1997 Wisconsin Act 54

  Date of enactment: December 19, 1997
1997 Assembly Bill 280   Date of publication*: January 8, 1998

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 1995-96: 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].

1997 WISCONSIN ACT 54

An Act to amend 252.15 (7) (c) (intro.); and to create 252.15 (7m) of the statutes; relating to: disclosure to the state epidemiologist of the names of persons significantly exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus.

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

54,1 Section 1 . 252.15 (7) (c) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

252.15 (7) (c) (intro.) A Except as provided in sub. (7m), a report made under par. (b) may not include any of the following:

54,2 Section 2 . 252.15 (7m) of the statutes is created to read:

252.15 (7m) Reporting of persons significantly exposed. If a positive, validated test result is obtained from a test subject, the test subject's physician who maintains a record of the test result under sub. (4) (c) may report to the state epidemiologist the name of any person known to the physician to have been significantly exposed to the test subject, only after the physician has done all of the following:

(a) Counseled the test subject to inform any person who has been significantly exposed to the test subject.

(b) Notified the test subject that the name of any person known to the physician to have been significantly exposed to the test subject will be reported to the state epidemiologist.