AB840: Bill Text

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2009 - 2010 LEGISLATURE

2009 Assembly BILL 840

March 11, 2010 - Introduced by Representatives Hraychuck, Danou, Pope-Roberts, Clark, Zigmunt, Hubler, Pasch, Hilgenberg, Molepske Jr. and Staskunas, cosponsored by Senators Vinehout, Holperin, Kreitlow and Schultz. Referred to Committee on Education.

AB840,1,3 An Act to renumber and amend 121.91 (4) (f) 1.; to amend 121.91 (4) (f) 1m. c.; and to create 121.91 (4) (f) 1. a. and b. of the statutes; relating to: the school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Currently, if a school district's enrollment declines, for one year only its revenue limit is increased by the amount of additional revenue that would have been allowed had there been no decline in enrollment.

This bill extends the declining enrollment revenue adjustment to two years. Under the bill, in the first year of an enrollment decline, a school district's revenue limit is increased by 100 percent of the allowable revenues that the decline would have generated. In the second year, the district receives a revenue adjustment equal to 50 percent of the first-year adjustment.

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:

AB840, s. 1 Section 1. 121.91 (4) (f) 1. of the statutes, as affected by 2009 Wisconsin Act 28, is renumbered 121.91 (4) (f) 1. (intro.) and amended to read:

AB840,2,7 121.91 (4) (f) 1. (intro.) Except as provided in subd. 1m., for the 2007-08 2010-11 school year or any school year thereafter, if the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the current and the 2 preceding school years is less than the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the 3 previous school years, the limit otherwise applicable under sub. (2m) is increased by the additional amount that would have been calculated had there been no decline in average enrollment. as follows:

AB840, s. 2 Section 2. 121.91 (4) (f) 1. a. and b. of the statutes are created to read:

AB840,2,10 121.91 (4) (f) 1. a. In the current school year, by the additional amount that would have been calculated had there been no decline in average enrollment.

AB840,2,12 b. In the succeeding school year, by an amount equal to 50 percent of the additional amount calculated under subd. 1. a.

AB840, s. 3 Section 3. 121.91 (4) (f) 1m. c. of the statutes, as affected by 2009 Wisconsin Act 28, is amended to read:

AB840,2,21 121.91 (4) (f) 1m. c. For the school year beginning on the 2nd July 1 following the effective date of the school district reorganization, if the average of the number of pupils enrolled in that school year and the previous school year is less than the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the 2 previous school years, the limit otherwise applicable under sub. (2m) is increased by the additional an amount that would have been calculated had there been no decline in average enrollment equal to 50 percent of the additional amount calculated under subd. 1m. b.

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