LRB-1289/P1
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0262 - Special Needs Scholarship Program Religious Activity Opt out
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
Special Needs Scholarship Program; religious opt out
This bill provides that a private school participating in the Special Needs Scholarship Program must allow a child attending the private school under the SNSP to refrain from participating in any religious activity if the child's parent submits to the child's teacher or the private school's principal a written request that the child be exempt from such activities.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1
. 115.7915 (6) (L) of the statutes is created to read:
115.7915 (6) (L) Allow a child attending the private school under this section to refrain from participating in any religious activity if the child's parent submits to the child's teacher or the private school's principal a written request that the child be exempt from such activities.
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