1995 Wisconsin Act 20

  Date of enactment: June 29, 1995
1995 Senate Bill 183   Date of publication*: June 30, 1995

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1993-94: 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 as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

1995 WISCONSIN ACT 20

An Act to renumber 150.95; and to create 45.375, 49.45 (3) (e) 7m., 150.31 (5m), 150.93 (5) and 150.95 (2) of the statutes; relating to: establishing a hospital at King.

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

20,1 Section 1 . 45.375 of the statutes is created to read:

45.375 Hospital at Wisconsin veterans home. (1) The department of veterans affairs may establish a hospital at the Wisconsin veterans home at King.

(2) A hospital established under sub. (1) may not have an approved bed capacity, as defined in s. 150.01 (4m), greater than 16 beds. The approved bed capacity of the nursing home licensed under s. 50.03 on the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], and operated at the Wisconsin veterans home at King is reduced by one bed for each approved bed at the hospital established under sub. (1).

20,2 Section 2 . 49.45 (3) (e) 7m. of the statutes is created to read:

49.45 (3) (e) 7m. Notwithstanding subd. 7., the daily reimbursement or payment rate for services at a hospital established under s. 45.375 (1) provided to medical assistance recipients whose continued hospitalization is no longer medically necessary or appropriate during a period where the recipient awaits placement in an alternate custodial living arrangement shall be the skilled nursing facility rate paid to the facility created under s. 45.365 (1).

20,3 Section 3 . 150.31 (5m) of the statutes is created to read:

150.31 (5m) The department shall decrease the statewide bed limit specified in sub. (1) to account for any reduction in the approved bed capacity of the nursing home operated at the Wisconsin veterans home at King, as specified in s. 45.375 (2).

20,4 Section 4 . 150.93 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

150.93 (5) This section does not apply to a hospital established under s. 45.375 (1).

20,5 Section 5 . 150.95 of the statutes is renumbered 150.95 (1).

20,6 Section 6 . 150.95 (2) of the statutes is created to read:

150.95 (2) This section does not apply to a hospital established under s. 45.375 (1).