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2025 SENATE BILL 11
February 3, 2025 - Introduced by Senators CABRAL-GUEVARA, NASS, TOMCZYK and
WANGGAARD, cosponsored by Representatives DITTRICH, GREEN, GUNDRUM,
KNODL, KREIBICH, MAXEY, MELOTIK, MURSAU and TUSLER. Referred to
Committee on Education.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 119.04 (1); 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.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires, upon the request of certain federally chartered youth
membership organizations, the principal of a public school, including an
independent charter school, to schedule at least one date and time at the beginning
of the school term for representatives of the youth membership organization to
provide information about the organization to pupils during the school day on
school property. Such information may include information about how the
organization furthers the educational interests and civic involvement of pupils
consistent with good citizenship. Examples of these federally chartered youth
membership organizations are Boy Scouts of America and Girl Scouts of the United
States of America.
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: 2025 - 2026 Legislature
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SECTION 1
118.065 Federally chartered youth membership organizations. (1) In
this section:
(a) “School” means a public school, including a charter 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 2026-27 school year, at the beginning of a school term, a
youth membership organization may request that the principal of a school allow
representatives of the youth membership organization to provide oral information
or written information, or both, regarding the youth membership organization to
pupils during a school day on school property, including information about how the
youth membership organization furthers the educational interests and civic
involvement of pupils consistent with good citizenship, for the purpose of
encouraging pupils to join the youth membership 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 principal, during the
beginning of the school term for representatives of the youth membership
organization to provide information as described under sub. (2).
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, 2025 - 2026 Legislature
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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, 118.58, 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.
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