2015 Subject Index to Legislation

Knowledge and concepts examination: pupil's parent or guardian may opt out of any such exam; certain DPI report revision; requiring summary about exams posted to schools' Internet sites - SB193

Out-of-home care extension re subsidized guardianship payments, adoption assistance, kinship care, and voluntary transition-to-independent-living agreement; CBRF licensing not required for certain facilities for persons between 18 and 21 years of age; DCF duties [Sec. 1649-1669, 1681-1694, 1697-1699, 1857, 4679-4688, 4689, 4690-4699; S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, 1648n, s, 4648v, 4654t] - SB21

Out-of-home care extension re subsidized guardianship payments, adoption assistance, kinship care, and voluntary transition-to-independent-living agreement; CBRF licensing not required for certain facilities for persons between 18 and 21 years of age; DCF duties [Sec. 1649-1669, 1681-1694, 1697-1699, 1857, 4679-4699] - AB21

Pupil with extended absence from school: school attendance officer required to direct the school board to notify a parent or guardian that they may request a disability evaluation - AB488

Pupil with extended absence from school: school attendance officer required to direct the school board to notify a parent or guardian that they may request a disability evaluation - SB425

Readoption in Wisconsin of a child who is a citizen of another country and adopted in that country by a Wisconsin citizen: procedure specified [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, readoption provisions changed to effect and recognition of foreign adoption and guardianship decrees; S.Amdt.1: certificate of birth data prepared by State Registrar provisions added] - AB41

Reasonable and prudent parent standard for making decisions re participation of a child placed in out-of-home care in age or developmentally appropriate activities and permanency planning for children 14 years of age or older: incorporating federal Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act changes into the Children’s Code and Juvenile Justice Code - AB406

Reasonable and prudent parent standard for making decisions re participation of a child placed in out-of-home care in age or developmentally appropriate activities and permanency planning for children 14 years of age or older: incorporating federal Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act changes into the Children’s Code and Juvenile Justice Code - SB309

Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act adopted [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, replaced with Wisconsin Digital Property Act (Chapter 711)] - AB695

School accountability report performance categories replaced with letter grades and other revisions; Superintendent of Public Instruction prohibited from approving pupil attainment examinations developed by Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, giving effect to common core standard in effect, adopting or implementing new common core standards, and requiring school districts to adopt or implement common core standards, and required to provide education options to parents and guardians via DPI's Internet site; UW--Madison Value-Added Research Center to approve alternative examinations a school may administer [for section numbers, see entry under ``State Superintendent of Public Instruction"] - AB21

School accountability report performance categories replaced with letter grades and other revisions; Superintendent of Public Instruction prohibited from approving pupil attainment examinations developed by Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, giving effect to common core standard in effect, adopting or implementing new common core standards, and requiring school districts to adopt or implement common core standards, and required to provide education options to parents and guardians via DPI's Internet site; UW--Madison Value-Added Research Center to approve alternative examinations a school may administer [for section numbers and further revisions, see entry under ``State Superintendent of Public Instruction"] - SB21

School board required to annually inform parent or guardian of education options - AB1

State park and recreation area annual vehicle admission stickers: fee waived for parent or guardian of pupil in grade four; distribution of activity guide for state parks, forests, recreation areas, and trails to public and private schools; DNR duties - AB538

Subsidized guardianship payments re CHIPS: eligibility expanded to include person with significant emotional relationship with the child or the child’s family; conditions specified; DCF duties - AB339

Subsidized guardianship payments re CHIPS: eligibility expanded to include person with significant emotional relationship with the child or the child’s family; conditions specified; DCF duties - SB253

Successor guardian appointed for CHIPS upon the death or incapacity of the child’s guardian and subsidized guardianship payment conditions - AB407

