Wisconsin Legislature: Nursing homes and adult care

Certified nursing assistant (CNA) training costs: individual income tax credit created - AB757

DPI to make payments to schools that increase spending on school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses - AB1054

DSPS regulation of professions and building and safety laws revisions re notice of request to inspect or copy building plans, list of licensed retail supplies of LPG, review of local construction site erosion control program, membership of certain boards and credentialing boards, nursing practice law, physician assistant renewal date, Cemetery Board filings, and DSPS employed mining inspector [A.Amdt.2: local ordinance regulating tattooing and body piercing prohibited] - AB903

DSPS regulation of professions and building and safety laws revisions re notice of request to inspect or copy building plans, list of licensed retail supplies of LPG, review of local construction site erosion control program, membership of certain boards and credentialing boards, nursing practice law, physician assistant renewal date, Cemetery Board filings, and DSPS employed mining inspector - SB751

Dual employment with a state agency or authority: restriction clarified and exemption for licensed health care providers created [Sec. 137-139; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, physician assistant added] - AB64

Dual employment with a state agency or authority: restriction clarified and exemption for licensed health care providers created [Sec. 137-139] - SB30

Educational loan assistance program administered by the UW Board of Regents for physicians, dentists, and other health care providers: agree to practice in eligible practice area for certain amount of time to be eligible, definition provision - AB598

Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact ratified; emergency rules provision - AB500

Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact ratified; emergency rules provision - SB417

Hospitals and clinics providing training for advanced practice clinicians: grant distribution preferences and requirements; matching fund provision - AB227

Hospitals and clinics providing training for advanced practice clinicians: grant distribution preferences and requirements; matching fund provision - SB161

Instructional program for nurse aides: conforming state law to federal law requirements for Medicare and Medicaid - AB432

Instructional program for nurse aides: conforming state law to federal law requirements for Medicare and Medicaid - SB341

Nurse aide training: TCS Board grants to districts in areas with nurse aide shortages - AB756

Nursing workforce survey and payment of survey fee made optional when renewing credentials; which credential holders are requested to complete the survey revised; emergency rules provision - AB986

Patient rights to medically accurate information created; health care provider, employment retribution, civil action, injunctive relief, and compensatory damages provisions; AG duties - AB657

Patient rights to medically accurate information created; health care provider, employment retribution, civil action, injunctive relief, and compensatory damages provisions; AG duties - SB567

Practice of podiatry: license exception for nonsurgical services provided by physician assistant or advanced practice nurse prescriber under supervision of a podiatrist [A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, physician assistant provisions revised to practicing under supervision of a podiatrist, MEB and administrative rules provisions added [Admin.Code Med 8.01, 8.02, 8.05, 8.07, 8.09, 8.10]] - AB582

Practice of podiatry: license exception for nonsurgical services provided by physician assistant or advanced practice nurse prescriber under supervision of a podiatrist - SB477

Prescription medication distributed by certain medical personnel only in a juvenile correctional facility or secured residential care center for children and youth; exception for insulin - AB467

Prescription medication distributed by certain medical personnel only in a juvenile correctional facility or secured residential care center for children and youth; exception for insulin - SB377

Services that may be covered by MA if prescribed or ordered by a provider acting within the scope of the provider’s practice regulations - AB529

Services that may be covered by MA if prescribed or ordered by a provider acting within the scope of the provider’s practice regulations - SB452

Substance abuse: continuing education for health care practitioners; federal waiver re dispensing narcotics for addiction treatment; prescribing and dispensing buprenorphine combination products; counseling changes re certification and who can offer treatment; school health instruction requirements; graduate program in psychiatric mental health nursing at UW—Madison; training resources for social service workers; DCF, DHS, and DSPS duties; administrative rules provisions [Admin.Code DHS 75.02, 75.03; MPSW 1.09; SPS 160 (title), 160.015, 160.02, 160.03, 161, 163.01, 163.02, 164.01, 165, 166, 168] [A.Amdt.1: MEB emergency rule provisions added, administrative rule provisions revised; A.Amdt.1 to A.Amdt.1: continuing education for certain health care providers provision deleted, MEB emergency rules and rule-making authority provisions deleted, adds reporting requirements for certain credentialing boards re opioids] - AB907

