Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

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1		-	Date of enactment:
2		-	2023 Senate Bill 687 Date of publication*:
3		-	2023 WISCONSIN ACT
4		-	AN ACT to amend 187.11 of the statutes; relating to: specifying Crossroads College as the entity in which the
5		-	Church of Christ’s property vests if the Church of Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved.
6		-	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
7		-	senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
8		-	SECTION 1. 187.11 of the statutes is amended to read:
9		-	187.11 Property of Church of Christ or Christian
10		-	Church. Whenever any local religious society of the
11		-	denomination known as the Church of Christ or the
12		-	Christian Church, which that accepts the Wisconsin
13		-	Christian Missionary Association Crossroads College, or
14		-	any predecessor or successor organization of Crossroads
15		-	College, as its missionary organization becomes defunct
16		-	or is dissolved, the property thereof shall vest in the Wis-
17		-	consin Christian Missionary Association, the state insti-
18		-	tution of said denomination Crossroads College, or any
19		-	successor organization of Crossroads College, and if
20		-	within 3 years from the date when such local society
21		-	becomes defunct or is dissolved it is reincorporated in the
22		-	manner prescribed in s. 187.01, the said property so
23		-	belonging to such defunct or dissolved local corporation
24		-	at the time of its dissolution shall vest in such new corpo-
25		-	ration. Any local religious society shall be deemed
26		-	defunct within the meaning of this section when it shall
27		-	have ceased to maintain at least one regular service per
28		-	month for a period of 2 years. Section 187.03 shall not
29		-	apply to or affect religious societies of the denomination
30		-	known as the Church of Christ or the Christian Church.
31		-	* 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
32		-	partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”
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	3	+	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
	4	+	2023 SENATE BILL 687
	5	+	November 15, 2023 - Introduced by Senator B ALLWEG, cosponsored by
	6	+	Representative OLDENBURG. Referred to Committee on Government
	7	+	Operations.
	8	+	AN ACT to amend 187.11 of the statutes; relating to: specifying Crossroads
	9	+	College as the entity in which the Church of Christ's property vests if the
	10	+	Church of Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved.
	11	+	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
	12	+	This bill updates an entity name in statutory provisions related to the
	13	+	incorporation of religious organizations.
	14	+	Current law provides a process for the members of a church or society of any
	15	+	religious sect or denomination to organize a corporation for religious, charitable, or
	16	+	educational purposes, and this corporation has the powers and privileges of a
	17	+	nonstock (nonprofit) corporation. The corporation may purchase and hold real
	18	+	property and personal property, and its secular business and temporal affairs are
	19	+	managed by a board of trustees selected as provided in the bylaws.
	20	+	Current law also specifies that if the Church of Christ accepts the Wisconsin
	21	+	Christian Missionary Association as its missionary organization and the Church of
	22	+	Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved, the Church of Christ's property vests in the
	23	+	Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association. However, if within three years from
	24	+	the date the Church of Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved it is reincorporated, its
	25	+	property at the time of dissolution vests in the new corporation.
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	30	+	SENATE BILL 687
	31	+	The bill replaces the Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association with
	32	+	Crossroads College, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation, or its successor, as the entity
	33	+	in which the Church of Christ's property vests in the circumstances described above.
	34	+	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
	35	+	enact as follows:
	36	+	SECTION 1. 187.11 of the statutes is amended to read:
	37	+	187.11 Property of Church of Christ or Christian Church. Whenever any
	38	+	local religious society of the denomination known as the Church of Christ or the
	39	+	Christian Church, which that accepts the Wisconsin Christian Missionary
	40	+	Association Crossroads College, or any predecessor or successor organization of
	41	+	Crossroads College, as its missionary organization becomes defunct or is dissolved,
	42	+	the property thereof shall vest in the Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association,
	43	+	the state institution of said denomination Crossroads College, or any successor
	44	+	organization of Crossroads College, and if within 3 years from the date when such
	45	+	local society becomes defunct or is dissolved it is reincorporated in the manner
	46	+	prescribed in s. 187.01, the said property so belonging to such defunct or dissolved
	47	+	local corporation at the time of its dissolution shall vest in such new corporation. Any
	48	+	local religious society shall be deemed defunct within the meaning of this section
	49	+	when it shall have ceased to maintain at least one regular service per month for a
	50	+	period of 2 years. Section 187.03 shall not apply to or affect religious societies of the
	51	+	denomination known as the Church of Christ or the Christian Church.
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