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2025 SENATE BILL 134
March 14, 2025 - Introduced by Senators JACQUE and TOMCZYK, cosponsored by
Representatives TUCKER, BEHNKE, BRILL, KREIBICH, MURSAU and WICHGERS.
Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Veteran and Military Affairs.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 118.51 (3m) (b) 4. of the statutes; relating to: alternative
open enrollment application procedures for residency change based on
military orders.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under the full-time open enrollment program (OEP), a pupil may attend a
public school in a school district other than the pupil[s resident school district
(nonresident school district). Under current law, the standard OEP application
procedure requires a pupil[s parent to apply to a nonresident school district during
the spring semester immediately preceding the school year in which the pupil
wishes to attend the nonresident school district. Current law also provides an
alternative application procedure that allows a pupil[s parent to apply to a
nonresident school district at any time during the school year, if certain
circumstances apply. One of those circumstances is that the place of residence of
the pupil and the pupil[s parent or guardian has changed as the result of military
orders. Under current law, an alternative application based on this circumstance
must be received by no later than 30 days after the date on which the applicable
military orders were issued. This bill extends this deadline to 90 days after the
applicable military orders were issued and expressly states that military orders
include orders from a reserve component of the U.S armed force and the national
guard of any state.
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SECTION 1
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 118.51 (3m) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
118.51 (3m) (b) 4. The place of residence of the pupil[s parent or guardian and
of the pupil has changed as a result of military orders. An application made on the
basis of this criteria is not valid unless the nonresident school board receives the
application no later than 30 90 days after the date on which the military orders
changing the place of residence were issued. For purposes of this subdivision, a
military order includes an order from any branch of the U.S. armed forces, a reserve
component of the U.S. armed forces, the state defense force, or the national guard of
any state.
SECTION 2. Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to applications under s. 118.51 (3m) that are received
on the effective date of this subsection.
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