Substance abuse: continuing education for health care practitioners; federal waiver re dispensing narcotics for addiction treatment; prescribing and dispensing buprenorphine combination products; counseling changes re certification and who can offer treatment; school health instruction requirements; graduate program in psychiatric mental health nursing at UW—Madison; training resources for social service workers; DCF, DHS, and DSPS duties; administrative rules provisions [Admin.Code DHS 75.02, 75.03; MPSW 1.09; SPS 160 (title), 160.015, 160.02, 160.03, 161, 163.01, 163.02, 164.01, 165, 166, 168] - SB767

UW Flexible Options platform expanded; assistance becoming a registered nurse and preparing for initial teaching license and permits required [Sec. 9148 (2); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, nursing provision removed, teaching license provision changed to teacher residency program between a UW school of education and a school district, 9148 (2p)] - AB64

UW Flexible Options platform expanded; assistance becoming a registered nurse and preparing for initial teaching license and permits required [Sec. 9148 (2)] - SB30

Workforce training grants (Fast Forward Program): use expanded for collaborative projects, teacher training, nursing training program, internship placement, and improved workforce retention; DWD duties [Sec. 398, 399, 1397-1402, 1404, 1406, 9151 (1), (2); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, grant to support the Building Occupational Skills for Success (BOSS) program added with report and sunset provisions, 398b, 9151 (5q), 9451 (2q)] - AB64

Workforce training grants (Fast Forward Program): use expanded for collaborative projects, teacher training, nursing training program, internship placement, and improved workforce retention; DWD duties [Sec. 398, 399, 1397-1402, 1404, 1406, 9151 (1), (2)] - SB30

BOALTC and ombudsman program revisions [Sec. 32, 75-110, 1662] - AB64

BOALTC and ombudsman program revisions [Sec. 32, 75-110, 1662] - SB30

Family Care funding: work with care management organizations and Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to increase payments for direct care services, JCF provision [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 928r] - AB64

Family Care Partnership program: DHS to request MA waiver to expand, JCF approval [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9120 (4k)] - AB64

Missing adult at risk reports: law enforcement agency to refer person making the report to local aging and disability resource centers; if the subject of the alert was driving, DOT to review the driver’s license of to determine if restrictions should be imposed - AB628

Missing adult at risk reports: law enforcement agency to refer person making the report to local aging and disability resource centers; if the subject of the alert was driving, DOT to review the driver’s license of to determine if restrictions should be imposed - SB517

Nursing home bed assessment: exemption for county-owned institutions for mental disease and certain facilities not certified to participate in Medicaid or Medicare, waiver provision [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 969n-r] - AB64

Nursing home bed licenses: DHS to redistribute to 18 beds, criteria specified, report required [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 9120 (5b)] - AB64

People with Developmental Disabilities, Board for, to develop program providing coaching for the hiring of individuals with disabilities enrolled in long-term care programs - AB819

People with Developmental Disabilities, Board for, to develop program providing coaching for the hiring of individuals with disabilities enrolled in long-term care programs - SB689

Services that may be covered by MA if prescribed or ordered by a provider acting within the scope of the provider’s practice regulations - AB529

Services that may be covered by MA if prescribed or ordered by a provider acting within the scope of the provider’s practice regulations - SB452

Special voting deputies dispatched to retirement home that is part of a multiple-use facility: management of retirement home must provide occupants’ names and addresses to the clerk - AB925

Therapeutic or modified diets in certain long term care facilities: physician may delegate prescribing to certified dietitian [Admin.Code DHS 132.63, 134.64] - AB473

Therapeutic or modified diets in certain long term care facilities: physician may delegate prescribing to certified dietitian [Admin.Code DHS 132.63, 134.64] [S.Amdt.1: licensed dietitian added] - SB385

