Amendment SSA1-AB261

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2003 - 2004 LEGISLATURE

SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO 2003 ASSEMBLY BILL 261

October 22, 2003 - Offered by Senators Carpenter and Moore.

AB261-SSA1,1,2 An Act to amend 121.54 (2) (c); and to create 118.40 (2r) (c) 2. f. of the statutes; relating to: charter schools located in a 1st class city school district.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB261-SSA1, s. 1 Section 1. 118.40 (2r) (c) 2. f. of the statutes is created to read:

AB261-SSA1,1,7 118.40 (2r) (c) 2. f. The pupil attended the school during the 2003-04 School year when the school was a private school participating in the program under s. 119.23, and the school is first operated as a charter school during the 2004-05 school year.

AB261-SSA1, s. 2 Section 2. 121.54 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB261-SSA1,2,11 121.54 (2) (c) An annual or special meeting of a common or union high school district, or the school board of a unified school district, or the board of school directors in charge of the school district operating under ch. 119 may elect to provide transportation for pupils who are not required to be transported under this section, including pupils attending public school under s. 118.145 (4). Transportation may be provided for all or some of the pupils who reside in the school district to and from the public school they are entitled to attend; the charter school they attend; or the private school, within or outside the school district, within whose attendance area they reside. If transportation is provided for less than all such pupils there shall be reasonable uniformity in the minimum distance that pupils attending public and private schools will be transported. Except for elementary school districts electing to furnish transportation under par. (b) 2., this paragraph does not permit a school district operating only elementary grades to provide transportation for pupils attending private schools.

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