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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO ASSEMBLY BILL 300
August 29, 2019 - Offered by Representative Spiros.
AB300-ASA1,1,9 1An Act to renumber and amend 66.0137 (1) (ae); to amend 20.835 (1) (db),
259.23 (2) (s), 66.0137 (3), 66.0137 (4m) (a), 66.0137 (5) (c) 1., 66.0137 (5) (c) 2.,
379.01 (2d) and 79.035 (5); to repeal and recreate 66.0137 (5) (c) 3. and 79.035
4(5); and to create 66.0137 (1) (ac), 66.0137 (1) (af), 66.0137 (1) (ah), 66.0137 (1)
5(am), 66.0137 (1) (ap), 66.0137 (1) (c), 66.0137 (5) (c) 1m., 66.0137 (5) (c) 4.,
666.0137 (5) (d) and 79.035 (8) of the statutes; relating to: requiring political
7subdivisions, the state, and Marquette University to pay health insurance
8premiums, including on a limited retroactive basis, for survivors of a law
9enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires a political subdivision (a city, village, town, or county), the
state, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (board), and
Marquette University to pay health insurance premiums for the surviving spouse
and dependent children of a law enforcement officer or emergency medical services
practitioner who dies in the line of duty if the political subdivision, state, board, or

university paid such premiums for the law enforcement officer or emergency medical
services practitioner while he or she was employed by the political subdivision, state,
board, or university. The requirement does not apply to a surviving spouse who
remarries or reaches the age of 65, or to a surviving child after he or she reaches the
age of 26. Current law provides similar benefits to the surviving spouse and
dependent children of a fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty if the
municipality (city, village, or town) paid such premiums for the fire fighter while he
or she was employed by the municipality.
Also, under the bill, if a political subdivision pays such health insurance
premiums, the political subdivision must file a request for reimbursement for its
costs with the Department of Revenue, which is required to provide reimbursement.
The reimbursement payments are funded from county and municipal aid shared
revenue by a reduction in each county's and municipality's shared revenue in
proportion to each entity's share of the total distribution of shared revenue
payments.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB300-ASA1,1 1Section 1. 20.835 (1) (db) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB300-ASA1,2,42 20.835 (1) (db) County and municipal aid account. A sum sufficient to make
3payments to counties, towns, villages, and cities under s. ss. 66.0137 (5) (d) and
479.035, less the amount paid from the appropriation under par. (r).
AB300-ASA1,2 5Section 2 . 59.23 (2) (s) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB300-ASA1,3,26 59.23 (2) (s) List of local officials. Annually, on the first Tuesday of June,
7transmit to the secretary of state a list showing the name, phone number, electronic
8mail address, and post-office address of local officials, including the chairperson,
9mayor, president, clerk, treasurer, council and board members, and assessor of each
10municipality, and of the elective or appointive officials of any other local
11governmental unit, as defined in s. 66.0135 (1) (c), that is located wholly or partly
12within the county. Such lists shall be placed on file for the information of the public.
13The clerk, secretary, or other administrative officer of a local governmental unit, as

