$100 Million School Safety Bill Heads to Governor’s Desk
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | March 23, 2018
Yesterday, the Assembly passed the $100 million school safety bill approved by the Senate on Tuesday. That bill now heads to the Governor’s desk. The Assembly also voted to strengthen background checks for the sale of long guns in Wisconsin. The fate of that bill in the Senate remains uncertain.
Check out the coverage of this issue in the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Fate of School Safety Package Uncertain in Assembly
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | March 22, 2018
From WisPolitics.com …
The Assembly will convene this afternoon in extraordinary session to take up more than a dozen bills including some on the topic of school safety.
Other bills on the calendar include the Senate’s version of the guv’s child tax credit, which includes a scaled-back version of the sales tax holiday championed by Assembly Republicans.
Assembly Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, told WisPolitics.com yesterday the Assembly could potentially make changes to the school safety package and others, prompting the Senate to return to the floor.
But Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, told WisPolitics.com Tuesday night the Senate won’t be back to take up any changes the Assembly may make.
See Wisconsin State Journal Coverage here.
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Senate Passes School Safety Package
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | March 21, 2018
From WisPolitics.com …
The Senate late last night approved on a 28-4 vote its version of a plan aimed at increasing school safety.
The proposal, adopted as an amendment to AB 843, differs from the six special session bills Assembly Republicans had been considering in a public hearing. Still, it leaves in place the major points of the legislation, including the creation of an Office of School Safety and the availability of $100 million in one-time money for school safety-related grants.
The plan received nearly unanimous support, although Dem Sens. Mark Miller, of Monona, Dave Hansen, of Green Bay, Fred Risser, of Madison, and Lena Taylor, of Milwaukee, voted against it.
Among the biggest changes in the Senate version compared to the Assembly are: the grants wouldn’t be able to be used to pay armed school safety officers’ salaries; the grant funding is no longer allocated on a three-year timeline; and school officials wouldn’t be required to tell students of parents involved in bullying within 48 hours of the incident.
The Senate version also strikes the mention of Special Session Assembly Bill 6, which would create an exception in student privacy laws to let law enforcement get school surveillance footage if it “serves a legitimate safety interest.”
See Wisconsin State Journal article here.
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GOP Lawmakers Reach Deal on School Safety
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | March 20, 2018
GOP leadership has come to agreement on a plan that will make minor modifications to the Governor’s school safety package. The Senate plans to pass the bill today with the Assembly taking it up on Thursday.
See the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story here.
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Senate Scrambles to Finalize School Safety Proposal
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | March 20, 2018
This news story by the Wisconsin State Journal does a pretty good job of summarizing where we are on school safety in Madison.
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