Subject Index

EMT-paramedic operational plans submitted by ambulance service providers: approval limited - AB524

EMT-paramedic operational plans submitted by ambulance service providers: approval limited - SB267

Facilities and treatment facilities penalties and sanctions, certification, regulation, licensing, approval, and registration revisions [for section numbers, see entry under ``Health and family services, Department of — Supportive living and treatment''] - AB144

Facilities and treatment facilities penalties and sanctions, certification, regulation, licensing, approval, and registration revisions [for section numbers, see entry under ``Health and family services, Department of — Supportive living and treatment''] - SB55

Fire protection service options for town and villages expanded; AG approval for local governmental units to enter into interstate compacts for EMS or fire fighting services removed - AB791

Health care facility: prohibitions re certain activities and preventing passage to and from; definition provided; civil cause of action created -  AB465

Health care fraud and abuse, Council on, eliminated [Sec. 161, 2849] -  AB144

Health care fraud and abuse, Council on, eliminated [Sec. 161, 2849; original bill only] -  SB55

Health care information data purchasers: requirement eliminated re prohibition of rereleasing individual data elements [Sec. 2851, 2852] -  AB144

Health care information data purchasers: requirement eliminated re prohibition of rereleasing individual data elements [Sec. 2851, 2852; original bill only]  - SB55

Health care professional discipline process duties of DORL and report required; MEB membership and authority re summary suspension of credentials and forfeiture for unprofessional conduct revised, reports to National practitioner data bank; therapeutic-related deaths reported on death certificate  - SB139

Health care provider fraud and abuse re MA: DHFS authority expanded [Sec. 709, 1751-1754, 1756-1759, 1761-1764, 1784-1787, 1839, 1840, 1874, 2200, 9323 (1)-(3)]  - AB144

Health care provider fraud and abuse re MA: DHFS authority expanded [Sec. 709, 1751-1754, 1756-1759, 1761-1764, 1784-1787, 1839, 1840, 1874, 2200, 9323 (1)-(3); original bill only; Conf.Amdt.1 to S.Sub.Amdt.1: provisions revised and restored, 709j, 1750d-k, L-z, 1786g-k, 1838w, 1840e, 1877p, 2200b, 9123 (15k), 9323 (18k)-(18pn), 9423 (18k)]  - SB55

Health care records admitted as evidence: time limit to serve copies to or notify other parties revised  - SB186

Health care records and X-rays: uniform fees charged for certified duplicates or referrals revised; evidence in court proceedings provision [Conf.Amdt.1 to S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 2850bg-bi, 3872x, y, 9123 (14g), 9423 (16f)]  - SB55

Health care records and X-rays: uniform fees charged for certified duplicates or referrals revised; evidence in court proceedings provision -  SB71

Health care records authentication [Conf.Amdt.1 to S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 3872v, 9309 (7p)]  - SB55

Health care workers employed by health care facilities: requiring overtime without worker's consent prohibited; employment discrimination provisions -  AB457

Health care workers employed by health care facilities: requiring overtime without worker's consent prohibited; employment discrimination provisions -  SB211

Inmate health care provisions; Corr.Dept reports specified; medical histories to appear on staff intranet [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 3329e, p-u, 9111 (3c) - (3cd)] - SB55

Interstate fire fighting and EMS agreements: attorney general's review revised [Conf.Amdt.1 to A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 151n, nb] - JR2 AB1

MEB to make certain information about physicians available to the public; health care providers allowed to correct health care information collected by DHFS -  SB140

Medical information disclosed by insurer without authorization: damages and costs limits set -  SB396

Municipal fire, EMT, and first responder volunteer funds: municipal ordinance permitted re control of funds by certain officials other than treasurer - AB214

Newborn child relinquished by parent to law enforcement officer, EMT, or hospital staff member: procedures created; anonymity, juvenile court authority, and civil or criminal liability provisions [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, coersion provisions; A.Amdt.1: further revision; S.Amdt.1: notice for TPR provision removed] -  AB54

Newborn child relinquished by parent to law enforcement officer, EMT, or hospital staff member: procedures created; anonymity, juvenile court authority, and civil or criminal liability provisions -  SB28

Newborn child relinquished to law enforcement officer, EMT, or hospital staff: information on new law must be provided to women prior to abortion; DHFS duty specified  - AB450

Nonprofit medical research foundations: property tax exemption revised -  AB778

Nurse-midwifery definition changed; malpractice liability insurance provision -  AB725

Nurse-midwifery definition changed; malpractice liability insurance provision -  SB397

Organ transport vehicles made authorized emergency vehicles; certain lights and siren provisions; traffic law exemptions - AB374

Patient health care records: identifying information used to market a service or product to a patient or health care provider prohibited; pharmacy included in confidentiality requirements; civil liability provisions; DA and DOJ authority specified - AB621

Patient health care records: pharmacy included in confidentiality requirements -  SB237

Patient health care records: uniform fees for [Conf.Amdt.1 to A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 336f-h, 523p, q, 9123 (4g), 9423 (3f)] - JR2 AB1

Perfusionist licensing requirements and examining council created; exceptions provided -  AB256

Perfusionist licensing requirements and examining council created; exceptions provided -  SB108

Pharmacy Internship Board abolished; pharmacy intern provisions; grant to the Wisconsin Patient Safety Institute, Inc. [Conf.Amdt.1 to S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 187d, 227r, 386m, 802m, 1356L, 3608bh-bL, 9443 (3f)] -  SB55

