SB124: Bill Text

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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE

2001 Senate BILL 124

April 4, 2001 - Introduced by Senators Shibilski, Burke, Robson, Plache and Moen, cosponsored by Representatives Lippert, Lassa, Bock, Turner, Boyle, Pocan, Black, Sinicki, J. Lehman, Plouff, Miller, Carpenter, La Fave, Balow and Gronemus. Referred to Committee on Education.

SB124,1,2 An Act to create 121.91 (4) (i) of the statutes; relating to: increasing revenue limits for increases in health insurance costs.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law, with some exceptions, limits the increase in the amount of revenue that a school district may receive from general school aids and property taxes to approximately $220 per pupil in the 2000-01 school year and, in subsequent school years, to the amount of revenue increase allowed per pupil in the previous school year increase by the percentage change in the consumer price index.

This bill provides that if a school district subscribes to a private sector health insurance plan, its revenue limit is increased by the cost of health insurance premiums in the current school year that exceed 12% of the cost of health insurance premiums in the previous school year. A school district that subscribes to the group health insurance plan offered by the state receives a revenue limit increase equal to the cost of health insurance premiums in the current school year that exceed 10% of the cost of health insurance premiums in the previous school year. If a school district self-insures, it receives a revenue limit increase equal to the cost of paying health claims of school district employees in the previous school year that exceeded 12% of the amount paid in the second 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:

SB124, s. 1 Section 1. 121.91 (4) (i) of the statutes is created to read:

SB124,2,3 121.91 (4) (i) 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 following:

SB124,2,7 1. For a school district that subscribes to a private sector health care coverage plan, an amount equal to costs for health care coverage premiums in the current school year that exceed 12% of costs for health care coverage premiums in the previous school year.

SB124,2,11 2. For a school district that subscribes to a health care coverage plan offered by the group insurance board under s. 40.51 (7), an amount equal to costs for health care coverage premiums in the current school year that exceed 10% of costs for health care coverage premiums in the previous school year.

SB124,2,15 3. For a school district that provides health care benefits on a self-insured basis to employees of the school district, an amount equal to the cost of health care claims paid by the school district in the previous school year that exceeded 12% of the cost of health care claims paid by the school district in the 2nd previous school year.

SB124, s. 2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

SB124,2,18 (1) This act first applies to the calculation of a school district's revenue limit for the school year beginning after the effective date of this subsection.

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