1defined in s. 66.0137 (1) (ae) (as), shall provide the county clerk the information he
2or she needs to complete the requirements of this paragraph.
AB300-ASA1,3 3Section 3 . 66.0137 (1) (ac) of the statutes is created to read:
AB300-ASA1,3,54 66.0137 (1) (ac) “Board of Regents” means the Board of Regents of the
5University of Wisconsin System.
AB300-ASA1,4 6Section 4 . 66.0137 (1) (ae) of the statutes is renumbered 66.0137 (1) (as) and
7amended to read:
AB300-ASA1,3,118 66.0137 (1) (as) “Local governmental unit" means a municipality, county
9political subdivision, school district (as enumerated in s. 67.01 (5)), sewerage district,
10drainage district, and, without limitation because of enumeration, any other political
11subdivision of the state.
AB300-ASA1,5 12Section 5 . 66.0137 (1) (af) of the statutes is created to read:
AB300-ASA1,3,1813 66.0137 (1) (af) “Dies in the line of duty" means a death that occurs, or occurred,
14as a direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained by, or a single
15exposure to a hazardous material or condition experienced by, a law enforcement
16officer, fire fighter, or emergency medical services practitioner while he or she was
17engaged in a line of duty activity or that arose out of and as a result of such an
18individual's performance of a line of duty activity.
AB300-ASA1,6 19Section 6 . 66.0137 (1) (ah) of the statutes is created to read:
AB300-ASA1,3,2320 66.0137 (1) (ah) “Emergency medical services practitioner” has the meaning
21given in s. 256.01 (5), except that in this section it applies only to an individual who
22is employed directly by a political subdivision or by a joint emergency medical
23services department operated jointly by 2 or more political subdivisions.
AB300-ASA1,7 24Section 7 . 66.0137 (1) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
AB300-ASA1,3,2525 66.0137 (1) (am) “Law enforcement officer" means all of the following:
AB300-ASA1,4,4
11. Any person employed by a political subdivision for the purpose of detecting
2and preventing crime and enforcing laws or ordinances and who is authorized to
3make arrests for violations of the laws or ordinances that the person is employed to
4enforce.
AB300-ASA1,4,65 2. Any jailer who, under the direction of a sheriff under s. 59.27 (1), keeps
6persons in a county jail.
AB300-ASA1,4,77 3. A Marquette University police officer, as defined in s. 175.42 (1) (b).
AB300-ASA1,4,88 4. A state patrol officer, as that term is defined in s. 252.01 (7).
AB300-ASA1,4,99 5. A state capitol police officer.
AB300-ASA1,4,1010 6. A University of Wisconsin System police officer.
AB300-ASA1,4,1111 7. An officer of the division of criminal investigation.
AB300-ASA1,4,1212 8. A department of natural resources conservation warden.
AB300-ASA1,4,1313 9. A county sheriff, undersheriff, or deputy sheriff.
AB300-ASA1,4,1414 10. A chief of police.
AB300-ASA1,8 15Section 8 . 66.0137 (1) (ap) of the statutes is created to read:
AB300-ASA1,4,2216 66.0137 (1) (ap) “Line of duty activity" means any employment-related action
17taken by a law enforcement officer, fire fighter, or emergency medical services
18practitioner that is required or authorized by law, rule, regulation, or condition of
19employment and for which compensation is provided by his or her employing agency
20or would have been eligible to have been provided by the employing agency if the law
21enforcement officer, fire fighter, or emergency medical services practitioner had been
22on duty when he or she took the action in question.
AB300-ASA1,9 23Section 9 . 66.0137 (1) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
AB300-ASA1,4,2424 66.0137 (1) (c) “Political subdivision" means any municipality or county.
AB300-ASA1,10 25Section 10 . 66.0137 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB300-ASA1,5,4
166.0137 (3) Health insurance for unemployed persons. Any municipality or
2county
political subdivision may purchase health or dental insurance for
3unemployed persons residing in the municipality or county political subdivision who
4are not eligible for medical assistance under s. 49.46, 49.468, 49.47, or 49.471 (4) (a).
AB300-ASA1,11 5Section 11. 66.0137 (4m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB300-ASA1,5,76 66.0137 (4m) (a) Notwithstanding sub. (1) (ae) (as), in this subsection, “local
7governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county, or school district.
AB300-ASA1,12 8Section 12 . 66.0137 (5) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB300-ASA1,5,139 66.0137 (5) (c) 1. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3., if a municipality
10provides for the payment of premiums for hospital, surgical, and other health
11insurance for its fire fighters, it shall continue to pay such premiums for the
12surviving spouse and dependent children of a the fire fighter who dies in the line
13of duty.
AB300-ASA1,13 14Section 13 . 66.0137 (5) (c) 1m. of the statutes is created to read:
AB300-ASA1,5,2115 66.0137 (5) (c) 1m. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3., if a political
16subdivision, the state, the Board of Regents, or Marquette University provides for
17the payment of premiums for hospital, surgical, and other health insurance for its
18law enforcement officers or emergency medical services practitioners, it shall
19continue to pay such premiums for the surviving spouse and dependent children of
20the law enforcement officer or emergency medical services practitioner who dies
21while in the line of duty.
AB300-ASA1,14 22Section 14 . 66.0137 (5) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB300-ASA1,6,223 66.0137 (5) (c) 2. A municipality political subdivision, the state, the Board of
24Regents, or Marquette University
may not be required to pay the premiums

1described in subd. 1. or 1m. for a surviving spouse upon the remarriage of the
2surviving spouse or upon the surviving spouse reaching the age of 65.
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