SB43: 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 43   Date of publication*:

2025 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to amend 69.01 (6g); to create 69.01 (1g) and 69.18 (1) (cL) of the statutes; relating to: allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records.

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

SB43,1 Section 1. 69.01 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:

69.01 (1g) “Advanced practice nurse prescriber” means an advanced practice nurse who is certified under s. 441.16 (2) to issue prescription orders.

SB43,2 Section 2. 69.01 (6g) of the statutes is amended to read:

69.01 (6g) “Date of death” means the date that a person is pronounced dead by a physician, naturopathic doctor, coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner, deputy medical examiner, physician assistant, advanced practice nurse prescriber, or hospice nurse.

SB43,3 Section 3. 69.18 (1) (cL) of the statutes is created to read:

69.18 (1) (cL) Except as provided in par. (cm), for purposes of preparation of the death record and in accordance with accepted medical standards, an advanced practice nurse prescriber who is directly involved with the care of a patient who dies may pronounce the date, time, and place of the patient’s death.