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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
October 13, 2005 - Introduced by Senators Olsen and
Kanavas, cosponsored by
Representatives Krawczyk, Hines, Hahn, Van Roy, Townsend and Lehman.
Referred to Committee on Education.
SB383,1,2
1An Act to renumber and amend 121.54 (3); and
to create 121.54 (3) (a) 1. to
24. of the statutes;
relating to: transportation of children with disabilities.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law requires each school board to provide transportation for a child
with a disability to any public or private elementary or high school, to the school
operated by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the school
operated by the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing, or to any special education program for children with disabilities sponsored
by a state college or university.
This bill instead requires that each school board provide transportation to the
school the child with a disability attends if the child has an individualized education
program requiring such transportation, if the child resides fewer than two miles from
the school, if the child has been placed in the private school by a school board, and
if the child's parent or guardian has not refused a school board's placement of the
child in a public school.
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:
SB383, s. 1
1Section
1. 121.54 (3) of the statutes is renumbered 121.54 (3) (a) (intro.) and
2amended to read:
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121.54
(3) (a) (intro.) Every school board shall provide transportation for
4children with disabilities, as defined in s. 115.76 (5), to
any public or private
5elementary or high school, to the
public or private school
operated by the Wisconsin
6Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the school operated by the Wisconsin
7Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or to any special
8education program for children with disabilities sponsored by a state tax-supported
9institution of higher education, including a technical college, regardless of distance,
10if the request for such transportation is approved by the state
superintendent.
11Approval shall be based on whether or not the child can walk to school with safety
12and comfort the child attends if all of the following are true:
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13(b) Section 121.53 shall apply to transportation provided under this subsection.
SB383, s. 2
14Section
2. 121.54 (3) (a) 1. to 4. of the statutes are created to read:
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121.54
(3) (a) 1. The child has an individualized education program under s.
16115.787 that requires transportation to school.
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2. The child resides fewer than 2 miles from the school.
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3. The child has been placed in the private school by a school board.
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4. The child's parent or guardian has not refused a school board's placement of
20the child in a public school.
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(1) This act first applies to the transportation of pupils in the school year
23beginning after the effective date of this subsection.
