Wisconsin Legislature: Health Services, Department of

Biological specimen for DNA analysis: requirement does not expire when completing probation, sentence, or delinquency disposition, or being released from commitment; DA may petition court to compel certain persons to provide a sample; procedure specified - AB893

Biological specimen for DNA analysis: requirement does not expire when completing probation, sentence, or delinquency disposition, or being released from commitment; DA may petition court to compel certain persons to provide a sample; procedure specified - SB631

Competency proceedings: eliminating condition of bail or bond when defendant is committed to DHS custody for treatment; alternative process for placing person in an inpatient setting (remedial legislation) - SB492

Earned release, substance abuse treatment, and Challenge Incarceration Program revisions [Sec. 2700, 2701, 2703-2708, 2710-2712; Enrolled AB-75: reports added, 2702m, 2711m, 9111 (12g)] - AB75

Mendota Juvenile Treatment Center funding [Sec. 832] - AB75

Sex offender registry: Corr.Dept and DHS required to notify police chief or sheriff when the registrant's residential address changes - AB933

Sexually violent person in DHS custody: court appointed examiner for annual examination and DHS escort specified re supervised release (remedial legislation) - SB493

Supervised release of sexually violent person: DHS given discretion in determining need for supervision by an escort [Sec. 2698, 3402-3404, 9311 (1), 9322 (4); original bill only] - AB75

AIDS/HIV drug assistance and insurance premium subsidy programs: funding revisions; pilot program made permanent [Sec. 1360-1363; Enrolled AB-75: funding revision, 327, 327d, 9122 (5v), 9422 (13v)] - AB75

Ambulatory surgical facility licensing requirements created - AB760

Autism benefit services under MA provided to all eligible individuals, funding provision; DHS to distribute information on autism therapies; Autism Paraprofessional Board and licensing requirements created; health care provider required to provide referral if diagnosing a patient with a condition that requires further treatment, exceptions noted - AB141

BadgerCare Plus Basic Plan established; Benchmark Plan revisions - AB697

BadgerCare Plus Basic Plan established; Benchmark Plan revisions [S.Amdt.1: report to JCF required; S.Amdt.3: LAB audit added; S.Amdt.8: eligibility verification and information provision and report to JCF added; A.Amdt.1: sunset added; A.Amdt.4: disclosure of benefits and cost sharing to applicants] - SB484

BadgerCare Plus: technical changes; certain annual DHS report eliminated [Sec. 873-877, 1297-1299, 1328-1333, 1335-1337, 1338-1353, 1354, 1356, 9422 (1); Enrolled AB-75: further revisions, 872k] - AB75

Birth defect prevention and surveillance program: DHS report and funding from vital records fee revenue [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 327, 2545d, 9122 (8v)] - AB75

Cancer researcher access to cancer registry data: DHS may disclose; procedure created; fee authorized; confidentiality required; JRCCP report [Sec. 328, 2431, 2553-2560] - AB75

Chain restaurants required to disclose nutrition information for menu items; DHS duties, forfeiture, and civil liability immunity provisions - AB664

Colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests: health insurance policies and plans required to cover; conditions and OCI and DHS duties - AB217

Colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests: health insurance policies and plans required to cover; conditions and OCI and DHS duties - SB163

Critical access hospital assessment created, MA and DHS provisions; health care provider loan program through U.W. revised re amount and rural areas; rural physician residency assistance program established through the U.W. School of Medicine and Public Health's Department of Family Medicine, annual report to JCF required - AB770

Critical access hospital assessment created, MA and DHS provisions; health care provider loan program through U.W. revised re amount and rural areas; rural physician residency assistance program established through the U.W. School of Medicine and Public Health's Department of Family Medicine, annual report to JCF required - SB553

Electronic health information exchange: DHS may organize and maintain a corporation or designate a nonprofit corporation meeting certain criteria to receive federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) grants - AB779

Electronic health information exchange: DHS may organize and maintain a corporation or designate a nonprofit corporation meeting certain criteria to receive federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) grants - SB579

Emergency management: chap.166, Wis.Stats, recodified [A.Amdts.1, 2, and 3: further revisions] - AB316

Emergency management: chap.166, Wis.Stats, recodified - SB226

EMT basic license: DHS may not charge fee to volunteers - AB313

Expedited partner therapy: physician, physician assistant, and certain nurses may prescribe or dispense antimicrobial drug to a patient to be used by a sexual partner for the treatment of specific STDs, pharmacist and civil liability exemption provisions; DHS duties - AB653

