AB 679

This bill eliminates certain references to the Department of Administration in

the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program. Under current law, certain

individuals may serve as volunteer health care providers by providing services

through a nonprofit agency or for a school board or school governing body while

receiving no income from the practice of his or her health profession. A volunteer

health care provider under the program is an agent of the state for purposes of

litigation.

2013 Wisconsin Act 344

added additional types of providers who may

participate in the Volunteer Health Care Provider Program, added certain

requirements on nonprofit agencies overseeing volunteer health care providers, and

changed the administration of the program from DOA to the Department of Health

Services among other changes.

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.