Physician-patient privilege extended to include health care services review organizations -  AB191

Prescription drug rebates and reduced charges: DOA to assist health care providers, insurers, or self-insurers in this state or associations in other states to negotiate rebate agreements with manufacturers or develop in-state or multistate purchasing groups; reports required -  AB876

Prisoner copayments for medical and dental care: Corr.Dept to promulgate emergency rules; appropriation revised [Sec. 9111 (3), 9211 (22)] -  JR2 AB1

Prisoner copayments for medical or dental care: requirements revised [Sec. 3388, 9311 (3)] -  AB144

Prisoner copayments for medical or dental care: requirements revised [Sec. 3388, 9311 (3)] -  SB55

Security initiative re terrorism response training, statewide trauma care system, diseases and biological and chemical threats, Hygiene laboratory, and police services by DOA; new OJA grant program [for section numbers and further revisions, see entry under ``Crime and criminals"]  - JR2 AB1

SSN or ID number containing SSN: health care provider or insurer prohibited from using as patient or insured or enrollee number -  AB459

STH 54 and certain STH 29 bridge designated and marked in honor of Wisconsin Fire Fighters and Emergency Medical Technicians -  AB914

STH 54 and certain STH 29 bridge designated and marked in honor of Wisconsin Fire Fighters and Emergency Medical Technicians -  SB493

Traffic control signals on highways: emergency preemption device installation requirements created  - AB830

Traffic control signals on highways: emergency preemption device installation requirements created [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 2305c, 3456n, 9352 (2g), 9452 (7g); deleted by Conf.Amdt.1] - SB55

Traffic control signals on highways: emergency preemption device installation requirements created [Conf.Amdt.1 to A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 258pur, x, 461u, 9352 (1j), 9452 (1fh)] - JR2 AB1

Trauma care system revisions re advisory council termination date, regional trauma advisory councils, reporting requirements, and funding -  AB743

Trauma care system revisions re advisory council termination date, regional trauma advisory councils, reporting requirements, and funding [Conf.Amdt.1 to S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 174p, 670, 2850ag, ah, 4041k, 9123 (12r), (12s), 9152 (2t)]  - SB55

Universal health plan for Wisconsin established; Department of health planning and finance with Health policy board and regional health councils created; LRB bill drafting provision - SB133

USH 151 and certain STH 29 bridge designated and marked in honor of Wisconsin Law Enforcement Officers  - AB914

USH 151 and certain STH 29 bridge designated and marked in honor of Wisconsin Law Enforcement Officers  - SB493

Volunteer fire fighter and EMT board: EMT defined re length-of-service award -  AB825

Volunteer fire fighter and EMT board: EMT defined re length-of-service award -  SB441

Volunteer fire fighter, EMT, or first responder also holding local elective office: annual compensation limit revised  - AB13

Volunteer health care provider program expanded to public elementary and secondary schools with DOA approval  - AB890

Wisconsin Patient Safety Institute, Inc., grants: provisions of 2001 WisAct 16 repealed [Sec. 16, 44, 9401 (1); Conf.Amdt.1 to A.Sub.Amdt.1: appropriation removed, deletes 44]  - JR2 AB1

Women's health platform - AJR35

Women's health platform supported; Women in Government organization commended -  AR55

Wrongful birth or wrongful life action: immunity from liability created -  AB360

medicare Medicare, see Medical assistance

medicine Medicine, see Drugs

meeting, open Meeting, Open, see Open meeting (Governmental)

memorial highway Memorial highway, see Road — Construction and repair

memorial to congress Memorial to Congress, see also United States — Congress

Daylight savings time year-round in the U.S. urged -  AJR5

Daylight savings time year-round in the U.S. urged -  SJR43

Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act of 2001: enactment urged -  AR42

Notch Fairness Act of 2001 (H.R. 97) re social security: passage urged -  AJR67

Prescriptions by private providers to veterans: requiring DVA pharmacies to dispense medications re H.R. 1717  - AJR105

Prescriptions by private providers to veterans: requiring DVA pharmacies to dispense medications re H.R. 1717  - SJR65

Recycled lumber research by Forest products laboratory: providing funding -  AJR51

Recycled lumber research by Forest products laboratory: providing funding -  SJR30

Social security earnings limit for certain recipients: modification urged -  AJR57

Social security earnings limit for certain recipients: modification urged -  SJR41

Western hemisphere institute for security cooperation (formerly the School of the Americas): closure urged  - AJR28

memorials and monuments Memorials and monuments, see Veteran — Organization

menasha, city of Menasha, City of, see Winnebago county

menasha, town of Menasha, Town of, see Winnebago county

mendota juvenile treatment center Mendota juvenile treatment center, see Juvenile detention facility

mendota mental health institute Mendota mental health institute, see Mental health — Hospitals and institutes

menominee county Menominee county

Permanent annual payment in lieu of taxes to Menominee county and town of Menominee: Congress urged to provide  - AJR65

menominee valley partners, inc Menominee Valley Partners, Inc., see Business

menomonie, city of Menomonie, City of, see Dunn county

mental health Mental health

Competency exam for juvenile: parental liability for cost [Conf.Amdt.1 to A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 100vn, 374e, 529km, L, 9311 (2f)] -  JR2 AB1