LRB-0733/P1
KRP:emw
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0075 - Aid for pupil transportation
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
This bill increases the reimbursement rate to school districts and independent charter school operators, beginning in the 2019-20 school year, for transporting a pupil who lives more than 12 miles from the school the pupil attends from $365 per school year to $375 per school year. Under current law, a school district that provides transportation to pupils to and from summer classes may be reimbursed for certain transportation costs, but, if a pupil is transported fewer than 30 days, that aid is proportionately reduced. The bill eliminates the requirement that DPI reduce the amount of state aid a school district receives for transporting a pupil if the pupil is transported fewer than 30 days.
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. 121.58 (2) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.58 (2) (a) 4. For each pupil so transported whose residence is more than 12 miles from the school attended, $300 $365 per school year in the 2016-17 2018-19 school year and $365 $375 per school year thereafter.
Section
2. 121.58 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.58 (4) State aid for summer class transportation. Annually on or before October 1 of the year in which transportation is provided under s. 118.50 (3) (b) or 121.54 (4), or under s. 121.54 (10) if the transportation is provided by the nonresident school district that a pupil attends under s. 118.51 or 121.84 (4), the school district clerk shall file with the department a report, containing such information as the department requires, on transportation provided by the school board to and from summer classes. Upon receipt of such report and if the summer classes meet the requirements of s. 121.14 (1) (a) 1. or 2., state aid shall be paid for such transportation. A school district which that provides such transportation shall be paid state aid for such transportation at the rate of $10 per pupil transported to and from public school whose residence is at least 2 miles and not more than 5 miles by the nearest traveled route from the public school attended, and $20 per pupil transported to and from public school whose residence is more than 5 miles by the nearest traveled route from the public school attended, if the pupil is transported 30 days or more. The state aid shall be reduced proportionately if the pupil is transported less than 30 days.
Section 9334.
Initial applicability; Public Instruction.
(1) State aid for summer class transportation. The treatment of s. 121.58 (4) first applies to state aid for transportation paid in the 2019-20 school year.
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