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.
