2007 WISCONSIN ACT 106
An Act to repeal 343.175 (3) (b); to renumber 343.175 (3) (a); to amend 146.82 (2) (a) 19., 155.20 (8), 155.30 (1) (form), 230.35 (2d) (a) 2., 252.15 (2) (a) 1. and (am) 1. and 2. and (5) (a) 5., 343.17 (3) (b), 343.175 (1), 343.175 (1r), 343.175 (2) (title), 343.175 (2) (a), 343.175 (2) (ag), 343.50 (3), 343.50 (4m) (a), 343.50 (4m) (b) and 343.50 (8) (b); and to repeal and recreate 157.06 of the statutes; relating to: anatomical gifts, granting rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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3. 146.82 (2) (a) 19. of the statutes is amended to read:
146.82 (2) (a) 19. To an organ a procurement organization by a hospital pursuant to s. 157.06 (5) (b) 1, as defined in s. 157.06 (2) (p), for the purpose of conducting an examination to ensure the medical suitability of a body part that is or could be the subject of an anatomical gift under s. 157.06.
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4. 155.20 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
155.20 (8) A health care agent may make an anatomical gift under s. 157.06 (3) (a) 7. of all or a part of the principal's body after the principal's death unless the principal made an unrevoked refusal to make that anatomical gift as provided under s. 157.06 (4) (b) or (9) (a) 1.
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5. 155.30 (1) (form) of the statutes is amended to read:
155.30 (1) (form)
"NOTICE TO PERSON
MAKING THIS DOCUMENT
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH CARE. NO HEALTH CARE MAY BE GIVEN TO YOU OVER YOUR OBJECTION, AND NECESSARY HEALTH CARE MAY NOT BE STOPPED OR WITHHELD IF YOU OBJECT.
BECAUSE YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IN SOME CASES MAY NOT HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ESTABLISH A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU, THEY ARE OFTEN UNFAMILIAR WITH YOUR BELIEFS AND VALUES AND THE DETAILS OF YOUR FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS. THIS POSES A PROBLEM IF YOU BECOME PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY UNABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR HEALTH CARE.
IN ORDER TO AVOID THIS PROBLEM, YOU MAY SIGN THIS LEGAL DOCUMENT TO SPECIFY THE PERSON WHOM YOU WANT TO MAKE HEALTH CARE DECISIONS FOR YOU IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS PERSONALLY. THAT PERSON IS KNOWN AS YOUR HEALTH CARE AGENT. YOU SHOULD TAKE SOME TIME TO DISCUSS YOUR THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS ABOUT MEDICAL TREATMENT WITH THE PERSON OR PERSONS WHOM YOU HAVE SPECIFIED. YOU MAY STATE IN THIS DOCUMENT ANY TYPES OF HEALTH CARE THAT YOU DO OR DO NOT DESIRE, AND YOU MAY LIMIT THE AUTHORITY OF YOUR HEALTH CARE AGENT. IF YOUR HEALTH CARE AGENT IS UNAWARE OF YOUR DESIRES WITH RESPECT TO A PARTICULAR HEALTH CARE DECISION, HE OR SHE IS REQUIRED TO DETERMINE WHAT WOULD BE IN YOUR BEST INTERESTS IN MAKING THE DECISION.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DOCUMENT. IT GIVES YOUR AGENT BROAD POWERS TO MAKE HEALTH CARE DECISIONS FOR YOU. IT REVOKES ANY PRIOR POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE THAT YOU MAY HAVE MADE. IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE YOUR POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE, YOU MAY REVOKE THIS DOCUMENT AT ANY TIME BY DESTROYING IT, BY DIRECTING ANOTHER PERSON TO DESTROY IT IN YOUR PRESENCE, BY SIGNING A WRITTEN AND DATED STATEMENT OR BY STATING THAT IT IS REVOKED IN THE PRESENCE OF TWO WITNESSES. IF YOU REVOKE, YOU SHOULD NOTIFY YOUR AGENT, YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND ANY OTHER PERSON TO WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN A COPY. IF YOUR AGENT IS YOUR SPOUSE AND YOUR MARRIAGE IS ANNULLED OR YOU ARE DIVORCED AFTER SIGNING THIS DOCUMENT, THE DOCUMENT IS INVALID.
