157 Relating to: payments to the Second Chance Partners for Education and other nonprofit corporations that operate programs in which disengaged pupils participate in work-based learning programs while earning high school diplomas.

Date of enactment: March 26, 2012
2011 Senate Bill 361 Date of publication*: April 9, 2012

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2009-10 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2011 WISCONSIN ACT 157

An Act to repeal 20.255 (2) (ep) and 121.08 (4) (c); to renumber and amend 115.28 (54) (title) and 115.28 (54); to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 115.363 (1) and 115.363 (2) (b) of the statutes; relating to: school board contracts with to the Second Chance Partners for Education and other nonprofit corporations that operate programs in which disengaged pupils participate in work-based learning programs while earning high school diplomas.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 20.255 (2) (ep) of the statutes is repealed.

Section 2 . 115.28 (54) (title) of the statutes is renumbered 115.363 (title) and amended to read:

115.363 (title) Second Chance Partnership Partners for Education .

Section 3 . 115.28 (54) of the statutes is renumbered 115.363 (2) (a) and amended to read:

115.363 (2) (a) From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ep), pay to A school board may contract under s. 118.15 (1) (d) or 118.153 (3) (c) with the Second Chance Partnership, a Partners for Education, or any other nonprofit corporation operating a program in which children at risk participate in apprenticeships disengaged high school pupils attend a work-based learning program while earning high school diplomas, an amount equal to $4,610 multiplied by the number of pupils participating in the program for pupils enrolled in the school district .

Section 4 . 115.363 (1) of the statutes is created to read:

115.363 (1) In this section:

(a) "Disengaged pupils" means pupils who are children at risk, as defined in s. 118.153 (1) (a), and other pupils identified by the school board.

(b) "Work-based learning program" means a program that provides occupational training and work-based learning experiences.

Section 5 . 115.363 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:

115.363 (2) (b) The school board shall pay to each nonprofit corporation with which it contracts under par. (a) an amount that is no more than the amount paid per pupil under s. 118.40 (2r) (e) 1m. or 2m. in the current school year multiplied by the number of pupils participating in the program under the contract.

Section 6 . 119.04 (1) of the statutes, as affected by 2011 Wisconsin Act 85 , is amended to read:

119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V and VII of ch. 115, ch. 121 and ss. 66.0235 (3) (c), 66.0603 (1m) to (3), 115.01 (1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343, 115.345, 115.363, 115.365 (3), 115.38 (2), 115.445, 118.001 to 118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07, 118.075, 118.076, 118.10, 118.12, 118.125 to 118.14, 118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163, 118.164, 118.18, 118.19, 118.20, 118.223, 118.225, 118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6), (8), and (10), 118.245, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.292, 118.30 to 118.43, 118.46, 118.51, 118.52, 118.55, 120.12 (4m), (5), and (15) to (27), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to (19), (26), (34), (35), (37), (37m), and (38), 120.14, 120.21 (3), and 120.25 are applicable to a 1st class city school district and board.

Section 7 . 121.08 (4) (c) of the statutes is repealed.

Section 8 . Effective date.

(1) This act takes effect on July 1, 2012.