AB530,24,63 (d) If an individual is issued an initial license under sub. (2) (a) when there is
4less than one year remaining until the next license renewal date, par. (a) does not
5apply to the individual until the individual's first renewal following a full, 4-year
6licensure term.
AB530,24,9 7(4) Optional license. (a) Initial license. The board may issue a license in
8medicolegal investigation to an individual, other than an individual required to hold
9a license under sub. (1), who satisfies all of the following criteria:
AB530,24,1110 1. The individual successfully completes 40 hours of training, as prescribed by
11the board, and any additional requirements set by the board.
AB530,24,1312 2. The individual applies to the board for a license in the manner prescribed
13by the board.
AB530,24,1514 3. The individual pays any licensing fee imposed by the board under s. 463.05
15(2) (a).
AB530,24,1816 (b) License renewal. The renewal date for a license issued under this subsection
17is specified under s. 440.08 (2) (a). Before any renewal license is delivered to an
18individual, the individual shall do all of the following:
AB530,24,1919 1. Pay any fee established by the board under s. 463.05 (2) (a).
AB530,24,2420 2. Furnish to the board proof of completing, in the 4-year period preceding the
21renewal date, 24 hours of education, as prescribed by the board. This subdivision
22does not apply to an individual applying for an initial renewal who is issued a license
23under par. (a) when there is less than one year remaining until the next license
24renewal date.
AB530,24,2525 3. Fulfill any other requirements of licensure as prescribed by the board.
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1(5) Board notification requirement. An individual who is elected as a coroner,
2is appointed to fill a vacancy as a coroner, is appointed as a nonphysician medical
3examiner, or is hired by a coroner or medical examiner to serve as a medicolegal
4investigation staff member shall, if he or she leaves his or her position as a coroner,
5medical examiner, or medicolegal investigation staff member, so inform the board.
AB530,25,7 6463.15 Penalty. Any person who violates s. 463.10 (1) (a) shall be fined not
7more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 90 days.
AB530,41 8Section 41. 979.001 of the statutes is created to read:
AB530,25,9 9979.001 Definitions. In this chapter:
AB530,25,10 10(1) "Health care provider" means all of the following:
AB530,25,1111 (a) A midwife licensed under subch. XIII of ch. 440.
AB530,25,1212 (b) A nurse licensed under ch. 441.
AB530,25,1313 (c) A chiropractor licensed under ch. 446.
AB530,25,1414 (d) A dentist licensed under ch. 447.
AB530,25,1615 (e) A physician, physician assistant, or respiratory care practitioner licensed
16or certified under subch. II of ch. 448.
AB530,25,1717 (f) A physical therapist licensed under subch. III of ch. 448.
AB530,25,1818 (g) A podiatrist licensed under subch. IV of ch. 448.
AB530,25,1919 (h) A dietitian certified under subch. V of ch. 448.
AB530,25,2020 (i) An athletic trainer licensed under subch. VI of ch. 448.
AB530,25,2221 (j) An occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant licensed under
22subch. VII of ch. 448.
AB530,25,2323 (k) An optometrist licensed under ch. 449.
AB530,25,2424 (L) A pharmacist licensed under ch. 450.
AB530,25,2525 (m) An acupuncturist certified under ch. 451.
AB530,26,1
1(n) A psychologist licensed under ch. 455.
AB530,26,32 (o) A social worker, marriage and family therapist, or professional counselor
3certified or licensed under ch. 457.
AB530,26,64 (p) A speech-language pathologist or audiologist licensed under subch. II of ch.
5459 or a speech and language pathologist licensed by the department of public
6instruction.
AB530,26,77 (q) A massage therapist or bodyworker certified under ch. 460.
AB530,26,9 8(2) "Hospice" means an organization, program, or place that meets the
9definition in s. 50.90 (1) and that is licensed under s. 50.92.
AB530,26,11 10(3) "Hospital" means a facility licensed under s. 50.35 or a facility operated as
11a hospital by the federal government, a state, or a political subdivision of a state.
AB530,26,12 12(4) "Human remains" has the meaning given in s. 157.061 (8).
AB530,26,13 13(5) "Law enforcement agency" has the meaning given in s. 165.83 (1) (b).
AB530,26,17 14(6) "Law enforcement officer" means any person employed by the state, or any
15political subdivision of the state, for the purpose of detecting and preventing crime
16and enforcing laws or ordinances and who is authorized to make arrests for violations
17of the laws or ordinances that the person is employed to enforce.
AB530,26,19 18(7) "Nursing home" means a facility that meets the definition in s. 50.01 (3) and
19that is licensed under subch. I of ch. 50.
