It will be a busy week for Wisconsin lawmakers.
Both the State Senate and the Assembly are due in Madison this week, and lawmakers have a hefty to-do list.
On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Education is scheduled to hold a hearing on a piece of legislation from Rep. Barb Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc, that would require school boards across the state to create and follow policies on when kids can change their gender and pronouns, and when those school boards will allow teachers and school staffers to use those new genders and pronouns.
Her plan would require an official name change, and require school boards to have an appeal process against the name or pronoun changes.
School boards would have to adopt those policies by July.
The Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety also has a Tuesday hearing on a plan from Rep. Dave Maxey, R-New Berlin, that would set new rules for sex offender registration for sex offenders who don’t have permanent addresses.
Tuesday is also the first hearing for Rep. Amanda Nedweski’s, R-Pleasant Prairie, plan to fight child grooming.
Her legislation specifies the crime of “grooming a child for sexual activity.” Currently, Wisconsin only has a child enticement law.
Nedweski’s grooming legislation sets out punishments for any behavior that is intended to “condition, seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse or sexual contact.”
Violating her proposed law would begin with a 10-year prison sentence, though that could increase depending on the specifics of the grooming.
It is unclear, however, if any of the Republican-sponsored plans will become law. Gov. Evers has not yet said if he will sign any of them if they reach his desk.
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This article was originally published by The MacIver Institute

