LEGISLATIVE UPDATE (CONTINUED)

on Shared School District Services. She was one of several members of the general public on the committee, along with several state legislators. This study committee performed an in-depth review of “current barriers to shared administrative or other services between school districts” and recommended draft legislation for potential introduction during the 2023-2024 session of the Wisconsin State Legislature. In working to accomplish this, the committee held several public meetings last year in Madison.

The committee’s last meeting was on December 13, 2022. During that meeting, the committee recommended introduction of several draft bills written by the committee. One of these draft bills may be of interest to SNA-WI members. This draft bill would provide reimbursement to school districts and Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESA) for the cost of writing state and federal grant applications. Under the draft legislation, each school district or CESA in the state may receive up to $12,000 per school year for such reimbursements. School districts and CESAs would be eligible to receive reimbursements for all state and federal grant writing efforts, whether they ultimately won the grant funding or not.

Please note that while this study committee has recommended introduction of this and other draft bills, each of the bills will still need to be approved by the Joint Legislative Council before potentially being introduced. Any such approved bills would still need to go through the normal legislative process (e.g., committee hearings) during the 20232024 legislative session.