Harvest for hope grant: DATCP to award to nonprofit statewide food banks to promote donation of excess and unmarketable farm and food products; sunset provision - AB577

Harvest for hope grant: DATCP to award to nonprofit statewide food banks to promote donation of excess and unmarketable farm and food products; sunset provision - SB487

Nutrition education standards modified re knowledge of nutritive value of food, nutritious diet in promoting health, and nutrition education component in health education - AB215

Nutrition education standards modified re knowledge of nutritive value of food, nutritious diet in promoting health, and nutrition education component in health education [S.Amdt.1: nutrition education component provision removed] - SB159

Nutritional food pilot program within FoodShare established; DHS to develop and request federal waiver if needed - AB530

Therapeutic or modified diets in certain long term care facilities: physician may delegate prescribing to certified dietitian [Admin.Code DHS 132.63, 134.64] - AB473

Therapeutic or modified diets in certain long term care facilities: physician may delegate prescribing to certified dietitian [Admin.Code DHS 132.63, 134.64] [S.Amdt.1: licensed dietitian added] - SB385

W-2 and FoodShare employment and training (FSET) program contractors: performance-based payment system [A.Amdt.1: healthy eating incentive pilot program and appropriation added, sunset provision] - Jr8 AB6

Sexually explicit representation solicited from a minor: crime created, penalty provision - AB389

Sexually explicit representation solicited from a minor: crime created, penalty provision [S.Amdt.1: felony provision added, misdemeanor if solicitor and solicited are within certain age range] - SB300

Superintendent of Public Instruction may revoke a license for immoral conduct, definition revised re pornographic material; governing bodies of schools (public, private, charter) prohibited from aiding an employee, contractor, or agent in obtaining a new job if there is reason to believe child sexual abuse has been committed - AB329

Superintendent of Public Instruction may revoke a license for immoral conduct, definition revised re pornographic material; governing bodies of schools (public, private, charter) prohibited from aiding an employee, contractor, or agent in obtaining a new job if there is reason to believe child sexual abuse has been committed [S.Amdt.1: new job in a school or educational agency specified] - SB253

DOC employees permitted to collectively bargain over workplace safety - AB695

DOC employees permitted to collectively bargain over workplace safety - SB589

Workers' Memorial Day: April 28, 2017 proclaimed as - AJR28

Workers' Memorial Day: April 28, 2017 proclaimed as - SJR35

``PFC Valentine T. Warrichaiet Memorial Bridge”: DOT to designate and mark bridge on USH 41 across the Oconto River in City of Oconto as - AB699

``PFC Valentine T. Warrichaiet Memorial Bridge”: DOT to designate and mark bridge on USH 41 across the Oconto River in City of Oconto as - SB598

Olympic medal won by an individual: tax exemption for value of and payments from the U.S. Olympic Committee created - AB289

Olympic, Paralympic, and Special Olympics medals won by individuals: income tax exemption for value of and any payments from the U.S. Olympic Committee or Special Olympics Board of Directors [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1023s, 9338 (16c)] - AB64

BOALTC and ombudsman program revisions [Sec. 32, 75-110, 1662] - AB64

BOALTC and ombudsman program revisions [Sec. 32, 75-110, 1662] - SB30

Children with disabilities enrolled in private schools: DPI to designate an ombudsman to monitor federal special education laws and identify private school fiscal agent to receive federal funding; federal waiver provision [Sec. 1484, 1486; original bill only] - AB64

Children with disabilities enrolled in private schools: DPI to designate an ombudsman to monitor federal special education laws and identify private school fiscal agent to receive federal funding; federal waiver provision [Sec. 1484, 1486] - SB30

Meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees: laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to; legislative members subject to citations and civil penalties for violations. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - AJR116

Meetings of governmental bodies, including legislative committees: laws requiring reasonable notice of and public access to; legislative members subject to citations and civil penalties for violations. Constitutional amendment (1st consideration) - SJR111