LRB-1293/P3
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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0182 - Personal electronic computing devices repeal
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
1. Personal electronic computing devices grant program
The bill eliminates the personal electronic computing devices grant program after the 2019-20 school year. Under the personal electronic devices grant program, DPI awards grants to public, private, and tribal schools to purchase personal electronic computing devices, software for personal electronic computing devices, and curricula that is accessible on personal electronic computing devices. The grants may also be used to train professional staff on the effective use of personal electronic devices in an educational setting. For a grant awarded to a school district in the 2019-20 school year, the bill specifies that the grant amount is based on the number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the current school year. Under current law, a grant to a school district is calculated based on the school district's membership in the previous school year.
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:
Section
1. 20.255 (2) (aw) of the statutes is repealed.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 115.438 of the statutes, as affected by 2019 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed.
Section 3
. 115.438 (1) (intro.) and (b) (intro.) of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 115.438 (1) (intro.) and amended to read:
115.438 (1) (intro.) In this section: (b) “Personal, “personal electronic computing device” means an electronic computing device that satisfies all of the following criteria:
Section 4
. 115.438 (1) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
Section 5
. 115.438 (1) (b) 1. to 3. of the statutes are renumbered 115.438 (1) (a) to (c).
Section 6
. 115.438 (4) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
115.438 (4) (a) 1. For a school district, the number of 9th grade pupils included in the school district's membership enrolled, as defined in s. 121.004 (7), in the previous current school year.
Section 9434.
Effective dates; Public Instruction.
(1) Personal electronic computing devices; grant program. The repeal of ss. 20.255 (2) (aw) and 115.438 take effect on July 1, 2020.
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