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Senate Passes Fund 80 Bill
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | March 19, 2014
Yesterday, the state Senate passed SB 478 (as amended), relating to school district expenditures for community programs and services. Given the intense political pressure to pass legislation on this issue, the SAA worked with the authors of SB 478, Senator Cowles and Representative Steineke, and the DPI to fashion the framework for the amended bill that passed the Senate yesterday.
The bill (as amended) does 3 things:
1) It directs DPI to promulgate rules defining “eligible costs” for community programs and services under Fund 80 and provides that only those expenditures that are eligible costs under the rules are excluded from a school district’s revenue limit;
2) It requires each school district’s annual audit report to provide information about the district’s expenditures for community programs and services; and
3) It allows the DPI to decrease the revenue limit otherwise applicable to a school district in any school year by an amount equal to the school district’s ineligible expenditures for community programs and services in the previous school year. The amount of the decrease, if any, does not affect the base for determining the school district’s revenue limit for the following school year.
We anticipate that the Assembly will concur in Senate passage of SB 478 on Thursday.
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