Wisconsin 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: Passed Assembly 11 R cosponsors

AB 442 — Relating to: a whole grade sharing categorical aid for school boards and making an appropriation. (FE)

Last action — Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
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    Passed Assembly
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

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Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

63 added · 17 removed

Plain-language change summary

The recent amendment to Assembly Bill 442 has made a few key changes. Firstly, the proposed funding for the program was reduced from $750,000 to zero for the 2019-20 fiscal year, which means that no financial aid will be available in that year. Additionally, the timeline for when school boards could enter into whole grade sharing agreements has been extended to May 1, 2020. These adjustments are significant as they directly impact the financial support available to schools and the opportunities for cooperation among school districts.

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- 2020 LEGISLATURE LRBa0617/1 FFK:amn ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 442 October 10, 2019 - Offered by RepresentativELZKOWSKI.
- 2020 LEGISLATURE LRB-1272/1 FFK:cjs ASSEMBLY BILL 442 September 13, 2019 - Introduced by Representatives F ELZKOWSKI , DUCHOW , H ORLACHER, KATSMA, KITCHENS, RUG , UGLITSCH, KULP, MAGNAFICI, MURPHY, SPIROS, T USLER, Q UINN, S TAFSHOL, N YGREN , M URSAU and D ITTRICH, cosponsored by Senators D ARLING, BERNIER, F EYEN, KOOYENGA , O LSEN, PETROWSKI and M ARKLEIN.
At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:
Referred to Committee on Education.
A N A CT to create 20.255 (2) (bp) and 118.50 (5m) of the statutes;
relating to:
a whole grade sharing categorical aid for school boards and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill creates a categorical aid for school boards that enter into a whole grade sharing agreement and adopt a resolution to consider school district consolidation.
Under the bill, the Department of Public Instruction pays an eligible school board an amount equal to $150 per pupil enrolled in a grade included in the whole grade sharing agreement.
A school board may not receive this aid for more than five school years.
Under current law, two or more school boards may enter into a whole grade sharing agreement, under which all or a substantial portion of the pupils enrolled in a specified grade in the participating school districts attend the specified grade in one of the participating school districts.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
S ECTION1.
20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes:
at the appropriate place, insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
- 2020 Legislature - 2 - LRB-1272/1 FFK:cjs ASSEMBLY BILL 442 SECTION 1 2019-20 2020-21 20.255 Public instruction, department of (2) AIDS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING (bp) Aid for whole grade sharing agreements GPR A $750,000 $750,000 SECTION 2.
20.255 (2) (bp) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (bp) Aid for whole grade sharing agreements.
The amounts in the schedule for payments under s.
118.50 (5m).
SECTION 3.
118.50 (5m) of the statutes is created to read:
118.50 (5m) STATE AID(a) A school board is eligible for aid under sub.
(b) if the school board does all of the following:
Page 2, line 4:
Enters into a whole grade sharing agreement.
in the column for the 2019-20 fiscal year, delete “$750,000” and substitute “-0-".
Page 2, line 11:
Adopts a resolution declaring that it will consider consolidation under s.
after “into" insert “and participates in".
117.08 or 117.09.
3.
(b) Beginning in the 2019-20 school year and subject to par.
Page 2, line 14:
(c), the department shall pay an eligible school board an amount equal to $150 multiplied by the number of pupils who are enrolled in the school district in a grade level that is subject to the whole grade sharing agreement.
delete “2019-20" and substitute “2020-21".
(c) 1.
4.
If the appropriation under s.
Page 2, line 23:
20.255 (2) (bp) is insufficient to pay the full amount under this subsection, the department shall prorate the payments among the eligible school boards.
delete the material beginning with that line and ending with on page 3, line 2, and substitute:
2.
“SECTION 4m.
The department may not make payments to a school board under par.
Nonstatutory provisions.
(b) for more than 5 school years of a whole grade sharing agreement.
(1) Notwithstanding s.
SECTION 4.0Effective date.
118.50 (2) (a), in the 2019-2020 school year, a school board may enter into a whole grade sharing agreement under s.
LRB-1272/1 - 2020 Legislature - 3 - FFK:cjs SECTION 4 ASSEMBLY BILL 442 (1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after publication of the 2019 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
118.50 until May 1, 2020.”.
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Action History

  1. Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. Available for scheduling

  3. Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  4. Received from Assembly

  5. Ordered immediately messaged

  6. Read a third time and passed, Ayes 98, Noes 0

  7. Rules suspended

  8. Ordered to a third reading

  9. Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  10. Read a second time

  11. Placed on calendar 1-21-2020 by Committee on Rules

  12. Referred to committee on Rules

  13. Report passage as amended recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  14. Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  15. Executive action taken

  16. Referred to joint committee on Finance

  17. Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  18. Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 13, Noes 0

