LRB-1303/P8
TKK:jld/amn/wlj
2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hynek, BB0180 - Per pupil aid
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...;
relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
This bill provides additional per pupil aid of $188 in the 2017-18 school year and $380 in the 2018-19 school year and in each school year thereafter to a school district that certifies all of the following:
1. In the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years, employees of the school district will be required to pay at least 12 percent of all costs and payments associated with health care coverage in those school years.
2. The school district will distribute the additional per pupil aid to a school in the school district in an amount equal to the number of pupils enrolled in the school.
This bill also requires DPI to increase the additional per pupil aid by $12 in the 2017-18 school year and by $24 in the 2018-19 school year if, in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 fiscal years, a lapse occurs to the general fund in an amount equal to the employer's GPR savings for providing group health plans to state employees on a self-insured basis.
Under current law, each school district receives $250 in per pupil aid.
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. 115.437 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
115.437 (3) From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (aq), the department shall pay to a school district that satisfies the conditions under this subsection 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 $188 in the 2017-18 school year and by $380 in the 2018-19 school year and in each school year thereafter. The department shall annually require a school board to submit as a condition for receiving aid under this subsection a statement certifying that, in each school year in which the school district receives aid under this subsection, the school board will distribute the aid to the school administrator of a school in the school district in an amount equal to the amount determined as follows:
(a) Determine the average of the number of pupils enrolled in the school in the current and 2 preceding school years.
(b) Multiply the product under par. (a) by $188 in the 2017-18 school year and by $380 in the 2018-19 school year and in each school year thereafter.
Section 9135.
Nonstatutory provisions; Public Instruction.
(1) Per pupil aid; health care coverage. Notwithstanding section 115.437 (3) of the statutes, in each of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years, the department of public instruction may not pay per pupil aid under section 115.437 (3) of the statutes to a school district unless the school district certifies to the department of public instruction that employees of the school district will be required to pay at least 12 percent of all costs and payments associated with employee health care coverage plans in that school year.
(2) Per pupil aid supplemental payment. If a lapse occurs under Section 9101 (1) of this act during the 2017-18 fiscal year, the department of public instruction shall increase the per pupil payment amount under section 115.437 (3) of the statutes by $12 in the 2017-18 school year. If a lapse occurs under Section 9101 (1) of this act during the 2018-19 fiscal year, the department of public instruction shall increase the per pupil payment amount under section 115.437 (3) of the statutes by $24 in the 2018-19 school year.
(3) Calculation of statewide categorical aid; payment adjustments. If a lapse does not occur under Section 9101 (1) of this act during the 2017-18 fiscal year, the department of public instruction shall determine the change in the statewide categorical aid between the 2017-18 school year and the 2016-17 school year under section 118.40 (2r) (e) 2p. of the statutes by subtracting $12 from the amount calculated under section 118.40 (2r) (e) 2p. d. of the statutes. If a lapse does not occur under Section 9101 (1) of this act during the 2018-19 fiscal year, the department of public instruction shall determine the change in the statewide categorical aid between the 2018-19 school year and the 2017-18 school year under section 118.40 (2r) (e) 2p. of the statutes by subtracting $12 from the amount calculated under section 118.40 (2r) (e) 2p. d. of the statutes.
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