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  Some Education Bills of Interest of the 2009-2010 Session

To research any of these bills, click on the bill number.  This will take you to the history of the bill where you can read the bill or look at other information about the bill by clicking on the highlighted portion of the history.  Click on the SEN VOTE and ASSM VOTE following individual bills to see how they voted on a bill.  This is page 4 of 4 of some of the currently listed education bills of interest.  Updated 5/18/10.

2009-2010 REGUALR SESSION EDUCATION BILLS

AB 901 A sales and use tax exemption for textbooks
AB 903 & SB 655 Safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty
                   
AB 903 ASSM VOICE  SEN VOICE  SB 655 TABLED
AB 908 Creating a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for interest paid on certain student loans
AB 915 Authorizing the state superintendent to withhold payments from a private school participating in the Milwaukee
              Parental Choice Program if the private school is in arrears or default in contractual payments
AB 919 Creating a qualified economic offer for school district professional employees in the arbitration process and school
               board selection of the group health benefits provider for school district employees
AB 921 pupil assessments
AB 922 prohibiting the use of corporal punishment in private schools that participate in the Milwaukee Parental Choice
              Program
AB 937 Distributing one-half of general school aid using an income equalization formula
AB 941 Creating an income and franchise tax credit for businesses that contribute to a scholarship-granting organization or to
              an educational improvement organization and a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for education expenses
              paid for dependents who attend elementary and secondary schools
AB 943 & SB 681 Adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an
               appropriation 
SB 681 SEN VOTE 33-0   SEN VOTE 97-0  WI ACT 329





SB 509 Creating a nonrefundable individual income and corporate income and franchise tax credit for contributions to certain
             public school programs and to private school scholarship funds
SB 525 & AB 745 Prohibiting institutions of higher education from engaging in certain activity regarding student credit
             cards, requiring such institutions to provide financial literacy information to students, creating requirements for credit
             cards issued to underage customers, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty
SB 536 & AB 746 Promoting the use of locally grown food in school meals and snacks and granting rule-making authority
                 
AB 746 ASSM VOTE 92-6   SEN VOTE 23-10  SB 536 TABLED  WI ACT 293
SB 566  Requiring the University of Wisconsin System to obtain the approval of the Joint Committee on Finance in
             order to acquire property by condemnation

SB 593 & AB 808 Student achievement guarantee in education program contracts 
                     
AB 808 ASSM VOTE 68-29  SEN VOICE   SB 593 TABLED  WI ACT 301
SB 595 & AB 809 Transportation of private school pupils  AB 809 ASSM VOICE 
SB 596 & AB 807 Transportation aid to school districts
SB 598 & AB 806 The procedure for school district consolidations SB 598 SEN VOICE  ASSM VOICE WI ACT 307
SB 599 & AB 805 Grants to school districts for efficiency and consolidation feasibility studies, granting rule-making
                authority, and making an appropriation
SB 603 & AB 840 The school district revenue limit adjustment for declining enrollment
SB 617 & AB 810 Creating a privilege for communications to veteran mentors
               
SB 617 SEN VOICE   ASSM VOICE  WI ACT 210
SB 638 & AB 882 Accessible instructional materials for students with disabilities enrolled in the University of Wisconsin
               System or the Technical College System
SB 655 & AB 903 Safety standards for movable soccer goals, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty
                     
AB 903 ASSM VOICE  SEN VOICE  SB 655 TABLED
SB 681 & AB 943 Adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an
              appropriation
SB 681 SEN VOTE 33-0   SEN VOTE 97-0  WI ACT 329
SB 685
The terms of teacher employment contracts
SB 686 Providing instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiocerebral resuscitation, and the use of an automated
             external defibrillator to high school pupils
SB 699 Providing the public with information on state agency and school district operations expenditures and state agency
             and school district contracts and grants


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