Date of enactment:
2023 Assembly Bill 233 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to renumber and amend 120.20 (2); and to create 120.20 (1m) and 120.20 (2) (b) of the statutes; relating
to: allowing a school board member to serve as a volunteer school bus driver.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 120.20 (1m) of the statutes is created to
read:
120.20 (1m) A school board member may serve as a
volunteer school bus driver if all of the following apply:
(a) The school board member has received authoriza-
tion to operate a school bus, as defined in s. 121.51 (4),
from the department of transportation in the form of a
school bus endorsement under s. 343.12.
(b) The school board member holds a valid commer-
cial driver license, as defined in s. 340.01 (7m).
(c) The school board member does not receive com-
pensation for serving as a volunteer school bus driver.
(d) The school board member agrees to abstain
from voting on any issue that comes before the school
board that substantially and directly concerns school
bus drivers.
SECTION 2. 120.20 (2) of the statutes is renumbered
120.20 (2) (a) and amended to read:
120.20 (2) (a) Subsection Subsections (1) (b) and
(1m) (d) may not be construed to require a school board
member who is serving as a volunteer coach or, supervi-
sor, or school bus driver to abstain from voting on the
school district’s annual budget.
SECTION 3. 120.20 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to
read:
120.20 (2) (b) Reimbursement for expenses
incurred in connection with providing volunteer ser-
vices is not considered compensation for purposes of
sub. (1) (a) or (1m) (c). For a school board member serv-
ing as a volunteer school bus driver, any costs related to
training for or renewing a commercial driver license or
a school bus endorsement under s. 343.12 is considered
an expense incurred in connection with providing the
volunteer service.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”