2009 WISCONSIN ACT 305 Relating to: notification of school closings and reopenings.

Date of enactment: May 12, 2010
2009 Senate Bill 379 Date of publication*: May 26, 2010

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2007-08 : 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 as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2009 WISCONSIN ACT 305

An Act to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 120.12 (27) of the statutes; relating to: notification of school closings and reopenings.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 119.04 (1) of the statutes, as affected by 2009 Wisconsin Act 28 , 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, 115.361, 115.365 (3), 115.38 (2), 115.445, 115.45, 118.001 to 118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07, 118.10, 118.12, 118.125 to 118.14, 118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163, 118.164, 118.18, 118.19, 118.20, 118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6) and (8), 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.30 to 118.43, 118.51, 118.52, 118.55, 120.12 (5) and (15) to (25) (27) , 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to (19), (26), (34), (35), (37), (37m), and (38), 120.14, 120.21 (3), and 120.25 are applicable to a 1st class city school district and board.

Section 2 . 120.12 (27) of the statutes is created to read:

120.12 (27) School closings and reopenings. (a) Within 24 hours of a school being closed for a reason specified in s. 115.01 (10) (a) 2. or 3. or by the department of health services under s. 252.02 (3), notify the department. The notice shall include the reason for the closure.

(b) Within 24 hours of reopening a school that was closed for a reason specified in s. 115.01 (10) (a) 2. or 3. or by the department of health services under s. 252.02 (3), notify the department that the school has reopened. In the notice, the school board shall include the number of days the school was closed.

Section 3 . Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to schools closed on the effective date of this subsection.