Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 549 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 118.065 of the statutes; relating to: allowing representatives of certain
federally chartered youth membership organizations to provide information to pupils on public school property.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 118.065 of the statutes is created to read:
118.065 Federally chartered youth membership
organizations. (1) In this section:
(a) “School” means a public school, including a char-
ter school authorized under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x).
(b) “Youth membership organization” means an
organization identified in chapter 301, 309, 311, 709, or
803 of title 36 of the U.S. Code that has an educational
purpose and that promotes civic involvement.
(2) Beginning in the 2024−25 school year, at the
beginning of a school term, a youth membership organi-
zation may request that the principal of a school allow
representatives of the organization to provide oral infor-
mation or written information, or both, regarding the
organization to pupils during a school day on school
property, including information about how the organiza-
tion furthers the educational interests and civic involve-
ment of pupils consistent with good citizenship, for the
purpose of encouraging pupils to join the youth member-
ship organization.
(3) If a youth membership organization submits a
request under sub. (2) to the principal of a school, the
principal shall schedule at least one date and time, which
may be noninstructional time as determined by the prin-
cipal, during the beginning of the school term for repre-
sentatives of the organization to provide information as
described under sub. (2).
SECTION 2. 119.04 (1) of the statutes, as affected by
2023 Wisconsin Act 12, is amended to read:
119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V and VII of ch. 115, ch.
121 and ss. 66.0235 (3) (c), 66.0603 (1m) to (3), 115.01
(1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343,
115.345, 115.363, 115.364, 115.365 (3), 115.366,
115.367, 115.38 (2), 115.415, 115.445, 118.001 to
118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07, 118.075, to 118.076,
118.10, 118.12, 118.124, 118.125 to 118.14, 118.145 (4),
118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163, 118.164,
118.18, 118.19, 118.196, 118.20, 118.223, 118.225,
118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6), (8), and (10), 118.245,
118.25, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.292, 118.293,
118.2935, 118.30 to 118.43, 118.46, 118.50, 118.51,
118.52, 118.53, 118.55, 118.56, 120.12 (2m), (4m), (5),
and (15) to (27), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3),
(14), (17) to (19), (26), (34), (35), (37), (37m), and (38),
120.137, 120.14, 120.20, 120.21 (3), and 120.25 are
applicable to a 1st class city school district and board but
not, unless explicitly provided in this chapter or in the
terms of a contract, to the commissioner or to any school
transferred to an opportunity schools and partnership
program.
* 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.”