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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
May 12, 2005 - Introduced by Representative Mursau. Referred to Joint
Committee on Finance.
AB418,1,3
1An Act to create 115.435 (2m) of the statutes;
relating to: providing state aid
2to certain large-area, declining enrollment school districts and granting
3rule-making authority.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a school district with an area of at least 200 square miles
and an enrollment of fewer than 500 pupils, and in which at least 80 percent of the
real property is exempt from taxation, is taxed as forest cropland, or is tribal land,
is eligible for supplemental state aid of $350 per enrolled pupil.
This bill provides that, if in any fiscal year the amount appropriated for
supplemental aid is not fully expended, the balance will be used to provide a payment
of $350 per enrolled pupil to any school district that is at least 475 square miles in
area and that experienced a decline in enrollment of more than 12 percent between
the 2000-01 school year and the 2003-04 school year.
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:
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4Section
1. 115.435 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:
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1115.435
(2m) (a) If in any fiscal year there is a balance in the appropriation
2under s. 20.255 (2) (ad) after all of the payments are made under sub. (2), the
3department shall use the balance to pay each school district that satisfies the
4following criteria an amount equal to $350 for each pupil enrolled in the school
5district in the previous school year:
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1. The school district is at least 475 square miles in area.
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2. The school district's membership used to calculate aid under s. 121.15 (4) (b)
8in the 2000-01 and the 2003-04 school years declined more than 12 percent between
9those school years.
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(b) If the balance is insufficient to pay the full amount under this subsection,
11the funds shall be prorated among the entitled school districts.
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(1) This act first applies to state aid distributed in the 2005-06 school year.
