LRB-0834/P2
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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0271 - County Children with Disabilities Education Board Aid
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
County children with disabilities education boards; pupils attending a school district under the full-time open enrollment program
Under current law, a county children with disabilities education board may provide a special education program to pupils enrolled in or attending a school district if the school board has agreed to be included in the CCDEB's special education program. If a CCDEB is fiscally independent from the school districts that participate in its program, the state provides state aid to the CCDEB. In the 2019-20 school year, there were three fiscally independent CCDEBs.
Under current law, one of the factors used to calculate state aid paid to a CCDEB is determined by recalculating a participating school district's equalization aid by adding resident pupils solely enrolled in the CCDEB program to the district's membership and by adding the costs of the services provided by the CCDEB to all resident pupils to the school district's shared costs. Under the bill, nonresident pupils attending the school district under the full-time open enrollment program are included in this calculation.
Current law provides a minimum per pupil revenue limit for school districts, known as the revenue ceiling. Under current law, a school district qualifies for the revenue ceiling if its base revenue per pupil is less than the revenue ceiling. Under current law, the per pupil revenue ceiling is $10,000 in the 2020-21 school year and each school year thereafter.
Under current law, the costs of services provided to resident pupils who were solely enrolled in a CCDEB program in the previous school year are included in a school district's base revenue per pupil amount. Under the bill, the costs of services provided to nonresident pupils attending a school district under the full-time open enrollment program who are solely enrolled in a CCDEB program are also included in the school district's base revenue per pupil.
For further information see the 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:
Section
1. 121.135 (2) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.135 (2) (a) 1. “Additional general aid" means the amount determined by calculating the percentage of a school district's shared costs that would be paid under s. 121.08 if its membership included each pupil who is a resident of the school district or is attending the school district under s. 118.51 and solely enrolled in a special education program provided by a the county children with disabilities education board that includes the school district in its program under s. 115.817 (2) and the school district's shared costs were increased by the costs of the county children with disabilities education board program for all pupils participating in the county children with disabilities education board program who are residents of the school district or attending the school district under s. 118.51, and multiplying the costs of the county children with disabilities education board program by that percentage.
Section
2. 121.905 (3) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.905 (3) (a) 1. Except as provided under subds. 2. and 3., calculate the sum of the amount of state aid received in the previous school year and property taxes levied for the previous school year, excluding property taxes levied for the purpose of s. 120.13 (19) and excluding funds described under s. 121.91 (4) (c), and the costs of the county children with disabilities education board program, as defined in s. 121.135 (2) (a) 2., in the previous year, for pupils who were school district residents or nonresidents who attended the school district under s. 118.51 and solely enrolled in a special education program provided by a
the county children with disabilities education board in the previous school year that included the school district in its program under s. 115.817 (2).
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