AB298,12,99 Address: ....
AB298,12,1010 Signature: ....
AB298,12,1111 Witness No. 2:
AB298,12,1212 (print) Name: ....
AB298,12,1313 Address: ....
AB298,12,1414 Signature: ....
AB298,12,1515 Witness No. 3:
AB298,12,1616 (print) Name: ....
AB298,12,1717 Address: ....
AB298,12,1818 Signature: ....
AB298,12,2219 If the requester is a patient in a health care facility, at least one of the above
20witnesses must be a patients' advocate designated by the board on aging and
21long-term care. A patients' advocate who is a witness should print "patients'
22advocate" after the printing of his or her name above.
AB298,12,24 23156.17 Revocation of request for medication. (1) A requester may revoke
24his or her request for medication at any time by doing any of the following:
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1(a) Canceling, defacing, obliterating, burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying
2the request for medication or directing another in the presence of the requester to
3destroy, in the same manner, the request for medication.
AB298,13,54 (b) Executing a statement, in writing, that is signed and dated by the requester,
5expressing the requester's intent to revoke the request for medication.
AB298,13,76 (c) Orally expressing the requester's intent to revoke the request for
7medication, in the presence of 2 witnesses.
AB298,13,88 (d) Making a subsequent request for medication.
AB298,13,12 9(2) The requester's health care provider shall, upon notification of revocation
10of the requester's request for medication, record in the requester's medical record the
11time, date, and place of the revocation and the time, date, and place, if different, of
12the notification to the health care provider of the revocation.
AB298,13,19 13156.19 Designation of patients' advocates. The board on aging and
14long-term care shall designate staff of the long-term care ombudsman program as
15patients' advocates. A person so designated shall serve as a witness to a request for
16medication of a requester who is a patient or resident of a nursing home or
17community-based residential facility, as required under s. 156.05 (2) (b), and shall
18speak on behalf of the requester to ensure that his or her needs or wants are
19communicated to and addressed by his or her attending physician.
AB298,13,22 20156.21 Duties and immunities. (1) No health care facility or health care
21provider may be charged with a crime, held civilly liable, or charged with
22unprofessional conduct for any of the following:
AB298,14,223 (a) Failing to fulfill a request for medication, except that failure of an attending
24physician to fulfill a request for medication constitutes unprofessional conduct if the
25attending physician refuses or fails to make a good faith attempt to transfer the

1requester's care and treatment to another physician who will act as attending
2physician under this chapter and fulfill the request for medication.
AB298,14,43 (b) In the absence of actual knowledge of a revocation, fulfilling a request for
4medication that is in compliance with this chapter.
AB298,14,75 (c) Acting contrary to or failing to act on a revocation of a request for medication,
6unless the health care facility or health care provider has actual knowledge of the
7revocation.
AB298,14,12 8(2) In the absence of actual notice to the contrary, a health care facility or a
9health care provider, other than a physician acting as the requester's attending
10physician under this chapter, may presume that a requester was authorized to make
11his or her request for medication under the requirements of this chapter and that the
12request for medication is valid.
AB298,14,15 13(3) (a) No person who acts in good faith as a witness to a request for medication
14under this chapter may be held civilly or criminally liable for a death that results
15from taking medication under a fulfilled request for medication under this chapter.
AB298,14,1716 (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to a person who acts as a witness in violation
17of s. 156.05 (2) (a).
AB298,14,21 18156.23 General provisions. (1) (a) The making of a request for medication
19under this chapter does not, for any purpose, constitute attempted suicide. Taking
20medication under a fulfilled request for medication under this chapter does not, for
21any purpose, constitute suicide.
AB298,14,2422 (b) Paragraph (a) does not prohibit an insurer from making a determination
23that a requester has attempted suicide or committed suicide if the requester has so
24acted, apart from the request for medication.
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1(2) The making of a request for medication under this chapter does not revoke
2or otherwise modify a power of attorney for health care or living will that the
3requester may have executed.
AB298,15,7 4(3) No individual may be required to make a request for medication as a
5condition for receipt of health care or admission to a health care facility. The making
6of a request for medication is not a bar to the receipt of health care or the admission
7to a health care facility.
AB298,15,9 8(4) A request for medication that has not been revoked and that is in its original
9form or is a legible photocopy or electronic facsimile copy is presumed to be valid.
AB298,15,13 10(5) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to condone, authorize, approve,
11or permit any affirmative or deliberate act to end life other than through taking
12medication that is prescribed under a request for medication as provided in this
13chapter.
AB298,15,17 14156.25 Record review. The department shall annually examine a sampling
15of patient health care records of requesters for whom medication was prescribed in
16fulfillment of a request for medication and about whom the department has received
17information under s. 156.07 (8) (g).
AB298,15,21 18156.27 Penalties. (1) Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces,
19obliterates, or damages the request for medication of another without the requester's
20consent may be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days
21or both.
AB298,16,2 22(2) Any person who, with the intent to cause a requester to take medication that
23is prescribed under a request for medication contrary to the wishes of the requester,
24illegally falsifies or forges the request for medication of another or conceals a

1revocation under s. 156.17 (1) (a), (b), or (c) shall be fined not more than $10,000 or
2imprisoned for not more than 10 years or both.
AB298,16,7 3(3) Any responsible person who, with the intent to cause a requester to take
4medication that is prescribed under a request for medication contrary to the wishes
5of the requester, conceals personal knowledge of a revocation under s. 156.17 shall
6be fined not more than $10,000 or, except for a health care facility, imprisoned for not
7more than 10 years or both.
AB298, s. 4 8Section 4. 979.01 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB298,16,159 979.01 (1) (intro.) All Except as provided in sub. (1j), all physicians, authorities
10of hospitals, sanatoriums, public and private institutions, convalescent homes,
11authorities of any institution of a like nature, and other persons having knowledge
12of the death of any person who has died under any of the following circumstances,
13shall immediately report the death to the sheriff, police chief, or and medical
14examiner or coroner of the county and to the police chief of any community where the
15death took place:
AB298, s. 5 16Section 5. 979.01 (1g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB298,16,2117 979.01 (1g) A sheriff or police chief shall, immediately upon notification of a
18death under sub. (1), notify the coroner or the medical examiner, and the coroner or
19medical examiner of the county where death took place
, if the crime, injury, or event
20occurred in another county, shall immediately report the death to the coroner or
21medical examiner of that county.
AB298, s. 6 22Section 6. 979.01 (1j) of the statutes is created to read:
AB298,16,2523 979.01 (1j) Subsection (1) does not apply to a death that results from taking
24medication under a fulfilled request for medication that meets the requirements of
25ch. 156.
AB298, s. 7
1Section 7. 979.01 (1r) of the statutes is repealed.
AB298,17,22 (End)
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