SB645: Bill Text

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

1995 Senate BILL 645

March 21, 1996 - Introduced by Senators Jauch, Clausing, Burke, Moen, Risser, Grobschmidt and Breske, cosponsored by Representatives Meyer, Olsen, Black, Hanson, R. Young, Plombon, Musser, Boyle, Lorge, Robson, Baldus and Gronemus. Referred to Committee on Education and Financial Institutions.

SB645,1,2 An Act to create 121.91 (4) (f) of the statutes; relating to: increasing a school district's revenue limit for certain technology-related expenditures.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law limits the increase in the total amount of revenue that a school dis trict may receive from general school aids and property taxes. In the 1995-96 school year, the maximum allowable increase per pupil is $200. In each school year thereaf ter, the maximum allowable increase per pupil is $206. The limit is based on the dif ference between the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the 3 previous school years and the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the current and 2 preceding school years.

This bill increases a school district's revenue limit in any school year by the amount spent by the school district in the previous school year for one or more of the following purposes:

1. Training teachers, librarians and other staff members in the use and integra tion of technology for educational purposes.

2. Purchasing or upgrading technology, including computer hardware and soft ware, distance education equipment and other equipment, materials or resources re lated to the project, and wiring within a school or library building or to connect schools in the same school district if such wiring is directly related to the project.

3. Integrating the use of educational technology and distance education throughout the curriculum.

4. Implementing the use of technology to enhance administrative efficiencies.

5. Offering community education opportunities through distance education or educational technology to school district, municipal or county residents.

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:

SB645, s. 1 Section 1. 121.91 (4) (f) of the statutes is created to read:

SB645,2,5 121.91 (4) (f) The limit otherwise applicable to a school district's revenue under sub. (2m) in any school year is increased by an amount equal to the amount spent by the school district in the previous school year for any of the purposes specified in s. 16.992 (5) (a).

SB645, s. 2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

SB645,2,8 (1)  This act first applies to the calculation of a school district's revenue limit for the 1996-97 school year.

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