Successor guardian appointed for CHIPS upon the death or incapacity of the child’s guardian and subsidized guardianship payment conditions - SB308

guards Guards, see Prison

guns and gun control Guns and gun control, see Firearms and dangerous weapons

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handgun Handgun, see Firearms and dangerous weapons

handicapped Handicapped, see Persons with disabilities

harassment Harassment, see Court -- Procedure

harbor Harbor

Harbor assistance grant to City of Kewaunee [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 650m, 877s, 9145 (1c)] - SB21

hate crime Hate crime, see Discrimination

hazardous waste or substance Hazardous waste or substance, see Environmental protection

heab HEAB, see Higher Educational Aids Board

headphone use re vehicle operation Headphone use re vehicle operation, see Motor vehicle -- Regulation

health and educational facilities authority, wisconsin Health and Educational Facilities Authority, Wisconsin

WHEFA executive director: executive salary group changed [Sec. 3799] - AB21

WHEFA executive director: executive salary group changed [Sec. 3799] - SB21

health care liability Health care liability, see Medical malpractice

health care provider Health care provider, see Chiropractic; Dentistry; Hospitals; Medical education; Medical practice, Group; Medical service; Nurses; Nursing homes and adult care; Optometry; Pharmacy; Physician; Podiatry; Psychology; Trades and occupations

health care record Health care record, see Medical service

health insurance Health insurance, see Insurance -- Health; Public employee -- Group insurance

health insurance risk_sharing plan Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan

HIRSP appropriations repealed in 2015 WisAct 55: date of repeal extended - AB418

HIRSP appropriations repealed in 2015 WisAct 55: date of repeal extended - SB336

HIRSP appropriations repealed [Sec. 505, 4642, 9422 (1)] - AB21

HIRSP appropriations repealed [Sec. 505, 4642, 9422 (1)] - SB21

health maintenance organization _hmo_ Health maintenance organization (HMO), see Medical practice, Group

health services, department of _ administration Health Services, Department of -- Administration

Adoption re TPR: DCF contact preference forms; access to identifying information, medical and genetic information, and the original birth certificate; State Registrar and DHS duties - AB650

Ambulance staffing at paramedic level revision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 4109j, k] - SB21

Ambulatory surgical center assessment: DHS annual report required - AB840

Ambulatory surgical center assessment: DHS annual report required - SB692

Ambulatory surgical center assessment: DHS report required, DOR provision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 3483t] - SB21

DHS authorization to charge assessments to health care providers eliminated [Sec. 671, 3484] - AB21

DHS authorization to charge assessments to health care providers eliminated [Sec. 671, 3484] - SB21

DHS to request waiver of federal Medicaid law for services and support re women with increased risk of negative birth outcomes; expanding who can claim Wisconsin EITC; nurse-midwife governing provisions, and Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund coverage; statewide electronic data management and information system for all public assistance programs; evidence-based home visitation program re child abuse or neglect or poor birth outcomes; informed consent before certain elective caesarean section and labor-inducing procedures; infant's race or ethnicity to be included on the birth certificate; cultural competency training for certain students at UW and TCS institutions; DHS reports re neonatal intensive care units and fetal and infant mortality and birth outcomes; DHS to promulgate rules for best practices for postpartum patients and newborns at hospitals - AB852

Division administrator positions [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 3665r, s, 9418 (7p)] - SB21

Eliminate authority of a person to bring a qui tam claim against another person making a false claim for MA [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 945n, 3501p, 3504c, 4610f-r, 4639g, 9318 (3f)] - SB21

Federally qualified health centers: MA reimbursement rates [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1791p] - SB21

Healthy aging grants: DHS to allocate to private, nonprofit entity under certain conditions; sunset provision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 703r, s, 9118 (4f), 9418 (8f)] - SB21

Hospitals with disproportionate share of low-income patients: supplemental payments from DHS [Sec. 9118 (8)] - AB21

Hospitals with disproportionate share of low-income patients: supplemental payments from DHS [Sec. 9118 (8); S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, 1791r, deletes 9118 (8)] - SB21

Labor region methodology study re MA reimbursement rates to nursing homes: DHS required to conduct [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9118 (4u)] - SB21

Land information program: requirement that certain departments and agencies submit a plan to enable information to be readily translatable, retrievable, and geographically referenced eliminated - AB728

