AB919,11,115 111.70 (4) (d) 2. a. The commission shall determine the appropriate collective
6bargaining unit for the purpose of collective bargaining and shall whenever possible,
7unless otherwise required under this subchapter, avoid fragmentation by
8maintaining as few collective bargaining units as practicable in keeping with the size
9of the total municipal workforce. In making such a determination, the commission
10may decide whether, in a particular case, the municipal employees in the same or
11several departments, divisions, institutions, crafts, professions, or other
12occupational groupings constitute a collective bargaining unit. Before making its
13determination, the commission may provide an opportunity for the municipal
14employees concerned to determine, by secret ballot, whether they desire to be
15established as a separate collective bargaining unit. The commission shall not
16decide, however, that any group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate
17collective bargaining unit if the group includes both municipal employees who are
18school district professional employees and municipal employees who are not school
19district professional employees.
The commission shall not decide , however, that any
20other group of municipal employees constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining
21unit if the group includes both professional employees and nonprofessional
22employees, unless a majority of the professional employees vote for inclusion in the
23unit. The commission shall not decide that any group of municipal employees
24constitutes an appropriate collective bargaining unit if the group includes both craft
25employees and noncraft employees unless a majority of the craft employees vote for

1inclusion in the unit. The commission shall place the professional employees who are
2assigned to perform any services at a charter school, as defined in s. 115.001 (1), in
3a separate collective bargaining unit from a unit that includes any other professional
4employees whenever at least 30% 30 percent of those professional employees request
5an election to be held to determine that issue and a majority of the professional
6employees at the charter school who cast votes in the election decide to be
7represented in a separate collective bargaining unit. Upon the expiration of any
8collective bargaining agreement in force, the commission shall combine into a single
9collective bargaining unit 2 or more collective bargaining units consisting of school
10district employees if a majority of the employees voting in each collective bargaining
11unit vote to combine. Any vote taken under this subsection shall be by secret ballot.
AB919, s. 12 12Section 12. 111.70 (4) (m) 6. of the statutes, as affected by 2009 Wisconsin Act
1328
, is amended to read:
AB919,11,1714 111.70 (4) (m) 6. Solicitation of sealed bids for the provision of group health care
15benefits for school district employees and selection of the group health care benefits
16provider,
as provided in s. 120.12 (24), and the impact of that selection on the wages,
17hours, or conditions of employment of the school district employees
.
AB919, s. 13 18Section 13. 118.245 of the statutes is created to read:
AB919,11,20 19118.245 Limitation on salary and fringe benefit costs for professional
20employees.
(1) In this section:
AB919,11,2521 (a) "Nonrepresented professional employee" means an employee who is a
22professional employee as defined in s. 111.70 (1) (L), who is employed to perform
23services for a school district, and whose position is not included in a collective
24bargaining unit for which a representative is recognized or certified under subch. IV
25of ch. 111.
AB919,12,2
1(b) "Represented professional employee" has the meaning given for "school
2district professional employee" in s. 111.70 (1) (ng).
AB919,12,9 3(2) No school district may increase in any year the average of salary and fringe
4benefits of its nonrepresented professional employees in an amount that is more than
5the product of the percentage determined by the department under sub. (3)
6multiplied by the average amount spent by the school district on represented
7professional employees' salary and fringe benefits in the existing school year or by
8more than the average amount that the school district increased the salary and
9fringe benefits of its represented professional employees, whichever is greater.
AB919,12,12 10(3) (a) By January 1, 2011, and biennially by January 1 thereafter, the
11department shall perform the following calculations and certify the result, expressed
12as a percentage, to the employment relations commission:
AB919,12,1413 1. Except as provided in par. (b), determine the per pupil revenue limit
14adjustment under s. 121.91 (2m) for the current school year.
AB919,12,1615 2. Divide the amount under subd. 1. by the statewide average base revenue per
16pupil, as calculated for the current school year under s. 121.905 (3).
AB919,12,1817 (b) For the certification due by January 1, 2011, the department shall use $275
18under par. (a) 1.
AB919, s. 14 19Section 14. 120.12 (24) of the statutes, as affected by 2009 Wisconsin Act 28,
20is renumbered 120.12 (24) (a).
AB919, s. 15 21Section 15. 120.12 (24) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
AB919,13,222 120.12 (24) (b) Select the group health care benefits provider for school district
23employees, as defined in s. 111.70 (1) (ne), that is the lowest qualified responsible
24bidder under par. (a). This paragraph does not apply if the school board offers all of

