Senate Record of Committee Proceedings Committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs Senate Bill 139 Relating to: priorities, completion guidelines, and notices required for health care professional disciplinary cases; identification of health care professionals in possible need of investigation; additional public members for the medical examining board; authority of the medical examining board to limit credentials and impose forfeitures; reporting requirements for reports submitted to the national practitioner data bank; inclusion of health care professionals who practice alternative forms of health care on panels of health care experts established by the department of regulation and licensing; indication of therapeutic-related deaths on certificates of death; and providing a penalty. Joint Legislative Council. April 11, 2001 Referred to Committee on Health, Utilities, Veterans and Military Affairs. October 17, 2001
PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Present: (9) Senators Moen, Breske, Robson, Erpenbach, M. Meyer, Rosenzweig, Cowles, S. Fitzgerald and Lazich.
Absent: (0) None.
Appearances for
· Senator Joanne Huelsman, 11th District
· Patrick Braatz, Dept. of Regulation and Licensing
· Dr. Darold Treffert, Medical Examining Board
· Dr. Calvin Bruce, SMS
· Maureen O'Brien, SMS
Appearances against
· None.
Appearances for Information Only
· None.
Registrations for
· Louis Schubert, WI Assn. of Health Plans
Registrations against
· None.
March 15, 2002
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.