Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB721 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 721
5	5	November 27, 2023 - Introduced by Representative OLDENBURG, cosponsored by
6	6	Senator BALLWEG. Referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities.
7	7	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
8	8	AN ACT to amend 187.11 of the statutes; relating to: specifying Crossroads
9	9	College as the entity in which the Church of Christ's property vests if the
10	10	Church of Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved.
11	11	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
12	12	This bill updates an entity name in statutory provisions related to the
13	13	incorporation of religious organizations.
14	14	Current law provides a process for the members of a church or society of any
15	15	religious sect or denomination to organize a corporation for religious, charitable, or
16	16	educational purposes, and this corporation has the powers and privileges of a
17	17	nonstock (nonprofit) corporation. The corporation may purchase and hold real
18	18	property and personal property, and its secular business and temporal affairs are
19	19	managed by a board of trustees selected as provided in the bylaws.
20	20	Current law also specifies that if the Church of Christ accepts the Wisconsin
21	21	Christian Missionary Association as its missionary organization and the Church of
22	22	Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved, the Church of Christ's property vests in the
23	23	Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association. However, if within three years from
24	24	the date the Church of Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved it is reincorporated, its
25	25	property at the time of dissolution vests in the new corporation.
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30	30	ASSEMBLY BILL 721
31	31	The bill replaces the Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association with
32	32	Crossroads College, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation, or its successor, as the entity
33	33	in which the Church of Christ's property vests in the circumstances described above.
34	34	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
35	35	enact as follows:
36	36	SECTION 1. 187.11 of the statutes is amended to read:
37	37	187.11 Property of Church of Christ or Christian Church. Whenever any
38	38	local religious society of the denomination known as the Church of Christ or the
39	39	Christian Church, which that accepts the Wisconsin Christian Missionary
40	40	Association Crossroads College, or any predecessor or successor organization of
41	41	Crossroads College, as its missionary organization becomes defunct or is dissolved,
42	42	the property thereof shall vest in the Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association,
43	43	the state institution of said denomination Crossroads College, or any successor
44	44	organization of Crossroads College, and if within 3 years from the date when such
45	45	local society becomes defunct or is dissolved it is reincorporated in the manner
46	46	prescribed in s. 187.01, the said property so belonging to such defunct or dissolved
47	47	local corporation at the time of its dissolution shall vest in such new corporation. Any
48	48	local religious society shall be deemed defunct within the meaning of this section
49	49	when it shall have ceased to maintain at least one regular service per month for a
50	50	period of 2 years. Section 187.03 shall not apply to or affect religious societies of the
51	51	denomination known as the Church of Christ or the Christian Church.
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