Expedited partner therapy: physician, physician assistant, and certain nurses may prescribe or dispense antimicrobial drug to a patient to be used by a sexual partner for the treatment of specific STDs, pharmacist and civil liability exemption provisions; DHS duties - SB460

Family child care provider insurance coverage: DHS study re expansion of BadgerCare Plus coverage; federal waiver provisions [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 9122 (5f)] - AB75

Family planning demonstration project: DHS may request federal waiver to include men [Sec. 1302, 1303] - AB75

Food protection practices certificate: written exam required; DHS emergency rule provision - AB414

Food safety consolidation study by DATCP and DHS; report required - AB10

Food safety consolidation study by DATCP and DHS; report required - SB42

Free-standing pediatric teaching hospital: DHS required to issue a single certificate of approval [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 1289m, 1417r] - AB75

Health care benefits counseling: DHS grants to organizations that provide assistance to individuals to obtain and maintain health care benefits created; conditions set - AB878

Health care benefits counseling: DHS grants to organizations that provide assistance to individuals to obtain and maintain health care benefits created; conditions set - SB633

Health care plan or self-insured health plan required to disclose certain information re coverage and costs to insured or enrollee upon request; payments a health care provider may accept from uninsured or patient without public coverage restricted, disclosure of certain information required; DHS duties and emergency rule provisions - AB539

Health care providers and insurers required to disclose to consumer upon request information re median billed charge for certain health services and specified charge information for the most frequent presenting conditions; DHS duties [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, hospital provisions modified; A.Amdt.2: public information reported to a health care information organization provision added] - AB614

Health care providers and insurers required to disclose to consumer upon request information re median billed charge for certain health services and specified charge information for the most frequent presenting conditions; DHS duties - SB418

Healthy and environmentally sensitive cleaning requirements for certain publicly owned buildings: DHS duties set, Council on Healthy and Environmentally Sensitive Cleaning created - AB578

Hearing aids or cochlear implants for children under 18: health insurance policies and plans required to cover; exception provisions [S.Amdt.1: preexisting condition exclusion provision removed, exceptions expanded; S.Amdt.2: exceptions further expanded] - SB27

Hearing aids or cochlear implants for children under 18: health insurance policies and plans required to cover; exceptions and BadgerCare Plus provisions - AB16

HIV infection services grant to the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin, Inc. [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 9122 (6q)] - AB75

HIV-related specialty care and hospital services for MA recipients: DHS to pay certain grant moneys to the hospital - AB899

HIV-related specialty care and hospital services for MA recipients: DHS to pay certain grant moneys to the hospital [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, hospital provisions replaced with the creation of HIV-related care coordination services provided to MA recipients, DHHS approval required] - SB647

HIV testing consent provisions and disclosure of results revised; penalty and DHS duties - AB659

Hospital assessment increased; DHS duties and MA provisions; independent rural hospital supplements [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 1294d, 3416b, 9122 (5i), (6i), 9222 (4i), 9422 (13i)] - AB75

Hospital assessment increased; MA and rural border hospitals provisions - JN9 SB1

Hospital assessment revisions; MA and DHS provisions; report required [Sec. 6, 11-14, 29-32, 34-40, 46, 47, 49-66, 69, 70, 556, 557, 9122 (1), 9222 (1), 9322 (1), 9422 (1)] - SB62

Hospital certificate of approval: DHS to issue one that covers UWHCA's inpatient and outpatient facilities that satisfy requirements for a hospital; MA reimbursement provision [Sec. 48, 68] - SB62

Indian tribe or band member placement in a mental health treatment facility: reimbursement of unexpected or unusually high-costs from Indian gaming receipts [S.Amdt.2: appropriation revisions; S.Amdt.1 to S.Amdt.2: sunset added] - SB630

Infant mortality program in Racine County: funding allocation; DHS and City of Racine Health Department duties [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 2550d-h, 3410] - AB75

Lifeguard staffing requirement: certain exemption authorized [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 2552g] - AB75

MA dental service delivery in certain southeast Wisconsin counties: DHS to use fee-for-service model [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 1317n] - AB75

MA purchase plan eligibility: DHS to seek waiver from DHHS Secretary to disregard income of married person's spouse - AB964

MA purchase plan eligibility: DHS to seek waiver from DHHS Secretary to disregard income of married person's spouse - SB682

Marijuana: medical necessity defense and immunity from arrest and prosecution; DHS to establish a registry for medical users of marijuana and license and regulate compassion centers, fee provision; does not affect federal law; JRCCP report - AB554

Marijuana: medical necessity defense and immunity from arrest and prosecution; DHS to establish a registry for medical users of marijuana and license and regulate compassion centers, fee provision; does not affect federal law; JRCCP report - SB368

