LRB-0151/1
PG:kmg:rs
2003 - 2004 LEGISLATURE
February 26, 2003 - Introduced by Representatives Olsen, Bies, Grothman,
Gunderson, Hahn, Hines, Hundertmark, Jensen, Jeskewitz, F. Lasee, J.
Lehman, M. Lehman, McCormick, Owens, Seratti, Townsend and Travis.
Referred to Committee on Education.
AB100,1,3
1An Act to create 117.105 (1g), 117.105 (1m) (d) and 121.07 (1) (d) of the statutes;
2relating to: state aid to school districts that are created from the territory of
3one or more existing school districts.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law provides a method for creating a new school district by detaching
territory from one or more existing school districts. Because state school aid is based
on a school district's prior year data, however, the new school district receives no
state aid in its first year.
This bill provides that for the new school district's first year the Department of
Public Instruction must compute state aid for the new school district, and for any
school district from which territory was detached to create the new school district,
as if the new school district had existed in the 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:
AB100, s. 1
4Section
1. 117.105 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,2,45
117.105
(1g) State aid estimate. Based upon the information provided to the
6board under sub. (1), the department shall estimate the amount of state aid under
1s. 121.08 that each affected school district and the proposed school district would
2have received in the current school year if the proposed school district had existed
3in the previous school year, and shall notify the school board of each affected school
4district.
AB100, s. 2
5Section
2. 117.105 (1m) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,2,86
117.105
(1m) (d) For the purpose of apportioning assets and liabilities under
7par. (b) or (c), state aid distributed under s. 121.15 in the school year beginning on
8the effective date of the reorganization under this section is not an asset.
AB100, s. 3
9Section
3. 121.07 (1) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
AB100,2,1710
121.07
(1) (d) Notwithstanding par. (a), for the school year beginning on the
11effective date of a reorganization under s. 117.105, the department shall compute
12state aid for any school district from which territory was detached to create a school
13district under s. 117.105, and for the school district created under s. 117.105, as if the
14school district created under s. 117.105 had been in existence on the preceding July
151. For the purpose of computing state aid, the department shall calculate each school
16district's shared cost on the basis of the school district's share of the aggregate
17membership in all of the school districts.
AB100,2,2219
(1) This act first applies to a school district reorganization initiated by a
20petition filed under section 117.105 (1) (a) of the statutes, or by the adoption of the
21first school board resolution under section 117.105 (1) (b) of the statutes, on the
22effective date of this subsection.
