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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 389

Vetoed Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: the per pupil adjustment for school district revenue limits. (FE)

School — Finance

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

Current law generally limits the total amount of revenue per pupil that a school district may receive from general school aids and property taxes in a school year to the amount of revenue allowed per pupil in the previous school year plus a per pupil adjustment, if any, as provided by law. Current law, which was upheld in

LeMieux v. Evers

, 2025 WI 12, provides an annual $325 per pupil adjustment until 2425.

This bill eliminates the $325 per pupil adjustment in the school district revenue limit formula beginning with the calculation of school district revenue limits for the 2027-28 school year. As a result, there is no per pupil adjustment in school district revenue limit calculations for the 2027-28 school year and any school year thereafter.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bradley (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Hutton (R) , Jagler (R) , James (R) , Kapenga (R) , Nass (R) , Stafsholt (R) , Tomczyk (R) , Wanggaard (R)

22 cosponsors

Allen (R) , B. Jacobson (R) , Behnke (R) , Brill (R) , Dittrich (R) , Donovan (R) , Goeben (R) , Green (R) , Hurd (R) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Kreibich (R) , Maxey (R) , Melotik (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Piwowarczyk (R) , Sortwell (R) , Wichgers (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 10

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

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Nov 7, 2025 official source full page

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

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 18–15 Nov 18, 2025 official source full page

Assembly: Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

Passed 11–4 Feb 4, 2026 official source full page

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

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 54–40 Feb 19, 2026 official source full page

Aye · 54

Nay · 40

Full history

  1. Aug 11, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Kapenga, Nass, Bradley, Cabral-Guevara, Jagler, James, Stafsholt, Tomczyk, Wanggaard and Hutton; cosponsored by Representatives Maxey, Piwowarczyk, Allen, Behnke, Brill, Dittrich, Donovan, Goeben, Green, Hurd, B. Jacobson, Kitchens, Knodl, Kreibich, Melotik, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, O'Connor, Penterman, Sortwell and Wichgers

  2. Aug 11, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs

  3. Sep 10, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Nov 5, 2025 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Nov 7, 2025 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Nov 7, 2025 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Licensing, Regulatory Reform, State and Federal Affairs, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  7. Nov 7, 2025 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Nov 14, 2025 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 11-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  9. Nov 18, 2025 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  10. Nov 18, 2025 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  11. Nov 18, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Nov 18, 2025 · Senate

    Read a second time

  13. Nov 18, 2025 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  15. Jan 16, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  16. Jan 30, 2026 · Assembly

    Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to joint committee on Finance pursuant to Assembly Rule 24 (3)(a)

  17. Feb 3, 2026 · Assembly

    Executive action taken by joint committee on Finance

  18. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Report concurrence recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 11, Noes 4

  19. Feb 4, 2026 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  20. Feb 18, 2026 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 11:17 AM on 2-19-2026 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 14

  21. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  22. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  23. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  24. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 54, Noes 40

  25. Feb 19, 2026 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  26. Feb 23, 2026 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  27. Feb 26, 2026 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  28. Apr 2, 2026 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 4-2-2026

  29. Apr 6, 2026 · Senate

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 4-3-2026

  30. May 12, 2026 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 5-12-2026 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  31. May 13, 2026 · Senate

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