AB1071: Text as Enrolled

  Date of enactment:
2005 Assembly Bill 1071   Date of publication*:

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2003-04 : Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2005 WISCONSIN ACT

An Act to amend 893.56 of the statutes; relating to: the time limit for a person under the age of 18 to bring action against a health care provider.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB1071,1 Section 1. 893.56 of the statutes is amended to read:

893.56 Health care providers; minors actions. Any person under the age of 18, who is not under disability by reason of insanity, developmental disability or imprisonment, shall bring an action to recover damages for injuries to the person arising from any treatment or operation performed by, or for any omission by a health care provider within the time limitation under s. 893.55 or by the time that person reaches the age of 10 years, whichever is later. That action shall be brought by the parent, guardian or other person having custody of the minor within the time limit set forth in this section.

AB1071,2 Section 2. Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to actions accruing on the effective date of this subsection.