LRB-0830/P2
KRP:cdc&amn
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0264 - First Class City School Levy Aid
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
Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: First class city school levy aid
Under current law, the estimated cost of the payments made to private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program is partially offset by two reductions in the general school aid otherwise paid to the Milwaukee Public Schools. For the 2010-11 school year and in each school year thereafter, one of the reductions to MPS is an amount equal to 6.6 percent of the cost of payments made to private schools participating in the MPCP. Current law requires DPI to pay an amount equal to that reduction amount to the City of Milwaukee and requires the City of Milwaukee to pay that amount to the board of school directors of MPS. This bill eliminates the 6.6 percent aid reduction and the requirements that the reduction amount be paid by DPI to the city and by the city to the board. The bill does not make any changes to the other state aid reduction.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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1. 119.46 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
119.46 (1) As part of the budget transmitted annually to the common council under s. 119.16 (8) (b), the board shall report the amount of money required for the ensuing school year to operate all public schools in the city under this chapter, including the schools transferred to the superintendent of schools opportunity schools and partnership program under s. 119.33 and to the opportunity schools and partnership program under subch. II, to repair and keep in order school buildings and equipment, including school buildings and equipment transferred to the superintendent of schools opportunity schools and partnership program under s. 119.33 and to the opportunity schools and partnership program under subch. II, to make material improvements to school property, and to purchase necessary additions to school sites. The report shall specify the amount of net proceeds from the sale or lease of city-owned property used for school purposes deposited in the immediately preceding school year into the school operations fund as specified under s. 119.60 (2m) (c) or (5) and the net proceeds from the sale of an eligible school building deposited in the immediately preceding school year into the school operations fund as specified under s. 119.61 (5). The amount included in the report for the purpose of supporting the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program under s. 119.23 shall be reduced by the amount of aid received by the board under s. 121.136 and by the amount specified in the notice received by the board under s. 121.137 (2). The common council shall levy and collect a tax upon all the property subject to taxation in the city, which shall be equal to the amount of money required by the board for the purposes set forth in this subsection, at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected. Such taxes shall be in addition to all other taxes which that the city is authorized to levy. The taxes so levied and collected, any other funds provided by law and placed at the disposal of the city for the same purposes, and the moneys deposited in the school operations fund under ss. 119.60 (1), (2m) (c), and (5) and 119.61 (5) shall constitute the school operations fund.
****Note: This is reconciled s. 119.46 (1). This Section has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -0830/p1 and -1218/p1.
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2. 121.07 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.07 (2) Membership. (intro.) For the purposes of ss. 121.08, 121.09, 121.095, and 121.105, and 121.137, a school district's membership is the sum of all of the following:
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3. 121.08 (4) (b) (intro.) and 1. of the statutes are consolidated, renumbered 121.08 (4) (b) and amended to read:
121.08 (4) (b) The amount of state aid that the school district operating under ch. 119 is eligible to be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) shall also be reduced by the amount calculated as follows: 1. Multiply the amounts paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) in the 2009-10 school year by 41.6 percent, and multiply by multiplying the amounts paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) in the 2010-11 to 2012-13 school years by 38.4 percent. Beginning in the 2013-14 school year, multiply the amounts paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) in the current school year by a percentage determined by subtracting 3.2 percentage points from the percentage that was applied under this subdivision paragraph in the previous school year. This subdivision paragraph does not apply after the 2024-25 school year.
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4. 121.08 (4) (b) 2. and 3. of the statutes are repealed.
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5. 121.137 of the statutes is repealed.
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6. 121.90 (2) (am) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
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