Wisconsin Legislature: AB24,1

Date of enactment:
2021 Assembly Bill 24 Date of publication*:

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: 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."

2021 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to create 251.06 (5) of the statutes; relating to: closure of and forbidding gatherings in places of worship.

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

AB24,1 Section 1. 251.06 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

251.06 (5) (a) Notwithstanding s. 252.03 (2), a local health officer may not take any action to close or forbid gatherings in places of worship to control outbreaks and epidemics of the 2019 novel coronavirus or any variant or virus derived as a mutation of the 2019 novel coronavirus.

(b) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to confer any authority on a local health officer to close or restrict capacity in places of worship or any other entities.