Bill > AB299

This bill establishes the "Campus Free Speech Act" within the University of Wisconsin System. The key provisions are: 1. The bill requires the Board of Regents to develop and adopt a policy on free expression, including statements affirming the system's commitment to intellectual freedom, prohibiting shielding individuals from protected speech, and ensuring students and faculty have the freedom to discuss any problem within reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions. 2. The policy must include a range of disciplinary sanctions for those who disrupt the free expression of others, provide due process rights for students in disciplinary cases, and require suspension and expulsion for students found responsible for repeatedly interfering with the expressive rights of others. 3. The Board of Regents must annually report on barriers to or disruptions of free expression, the administrative handling of such incidents, difficulties in maintaining neutrality on political issues, and any other assessments or recommendations. 4. The bill provides for notice to students, orientation and training for students and faculty, and rule-making authority for the Board of Regents to further the purposes of the free expression policy. 5. The bill also exempts the adoption of the free expression policy from certain rule-making procedures.

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http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2017/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab299