Volunteer health care provider program, changing reference to residential treatment programs, and eliminating a grammatical error in the Well-Woman Program provision on specialized training for rural colposcopic examinations (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services)

2013 Wisconsin Act 241 allowed certain out-of-state health care providers to participate in the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program, provided certain liability exemptions for those providers having insurance coverage, and added the identical requirements on nonprofit agencies overseeing volunteer health care providers.

2013 Wisconsin Act 241 , however, did not change the agency administering the program from DOA to DHS. The bill eliminates the references to DOA as the administering agency of the program that were included in 2013 Wisconsin Act 241 thus specifying that the program is administered by DHS.

This bill changes the reference from licensed residential programs to certified residential programs as a type of treatment program to which an individual who is in an opioid treatment program may be referred.

This bill eliminates a grammatical error in the Well-Woman Program statute relating to specialized training for rural colposcopic examinations and activities.

Under current law, the title for the statute relating to specialized training for rural colposcopic examinations and activities in the Well-Woman Program improperly contains two prepositions, "to" and "for." This bill corrects the error by removing the extraneous preposition "to" from the title.

For further information, see the Notes provided by the Law Revision Committee of the Joint Legislative Council.