(2) Program and eligibility requirements. (a) The department shall conduct a 3-year pilot program, beginning on July 1, 2002, under which eligible persons who qualify under par. (b) are provided community-based case management services.
(b) To be eligible to participate in the pilot program, an eligible person must satisfy any of the following criteria:
1. Be diagnosed as having a chronic disease.
2. Be taking 2 or more prescribed medications on a regular basis.
3. Within 6 months of applying for the pilot program, have been treated 2 or more times at a hospital emergency room or have been admitted 2 or more times to a hospital as an inpatient.
(c) 1. Participation in the pilot program shall be voluntary and limited to no more than 300 eligible persons. The department shall ensure that all eligible persons are advised in a timely manner of the opportunity to participate in the pilot program and of how to apply for participation.
2. If more than 300 eligible persons apply to participate, the department shall select pilot program participants from among those who qualify under par. (b) according to standards determined by the department, except that the department shall give preference to eligible persons who reside in medically underserved areas or health professional shortage areas.
(3) Provider organization and services requirements. (a) The department shall select and contract with an organization to provide the community-based case management services under the pilot program. To be eligible to provide the services, an organization must satisfy all of the following criteria:
1. Be a private, nonprofit, integrated health care system that provides access to health care in a medically underserved area of the state or in a health professional shortage area.
2. Operate an existing community-based case management program with demonstrated successful client and program outcomes.
3. Demonstrate an ability to assemble and coordinate an interdisciplinary team of health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, for assessment of a program participant's treatment plan.
(b) The community-based case management services under the pilot program shall be provided by a team, consisting of a nurse case manager, a pharmacist, and a social worker, working in collaboration with the eligible person's primary care physician or other provider. Services to be provided include all of the following:
1. An initial intake assessment.
2. Development of a treatment plan based on best practices.
3. Coordination of health care services.
4. Patient education.
5. Family support.
6. Monitoring and reporting of patient outcomes and costs.
(c) The department shall pay contract costs from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (u).
(4) Evaluation study. The department shall conduct a study that evaluates the pilot program in terms of health care outcomes and cost avoidance. In the study, the department shall measure and compare, for pilot program participants and similarly situated eligible persons not participating in the pilot program, plan costs and utilization of services, including inpatient hospital days, rates of hospital readmission within 30 days for the same diagnosis, and prescription drug utilization. The department shall submit a report on the results of the study, including the department's conclusions and recommendations, to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2) and to the governor.
16,2850y
Section 2850y. 150.345 of the statutes is created to read:
150.345 Nursing home bed transfers.
(1) Notwithstanding ss. 150.33 and 150.34, a nursing home may transfer a licensed bed to another nursing home, if all of the following apply:
(a) The receiving nursing home is within the same area for allocation of nursing home beds, as determined by the department, as is the transferring nursing home, or is in a county adjoining that area.
(b) The transferring nursing home and the receiving nursing home are owned by corporations that are owned by the same person.
(c) The transferring and receiving nursing homes notify the department of the proposed transfer within 30 days before the transfer occurs.
(d) The department reviews and approves the transfer.
(2) Upon receiving the notification specified in sub. (1) (c), the department shall adjust the allocation of licensed beds under s. 150.31 for each nursing home in accordance with the transfer that was made.
16,2852bb
Section 2852bb. 157.061 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 157.061 (1c) and amended to read:
157.061 (1c) "Burial" means entombment, inurnment or, interment, or placement in a mausoleum, vault, crypt, or columbarium.
16,2852bf
Section 2852bf. 157.061 (1d) of the statutes is created to read:
157.061 (1d) "Burial space" means a space that is used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains and, when used in reference to the sale, purchase, or ownership of a burial space, includes the right to bury human remains in the burial space.
16,2852bj
Section 2852bj. 157.061 (1p) of the statutes is created to read:
157.061 (1p) "Cemetery" means a place that is dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the final disposition of human remains.
16,2852bL
Section 2852bL. 157.061 (2m) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.061 (2m) "Cemetery lot" means a grave or 2 or more contiguous graves and, when used in reference to the sale, purchase or ownership of a cemetery lot, includes the right to bury human remains in that cemetery lot.
16,2852bn
Section 2852bn. 157.061 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.061 (3) "Cemetery merchandise" means goods associated with the burial of human remains, including monuments, markers, nameplates, vases, and urns, and any services that are associated with supplying or delivering those goods or with the burial of human remains and that may be lawfully provided by a cemetery authority, including opening and closing of a burial space. The term does not include caskets or outer burial containers.
16,2852bp
Section 2852bp. 157.061 (3g) of the statutes is created to read:
157.061 (3g) "Columbarium" means a building, structure, or part of a building or structure that is used or intended to be used for the inurnment of cremains.
