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1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE
April 22, 1999 - Introduced by Representatives J. Lehman, Sinicki, Plouff, Black,
Gronemus, Sykora and
Wasserman, cosponsored by Senators Grobschmidt
and Plache. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
AB281,1,3
1An Act to amend 121.91 (2m) (d) (intro.); and
to create 121.91 (7) of the statutes;
2relating to: adjusting a school district's revenue limit for unanticipated
3expenditures and granting rule-making authority.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law generally limits the increase in the total amount of revenue that
a school district may receive from general school aids and property taxes to
approximately $209 per pupil in the 1998-99 school year and, in subsequent school
years, to the amount of revenue increase allowed per pupil in the previous school year
increased by the percentage change in the consumer price index.
This bill increases the school district's revenue limit in any school year by an
amount equal to the sum of the school district's unanticipated expenditures in the
previous school year. An unanticipated expenditure is an expenditure for any of the
following purposes that exceeds the school district's average expenditures for that
purpose for the three previous school years: utilities, maintenance, security, debt
service on obligations issued to pay the costs of complying with federal laws and
regulations, transportation, inservice related to educational technology changes in
the curriculum, legal expense, development of peer review or mentoring programs
for school district staff, special assessments for public improvements, and any other
purpose specified by the department of public instruction by administrative rule.
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:
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1Section
1. 121.91 (2m) (d) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
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121.91
(2m) (d) (intro.) Except as provided in subs. (3)
and (4) to (7), no school
3district may increase its revenues for the 1998-99 school year or for any school year
4thereafter to an amount that exceeds the amount calculated as follows:
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5Section
2. 121.91 (7) of the statutes is created to read:
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121.91
(7) (a) In this subsection, "unanticipated expenditure" means an
7expenditure for any of the following purposes that exceeds the school district's
8average expenditures for that purpose in the 3 previous school years, as determined
9by the state superintendent:
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1. Utilities.
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2. Maintenance.
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3. Security.
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4. Debt service on obligations issued to pay the costs of complying with federal
14laws and regulations.
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5. Transportation.
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6. Inservice related to educational technology changes in the curriculum.
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7. Legal expense.
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8. Development of peer review or mentoring programs for school district staff.
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9. Special assessments for public improvements.
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10. Any other purpose specified by the department by rule.
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1(b) Upon request by a school board, the state superintendent shall increase the
2school district's limit under sub. (2m) in any school year by an amount equal to the
3sum of the school district's unanticipated expenditures in the previous school year.
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(1) This act first applies to a school district's revenue limit for the school year
6beginning after the effective date of this subsection.