  19. Executive action taken

  20. Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Felzkowski

  21. Public hearing held

  22. Representatives Ramthun and Jagler added as coauthors

  23. Fiscal estimate received

  24. Representative Skowronski added as a coauthor

  25. Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  26. Introduced by Representatives Felzkowski, Duchow, Horlacher, Katsma, Kitchens, Krug, Kuglitsch, Kulp, Magnafici, Murphy, Spiros, Tusler, Quinn, Stafsholt, Nygren, Mursau and Dittrich; cosponsored by Senators Darling, Bernier, Feyen, Kooyenga, Olsen, Petrowski and Marklein

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17 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 115 not signed on

Sponsors (17)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (115)

115 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

PASSAGE

Passed 98 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 36000
Democrat 14000
Unaffiliated 48000
Total 98000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (98)
Member Party Vote
BALLWEG — Yea
BOWEN — Yea
BRANDTJEN — Yea
BROSTOFF — Yea
CABRERA — Yea
CONSIDINE — Yea
CROWLEY — Yea
EDMING — Yea
FIELDS — Yea
GOYKE — Yea
GRUSZYNSKI — Yea
HEBL — Yea
HINTZ — Yea
HORLACHER — Yea
KATSMA — Yea
KERKMAN — Yea
KOLSTE — Yea
KUGLITSCH — Yea
KULP — Yea
LOUDENBECK — Yea
MACCO — Yea
MAGNAFICI — Yea
MEYERS — Yea
MILROY — Yea
MYERS — Yea
NYGREN — Yea
OHNSTAD — Yea
OLDENBURG — Yea
OTT — Yea
PETRYK — Yea
PLUMER — Yea
POPE — Yea
RAMTHUN — Yea
RIEMER — Yea
ROHRKASTE — Yea
SANFELIPPO — Yea
SARGENT — Yea
SCHRAA — Yea
SHANKLAND — Yea
SKOWRONSKI — Yea
STEINEKE — Yea
STUCK — Yea
TAUCHEN — Yea
THIESFELDT — Yea
VORPAGEL — Yea
VRUWINK — Yea
ZAMARRIPA — Yea
SPEAKER — Yea
Anderson, Clinton Democrat Yea
Billings, Jill Democrat Yea
Doyle, Steve Democrat Yea
Emerson, Jodi Democrat Yea
Haywood, Kalan Democrat Yea
Hesselbein, Dianne Democrat Yea
McGuire, Tip Democrat Yea
Neubauer, Greta Democrat Yea
Sinicki, Christine Democrat Yea
Spreitzer, Mark Democrat Yea
Stubbs, Shelia Democrat Yea
Subeck, Lisa Democrat Yea
Taylor, Sequanna Democrat Yea
Vining, Robyn Democrat Yea
Allen, Scott Republican Yea
August, Tyler Republican Yea
Born, Mark Republican Yea
Brooks, Robert Republican Yea
Dittrich, Barbara Republican Yea
Duchow, Cindi Republican Yea
Felzkowski, Mary Republican Yea
Gundrum, Rick Republican Yea
Jagler, John Republican Yea
James, Jesse Republican Yea
Kitchens, Joel Republican Yea
Knodl, Daniel Republican Yea
Krug, Scott Republican Yea
Kurtz, Tony Republican Yea
Murphy, David Republican Yea
Mursau, Jeffrey Republican Yea
Neylon, Adam Republican Yea
Novak, Todd Republican Yea
Petersen, Kevin Republican Yea
Pronschinske, Treig Republican Yea
Quinn, Romaine Republican Yea
Rodriguez, Jessie Republican Yea
Snyder, Patrick Republican Yea
Sortwell, Shae Republican Yea
Spiros, John Republican Yea
Stafsholt, Rob Republican Yea
Steffen, David Republican Yea
Summerfield, Rob Republican Yea
Swearingen, Rob Republican Yea
Tittl, Paul Republican Yea
Tranel, Travis Republican Yea
Tusler, Ron Republican Yea
VanderMeer, Nancy Republican Yea
Wichgers, Chuck Republican Yea
Wittke, Robert Republican Yea
Zimmerman, Shannon Republican Yea

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors AB 442?
AB 442 is sponsored by Felzkowski, Mary (Republican), Duchow, Cindi (Republican), Horlacher, Katsma, Kitchens, Joel (Republican), Krug, Scott (Republican), Kuglitsch, Kulp, Magnafici, Murphy, David (Republican), Spiros, John (Republican), Tusler, Ron (Republican), Quinn, Romaine (Republican), Stafsholt, Rob (Republican), Nygren, Mursau, Jeffrey (Republican), and Dittrich, Barbara (Republican).
What is the current status of AB 442?
This bill died with 2019-2020 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Assembly” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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