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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 570

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Relating to: payments for pupils who withdraw from a parental choice program, the Special Needs Scholarship Program, or an independent charter school. (FE)

Children — Special educational needs Parochial and private schools Public instruction department of School — Attendance School — Charter school School — Consolidation or reorganization School — Finance

  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

Under current law, for each pupil attending a private school under a parental choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program and for each pupil attending an independent charter school, the Department of Public Instruction pays a per pupil amount to the private school participating in a parental choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program or to the independent charter school. DPI pays the annual per pupil amount to the private school or independent charter school in four equal installments. Under the bill, if, during the school year, a pupil withdraws from a private school participating in a parental choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program or from an independent charter school and enrolls in a school district, DPI must pay any remaining amount due to the private school or independent charter school for that pupil to the school district in which the pupil is enrolled.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , Cruz (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Hysell (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spaude (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

11 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Habush Sinykin (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Subeck (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Full history

  1. Oct 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sheehan, Cruz, Neubauer, Andraca, Bare, Clancy, DeSanto, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Hysell, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spaude, Tenorio and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Larson, Hesselbein, Dassler-Alfheim, Carpenter, Habush Sinykin, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Ratcliff and Spreitzer

  2. Oct 24, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Nov 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Anderson added as a coauthor

  4. Nov 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Nov 21, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1