Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB1025 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1025
5	5	January 29, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives NEDWESKI, DITTRICH, DONOVAN,
6	6	KRUG, MAXEY, MELOTIK, MURPHY, MURSAU, MYERS, O'CONNOR, SCHMIDT, SINICKI,
7	7	SNYDER, STUBBS and SUBECK, cosponsored by Senator FEYEN. Referred to
8	8	Committee on Education.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to amend 118.16 (1) (a) and 118.16 (1) (c) of the statutes; relating to:
11	11	definitions related to truancy.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	This bill changes the definition of habitual truant to mean a pupil who is absent
14	14	without an acceptable excuse for at least one-third of a day for at least five school
15	15	days during a semester. Under current law, the definition is a pupil who is absent
16	16	without an acceptable excuse for part or all of a day for at least five school days during
17	17	a semester. Current law requires the school attendance officer for a school district
18	18	to notify a pupil's parent or guardian when a child initially becomes a habitual truant
19	19	and include in the notice various information related to compulsory school
20	20	attendance. Current law also authorizes counties, cities, villages, and towns to enact
21	21	an ordinance that prohibits individuals who are younger than 18 years of age from
22	22	being habitual truants. Such ordinances may provide for various dispositions listed
23	23	in current law, including the suspension of the child's driver's license; an order for
24	24	the child to participate in counseling, a supervised work program, or other
25	25	community service work; an order for the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian
26	26	to participate in counseling at their own expense or to attend school with the child;
27	27	an order to attend school; and a forfeiture.
28	28	The bill also changes the definition of truancy to mean an absence that is more
29	29	than one-third of one or more days from school for which the school is not notified
30	30	of a legal cause for the absence by the pupil's parent or legal guardian. Under current
31	31	law, truancy means an absence of part or all of one or more days from school for which
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36	36	the school is not notified of a legal cause for the absence by the pupil's parent or legal
37	37	guardian.
38	38	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
39	39	enact as follows:
40	40	SECTION 1. 118.16 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
41	41	118.16 (1) (a) “Habitual truant" means a pupil who is absent from school
42	42	without an acceptable excuse under sub. (4) and s. 118.15 for part or all of more than
43	43	one-third of a day for 5 or more days on which school is held during a school semester.
44	44	SECTION 2. 118.16 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
45	45	118.16 (1) (c) “Truancy" means any absence of part or all that is more than
46	46	one-third of one or more days from school during which the school attendance officer,
47	47	principal, or teacher has not been notified of the legal cause of such absence by the
48	48	parent or guardian of the absent pupil, and also means intermittent attendance
49	49	carried on for the purpose of defeating the intent of s. 118.15.
50	50	SECTION 3.0Effective date.
51	51	(1) This act takes effect on July 1, 2024.
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