16,2852br
Section 2852br. 157.061 (3r) of the statutes is created to read:
157.061 (3r) "Columbarium space" means a niche, crypt, or specific place in a columbarium that contains or is intended to contain cremains.
16,2852bt
Section 2852bt. 157.061 (8g) of the statutes is created to read:
157.061 (8g) "Lawn crypt" means an interment space in chambers that are preplaced at either a single depth or multiple depths and that are located primarily underground.
16,2852bx
Section 2852bx. 157.061 (11r) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.061 (11r) "Payment of principal" means the portion of a payment for the purchase of a cemetery lot, cemetery merchandise or a mausoleum burial space that represents the principal amount owed by the purchaser for the cemetery lot, cemetery merchandise or mausoleum burial space, and does not include any portion of the payment that represents any taxes, finance or interest charges, or insurance premiums.
16,2852da
Section 2852da. 157.061 (15) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.061 (15) "Religious association" means any church, synagogue, or mosque or any, incorporated col
lege of a religious order, or religious society organized under ch. 187.
16,2852dc
Section 2852dc. 157.061 (15m) of the statutes is created to read:
157.061 (15m) "Religious cemetery authority" means a cemetery authority of a cemetery owned and operated by a religious association.
16,2852de
Section 2852de. 157.061 (17) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.061 (17) "Undeveloped space" means a mausoleum space, columbarium space, or lawn crypt that is not ready for the burial of human remains on the date of the sale of the mausoleum space, columbarium space, or lawn crypt.
16,2852dk
Section 2852dk. 157.062 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.062 (3) Validation. When there shall have been a bona fide attempt to organize a cemetery association, but a failure to record a properly drawn and executed certificate of organization, and it has in good faith bought and platted grounds and conveyed cemetery lots burial spaces and carried on business for over 25 years, the same shall be a body corporate from the date of conveyance to it of real estate, and its transfers and other transactions are validated.
16,2852dm
Section 2852dm. 157.062 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.062 (4) (a) An annual election shall be held during the annual meeting. The annual meeting, and any special meeting described in sub. (2), shall be held at a place in the county chosen by the trustees upon public notice as required by the bylaws. Trustees chosen after the first election shall be proprietors of cemetery lots burial spaces in the cemetery, residents of the state, and hold office for 3 years. Election shall be by ballot and a plurality shall elect. Each owner of one or more cemetery lots burial spaces is entitled to one vote, and one of several owners of a cemetery lot burial space, designated by the majority of them, shall cast the vote.
16,2852ds
Section 2852ds. 157.062 (6) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.062 (6) (c) If an association is dissolved under par. (a) or any group has never been properly organized as cemetery association, and there are fewer than 5 members living or residing in the county where the cemetery is located, the circuit judge for the county shall upon the petition of any person interested, make an order determining who are persons interested in the cemetery. Any adult person who owns an interest in any cemetery lot burial space in the cemetery, who is related to any person buried in the cemetery, or who is a descendant, brother, sister, nephew, niece, or surviving spouse of a member of the dissolved association, is an interested person. The circuit judge may make the order upon evidence he or she deems sufficient, with or without hearing. The order need not contain the names of all persons interested, but shall contain the names of at least 5 such persons.
16,2852dt
Section 2852dt. 157.062 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.062 (9) Exemptions for certain nonprofit cemeteries. In lieu of delivering a certification, resolution, or copy of proceedings to the department of financial institutions under sub. (1), (2), or (6) (b), a cemetery association that is not required to be registered under s. 440.91 (1) and, that is not organized or conducted for pecuniary profit, and that does not operate a cemetery that is located in a county with a population greater than 600,000 shall deliver the certification, resolution, or copy of proceedings to the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the cemetery is located.
16,2852dy
Section 2852dy. 157.064 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.064 (2) A cemetery or religious association incorporated in this state and having a cemetery in or near a 1st or 2nd class city and any cemetery described under s. 157.065 (3m) (d) may acquire by gift or purchase up to 30 acres of adjoining lands for cemetery purposes, and may pay for it wholly or partly from its cemetery lot burial space sales.
16,2852fb
Section 2852fb. 157.064 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.064 (6) Whenever the majority of the members of a cemetery association, or of a religious association authorized to hold lands for cemetery purposes, present at an annual meeting or special meeting called for such purpose vote to convey all of the cemetery association's or religious association's cemetery property, trust funds and other property used for cemetery purposes to another cemetery association or religious association, the trustees of the association shall transfer the property upon the acceptance of the transfer by the other association by affirmative vote of a majority of its members present at an annual meeting or special meeting called for that purpose. Upon such acceptance, the title to the cemetery property, trust funds and other property of the transferring association vests in the accepting association under the control of the trustees of the accepting association. A conveyance under this subsection is subject to s. 157.08 (2). This subsection does not apply to a religious society organized under ch. 187 cemetery authority.