Land information program: requirement that certain departments and agencies submit a plan to enable information to be readily translatable, retrievable, and geographically referenced eliminated - SB570

Lead inspection requirements: certain lead-safe renovations exempted from sampling or testing - AB257

Lead inspection requirements: certain lead-safe renovations exempted from sampling or testing [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, ``partial lead inspection" replaces ``sampling and testing", written disclosure of the inspection required] - SB178

Legislative Office of Inspector General created, JCLO to appoint each inspector general; reports required; state agencies, LAB, and DOJ duties; offices of inspector general in DCF and DHS eliminated - AB382

Legislative Office of Inspector General created, JCLO to appoint each inspector general; reports required; state agencies, LAB, and DOJ duties; offices of inspector general in DCF and DHS eliminated - SB368

Mental Health, Council on: DHS to pay stipend to public members - AB710

MPCP research: ``qualified independent researcher" defined and access to department databases; confidentiality and fee provisions [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1696m, 1767m, 1833t, 2012t, 3076c, 4714g, 9408 (2q)] - SB21

Physician assessment appropriation in DHS: lapse to general fund [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9218 (2c)] - SB21

Pretrial intoxicated driver intervention grant program transferred from DOT to DHS [Sec. 656, 692, 2595, 4349] - AB21

Pretrial intoxicated driver intervention grant program transferred from DOT to DHS [Sec. 656, 692, 2595, 4349] - SB21

Public assistance and UI benefits: DOA to create a system to identify recipients, tabulate amounts received in a year by individuals and families, and generate annual, detailed statements; DHS, DCF, and DWD to assist - AB140

Public assistance program eligibility that depends on a relationship or arrangement with a child set out in a court order: DCF and DHS required to verify - AB386

Public assistance program eligibility that depends on a relationship or arrangement with a child set out in a court order: DCF and DHS required to verify - SB290

Renewable energy consumption: new goals for certain state agencies set, DOA report required; new goal re electric energy consumed in the state set, PSC reports required - SB773

Restaurants, lodging, and recreation: oversight of transferred to DATCP from DHS [for section numbers, see entry under ``Restaurant"] - AB21

Restaurants, lodging, and recreation: oversight of transferred to DATCP from DHS [for section numbers, see entry under ``Restaurant"] - SB21

Violent death reporting system: funding increased - AB962

Volunteer Health Care Provider Program, opioid treatment program, Well-Woman Program provision (remedial legislation) - AB679

Volunteer Health Care Provider Program, opioid treatment program, Well-Woman Program provision (remedial legislation) - SB554

health services, department of _ administrative rules Health Services, Department of -- Administrative rules

Oxygen equipment in nursing homes: rules modified re current maintenance and use standards and manufacturers’ recommendations [Admin.Code DHS 132.71] - AB242

Oxygen equipment in nursing homes: rules modified re current maintenance and use standards and manufacturers’ recommendations [Admin.Code DHS 132.71] [S.Amdt.1: additional rule revisions] - SB160

health services, department of _ corrections Health Services, Department of -- Corrections

Sex offender residence restrictions modified and penalties for violation by high-risk offenders revised; conditions for release from civil commitment established by DHS - AB290

Violent sex offenders on supervised release: procedures and residency requirements revised [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, restricting certain local ordinance or resolution provision added] - AB497

Violent sex offenders on supervised release: procedures and residency requirements revised - SB409

health services, department of _ health Health Services, Department of -- Health

Abortion law revisions re postfertilization age of unborn child, prohibition at or after 20 weeks, hospital and clinic reporting requirements, and informed consent; exemption, civil remedies, injunction, and penalty provisions - AB237

Abortion law revisions re postfertilization age of unborn child, prohibition at or after 20 weeks, hospital and clinic reporting requirements, and informed consent; exemption, civil remedies, injunction, and penalty provisions [S.Amdt.1: protection provision modified re substantial risk to the pregnant woman] - SB179

Addiction treatment programs that use methadone: annual report to DHS and physician to review individual’s records before prescribing required [A.Amdt.1: reporting requirements modified, prescription review requirement removed] - AB367