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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 32
February 17, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives PENTERMAN, BRILL, BROOKS,
CALLAHAN, DITTRICH, FRANKLIN, GREEN, B. JACOBSON, KNODL, KREIBICH,
MAXEY, MELOTIK, MOSES, MURSAU, O'CONNOR, TITTL, TUCKER, WICHGERS,
WITTKE and TUSLER, cosponsored by Senators CABRAL-GUEVARA, BRADLEY,
FEYEN, NASS and TOMCZYK. Referred to Committee on Education.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 119.04 (1); to create 118.40 (4) (ar) 3. and 120.12 (29) of the
statutes; relating to: access to public high schools for military recruiters.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
In general, federal law requires local educational agencies, such as school
boards and charter schools, that receive federal assistance under the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide military recruiters the same access
to secondary school students that the local educational agencies provide to
postsecondary educational institutions or to prospective employers. This bill
requires school boards and governing boards of charter schools to, in addition to
complying with federal law, specifically allow military recruiters access to common
areas in high schools and to allow access during a school day and to school-
sanctioned events. Nothing in the bill requires a school board or governing board of
a charter school to provide a military recruiter access to a high school classroom
during instructional time.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 118.40 (4) (ar) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
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118.40 (4) (ar) 3. Allow military recruiters access to high schools operated by
the governing board as required under 10 USC 503 (c), except that regardless of the
access the governing board provides to postsecondary educational institutions or to
prospective employers, the governing board shall allow a military recruiter access to
all of the following:
a. Common areas of a high school building while the military recruiter visits
a high school for recruitment purposes.
b. A high school during a school day or a school-sanctioned event. Nothing in
this subd. 3. b. requires a school board to allow a military recruiter access to a high
school classroom during instructional time.
SECTION 2. 119.04 (1) of the statutes 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, 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, 118.58, 120.12 (2m), (4m), (5), and (15) to (27), and (29), 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
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of a contract, to the commissioner or to any school transferred to an opportunity
schools and partnership program.
SECTION 3. 120.12 (29) of the statutes is created to read:
120.12 (29) MILITARY RECRUITERS. Allow military recruiters access to high
schools operated by the school board as required under 10 USC 503 (c), except that
regardless of the access the school board provides to postsecondary educational
institutions or to prospective employers, the school board shall allow a military
recruiter access to all of the following:
(a) Common areas of a high school building while the military recruiter visits
a high school for recruitment purposes.
(b) A high school during a school day or a school-sanctioned event. Nothing in
this paragraph requires a school board to allow a military recruiter access to a high
school classroom during instructional time.
SECTION 4. Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to access provided to military recruiters during the
2025-26 school year.
(END)
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