92 Relating to: allowing a school board member to serve as a volunteer coach or extracurricular activity supervisor.  

  •   Date of enactment: November 11, 2015
    2015 Senate Bill 217   Date of publication*: November 12, 2015
    * 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 partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."
    2015 WISCONSIN ACT 92
    An Act to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 120.20 of the statutes; relating to: allowing a school board member to serve as a volunteer coach or extracurricular activity supervisor.
    The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
    Section 1 . 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, 115.365 (3), 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, 118.125 to 118.14, 118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163, 118.164, 118.18, 118.19, 118.20, 118.223, 118.225, 118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6), (8), and (10), 118.245, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.292, 118.293, 118.30 to 118.43, 118.46, 118.51, 118.52, 118.53, 118.55, 118.56, 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.
    Section 2 . 120.20 of the statutes is created to read:
    120.20 School board members; compatible positions. (1) A school board member may serve as a volunteer coach or a supervisor of an extracurricular activity if all of the following apply:
    (a) The school board member does not receive compensation for serving as a volunteer coach or supervisor.
    (b) The school board member agrees to abstain from voting on any issue that comes before the school board that substantially and directly concerns the activity that he or she coaches or supervises while he or she is serving as a volunteer coach or supervisor.
    (c) The school board receives the results of a criminal background investigation of the school board member conducted by the department of justice or the federal bureau of investigation.
    (2) Subsection (1) (b) may not be construed to require a school board member who is serving as a volunteer coach or supervisor to abstain from voting on the school district's annual budget.
    (3) Notwithstanding s. 120.001, this section applies to members of a school board of a common, union high, or unified school district.

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