Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 51

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Relating to: participation in interscholastic athletics and application of the public records and open meetings laws to interscholastic athletic associations.

Open meeting governmental Public record School — Health program

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan 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. An interscholastic athletic association that elects to be governed by the public records and open meetings laws is subject to those laws. 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. The bill includes exceptions for records of an interscholastic athletic association pertaining to individual referees or individual pupils.

Registered lobbying interests · 3

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 7, Noes 5

Passed 7–5 Nov 12, 2025 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

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