Wisconsin Legislature: Insurance

Prosperity Southwest Wisconsin provided a DOA grant for economic development; funds transferred from WEDC - AB764

Prosperity Southwest Wisconsin provided a DOA grant for economic development; funds transferred from WEDC - SB530

Purchasing preference from Wisconsin-based businesses: setting percentage goals for state agencies and local governments; DOA duties and local government annual performance evaluation - AB87

Purchasing preference from Wisconsin-based businesses: setting percentage goals for state agencies and local governments; DOA duties and local government annual performance evaluation - SB232

Research approved by an industry cluster partnership: income and franchise tax credit created for certain research expenses - AB757

Research approved by an industry cluster partnership: income and franchise tax credit created for certain research expenses - SB525

Room tax revenues: ``tourism promotion and tourism development” definition revised to include ``economic development”; municipality to certify to DOR amount spent on economic development - AB655

Room tax revenues: ``tourism promotion and tourism development” definition revised to include ``economic development”; municipality to certify to DOR amount spent on economic development - SB516

St. Croix Valley Business Incubator: WEDC grant to the River Valley Economic Development Corporation, federal moneys provision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 3977m] - SB21

Student loan assistance for critical industry sectors: HEAB to administer and Secretary of DWD and CEO of WEDC to identify the sectors in consultation with UW Board of Regents, Superintendent of Public Instruction, TCS Board, and local workforce investment boards; promotional materials to high schools provision - AB661

Student loan assistance for critical industry sectors: HEAB to administer and Secretary of DWD and CEO of WEDC to identify the sectors in consultation with UW Board of Regents, Superintendent of Public Instruction, TCS Board, and local workforce investment boards; promotional materials to high schools provision - SB491

TID revisions re maintenance of industrial zoning, planning commission notice for amendments, removing obsolete references, timing penalty, joint review board review period, and levy limit exception calculation - AB131

TID revisions re maintenance of industrial zoning, planning commission notice for amendments, removing obsolete references, timing penalty, joint review board review period, and levy limit exception calculation [S.Amdt.1: obsolete references deleted; S.Amdt.3: initial applicability] - SB50

TID revisions re political subdivisions required to convene a standing joint review board and annual report filed with DOR, duties specified; DOR review process re industry-specific town TID repealed - AB132

TID revisions re political subdivisions required to convene a standing joint review board and annual report filed with DOR, duties specified; DOR review process re industry-specific town TID repealed - SB51

WEDC unassigned balance policy established and submitted to JCF and JLAC; economic development grants awarded [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 3960g, 9150 (5d), (5dc)] - SB21

Wisconsin Next Generation Reserve Board created re grants and loans to and investment in Wisconsin bioscience companies; JCF and SWIB duties, report required - AB888

Homestead tax credit: indexing for inflation restored - AB85

Medical examiner, and medicolegal investigation staff members licensure by the Medicolegal Investigation Examining Board (MIEB) required, exceptions and license requirements; MIEB created in DSPS; reporting deaths revisions and failure to report penalty increased; jurisdiction to investigate death and notifications, autopsies and other diagnostic procedures; investigation records and handling of personal property; disposition of bodies; access to deceased's mental health treatment records - AB867

Medical examiner, and medicolegal investigation staff members licensure by the Medicolegal Investigation Examining Board (MIEB) required, exceptions and license requirements; MIEB created in DSPS; reporting deaths revisions and failure to report penalty increased; jurisdiction to investigate death and notifications, autopsies and other diagnostic procedures; investigation records and handling of personal property; disposition of bodies; access to deceased's mental health treatment records - SB712

Chiropractic treatment: OCI rule-making authority re independent dispute resolution process, emergency rules provision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 4590r, 9122 (1v)] - SB21

Health insurance rate changes: OCI, notification, public hearing, and Internet provisions - AB359

Health insurance rate changes: OCI, notification, public hearing, and Internet provisions - SB277

Income and franchise tax rate for corporations lowered - AB1020

Information insurers offering plans through an American health benefit exchange are required to provide to consumers - AB197

Information insurers offering plans through an American health benefit exchange are required to provide to consumers - SB138

Insurance statutes: miscellaneous changes - AB420

Insurance statutes: miscellaneous changes - SB287

Qualified financial contracts and certain agreements: staying or prevention of a person from exercising certain rights prohibited - AB668

Qualified financial contracts and certain agreements: staying or prevention of a person from exercising certain rights prohibited - SB537

Recovery from bone marrow or organ donation surgery included as a serious health condition under family and medical leave law; insurance discrimination prohibition - SB489

Structured settlement transfer procedure created [A.Amdt.1: further revisions] - AB129

Insurance statutes: miscellaneous changes - AB420

Insurance statutes: miscellaneous changes - SB287

Badger Health Benefit Authority created and must establish and operate a Wisconsin Health Benefit Exchange in this state - AB155

Badger Health Benefit Authority created and must establish and operate a Wisconsin Health Benefit Exchange in this state - SB107

Care management organizations: DHS may contract with a county or long-term care district to operate outside their geographic area; disposition of property and assets upon dissolution of a long-term care district; federal waiver and creation of nonstock, nonprofit corporation or service insurance corporation provisions; OCI duties - AB856

Care management organizations: DHS may contract with a county or long-term care district to operate outside their geographic area; disposition of property and assets upon dissolution of a long-term care district; federal waiver and creation of nonstock, nonprofit corporation or service insurance corporation provisions; OCI duties [S.Amdt.1: revisions and federal waiver provision removed] - SB687

Chiropractic services: health insurance policy prohibition against excluding, restricting, or denying coverage modified; timely access, annual report, penalty, and emergency rule provisions - AB809

Chiropractic services: health insurance policy prohibition against excluding, restricting, or denying coverage modified; timely access, annual report, penalty, and emergency rule provisions - SB650

Chiropractic treatment: OCI rule-making authority re independent dispute resolution process, emergency rules provision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 4590r, 9122 (1v)] - SB21

Health insurance mandate statute: definition modified and social and financial impact report by OCI requirements - AB543

Health insurance mandate statute: definition modified and social and financial impact report by OCI requirements - SB413

Health insurance rate changes: OCI, notification, public hearing, and Internet provisions - AB359

Health insurance rate changes: OCI, notification, public hearing, and Internet provisions - SB277

HIRSP appropriations repealed in 2015 WisAct 55: date of repeal extended - AB418

HIRSP appropriations repealed in 2015 WisAct 55: date of repeal extended - SB336

Insurance statutes: miscellaneous changes - AB420

Insurance statutes: miscellaneous changes - SB287

Out-of-state risk retention groups authorized to provide health care liability insurance [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 4583m, 4594g, m] - SB21

Worker's compensation: administrative functions transferred to OCI from DWD; adjudicatory functions transferred to DHA (disputed claims) and OCI (fees and treatment) from DWD; notices and recording testimony by electronic means provisions [for section numbers, see entry under ``Worker's compensation"] - AB21

Worker's compensation: administrative functions transferred to OCI from DWD; adjudicatory functions transferred to DHA (disputed claims) and OCI (fees and treatment) from DWD; notices and recording testimony by electronic means provisions [for section numbers and further revisions, see entry under ``Worker's compensation"] - SB21

BadgerCare Plus: three months of ineligibility for certain individuals eliminated [Sec. 1810-1813] - AB21

BadgerCare Plus: three months of ineligibility for certain individuals eliminated [Sec. 1810-1813] - SB21

Badger Health Benefit Authority created and must establish and operate a Wisconsin Health Benefit Exchange in this state - AB155

Badger Health Benefit Authority created and must establish and operate a Wisconsin Health Benefit Exchange in this state - SB107

BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core family income eligibility level changed; DHS to comply with federal requirements and request enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) payment; JCF provision - AB221

BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core family income eligibility level changed; DHS to comply with federal requirements and request enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) payment with JCF provision; criminal penalties re false statement on parental choice program application, concealing events to fraudulently participate, or unauthorized use of payments; DOJ and DA duties - AB855

BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core family income eligibility level changed; DHS to comply with federal requirements and request enhanced federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) payment; JCF provision - SB174

Chiropractic services: health insurance policy prohibition against excluding, restricting, or denying coverage modified; timely access, annual report, penalty, and emergency rule provisions - AB809

Chiropractic services: health insurance policy prohibition against excluding, restricting, or denying coverage modified; timely access, annual report, penalty, and emergency rule provisions - SB650

Chiropractic treatment: OCI rule-making authority re independent dispute resolution process, emergency rules provision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 4590r, 9122 (1v)] - SB21

Contraceptives: dispensing an extended supply required to be covered by health insurers - AB932

Contraceptives: dispensing an extended supply required to be covered by health insurers - SB724

Family and medical leave expanded to businesses with at least 25 employees, includes care for grandparent, grandchild, or sibling, and covered active duty provision; family and medical leave insurance program created in DWD, trust fund provision - AB516

Family and medical leave expanded to businesses with at least 25 employees, includes care for grandparent, grandchild, or sibling, and covered active duty provision; family and medical leave insurance program created in DWD, trust fund provision - SB385

Family income eligibility level modified for BadgerCare Plus and BadgerCare Plus Core; DHS required to comply with federal requirements and make necessary changes to qualify for enhanced federal MA percentage (or FMAP); private schools participating in parental choice programs revisions re family income limit, per pupil payment, instructional staff license or permit, background checks, reading readiness assessments, high school diploma criteria, corporal punishment, expulsion, building inspections, school data and pupil records, school must be located in this state and in operation for two years, and meetings between school's governing board and pupils, prospective pupils, and their parents - AB854

Health insurance mandate statute: definition modified and social and financial impact report by OCI requirements - AB543

Health insurance mandate statute: definition modified and social and financial impact report by OCI requirements - SB413

Health insurance rate changes: OCI, notification, public hearing, and Internet provisions - AB359

Health insurance rate changes: OCI, notification, public hearing, and Internet provisions - SB277

Health: patient rights to medically accurate information; Office of Advancement in Medical Knowledge and Care created; hospital offering maternity care services required to permit all standard reproductive health care services in its capacity and honor stated conscientious beliefs of certain health care providers; abortion laws revised; employment retribution and unfair discrimination prohibitions; DHS to establish an Implementation Health Care Task Force, report required; prohibited acts against health care patient or provider, penalties and civil actions provisions; health care liability insurance policy requirements; Comprehensive Women’s Health Research Council created - AB880

Health: patient rights to medically accurate information; Office of Advancement in Medical Knowledge and Care created; hospital offering maternity care services required to permit all standard reproductive health care services in its capacity and honor stated conscientious beliefs of certain health care providers; abortion laws revised; employment retribution and unfair discrimination prohibitions; DHS to establish an Implementation Health Care Task Force, report required; prohibited acts against health care patient or provider, penalties and civil actions provisions; health care liability insurance policy requirements; Comprehensive Women’s Health Research Council created - SB653

Infertility diagnosis and treatment: health insurance coverage required - AB989