The proposed amendment, which would restrict Wisconsin’s governor from using a partial veto to increase taxes or fees in appropriation bills such as state budgets, passed the Legislature the first time in early 2024. If the measure passes both chambers early next year, the ballot question could come before voters in the state’s fall election cycle.
If passed, Vos said the proposed constitutional amendment would halt future increases in state-imposed revenue limits on school districts created when Evers issued partial vetoes to the state’s two-year spending plan in July 2023.
“We don’t think that you should be able to have that massive property tax increase by one person’s actions,” Vos said.
Revenue increases already enacted under the budget would remain in place, he said.
“It would say that, going forward, you can’t continue to increase property taxes via that veto,” Vos said.
Under the budget Evers signed, districts would be allowed to raise revenue by $325 per student per year until 2425. Given current public school enrollment levels, that amounts to a more than $260 million increase per year.
To make the change, Evers struck several words and a hyphen in a section of the budget Republicans intended as a temporary increase in the revenue limits. As a result, the phrase “for the 2023-24 school year and the 2024-25 school year” became “for 2023-2425.”
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