Amendment AA1-AB201

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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1, TO 2005 ASSEMBLY BILL 201

May 12, 2005 - Offered by Representative Van Roy.

AB201-AA1,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

AB201-AA1,1,3 1. Page 2, line 14: delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 3, line 12, and substitute:

AB201-AA1,2,13 "59.34 (2) (b) 1. No person serving as a coroner under sub. (1) or medical examiner, or deputy coroner or medical examiner's assistant, who also serves as a volunteer an emergency medical technician, volunteer first responder, or a volunteer fire fighter may participate as a coroner or medical examiner, or deputy coroner or medical examiner's assistant, in any case in which he or she may be required to participate as a volunteer an emergency medical technician, volunteer first responder, or a volunteer fire fighter. If an apparent or actual conflict of interest arises between the person's duties as coroner or medical examiner and as volunteer emergency medical technician, volunteer first responder , or volunteer fire fighter, the deputy coroner or medical examiner's assistant shall act as coroner or medical examiner in the case in which the conflict exists. If an apparent or actual conflict of interest arises between the person's duties as deputy coroner or medical examiner's assistant and as emergency medical technician, first responder, or fire fighter, a coroner or another deputy coroner, or a medical examiner or another medical examiner's assistant shall act as coroner or medical examiner in the case in which the conflict exists. If there is no coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner, or medical examiner's assistant available who may act without an apparent or actual conflict of interest, the coroner or medical examiner shall request that the coroner, medical examiner, deputy coroner, or a medical examiner's assistant in a nearby another county act as coroner or medical examiner in the case in which the conflict exists. Any fees owed to or expenses incurred by the acting coroner or medical examiner from the nearby other county shall be paid by the county that requested the acting coroner's or medical examiner's services.".

AB201-AA1,2,14 2. Page 3, line 16: after that line insert:

AB201-AA1,2,15 " Section 6m. 59.38 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB201-AA1,3,7 59.38 (1) Medical examiner, assistants; salaries; fees; report. The medical examiner and medical examiner's assistants authorized by the board shall be paid semimonthly out of the county treasury of the proper county, for the performance of all their official duties and in lieu of all other compensation, salaries to be fixed by the board. The medical examiner and medical examiner's assistants shall collect for all services performed, except in cases where the county is solely liable, all fees that coroners are by law entitled to receive, and shall keep accurate books of account in which shall be entered from day to day the items of services rendered, the titles of the proceedings in which and the names of the persons for whom rendered, and the fees charged and received, and shall, at the end of every 3 months, render to the board and to the treasurer an accurate report or statement, verified by his or her oath, of all fees and income collected by them or for them during the 3 months; and at the same time they shall pay to the treasurer all fees and incomes collected by them, or which they were entitled by law to charge or receive, not paid to the treasurer. The medical examiner or a medical examiner's assistant shall act as coroner in a nearby another county when requested to do so under s. 59.34 (2) (b).".

AB201-AA1,3,8 (End)