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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 968

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Relating to: creating a Charter School Authorizing Board and allowing the board to authorize independent charter schools. (FE)

Public instruction department of Reorganization of state government — Attached under s1503 School

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, stopped here
  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

Under current law, a school board, the Office of Educational Opportunity in the

UW System, the City of Milwaukee, the chancellor of an institution in the UW

System, a technical college district board, the county executive of Waukesha County,

the college of Menominee Nation, and the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa community

college may contract with a person to operate a charter school. Those entities are

commonly referred to as charter school authorizers, and a charter school established

by a charter school authorizer other than a school board is known as an independent

charter school.

This bill creates the Charter School Authorizing Board, attached to the

Department of Public Instruction, and expands the entities that may establish

independent charter schools to include the CSAB.

The CSAB consists of the state superintendent of public instruction, two

members appointed by the state superintendent, two members appointed by the

governor, and six members, who are not legislators, appointed by the leaders in the

senate and assembly. The bill specifies that no appointed member of the CSAB may

serve more than two consecutive terms. The bill prohibits the CSAB from

promulgating rules and provides that any standard or statement of policy adopted

by the CSAB is exempt from the rule-making process.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Brandtjen (R) , Dittrich (R) , Gundrum (R) , Knodl (R) , Macco (R) , Magnafici (R) , Rozar (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Wittke (R)

7 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Darling (R) , Roth (R) , Steffen (R) , Stroebel (R) , Wanggaard (R) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 8, Noes 5

Passed 8–5 Feb 17, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 4, Noes 3

Passed 4–3 Mar 4, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Mar 4, 2022 official source full page

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

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 20–11 Mar 8, 2022 official source full page

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Feb 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Wittke, Thiesfeldt, Dittrich, Brandtjen, Gundrum, Knodl, Macco, Magnafici and Rozar; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Roth, Stroebel, Wanggaard and Ballweg

  2. Feb 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Feb 11, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Wichgers added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 16, 2022 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 16, 2022 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 8, Noes 5

  8. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-22-2022 by Committee on Rules

  10. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  11. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  12. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  13. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Steffen added as a coauthor

  14. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  15. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  16. Feb 22, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  17. Feb 24, 2022 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Education

  18. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  19. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 4, Noes 3

  20. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  21. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  22. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 3-8-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  23. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  24. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  26. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 20, Noes 11

  27. Mar 8, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Mar 9, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  29. Mar 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-10-2022

  30. Apr 4, 2022 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-4-2022 by directive of the Speaker

  31. Apr 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 4-8-2022

  32. May 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 5-17-2022 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  33. May 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82