LRB-1775/P3
JPC:cdc
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0487 - EKG screening pilot program
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
General health and human services
Electrocardiogram screening pilot project for middle school and high school athletes in Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties
This bill directs DHS to develop a pilot program to provide electrocardiogram screenings for participants in middle school and high school athletics programs in Milwaukee County and Waukesha County. DHS is required to award $4,172,000 in grants in fiscal year 2024-25 to local health departments to implement the program. The bill specifies that participation in the program by participants in middle school and high school athletics programs must be optional.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9119.
Nonstatutory provisions; Health Services.
(1) Electrocardiogram screening pilot program. The department of health services shall develop a pilot program to provide electrocardiogram screenings for participants in middle school and high school athletics programs in Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (b), in fiscal year 2024-25, the department shall award $4,172,000 in grants to local health departments, as defined under s. 250.01 (4), to implement the pilot program under this subsection. Participation in the pilot program by participants in middle school and high school athletics programs shall be optional.
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