2017 Wisconsin Act 259

  Date of enactment: April 4, 2018
2017 Assembly Bill 781   Date of publication*: April 5, 2018

* 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."

2017 WISCONSIN ACT 259

An Act to create 48.02 (3t) of the statutes; relating to: defining dental care for the purpose of consenting for services for a child in out-of-home care.

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

259,1 Section 1. 48.02 (3t) of the statutes is created to read:

48.02 (3t) “Dental care,” for purposes of providing ordinary medical and dental care, means routine dental care, including diagnostic and preventative services, and treatment including restoring teeth, tooth extractions, and use of nitrous oxide.