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WI AB495

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/9/2025

Primary Sponsor

Joan Fitzgerald

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Increases general equalization aid funding for school districts by $493.8 million in 2025-26 and $699.9 million in 2026-27

  • Replaces the fixed $325 per pupil revenue limit adjustment with an inflation-indexed adjustment beginning in 2025-26, calculated using the consumer price index

  • Appropriates $31 million for supplemental hold harmless aid in 2025-26 to ensure no school district receives less total state aid than it received in 2024-25

  • School districts continue to be guaranteed general equalization aid equal to at least 85% of the prior year's amount under existing law

  • The supplemental hold harmless aid provision expires July 1, 2026

Legislative Description

General equalization aids, supplemental hold harmless aid, the per pupil adjustment for school district revenue limits, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Last Action

Fiscal estimate received

10/27/2025

Committee Referrals

Education10/9/2025

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