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Bills · January 2017 Special Session

AB 7

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Relating to: grants to establish and expand graduate training in an addiction specialty and making an appropriation. (FE)

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Generally, this bill expands graduate medical training in an addiction specialty.

The bill allows the Department of Health Services to award grants to hospitals under

an existing graduate medical training grant program to increase the number of

physicians trained in an addiction specialty. To receive a grant, a hospital must

expand fellowship positions in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry for

physicians practicing in specialties for which a hospital may currently receive a

grant. Those specialties are family medicine, general internal medicine, general

surgery, pediatrics, or psychiatry. Currently, DHS awards grants to hospitals to add

positions to their existing accredited graduate medical training program.

The bill also allows DHS to award a grant to a hospital for the development of

an addiction specialist training program under an existing grant program designed

to promote establishment of graduate medical training programs in rural hospitals.

To receive a grant under the bill, the hospital must create a fellowship program in

addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry for physicians in family medicine,

general internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, or psychiatry, which are the

specialties for which a rural hospital may currently receive a grant for establishing

a graduate medical training program.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

12 cosponsors

Barca (D) , Carpenter (D) , Cowles (R) , Darling (R) , Harsdorf (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Lasee (R) , Marklein (R) , Olsen (R) , Testin (R) , Vukmir (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Mar 21, 2017 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage, with emergency statement attached, pursuant to s.16.47 (2), Wisconsin Statutes, recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

Passed 16–0 Mar 30, 2017 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: SHALL THE DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND

Passed 63–34 Apr 4, 2017 official source full page

Aye · 63

Not voting · 2

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 97–0 Apr 4, 2017 official source full page

Aye · 97

Not voting · 2

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Health and Human Services, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Apr 26, 2017 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 33–0 May 2, 2017 official source full page

Full history

  1. Feb 17, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Committee on Assembly Organization, Nygren, VanderMeer, Tranel, Quinn, Novak, Ripp, Petryk, E. Brooks, Bernier, Spiros, Murphy, Ballweg, Felzkowski, Steffen, Skowronski, Swearingen, Kleefisch, Mursau, Kulp, Subeck, Vruwink, Fields, Sargent, Genrich, Tittl, Rohrkaste, Ohnstad, Billings, Zepnick, Sinicki, Doyle, Krug, Petersen, Tusler, Kolste, Jagler, Rodriguez, Born, Hutton and Wachs; cosponsored by Senators Marklein, Darling, Harsdorf, Vukmir, Olsen, Wanggaard, Testin, Cowles, Carpenter, L. Taylor and Lasee, by request of Governor Scott Walker

  2. Feb 17, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Feb 28, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 8, 2017 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Mar 15, 2017 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Mar 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  7. Mar 21, 2017 · Assembly

    Referred to joint committee on Finance

  8. Mar 27, 2017 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  9. Mar 27, 2017 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Joint Committee on Finance

  10. Mar 30, 2017 · Assembly

    Referred to calendar of 4-4-2017 pursuant to Assembly Rule 93

  11. Mar 30, 2017 · Assembly

    Report passage, with emergency statement attached, pursuant to s.16.47 (2), Wisconsin Statutes, recommended by Joint Committee on Finance, Ayes 16, Noes 0

  12. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Kolste, C. Taylor and Hesselbein

  14. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Point of order that Assembly Amendment 2 not germane under Assembly Rule 54 (3)(f) well taken

  15. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Decision of the Chair appealed

  16. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Decision of the Chair upheld, Ayes 63, Noes 34

  17. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  18. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  19. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0

  20. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Representative Barca added as a coauthor

  21. Apr 4, 2017 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  22. Apr 5, 2017 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  23. Apr 5, 2017 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Health and Human Services

  24. Apr 6, 2017 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  25. Apr 6, 2017 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  26. Apr 26, 2017 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Committee on Health and Human Services, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  27. Apr 26, 2017 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  28. Apr 28, 2017 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 5-2-2017 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  29. May 2, 2017 · Senate

    Read a second time

  30. May 2, 2017 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  31. May 2, 2017 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  32. May 2, 2017 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 33, Noes 0

  33. May 2, 2017 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  34. May 2, 2017 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  35. May 11, 2017 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 5-11-2017

  36. Jul 13, 2017 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 7-13-2017

  37. Jul 17, 2017 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 7-17-2017. 2017 Wisconsin Act 26

  38. Jul 17, 2017 · Assembly

    Published 7-18-2017