School board policies related to changing a pupil’s legal name and pronouns.
An Act to create 118.1255 of the statutes; Relating to: school board policies related to changing a pupil’s legal name and pronouns.
2025-2026 Regular Session
Each school board shall adopt a policy related to the conditions under which the school board will do each of the following: (a) Change a pupil's legal name or a pupil's legal name and pronouns in official school records. (b) Allow school board employees to regularly use or refer to a pupil who is a minor by a name other than the pupil's legal name or by pronouns other than the pronouns provided at the time the pupil first enrolls in the school district.
A school board shall include at least all of the following in a policy adopted under sub. (2) (b): (a) A pupil's parent or legal guardian determines the names and pronouns school staff may use to refer to the pupil who is a minor during school hours. (b) During school hours, school staff may not refer to a pupil who is a minor by using a name or pronouns that do not align with the pupil's biological sex without written authorization from the pupil's parent or legal guardian.
(c) For a pupil who is under 18 years of age, before approving a request to change the pupil's legal name or the pupil's legal name and pronouns in official school records, the school board shall make a reasonable attempt to notify each of the pupil's parents and legal guardians [...] (d) If a request for a pupil name change does not include documentation of a legal name change and the pupil's parents or guardians do not all support the request to change the pupil's legal name or the pupil's legal name and pronouns in the pupil's official school records, a principal or school administrator shall deny the request.
date | time | type | location | description |
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2025-03-13 | 09:00 | Hearing | 225 Northwest | Assembly Education Executive Session |
2025-03-06 | 10:00 | Hearing | 412 East | Assembly Education Public Hearing |
History
Date | Action |
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2025-03-11 | Representative Wichgers added as a coauthor |
2025-03-11 | Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Dittrich |
2025-03-06 | Public hearing held |
2025-03-05 | Representative Goeben added as a coauthor |
2025-03-05 | Senator Tomczyk added as a cosponsor |
2025-03-04 | Introduced |
2025-03-04 | Read first time and referred to Committee on Education |
2025-03-04 | Representative Murphy added as a coauthor |