AB530,26,22 20(8) "Representative of the deceased" means any member of one of the following
21classes of individuals, in the order of priority listed, who is available, if no member
22of a prior class is available:
AB530,26,2323 (a) The deceased's spouse.
AB530,26,2424 (b) An adult son or daughter of the deceased.
AB530,26,2525 (c) A parent of the deceased.
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1(d) An adult brother or sister of the deceased.
AB530,27,22 (e) A person appointed as such by the circuit court.
AB530,42 3Section 42. 979.01 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB530,27,5 4979.01 (title) Reporting deaths required; penalty; taking specimens by
5coroner or medical examiner
jurisdiction for investigating deaths.
AB530,43 6Section 43. 979.01 (1) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB530,27,177 979.01 (1) (a) If a death occurs outside of a hospital, physician's office, nursing
8home, or hospice, and is not required to be reported under par. (b) or (c), a law
9enforcement officer, health care provider, or funeral director who has knowledge of
10the death and any person who discovers the body or remains of a deceased individual
11shall immediately report the death to the coroner or medical examiner in the county
12in which the individual was pronounced dead or in which the deceased's body or
13remains were located except that a person who is required to report a death because
14he or she discovered a body or the remains of a deceased individual may report the
15death to a law enforcement officer in lieu of reporting the death to the coroner or
16medical examiner. Deaths that are required to be reported under this paragraph
17include all of the following:
AB530,27,1818 1. A death that involves unexplained, unusual, or suspicious circumstances.
AB530,27,1919 2. A death that the person has reason to believe is the result of a homicide.
AB530,27,2020 3. A death that the person has reason to believe is the result of a suicide.
AB530,27,2221 4. A death of a woman that is associated with an abortion, as defined in s. 253.10
22(2) (a).
AB530,28,223 5. A death, if the person has reason to believe that an injury or poisoning was
24a contributing cause of the death, whether or not the person has reason to believe

1that the injury or poisoning was the primary cause of the death and regardless of the
2interval between the injury or poisoning and the death.
AB530,28,43 6. A death that occurred when the individual was not under the care of a
4physician for the illness or condition that caused the death.
AB530,28,85 7. A death, if after reasonable efforts, a physician cannot within 6 days after
6the pronouncement of death, or sooner under circumstances that the coroner or
7medical examiner determines to be an emergency, be obtained to sign the medical
8certification as required under s. 69.18 (2) (b) or (c).
AB530,28,119 8. A death that the person has reason to believe is associated with the abuse
10of a chemical substance that may be legally used or with the use of a controlled
11substance, as defined in s. 961.01 (4).
AB530,28,1512 9. A death that the person has reason to believe is associated with an epidemic
13or pandemic, with the spread of a dangerous communicable disease, as defined by the
14department of health services, or with a disease-causing agent that may pose a
15threat to public health.
AB530,28,1816 (b) A law enforcement officer shall immediately report to the coroner or medical
17examiner in the county in which an individual was pronounced dead all of the
18following:
AB530,28,2019 1. A death that occurs while an individual is in the actual or constructive
20custody of a law enforcement officer.
AB530,28,2221 2. A death of an individual that occurs during the pursuit of the individual by
22a law enforcement officer or otherwise involves a law enforcement officer.
AB530,29,223 3. A death that occurs while the individual is confined in a federal prison in this
24state, a state prison, county jail or house of correction, a juvenile correctional facility,
25as defined in s. 938.02 (10p), or a juvenile detention facility, as defined in s. 938.02

1(10r), or is otherwise incarcerated in the custody of the department or of a county
2sheriff.
AB530,29,63 (c) A facility where a deceased individual was being detained or
4institutionalized under s. 51.20, 971.14, or 971.17 or ch. 980 at the time of his or her
5death shall immediately report the death to the coroner or medical examiner in the
6county where the facility is located.
AB530,29,97 (d) A health care provider shall immediately report a death that occurs in a
8physician's office, as defined in s. 460.01 (5), to the coroner or medical examiner in
9the county in which the physician's office is located.
AB530,29,1210 (e) A hospital shall immediately report to the coroner or medical examiner in
11the county in which the hospital is located a death that occurs at the hospital and
12satisfies any of the following conditions:
AB530,29,1313 1. The death occurred in the emergency department of the hospital.
AB530,29,1614 2. The death was not the result of a natural disease process. For purposes of
15this subdivision, deaths described in par. (a) 1. to 5., 8., and 9. are not considered to
16be the result of a natural disease process.