1its employees a health care coverage plan through a program offered by the group
2insurance board under ch. 40.
AB919, s. 16 3Section 16. 121.15 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
AB919,13,44 121.15 (3m) (a) In this subsection:
AB919,13,75 1. "Partial school revenues" means the sum of state school aids, other than the
6amounts appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (fv), property taxes levied for school
7districts, and aid paid to school districts under s. 79.095 (4), less all of the following:
AB919,13,108 a. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 2. due to a
9school board's increasing the services that it provides by adding responsibility for
10providing a service transferred to it from another school board.
AB919,13,1111 b. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 3.
AB919,13,1212 c. The amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (h).
AB919,13,1313 d. The amount of any property taxes levied for the purpose of s. 120.13 (19).
AB919,13,1514 e. An amount equal to 38.4 percent of the amount estimated to be paid under
15s. 119.23 (4) and (4m).
AB919,13,1716 f. The amount by which the property tax levy for debt service on debt that has
17been approved by a referendum exceeds $490,000,000.
AB919,13,2218 2. "State school aids" means those aids appropriated under s. 20.255 (1) (b) and
19(2), other than s. 20.255 (2) (fm), (fu), (fv), (k), and (m), and under s. 20.285 (1) (r),
20(rc), and (rm), and those aids appropriated under s. 20.505 (4) (es) and (s) that are
21used to provide grants or educational telecommunications access to school districts
22under s. 16.995 or 16.997 (7).
AB919,14,323 (b) By May 15, 2011, and annually by May 15 thereafter, the department, the
24department of administration, and the legislative fiscal bureau shall jointly certify
25to the joint committee on finance an estimate of the amount necessary to appropriate

1under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) in the following school year to ensure that the sum of state
2school aids and the school levy tax credit under s. 79.10 (4) equals the following
3portion of partial school revenues:
AB919,14,44 1. For the 2011-12 school year, 65.28 percent.
AB919,14,55 2. For the 2012-13 school year, 65.56 percent.
AB919,14,66 3. For the 2013-14 school year, 65.84 percent.
AB919,14,77 4. For the 2014-15 school year, 66.12 percent.
AB919,14,88 5. For the 2015-16 school year, 66.40 percent.
AB919,14,99 6. For the 2016-17 school year and each school year thereafter, two-thirds.
AB919,14,1210 (c) By June 30, 2012, and biennially by June 30 thereafter, the joint committee
11on finance shall determine the amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) in the
12following school year.
AB919, s. 17 13Section 17. Initial applicability.
AB919,14,1814 (1) The treatment of section 111.70 (1) (b), (dm), (mc), and (ng) and (4) (cm) 5s.
15and 6. a. and am. and (d) 2. a. of the statutes, the renumbering and amendment of
16section 111.70 (4) (cm) 8m. of the statutes, and the creation of section 111.70 (4) (cm)
178m. b. of the statutes first apply to a petition for arbitration that relates to a collective
18bargaining agreement that is filed on the effective date of this subsection.
AB919,14,2119 (2) The treatment of section 111.70 (4) (m) 6. of the statutes first applies to a
20collective bargaining agreement entered into, extended, modified, or renewed on the
21effective date of this subsection.
AB919, s. 18 22Section 18. Effective date.
AB919,14,2323 (1) This act takes effect on July 1, 2010.
AB919,14,2424 (End)
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