LRB-1361/P3
FFK:jld:jf
2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stritchko, BB0466 - Per pupil aid calculation
For 2015-2017 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Primary and secondary education
Under current law, DPI must provide school district with per pupil aid in the amount of $150 multiplied by the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the current and two preceding school years. Per pupil aid is currently paid from a sum sufficient appropriation. This bill changes the appropriation for per pupil aid to a sum certain appropriation. The bill also changes the manner in which per pupil aid is calculated. Under the bill, a school district receives for each pupil enrolled in the school district in the current school year an amount determined by dividing the total amount appropriated for per pupil aid in the current fiscal year divided by the total number of pupils enrolled in all school districts.
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:
Section
1. 20.255 (2) (aq) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.255 (2) (aq) Per pupil aid. A sum sufficient The amounts in the schedule for per pupil aid under s. 115.437.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 115.437 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 115.437 (2) (intro.) and amended to read:
115.437 (2) (intro.) Annually Beginning in the 2015-16 school year, annually on the 4th Monday of March, the department shall pay to each school district an amount equal to the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the current and 2 preceding school years multiplied by $75 in the 2013-14 school year and by $150 in each school year thereafter. determined as follows:
(3) The department shall make the payments under this section from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (aq).
Section
3. 115.437 (2) (a) of the statutes is created to read:
115.437 (2) (a) Divide the amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (aq) for the current fiscal year by the total number of pupils enrolled in all school districts in the current school year.
Section
4. 115.437 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
115.437 (2) (b) Multiply the quotient under par. (a) by the number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the current school year.
Section 9134.
Nonstatutory provisions; Public Instruction.
(1) Per pupil aid. Notwithstanding section 16.42 (1) (e) of the statutes, in submitting information under section 16.42 of the statutes for purposes of the 2017-19 biennial budget bill, the department of public instruction shall submit information concerning the appropriation under section 20.255 (2) (aq) of the statutes as though the amount of that appropriation for fiscal year 2016-17 was zero.
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