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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 852
January 15, 2026 - Introduced by Senators
Smith
,
Larson
,
Keyeski
,
Carpenter
,
Dassler-Alfheim
,
Drake
,
Habush Sinykin
,
Hesselbein
,
L. Johnson
,
Pfaff
,
Ratcliff
,
Roys
,
Spreitzer
,
Wall
and
Wirch
, cosponsored by Representatives
Cruz
,
Phelps
,
Hong
,
Sheehan
,
Anderson
,
Andraca
,
Arney
,
Bare
,
Billings
,
Brown
,
Clancy
,
DeSanto
,
DeSmidt
,
Doyle
,
Emerson
,
Fitzgerald
,
Goodwin
,
Haywood
,
Hysell
,
J. Jacobson
,
Joers
,
Johnson
,
Kirsch
,
Madison
,
Mayadev
,
McCarville
,
McGuire
,
Miresse
,
Moore Omokunde
,
Neubauer
,
Palmeri
,
Prado
,
Rivera-Wagner
,
Roe
,
Sinicki
,
Snodgrass
,
Spaude
,
Stroud
,
Stubbs
,
Subeck
,
Taylor
,
Tenorio
,
Udell
and
Vining
. Referred to Committee on Education.
SB852,1,3
1
An Act
to amend
20.255 (2) (b) and 115.882 of the statutes;
relating to:
the
2
reimbursement rate for special education costs and school age parents
3
programs and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill changes the rate at which the state reimburses school boards, operators of independent charter schools, cooperative educational service agencies (CESAs), and county children with disabilities education boards (CCDEBs) for costs incurred to provide special education and related services to children with disabilities and for school age parents programs (eligible costs). Under current law, the state reimburses the full cost of special education for children in hospitals and convalescent homes for orthopedically disabled children. After those costs are paid, the state reimburses remaining eligible costs from the amount remaining in the appropriation account at a rate that distributes the full amount appropriated. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates the reimbursement rate will be 42 percent in the 2025-26 school year and 45 percent in the 2026-27 school year.
The bill changes the appropriation to a sum sufficient and provides that, in the 2025-26 school year, after full payment of hospital and convalescent home costs, the remaining costs are reimbursed at 42 percent of eligible costs, and in the 2026-27 school year and each school year thereafter, after full payment of hospital and convalescent home costs, the remaining costs are reimbursed at 45 percent of eligible costs.
Currently, DPI provides 1) special education aid to school districts, independent charter schools, CESAs, and CCDEBs; 2) aid to school districts, CESAs, and CCDEBs for providing physical or mental health treatment services to private school and tribal school pupils; and 3) aid for school age parents programs to school districts only.
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:
SB852,1
1
Section
1
.
20.255 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB852,2,6
2
20.255
(2)
(b)
Aids for special education and school age parents programs.
The
3
amounts in the schedule
A sum sufficient
for the payment of
the full cost of special
4
education for children in hospitals and convalescent homes under s. 115.88 (4) and
5
for the payment of
aids for special education and school age parents programs
6
under ss. 115.88, 115.93 and 118.255
as provided under s. 115.882
.
SB852,2
7
Section
2
.
115.882 of the statutes is amended to read:
SB852,2,17
8
115.882
Payment of state aid
; reimbursement rate
.
Funds appropriated
9
under s. 20.255 (2) (b) shall be used first for the purpose of s. 115.88 (4). Costs
In
10
the 2025-26 school year, costs
eligible for reimbursement from the appropriation
11
under s. 20.255 (2) (b) under ss. 115.88 (1m) to (3), (6)
,
and (8), 115.93, and 118.255
12
(4) shall be reimbursed at
a rate set to distribute the full amount appropriated for
13
reimbursement for the costs, not to exceed 100 percent
42 percent of eligible costs.
14
In the 2026-27 school year and in each school year thereafter, costs eligible for
15
reimbursement from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (b) under ss. 115.88 (1m)
16
to (3), (6), and (8), 115.93, and 118.255 (4) shall be reimbursed at 45 percent of
17
eligible costs
.
SB852,2,18
18
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