LRB-0821/P3
FFK:klm/skw/kjf
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0269 - Revenue Limit Pupil Counts
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
School district revenue limits; number of pupils enrolled in the 2020-21 school year
Current law limits the total amount of revenue a school district may receive from general school aids and property taxes in a school year. One factor used to calculate a school district's revenue limit is a three-year rolling average of the school district's pupil enrollment. For example, both the average of a school district's 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21 pupil enrollments and the average of the school district's 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22 pupil enrollments will be used to calculate the school district's 2021-22 school year revenue limit. In each applicable school year, a school district's pupil enrollment is based on a pupil count that occurs on the third Friday in September and 40 percent of the school district's summer school enrollment.
Under the bill, for purposes of determining a school district's revenue limit in the 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24 school years, a school district's pupil enrollment for the 2020-21 school year is the sum of the pupil count that occurred on the third Friday of the 2019-20 school year or the 2020-21 school year, whichever is greater and 40 percent of the school district's summer enrollment in the 2019-20 school year or 2020-21 school year, whichever is greater.
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
. 121.90 (1) (h) of the statutes is created to read:
121.90 (1) (h) In determining a school district's revenue limit for the 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24 school years, the number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the 2020-21 school year is the sum of the following:
1. The greater of the following:
a. Forty percent of the summer enrollment in the 2019-20 school year.
b. Forty percent of the summer enrollment in the 2020-21 school year.
2. The greater of the following:
a. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the 2019-20 school year, as determined without the exceptions provided in par. (dr).
b. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the 2020-21 school year, as determined without the exceptions provided in par. (dr).
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