Skip to content

Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session

AB 728

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: teacher licensure in parental choice programs and in the Special Needs Scholarship Program and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

Children — Special educational needs Children and families department of Parochial and private schools Public instruction department of School — Attendance Teacher — Certificate

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

With certain exceptions, this bill requires that, beginning on July 1, 2022,

teachers at private schools participating in a parental choice program or in the

Special Needs Scholarship Program must hold a license or permit issued by the

Department of Public Instruction. Under current law, teachers at choice schools

must have at least a bachelor's degree from a nationally or regionally accredited

institution of higher education, but they are not required to be licensed by DPI.

There are no current law requirements regarding who may teach at SNSP schools.

The bill provides an exception for a teacher who teaches only courses in

rabbinical studies. In addition, the bill provides a grace period for a teacher who has

been teaching for at least the five consecutive years immediately preceding July 1,

2022, which allows the teacher to apply for a temporary, nonrenewable waiver of the

licensure requirement. An applicant for a waiver must submit a plan for becoming

licensed as required under the bill.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Billings (D) , Brostoff (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Gruszynski (D) , Kolste (D) , L. Myers (D) , Milroy (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vruwink (D)

7 cosponsors

Bewley (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Larson (D) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D) , Smith (D) , Wirch (D)

Full history

  1. Jan 9, 2020 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Pope, Considine, Emerson, Kolste, Sargent, Spreitzer, Billings, Milroy, Stubbs, Subeck, Neubauer, Gruszynski, Vruwink, Ohnstad, Sinicki, L. Myers and Brostoff; cosponsored by Senators Erpenbach, Bewley, Larson, Wirch, Smith, Risser and Ringhand

  2. Jan 9, 2020 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform

  3. Feb 4, 2020 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 1, 2020 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1