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supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation

supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation

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Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Duchow
Last action
2026-03-23
Official status
S - Education
Effective date
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supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation

supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation Status: S - Education

What This Bill Does

  • supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation Status: S - Education

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-23 Sen.

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. 2025-11-20 Sen.

    Received from Assembly

  3. 2025-11-20 Sen.

    Read first time and referred to committee on Education

  4. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Read a second time

  5. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Ordered to a third reading

  6. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Rules suspended

  7. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 54, Noes 43

  8. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Ordered immediately messaged

  9. 2025-11-18 Asm.

    Fiscal estimate received

  10. 2025-11-13 Asm.

    Executive action taken

  11. 2025-11-13 Asm.

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Education , Ayes 7, Noes 4

  12. 2025-11-13 Asm.

    Referred to committee on Rules

  13. 2025-11-13 Asm.

    Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules

  14. 2025-11-11 Asm.

    Public hearing held

  15. 2025-11-10 Asm.

    Introduced by Representative Duchow

  16. 2025-11-10 Asm.

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

Official Summary Text

supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation
Status: S - Education

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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 649
November 10, 2025 - Introduced by Representative
Duchow
. Referred to Committee on Education.
AB649,1,4
1
An Act

relating to:
supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants,
2
supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility
3
studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an
4
appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill increases the amount appropriated to the Joint Committee on Finance for supplemental appropriations as follows:
1. To provide grants to school boards that enter into a whole grade sharing agreement, $2,700,000.
2. To provide additional state aid to consolidated school districts if the consolidated school district’s maximum allowable levy rate is greater than the lowest levy rate of the school districts that were consolidated to create the school district, $3,000,000.
3. To reimburse school boards for costs incurred for feasibility studies for school district consolidation or a whole grade sharing, $250,000.
The bill also requires the Department of Public Instruction to submit a request to JCF to supplement DPI appropriations for the purposes described above.
For further information see the state 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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Section

1
. Nonstatutory provisions.
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(
1
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Department of public instruction; request.
By no later than July 1,
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2026, the department of public instruction shall submit a request to the joint
4
committee on finance to supplement from the joint committee on finance
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supplemental appropriation under s. 20.865 (4) (a) a department appropriation for
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each of the purposes described in
Section

2
(
1
) to (
3
) of this act.
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Section

2
. Fiscal changes.
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(
1
)
Feasibility studies; grants.
For fiscal year 2026, the dollar amount in
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the schedule for the appropriation under s. 20.865 (4) (a) is increased by $250,000
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for reimbursements to school boards for the costs incurred for feasibility studies for
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school district consolidation or whole grade sharing.
AB649,2,15
12
(
2
)
Whole grade sharing; grants.
For fiscal year 2026, the dollar amount
13
in the schedule for the appropriation under s. 20.865 (4) (a) is increased by
14
$2,700,000 for grants to school boards that enter into a whole grade sharing
15
agreement.
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(
3
)
Supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts.
For
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fiscal year 2026, the dollar amount in the schedule for the appropriation under s.
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20.865 (4) (a) is increased by $3,000,000 for additional aid to consolidated school
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districts that have a maximum allowable levy rate that is greater than the lowest
20
levy rate of their underlying school districts.
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