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Bills · January 2017 Special Session

SB 7

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

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

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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

40 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Bernier (R) , Billings (D) , Born (R) , Doyle (D) , E. Brooks (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Fields (D) , Genrich (D) , Hutton (R) , Jagler (R) , Kleefisch (R) , Kolste (D) , Krug (R) , Kulp (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Novak (R) , Nygren (R) , Ohnstad (D) , Petersen (R) , Petryk (R) , Quinn (R) , Ripp (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Rohrkaste (R) , Sargent (D) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Subeck (D) , Swearingen (R) , Tittl (R) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , VanderMeer (R) , Vruwink (D) , Wachs (D) , Zepnick (D)

Full history

  1. Feb 21, 2017 · Senate

    Introduced by Committee on Senate Organization, Marklein, Darling, Harsdorf, Vukmir, Olsen, Wanggaard, Testin, Cowles, Carpenter, L. Taylor and Lasee; cosponsored by Representatives 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, by request of Governor Scott Walker

  2. Feb 21, 2017 · Senate

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

  3. Mar 15, 2017 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 6, 2017 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Jul 7, 2017 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1