Current law under s. 43.24 (6), Wisconsin State Statutes, requires the Department to include a 13% index level of funding for public library systems in its biennial budget request.
As described in the 2013-15 Department of Public Instruction biennial budget request, public library system aid indexing means that system aids should be set at a percentage of local and county expenditures in the previous year.
History of public library system indexing (same source as above)
- 1978. Legislative Council study committee recommends a level of 20%. (List of study committees, 1948-1996)
- 1981. State legislature adopts system aid indexing at 11.25%. (Effective year).
- 1986. Recommendation of the State Superintendent‘s Task Force on Library Legislation.results in legislature approving an increase to 13%.
- 1993 Wisconsin Act 16, the biennial budget bill, eliminates the 13 percent indexing level.
- 1997 Wisconsin Act 150, i.e., current law, requires DPI to include a biennial budget request for library system aid equal to the 13 percent index system (with no companion provision that the legislature honor this request.).
(2013 estimated)
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