16,2852fd
Section 2852fd. 157.065 (1) (b) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
16,2852fh
Section 2852fh. 157.07 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.07 (1) A cemetery authority shall cause to be surveyed and platted by a land surveyor registered in this state those portions of the lands that are from time to time required for burial, into cemetery lots burial spaces, drives, and walks, and record a plat or map of the land in the office of the register of deeds. The plat or map may not be recorded unless laid out and platted to the satisfaction of the county board of the county, and the town board of the town, in which the land is situated, or, if the land is situated within a 1st class city, then only by the common council of that city.
16,2852fj
Section 2852fj. 157.07 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.07 (5) The cemetery authority may vacate or replat any portion of its cemetery upon the filing of a petition with the circuit court describing the portion and setting forth the facts and reasons therefor. The court shall fix a time for hearing and direct publication of a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, and the court shall order a copy of the notice to be mailed to at least one interested person, as to each separate parcel involved, whose post-office address is known or can be ascertained with reasonable diligence, at least 20 days before such hearing. If the court finds that the proposed vacating or replatting is for the best interest of the cemetery authority and that the rights of none to whom cemetery lots
burial spaces have been conveyed will be injured, it shall enter an order reciting the jurisdictional facts and its findings and authorizing the vacating or replatting of the lands of the cemetery. The order shall be effective when recorded by the register of deeds.
16,2852fL
Section 2852fL. 157.07 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.07 (6) This section does not apply to a religious society organized under ch. 187 cemetery authority.
16,2852fn
Section 2852fn. 157.08 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.08 (1) After the plat or map is recorded under s. 157.07, the cemetery authority may sell and convey cemetery lots burial spaces. Conveyances shall be signed by the chief officer of the cemetery authority, and by the secretary or clerk of the cemetery authority, if any. Before delivering the conveyance to the grantee, the cemetery authority shall enter on records kept for that purpose, the date and consideration and the name and residence of the grantee. The conveyances may be recorded with the register of deeds.
16,2852fp
Section 2852fp. 157.08 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.08 (2) (a) If a cemetery lot or mausoleum burial space is sold by a cemetery authority and used or intended to be used for the burial of the human remains of the purchaser or the purchaser's family members, the purchaser's interests in the ownership of, title to, or right to use the cemetery lot or mausoleum burial space are not affected or limited by any claims or liens of other persons against the cemetery authority.
16,2852fr
Section 2852fr. 157.08 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.08 (2) (b) 1. Before a cemetery authority sells or encumbers any cemetery land, except for a sale described in par. (a), the cemetery authority shall notify the department in writing.
3. If within 60 days after the department is notified of the proposed sale or encumbrance under subd. 1. or 1m. the department notifies the cemetery authority in writing that the department objects to the sale or encumbrance proposed action, the cemetery authority may not sell or encumber the cemetery land take the action unless the department subsequently notifies the cemetery authority in writing that the objection is withdrawn.
4. The department may object to a sale or encumbrance an action under subd. 3. only if it determines that the cemetery authority will not be financially solvent or that the rights and interests of owners of cemetery lots and mausoleum burial spaces will not be adequately protected if the sale or encumbrance occurs action is taken. The department shall promulgate rules that establish requirements and procedures for making a determination under this subdivision.
5. The department may, before the expiration of the 60-day period under subd. 3., notify the cemetery authority in writing that the department approves of the sale or encumbrance action. Upon receipt of the department's written approval, the cemetery authority may sell or encumber the cemetery land take the action and is released of any liability under this paragraph.
6. The department shall make every effort to make determinations under this paragraph in an expeditious manner.
16,2852ft
Section 2852ft. 157.08 (2) (b) 1m. of the statutes is created to read:
157.08 (2) (b) 1m. Before a cemetery authority of a cemetery in a county with a population greater than 600,000 takes any of the following actions, the cemetery authority shall notify the department in writing:
a. Transfers ownership or control of 50% or more of the assets or stock of the cemetery.
b. Engages in a transaction that results in a person acquiring ownership or control of 50% or more of the stock of the cemetery.
c. Transfers responsibility for management or operation of the cemetery authority.
16,2852fu
Section 2852fu. 157.08 (2) (b) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
157.08 (2) (b) 2. The department shall promulgate rules that specify the documentation that must be submitted with a notification under subds. 1. and 1m.
16,2852fw
Section 2852fw. 157.08 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
157.08 (5) Subsections (1) and (2) (b) do not apply to a religious society organized under ch. 187, cemetery authority and sub. (2) (b) does not apply to a cemetery authority that is not required to be registered under s. 440.91 (1) and, that is not organized or conducted for pecuniary profit, and that does not operate a cemetery that is located in a county with a population greater than 600,000.
