SB 637

The bill prohibits the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

from charging resident undergraduate academic fees in the 2021-22 and 2022-23

academic years that are more than the fees charged in the 2020-21 academic year,

commonly referred to as a “tuition freeze.” The freeze is funded by increasing the

appropriation to the UW System for general program operations by $16,800,000 in

the fiscal year 2021-22 and by $33,600,000 in the fiscal year 2022-23.

The bill also provides additional funding for special education aid the

Department of Public Instruction pays to school districts, independent charter

schools, cooperative educational service agencies, and county children with

disabilities education boards in the amount of $9,155,000 for the 2021-22 fiscal year

and $18,310,000 for the 2022-23 fiscal year, for purposes of maintaining compliance

with maintenance of effort requirements of the federal Consolidated Appropriations

Act and the federal American Rescue Plan Act.