AB 119 - Requiring Kindergarten for First Grade Enrollment - Wisconsin Key Vote
Judith Robson Co-Sponsored (Introduced) this Legislation.
Timeline
- Executive Signed
- Oct. 6, 2009
- Senate Bill Passed
- Sept. 22, 2009
- House Bill Passed
- Sept. 16, 2009
- Introduced
- March 4, 2009
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Stage Details
Title: Requiring Kindergarten for First Grade Enrollment
Signed by Governor Jim Doyle III
Title: Requiring Kindergarten for First Grade Enrollment
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits a child from being enrolled in the first grade in any public school, including charter schools, unless the child has completed 5-year-old kindergarten.
Highlights:
-Requires school boards to establish procedures, conditions, and standards for exempting a child from the requirement that he or she complete kindergarten before being enrolled in the first grade (Sec. 5). -The text of this bill was replaced by a substitute amendment sponsored by AM Jeffery Smith.
Title: Requiring Kindergarten for First Grade Enrollment
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that prohibits a child from being enrolled in the first grade in any public school, including charter schools, unless the child has completed 5-year-old kindergarten.
Highlights:
-Requires school boards to establish procedures, conditions, and standards for exempting a child from the requirement that he or she complete kindergarten before being enrolled in the first grade (Sec. 5). -The text of this bill was replaced by a substitute amendment sponsored by AM Jeffery Smith.
- Chuck Benedict (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Terese L. Berceau (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Penny Bernard Schaber (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Fred Clark (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Pedro A. Colon (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jason M. Fields (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gary Hebl (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kim Hixson (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Cory Mason (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Nick Milroy (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Alvin R. 'Al' Ott (WI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Sandra K. 'Sandy' Pasch (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Sondy Pope (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jon Richards (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Christine M. Sinicki (WI - D)
- Jeffrey E. 'Jeff' Smith (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- James R. 'Jim' Soletski (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ted Zigmunt (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Timothy W. 'Tim' Carpenter (WI - D)
- G. Spencer Coggs (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- John W. Lehman (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jeffrey T. 'Jeff' Plale (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Judith Biros 'Judy' Robson (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara L. Toles (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kathleen Vinehout (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Leon D. Young (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
More Info About this Vote
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT, WHICH REPLACES THE ENTIRE TEXT OF THE LEGISLATION WITH A NEW TEXT. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.