Skip to content
Bills from the 2009–10 session

Assembly Bill 653

Prescriptions for antimicrobial drugs for treatment of chlamydial infections, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis

Topics: Drugs, Health Services, Department of: Health, Medical malpractice, Nurses, Pharmacy, Physician, Venereal disease

Stopped before the full Assembly voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Assembly never voted on it. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Jan 14, 2010

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Assembly vote, stopped here

    Stopped here. The full Assembly never voted on it.

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

Read the bill

Following saves it on this device. New actions show on your Following page. You can also get updates in a feed reader.

What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill allows a physician, physician assistant, or certified advanced practice nurse prescriber to provide expedited partner therapy. The bill defines "expedited partner therapy" as prescribing, dispensing, or furnishing to a patient an antimicrobial drug to be used by a sexual partner of the patient to treat a chlamydial infection, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis without physical examination of the sexual partner. The bill defines "antimicrobial drug" as a drug identified for the treatment of a chlamydial infection, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis in the most current guidelines for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Controlled substances are explicitly excluded from the definition of "antimicrobial drug." A prescription order for an antimicrobial drug prescribed as expedited partner therapy for the treatment of a chlamydial infection, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis must include the name and address of the patient's sexual partner, if known, or the words "expedited partner therapy" or "EPT" in bold-face capital letters.

Under the bill, the Department of Health Services must prepare an information sheet that includes information about sexually transmitted diseases and their treatment and about the risk of drug allergies.

Read the full summary

The bill permits a pharmacist to dispense an antimicrobial drug to a patient upon receipt of a prescription order from a practitioner providing expedited partner therapy. The bill exempts a physician, physician's assistant, or certified advanced practice nurse prescriber who provides expedited partner therapy from civil liability for injury to or the death of a patient's sexual partner unless an act or omission of the physician, physician's assistant, or certified advanced practice nurse prescriber involves reckless, wanton, or intentional misconduct. The bill also exempts a pharmacist who dispenses an antimicrobial drug for the treatment of a chlamydial infection, gonorrhea, or trichomoniasis from civil liability for injury to or the death of a patient's sexual partner unless an act or omission of the pharmacist involves reckless, wanton, or intentional misconduct.

Who's behind it

13 lawmakers are its ⁠. All 13 are Democrats.

6 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 19 names

Authors (13)

Signed on in support (6)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Assembly Committee on Health and Healthcare Reform vote to recommend it

Passed, 8 to 4 · Feb 5, 2010

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by committee on Health and Healthcare Reform, Ayes 8, Noes 4”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Apr 28, 2010

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. Feb 5, 2010

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  3. Feb 5, 2010

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 8 to 4.

  4. Jan 29, 2010

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  5. Jan 20, 2010

    The committee held a public hearing.

  6. Jan 19, 2010

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  7. Jan 14, 2010

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Health and Healthcare Reform.

  8. Jan 14, 2010

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Jan 14, 2010 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Pasch, Roys, Grigsby, Turner, Berceau, Hebl, Benedict, Seidel, Kessler, Bernard Schaber, Hilgenberg, Sinicki and Young;Cosponsored by Senators Robson, Lehman, Taylor, Miller, Lassa and Risser

  2. Jan 14, 2010 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Health and Healthcare Reform

  3. Jan 19, 2010 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 20, 2010 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Jan 29, 2010 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 3, 2010 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 5, 2010 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by committee on Health and Healthcare Reform, Ayes 8, Noes 4

  8. Feb 5, 2010 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

Terms on this page

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor. More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

More in the glossary

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate

More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

More in the glossary