SB14: Text as Enrolled

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: 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.”

  Date of enactment:
2025 Senate Bill 14   Date of publication*:

2025 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to create 50.373 of the statutes; relating to: pelvic exams on unconscious patients.

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

SB14,1 Section 1. 50.373 of the statutes is created to read:

50.373 Informed consent for pelvic examinations. (1) A hospital shall ensure that, before a pelvic examination is performed solely for educational purposes on a patient while the patient is under general anesthesia or otherwise unconscious, written informed consent is obtained from the patient.

(2) A hospital shall maintain written policies and procedures requiring written informed consent to be obtained from a patient before a pelvic examination is performed solely for educational purposes on the patient while the patient is under general anesthesia or otherwise unconscious.