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1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE
September 2, 1999 - Introduced by Representatives Albers, Musser, Goetsch,
Hasenohrl, Spillner, Reynolds, Johnsrud, Black and Miller, cosponsored
by Senators Plache and Roessler. Referred to Committee on Ways and
Means.
AB439,1,2
1An Act to amend 121.91 (4) (f) 1. of the statutes;
relating to: revenue limits of
2school districts with declining enrollments.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law generally limits the increase in the total amount of revenue per
pupil that a school district may receive from general school aids and property taxes.
A school district's three-year rolling average, based on pupil enrollment in the
current and the two preceding school years, is used to determine the allowable
revenue increase under the revenue limit. If a school district's three-year rolling
average for the 1998-99 school year is less than the average of the number of pupils
enrolled in the school district in the three previous school years, then the school
district's revenue limit is increased for the 1998-99 school year by the additional
amount that would have been calculated had the decline in the three-year rolling
average enrollment been 25% of what it was. This bill extends this one-year revenue
limit increase for declining enrollment to subsequent school years.
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:
AB439, s. 1
3Section
1. 121.91 (4) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB439,2,7
1121.91
(4) (f) 1. For the 1998-99 school year
or any school year thereafter, if the
2average of the number of pupils enrolled in the current and the 2 preceding school
3years, as calculated under sub. (2m) (d) 4., is less than the average of the number of
4pupils enrolled in the 3 previous school years, as calculated under sub. (2m) (d) 1.,
5the limit otherwise applicable under sub. (2m) (d) is increased by the additional
6amount that would have been calculated had the decline in average enrollment been
725% of what it was.
