-Date 2026of LEGISLATUREenactment: LRB-1590/1 MPG:cdc SENATE BILL 16 February 5, 2025 - Introduced by Senators T OMCZYK and N ASS, cosponsored by Representatives D UCHOW , BROOKS , CALLAHAN , DITTRICH, KNODL , KREIBICH , M ELOTIK , NEDWESKI , O'CONNOR , RONSCHINSKE and W ICHGERS .

ReferredSenate toBill Committee16 onDate Education.of publication*:

WISCONSIN ACT A N A CT to amend 19.32 (1) and 19.82 (1);

Analysisder bych. the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill prohibits a school district from being a member of an interscholastic athletic association unless the association elects to be governed by the state’s public records and open meetings laws.

An181, interscholasticthat coordinates athletic associationevents thator electscontests toThe bepeople governedof by the publicstate recordsof andWisconsin, openrepresented meetingsin lawssen- isate subjectand toassembly, thosedo laws.enact as follows:

Under the bill, an interscholastic athletic association can be either a nonprofit, unincorporated association or a nonstock, nonprofit corporation if the unincorporated association or corporation coordinates athletic events or contests for students enrolled in grades 9 to 12 in public schools.

TheSECTION bill1. includes exceptions for records of an interscholastic athletic association pertaining to individual referees or individual pupils.

The19.32 people(1) of the statestatutes ofis Wisconsin,amended representedto inSECTION senate3. and assembly, do enact as follows:

-19.36 2026(17) Legislatureand -(18) 2of -the LRB-1590/1statutes MPG:cdcare SENATEread: BILL 16 SECTION 1 S ECTION 1.

19.32created (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

19.36 (17) I NTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIA- 19.32 (1) “Authority” means any of the following having custody of a record:

a state or local office, electiveelec- official,TION agency,REFEREE board,RECORDS commission,. committee, council, department or public body corporate and politic created by the constitution or by any law, ordinance, rule or order;

aAn governmentalinterscholastic athletic as- tive official, agency, board, commission, committee, sociation that elects to be governed by this subchapter council, department or quasi-governmentalpublic corporationbody exceptcorporate forand may withhold access to records concerning individual politic created by the Bradleyconstitution centeror sportsby andany entertainmentlaw, corporation;ordi- referees.

a(18) specialINTERSCHOLASTIC purposeATHLETIC district;ASSOCIATION nance, rule or order;

a governmental or quasi-govern- PUPIL RECORDS .

Records concerning an individual mental corporation except for the Bradley center sports and entertainment corporation;

a special purpose dis- pupil maintained by an interscholastic athletic associa- trict;

a nonprofitnon- tion that elects to be governed by this subchapter are not profit corporation which receives more than 50 percent ofsubject itsto fundsthe fromright aof countyinspection or acopying municipality,under as defined in s.

of its funds from a county or a municipality, as defined 19.35 (1).

SECTION 4.

19.82 (1) of the statutes is amended to in s.

a universityread: police department under s.

university police department under s.

an interscholasticinter- 19.82 (1) “Governmental body” means a state or lo- scholastic athletic association that elects to be governed cal agency, board, commission, committee, council, de- by this subchapter;

or a formally constituted subunit of anypartment ofor thepublic foregoing.body corporate and politic created by constitution, statute, ordinance, rule or order;

Sa ECTIONgovern- 2.any of the foregoing.

19.32SECTION (1db)2. of the statutes is created to read:

19.32 (1db) “Interscholasticof athleticthe association”statutes meansis acreated nonprofitto association,mental asor definedquasi-governmental incorporation s.except for the read:

184.01Bradley (2),center orsports aand nonstock,entertainment nonprofitcorporation; corporation organized under ch.

181,a that19.32 coordinates(1db) “Interscholastic athletic eventsassociation” orlocal contestsexposition fordistrict studentsunder enrolledsubch. in grades 9 to 12 in public schools.

S ECTION 3.

19.36 (17) and (18) of the statutes are created to read:

19.36 (17) INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION REFEREE RECORDS.

An interscholastic athletic association that elects to be governed by this subchapter may withhold access to records concerning individual referees.

(18) INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION PUPIL RECORDS .

Records concerning an individual pupil maintained by an interscholastic athletic - 2026 Legislature - 3 - LRB-1590/1 MPG:cdc SENATE BILL 16 SECTION 3 association that elects to be governed by this subchapter are not subject to the right of inspection or copying under s.

19.35 (1).

S ECTION 4.

19.82 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

19.82 (1) “Governmental body” means a state or local agency, board, commission, committee, council, department or public body corporate and politic created by constitution, statute, ordinance, rule or order;