YOU MAY ALSO USE THIS DOCUMENT TO MAKE OR REFUSE TO MAKE AN ANATOMICAL GIFT UPON YOUR DEATH. IF YOU USE THIS DOCUMENT TO MAKE OR REFUSE TO MAKE AN ANATOMICAL GIFT, THIS DOCUMENT REVOKES ANY PRIOR DOCUMENT RECORD OF GIFT THAT YOU MAY HAVE MADE. YOU MAY REVOKE OR CHANGE ANY ANATOMICAL GIFT THAT YOU MAKE BY THIS DOCUMENT BY CROSSING OUT THE ANATOMICAL GIFTS PROVISION IN THIS DOCUMENT.
DO NOT SIGN THIS DOCUMENT UNLESS YOU CLEARLY UNDERSTAND IT.
IT IS SUGGESTED THAT YOU KEEP THE ORIGINAL OF THIS DOCUMENT ON FILE WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN."
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6. 157.06 of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
157.06 Anatomical gifts. (2) Definitions. In this section:
(a) "Agent" means a health care agent, as defined in s. 155.01 (4), or an individual who is expressly authorized in a record that is signed by a principal to make an anatomical gift of the principal's body or part.
(b) "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death, as determined in accordance with s. 146.71, for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education.
(c) "Decedent" means a deceased individual.
(d) "Disinterested witness" means a witness who is not any of the following:
1. The spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent, or guardian of the individual who makes, amends, revokes, or refuses to make an anatomical gift.
2. A person who exhibits special care and concern, except as a compensated health care provider, for the individual who makes, amends, revokes, or refuses to make an anatomical gift.
3. Any other person to whom the anatomical gift could pass under sub. (11).
(e) "Donor" means an individual whose body or part is the subject of an anatomical gift.
(f) "Donor registry" means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts.
(g) "Driver's license" means a license or permit to operate a vehicle, whether or not conditions are attached to the license or permit, that is issued by the department of transportation under ch. 343.
(h) "Eye bank" means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes.
(i) "Guardian" means a person appointed by a court to make decisions regarding the support, care, education, health, or welfare of an individual, and does not include a guardian ad litem.
(j) "Hospital" means a facility approved as a hospital under s. 50.35 or a facility operated as a hospital by the federal government, a state, or a political subdivision of a state.
(k) "Identification card" means an identification card issued by the department of transportation under s. 343.50.
(L) "Organ procurement organization" means a person designated by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as an organ procurement organization.
(m) "Parent" has the meaning given under s. 48.02 (13).
(n) "Part" means a vascularized organ, eye, or tissue of a human being. "Part" does not mean a whole human body.
(o) "Physician" means an individual authorized to practice medicine or osteopathy under the laws of any state.
(p) "Procurement organization" means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank.
(q) "Prospective donor" means an individual who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. An individual who has refused to make an anatomical gift as provided under sub. (7) is not a prospective donor.
(r) "Reasonably available" means able to be contacted by a procurement organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an anatomical gift.
(s) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form.
(t) "Record of gift" means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift, including a statement or symbol on a driver's license or identification card or in a donor registry.
(u) "Record of refusal" means a record created under sub. (7) that expressly states an intent to bar other persons from making an anatomical gift of an individual's body or part.
(v) "Sign" means to do any of the following with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
1. Execute or adopt a signature or tangible symbol.
2. Attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process.
(w) "Technician" means an individual determined to be qualified to remove or process parts by an appropriate organization that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law and includes an enucleator.
(x) "Tissue" means a portion of the human body other than a vascularized organ or eye and does not include blood unless the blood is donated for the purpose of research or education.
(y) "Tissue bank" means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue.
(z) "Transplant hospital" means a hospital that furnishes organ transplants and other medical and surgical specialty services required for the care of transplant patients.
(zm) "Vascularized organ" means a heart, lung, liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine, or other organ that requires the continuous circulation of blood to remain useful for purposes of transplantation.
(2m) Signing for a person who is physically unable. If an individual who is physically unable to sign a record under sub. (5) (a) 4. or (b) 1., (6) (a) 1., (b) 1., (c) 1., or (d) 1., or (7) (a) 1. or (b) 1. directs another to sign the record on his or her behalf, the signature of the other individual authenticates the record as long as all of the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) The signature of the other individual is witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.
(b) The witnesses sign the record at the request of the individual who is physically unable to sign.
(c) The record includes a statement that it was signed and witnessed at the request of the individual who is physically unable to sign.
(4) Who may make an anatomical gift before donor's death. Except as provided in subs. (7) and (8), any of the following may during the life of a donor make an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part in the manner provided in sub. (5):
