Open enrollment and repealing outdated or expired reporting requirements and tuberculosis screening (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Public Instruction)

In addition, this bill adds a missing cross-reference to make the changes to the tuberculosis screening requirements under 2017 Wisconsin Act 107 applicable to the Milwaukee Public Schools. Act 107 requires a school district to, with limited exceptions, condition employment in the school district on the completion of a physical examination that includes a screening questionnaire for tuberculosis. Prior to Act 107, the physical examination requirements, including tuberculosis screening requirements, applied to all school districts except MPS. Act 107 eliminated the language exempting MPS, but did not insert a cross-reference to the statutory provision that makes general school laws applicable to a first class city school district.

This bill also eliminates a number of expired or outdated reporting requirements imposed on the Department of Public Instruction. Eliminated in this bill are a requirement to submit a report to the legislature and to the governor, by January 1, 2001, and January 1, 2003, regarding DPI's progress in securing school safety funding; a requirement to submit to the standing committees of the legislature a report summarizing the physical condition and capacity of the state's public schools; and a requirement to submit, by July 1, 2005, a report to the standing committees of the legislature on the imposition of school uniforms by school boards.

Finally, the bill corrects an incorrect cross-reference in a provision requiring DPI to provide notice of educational options.

For further information, see the Notes provided by the Law Revision Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.