AB530,29,2117 (f) A nursing home shall immediately report to the coroner or medical examiner
18in the county in which the nursing home is located a death that occurs at the nursing
19home and that the nursing home has reason to believe was not the result of a natural
20disease process. For purposes of this paragraph, deaths described in par. (a) 1. to 5.,
218., and 9. are not considered to be the result of a natural disease process.
AB530,29,2422 (g) 1. A hospice shall report a death that occurred while an individual was
23receiving care from the hospice in accordance with the written policy created under
24subd. 2. that applies to the county in which the death occurred.
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12. A coroner or medical examiner shall create and distribute to each hospice
2that operates in the county under his or her jurisdiction a written policy that
3describes the circumstances under which a hospice must report to the coroner or
4medical examiner a death that occurs while an individual is receiving care from the
5hospice.
AB530,44 6Section 44. 979.01 (1d) of the statutes is created to read:
AB530,30,97 979.01 (1d) Notwithstanding sub. (1), no person specified in sub. (1) need
8report a death under sub. (1) if that person knows that another person specified in
9sub. (1) has already reported the death to a coroner or medical examiner.
AB530,45 10Section 45. 979.01 (1g) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
AB530,30,1311 979.01 (1g) If a law enforcement officer is notified under sub. (1) or s. 948.23
12(1) (b) of a death, the law enforcement officer shall immediately notify the coroner
13or medical examiner in the county in which the body or human remains were located.
AB530,46 14Section 46. 979.01 (1i) of the statutes is created to read:
AB530,30,1915 979.01 (1i) If a coroner or medical examiner is notified of a death under sub.
16(1) and determines that the death was caused by a crime, injury, trauma, or other
17event in a county other than the county in which the death was reported, the coroner
18or medical examiner shall notify the coroner or medical examiner in the county in
19which the crime, injury, trauma, or other event is believed to have occurred.
AB530,47 20Section 47. 979.01 (1k) of the statutes is created to read:
AB530,30,2521 979.01 (1k) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), if a death must be reported under
22sub. (1), the coroner or medical examiner in the county in which the crime, injury,
23trauma, or other event that caused the death occurred has jurisdiction to investigate
24the cause and manner of death including access to a death investigation scene and
25specimens necessary for death investigation.
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1(b) If there is reason to believe that a death that must be reported under sub.
2(1) was caused by a crime, injury, trauma, or other event that occurred outside this
3state, or if after reasonable efforts it cannot be determined where the crime, injury,
4trauma, or other event that caused the death occurred, the coroner or medical
5examiner in the county in which death is pronounced has jurisdiction to investigate
6the cause and manner of death.
AB530,48 7Section 48. 979.01 (1m) of the statutes is renumbered 979.01 (1m) (a) and
8amended to read:
AB530,31,139 979.01 (1m) (a) The Except as provided in par. (b), the coroner or medical
10examiner receiving notification under sub. (1) or (1g) who has jurisdiction to
11investigate a death under this section
shall immediately, within a reasonable time
12after receiving notice of the death,
notify the district attorney for his or her county
13of the death
.
AB530,49 14Section 49. 979.01 (1m) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
AB530,31,1715 979.01 (1m) (b) Except as provided in s. 979.04 (2), the coroner or medical
16examiner is not required to notify the district attorney of any deaths for which the
17district attorney, in writing, waives notice.
AB530,50 18Section 50. 979.01 (1p) of the statutes is created to read:
AB530,31,2019 979.01 (1p) A coroner or medical examiner who receives notice of a death under
20sub. (1), or his or her designee, shall notify the deceased's next of kin of the death.
AB530,51 21Section 51. 979.01 (1r) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB530,32,222 979.01 (1r) If the coroner or medical examiner is notified of a death under sub.
23(1) or (1g) and determines that his or her notification of the death was not required
24under sub. (1) or (1g),
the discovery of human remains under this section and

1determines that the human remains have no forensic significance,
he or she shall
2notify the director of the historical society under s. 157.70 (3).
AB530,52 3Section 52. 979.01 (2) of the statutes is renumbered 979.01 (2) (a) and
4amended to read:
AB530,32,75 979.01 (2) (a) Unless s. 948.23 (1) (b) applies and except as provided in par. (b),
6any person who violates this section shall sub. (1) may be fined not more than $1,000
7or imprisoned not more than 90 days or both.
AB530,53 8Section 53. 979.01 (2) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
AB530,32,109 979.01 (2) (b) Any partnership, association, organization, institution, or body
10politic or corporate that violates sub. (1) may be fined not more than $10,000.
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