Newborn hearing screening required; State Laboratory of Hygiene duties specified - AB488

Newborn hearing screening required; State Laboratory of Hygiene duties specified [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, appropriation provision; S.Amdt.1: appropriation modified] - SB323

Patient health care records: laws revised re access, inspection, fees, statutes related to evidence, electronic format, and forfeiture for noncompliance; health care provider definition expanded [for section numbers, see entry under ``Medical service"] - AB75

Pharmacist duty to dispense contraceptive drugs or devices: requirements created, does not abrogate pharmacist's legal and ethical obligations re Wisconsin law; DHS duty re hospital pharmacy complaint [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 1419c, 2995nd] - AB75

Podiatry services for childless adults enrolled in BadgerCare Plus: DHS required to cover [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 1353n] - AB75

Public health emergency: Executive Order #280 extended 120 days - AJR94

``Seal-a-Smile" school-based dental sealant program: DHS duty re federal funding [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 9122 (5u)] - AB75

Tuberculosis services program funding revised; DHS may expend certain amount annually on targeted services [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 378d, 2523d] - AB75

Vital records program: provision re one-time allocations of unexpended fee revenue and revenue lapse [Enrolled AB-75: Sec. 327, 327d, 9108 (8v), 9122 (5v), (6v), (7v), 9222 (4v), (5w), 9422 (13v)] - AB75

Volunteer Health Care Provider Program: chiropractors, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, massage therapists, acupuncturists, and phlebotomists may participate - AB195

Wholesale distribution of prescription drugs: exception created for donation of samples to certain charities [S.Amdt.1: ``Cancer and chronic diseases drug repository" changed to ``Drug repository"] - SB455

Wisconsin Implementation and Oversight Committee for Eliminating Lead Poisoning to prepare a document re guidance on legislation for the 2011-2012 session - SJR65

Administrative contracts for MA: certain program revenues appropriated; provision re enrollment fees for BadgerCare Plus childless adults [Sec. 356, 358, 1301] - AB75

Adult family homes (one- and two-bed): DHS to regulate and establish standards [Sec. 49, 416, 859-861, 1382, 1385-1387, 1390, 1450, 1451, 1453, 1457, 3133] - AB75

Aging and disability resource center: certain nonprofit corporations allowed to operate (remedial legislation) - SB494

Aging and disability resource center required to provide information about and assist residents who choose the self-directed services option; adults with developmental disabilities included (remedial legislation) - SB491

Alzheimer's disease or related dementia: CBRF, nursing home, or adult family home promoting itself as providing specialized programming or unit required to produce a document describing the services; fee and penalty provisions - SB594

Alzheimer's disease or related dementia: DHS to establish standards of care and treatment; residential care facilities must meet those standards to hold themselves out as offering special services; revisions to annual report from DHS to residential care facilities; emergency rule provision - AB259

AODA grants requirement re county population of at least 500,000 eliminated [Sec. 896; Enrolled AB-75: reference to populous county removed] - AB75

Base appropriation for MA benefits [Sec. 78; original bill only] - AB75

Birth certificate fees increased; annual funding to DCF for foster care public information and to DHS for maternal and child health activities [Sec. 327, 1504, 1505, 1508, 9422 (5); original bill only] - AB75

Birth to 3 Program: DHS to request waiver of federal Medicaid law; counties to pay nonfederal share; reimbursement by MA program [Sec. 363, 438, 912, 1316, 1317, 1324, 1325] - AB75

Care management organizations: oversight by OCI [Sec. 221, 222, 355, 362, 862, 3134, 3199] - AB75

CBRF, adult family homes, and adult day care centers: licensing and certification fee revisions [Sec. 1314, 1393, 1400, 1401] - AB75

Centers for the developmentally disabled: CIP reduction; certain DHS report requirements eliminated [Sec. 857, 1290; Enrolled AB-75: CIP-1A funding increased, report requirement retained, deletes 857] - AB75

Children receiving MA and who have health insurance coverage: DHS incentive payments for DCF to identify [Sec. 1300, 1377; Enrolled AB-75: funding re incentive payments to local child support agencies, 487p, 1268p, 1377; deletes 1300] - AB75

CIP II enhanced funding re persons who meet MA level care requirements and are diverted from imminent entry into nursing homes: limitation on number of persons eliminated; DHS provision - SB96

Community recovery mental health services: DHS may implement through MA [Sec. 394, 890, 891, 1306, 1310, 1323; Enrolled AB-75: maintenance-of-effort requirement removed, deletes 890, 891] - AB75