1999 Wisconsin Act 73

Date of enactment: April 12, 2000
1999 Senate Bill 264 Date of publication*: April 25, 2000

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1997-98: 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].

1999 WISCONSIN ACT 73

An Act to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 120.13 (37) of the statutes; relating to: granting high school diplomas to certain veterans.

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

73,1 Section 1. 119.04 (1) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 77, is amended to read:

119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V and VII of ch. 115, ch. 121 and ss. 66.03 (3) (c), 115.01 (1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343, 115.345, 115.361, 115.38 (2), 115.45, 118.001 to 118.04, 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), 118.245, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.30 to 118.43, 118.51, 118.52, 118.55, 120.12 (5) and (15) to (25), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to (19), (26), (34) and, (35) and (37) and 120.14 are applicable to a 1st class city school district and board.

73,2 Section 2. 120.13 (37) of the statutes is created to read:

120.13 (37) Awarding high school diplomas to veterans. Notwithstanding s. 118.33 (1), award a high school diploma to a person who is at least 65 years old, attended high school in the school district, left high school before receiving a high school diploma to join the U.S. armed forces during a war period under s. 45.35 (5) (e) and served on active duty under honorable conditions in the U.S. armed forces or in forces incorporated as part of the U.S. armed forces. A school board may award a high school diploma to a person who received a high school equivalency diploma under s. 115.29 (4) after serving on active duty if the person meets the other conditions of this paragraph.