year until

the ceiling reaches $9,800 in the 2022-23 school year. However, the bill also provides

that during the three school years following a school year in which an operating

referendum fails in a school district, the school district's revenue limit ceiling is the

revenue limit ceiling that applied in the school year during which the referendum

was held.

Under current law, the formula for determining a school district's revenue limit

does not apply to a school district with per pupil revenue that is less than the revenue

limit ceiling. Instead, the school district is allowed to increase its per pupil revenue

up to the revenue limit ceiling. The current revenue limit ceiling is $9,100.

Sparsity aid

Beginning in the 2018-19 school year, this bill increases the sparsity aid per

pupil amount from $300 to $400. Under current law, a school district is eligible for

sparsity aid if the school district's membership in the previous school year did not

exceed 745 pupils and the school district's membership divided by the school district's

area in square miles is less than ten. Current law also provides a reduced amount

of sparsity aid to a school district that was eligible to receive sparsity aid in the

previous school year but does not satisfy the criteria in the current school year.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Bernier (R) , Born (R) , Edming (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Katsma (R) , Kitchens (R) , Krug (R) , Kulp (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Mursau (R) , Nerison (R) , Novak (R) , Nygren (R) , Petersen (R) , Petryk (R) , Pronschinske (R) , Quinn (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Steineke (R) , Summerfield (R) , Swearingen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tittl (R) , Tranel (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Vorpagel (R)

8 cosponsors

Gundrum (R) , LeMahieu (R) , Marklein (R) , Moulton (R) , Olsen (R) , Testin (R) , Tiffany (R) , Tusler (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 14, Noes 1

Passed 14–1 Feb 1, 2018 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 3 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Feb 12, 2018 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Feb 12, 2018 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 90–3 Feb 13, 2018 official source full page

Aye · 90

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 16, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: Senate Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 14

Passed 18–14 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

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

Senate: SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND

Passed 18–14 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 31–1 Feb 20, 2018 official source full page

Nay · 1

Full history

  1. Jan 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Nygren, Felzkowski, Mursau, Kitchens, Ballweg, Bernier, Born, Edming, Katsma, Kulp, Krug, Loudenbeck, Nerison, Novak, Petersen, Petryk, Pronschinske, Quinn, Rohrkaste, Spiros, Steffen, Summerfield, Swearingen, Thiesfeldt, Tittl, Tranel, VanderMeer, Vorpagel, Rodriguez and Steineke; cosponsored by Senators Marklein, Olsen, Testin, LeMahieu, Moulton and Tiffany

  2. Jan 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Jan 19, 2018 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 23, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Tusler added as a coauthor

  5. Jan 25, 2018 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Pope

  7. Jan 31, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Bowen

  8. Feb 1, 2018 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Feb 1, 2018 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 14, Noes 1

  10. Feb 1, 2018 · Assembly

    Referred to joint committee on Finance

  11. Feb 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Representative Gundrum added as a coauthor

  12. Feb 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  13. Feb 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  14. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 3 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  15. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  16. Feb 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  17. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from committee on Rules and take up

  18. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  19. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 adopted

  20. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  21. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  22. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 90, Noes 3

  23. Feb 13, 2018 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  24. Feb 14, 2018 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  25. Feb 14, 2018 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  26. Feb 14, 2018 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  27. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  28. Feb 16, 2018 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2018 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  29. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators Bewley, Shilling, Miller, Ringhand, Risser, Erpenbach, Vinehout and Johnson

  30. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 offered by Senators Bewley, Shilling, Miller, Ringhand, Risser, Erpenbach, Vinehout, Johnson and Schachtner

  31. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 3 offered by Senators Shilling, Miller, Ringhand, Risser, Erpenbach, Carpenter, Vinehout, Johnson, Schachtner, L. Taylor and Bewley

  32. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a second time

  33. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 rejected

  34. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 2 rejected, Ayes 18, Noes 14

  35. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Point of order that Senate Amendment 3 was not germane taken under advisement

  36. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Point of order that Senate Amendment 3 was not germane well taken

  37. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Decision of the Chair stands as the judgement of the Senate, Ayes 18, Noes 14

  38. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  39. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  40. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 31, Noes 1

  41. Feb 20, 2018 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  42. Feb 20, 2018 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  43. Mar 1, 2018 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  44. Mar 1, 2018 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-1-2018

  45. Mar 8, 2018 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 3-8-2018

  46. Mar 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 3-12-2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 141

  47. Mar 12, 2018 · Assembly

    Published 3-13-2018