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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 649

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Relating to: supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Legislature — Finance joint committee on Legislature — Member Public instruction department of Public land School — Administration School — Consolidation or reorganization School — Finance School — Health program School — State aid

  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

This bill increases the amount appropriated to the Joint Committee on Finance for supplemental appropriations as follows:

1. To provide grants to school boards that enter into a whole grade sharing agreement, $2,700,000.

2. To provide additional state aid to consolidated school districts if the consolidated school district’s maximum allowable levy rate is greater than the lowest levy rate of the school districts that were consolidated to create the school district, $3,000,000.

3. To reimburse school boards for costs incurred for feasibility studies for school district consolidation or a whole grade sharing, $250,000.

The bill also requires the Department of Public Instruction to submit a request to JCF to supplement DPI appropriations for the purposes described above.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Duchow (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 8

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

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 7, Noes 4

Passed 7–4 Nov 13, 2025 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 54–43 Nov 19, 2025 official source full page

Aye · 54

Nay · 43

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Nov 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representative Duchow

  2. Nov 10, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Nov 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 7, Noes 4

  6. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules

  8. Nov 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  9. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  10. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 54, Noes 43

  11. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Nov 20, 2025 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  15. Nov 20, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Education

  16. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1