LRB-5626/1
KMS:skw/amn/wlj
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
January 19, 2024 - Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara, Felzkowski and
Nass, cosponsored by Representatives Goeben, Allen, Behnke, Brandtjen,
Dittrich, Edming, Maxey, Murphy, Rettinger, Sapik, Schutt and Wichgers.
Referred to Committee on Health.
SB933,1,4 1An Act to amend 157.06 (15) (a) (intro.), 157.06 (15) (a) 5. and 157.06 (15) (b);
2and to create 157.06 (2) (ze), 157.06 (15) (a) 4m. and 157.06 (16) of the statutes;
3relating to: prohibiting discrimination in organ transplantation and donation
4on the basis of an individual's vaccination status.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law prohibits hospitals and transplant hospitals from taking certain
actions related to organ transplantation solely on the basis of an individual's
disability. This bill expands these prohibitions to actions taken solely on the basis
of an individual's vaccination status. Under the bill, “vaccination status” means the
status of an individual having received or not received, for reasons of health, religion,
or personal conviction, one or more doses of a vaccine that 1) is authorized for
emergency use by the federal Food and Drug Administration, 2) operates through the
transfer of genetic material into humans, 3) has an annual dosing schedule, or 4) is
for the prevention of a disease against which the individual is protected, as shown
by an antibody titer. Specifically, the bill prohibits hospitals and transplant
hospitals from taking any of the following actions solely on the basis of an
individual's vaccination status: 1) considering the individual ineligible to receive an
anatomical gift; 2) denying the individual any services related to organ
transplantation; 3) refusing to refer the individual to a transplant hospital or an
organ transplant specialist to be evaluated for or receive an anatomical gift; 4)
refusing to place the individual on an organ transplant waiting list; and 5) placing
the individual on an organ transplant waiting list at a lower priority position than

the position at which the individual would have been placed if not for the individual's
vaccination status. The bill also prohibits hospitals and transplant hospitals from
removing an individual from an organ transplant waiting list solely on the basis of
the individual's vaccination status or disability. In addition, the bill prohibits the
denial of insurance coverage for any procedure associated with being evaluated for
or receiving an anatomical gift solely on the basis of an individual's vaccination
status. The bill allows an individual to bring an action in circuit court for taking any
of these actions in violation of the bill. Under the bill, the court must hold a hearing
within 30 days of the filing of the action.
In addition, the bill prohibits any person from discriminating against an
individual in any matter relating to donating or receiving an anatomical gift on the
basis of the individual's vaccination status.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SB933,1 1Section 1. 157.06 (2) (ze) of the statutes is created to read:
SB933,2,42 157.06 (2) (ze) “Vaccination status” means the status of an individual having
3received or not received, for reasons of health, religion, or personal conviction, one
4or more doses of a vaccine to which any of the following apply:
SB933,2,65 1. The vaccine is authorized for emergency use by the federal food and drug
6administration under 21 USC 360bbb-3.
SB933,2,77 2. The vaccine operates through the transfer of genetic material into humans.
SB933,2,88 3. The dosing schedule for the vaccine is annual.
SB933,2,119 4. The vaccine is for the prevention of a disease against which the individual
10has a sufficient concentration of antibodies in the individual's blood to confer
11protection, as shown by an antibody titer.
SB933,2 12Section 2. 157.06 (15) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB933,2,1513 157.06 (15) (a) (intro.) Except as provided in pars. (c) and (d), no hospital or
14transplant hospital may, solely on the basis of an individual's vaccination status or
15disability, do any of the following:
SB933,3
1Section 3. 157.06 (15) (a) 4m. of the statutes is created to read:
SB933,3,32 157.06 (15) (a) 4m. Remove the individual from an organ transplant waiting
3list.
SB933,4 4Section 4. 157.06 (15) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB933,3,115 157.06 (15) (a) 5. Place the individual on an organ transplant waiting list at
6a lower priority position than the position at which the individual would have been
7placed if not for the individual's vaccination status or if the individual did not have
8a disability, unless the individual is placed at a lower priority position because the
9individual's disability relates directly to the medical need of the individual to receive
10the organ transplant and the individual's relative placement on the waiting list is
11reflective of the individual's medical need for the organ transplant.
SB933,5 12Section 5. 157.06 (15) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB933,3,1613 157.06 (15) (b) No person may refuse an individual insurance coverage for any
14procedure associated with being evaluated for or receiving an anatomical gift,
15including posttransplantation and posttransfusion care, solely on the basis of the
16individual's vaccination status or physical or mental disability.
SB933,6 17Section 6. 157.06 (16) of the statutes is created to read:
SB933,3,2018 157.06 (16) Discrimination on basis of vaccination status prohibited. No
19person may discriminate against an individual in any matter relating to donating or
20receiving an anatomical gift on the basis of the individual's vaccination status.
SB933,3,2121 (End)
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