AB566: Bill Text

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

1995 Assembly BILL 566

September 25, 1995 - Introduced by Representatives Otte, Grothman, Ryba, F. Lasee, Ziegelbauer, Gunderson and Robson, cosponsored by Senators Rosenzweig and C. Potter. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.

AB566,1,4 An Act to amend 121.07 (6) (a) (intro.); and to create 121.91 (4) (d) of the statutes; relating to: increasing a school district's revenue limit by the amount necessary to comply with certain orders and excluding that amount from the school district's shared cost.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law limits the increase in the total amount of revenue that a school district may receive from general school aids and property taxes in the 1993-94 to 1997-98 school years. In the 1993-94 school year, the maximum allowable increase per pupil was $190 or the rate of inflation, whichever was greater. Beginning in the 1994-95 school year, the $190 per pupil amount is adjusted each year by the rate of inflation. Several exceptions are provided. For example, if a school district increases the services that it provides by adding responsibility for providing a service transferred to it from another governmental unit, its revenue limit is increased by the cost of that service.

This bill provides that a school district's revenue limit is increased by the amount necessary to comply with an order of a court, a federal agency or a city, village, town or county to remedy any violation of law relating to health or safety. The bill also excludes from a school district's shared cost (costs that are aidable through the general aid formula) the amount described above.

For further information see the 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:

AB566, s. 1 Section 1. 121.07 (6) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB566,2,4 121.07 (6) (a) (intro.) "Shared cost" is the sum of the net cost of the general fund and the net cost of the debt service fund, except that "shared cost" excludes the amount described under s. 121.91 (4) (d). In this paragraph, "net cost of the debt service fund" includes all of the following amounts:

AB566, s. 2 Section 2. 121.91 (4) (d) of the statutes is created to read:

AB566,2,9 121.91 (4) (d) The limit under sub. (2m) is increased by the amount necessary to comply with an order of a court, a federal agency or a city, village, town or county to remedy any violation of a federal law or regulation, state statute or rule or municipal or county ordinance relating to health or safety.

AB566, s. 3 Section 3. Initial applicability.

AB566,2,13 (1)  This act first applies to the calculation of a school district's revenue limit for, and the payment of state aid in, the first school year beginning after the effective date of this subsection.

AB566,2,14 (End)