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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 103

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Relating to: reimbursement of wheelchairs and power mobility devices for recipients of Medical Assistance who reside in a nursing home. (FE)

Health services department of — Supportive living and treatment Medical service Nursing homes and adult care Persons with disabilities

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Health Services is required to

promulgate rules that establish which medical supplies and equipment are covered

by Medical Assistance and under what conditions they will be reimbursed. This bill

establishes more circumstances under which DHS reimburses a provider for a

complex rehabilitation technology prescribed for a recipient of Medical Assistance

who resides in a nursing home. Specifically, the bill requires DHS to reimburse a

provider for complex rehabilitation technology that is provided to a recipient of

Medical Assistance who is a resident of a nursing home when the complex

rehabilitation technology will do any of the following:

1. Contribute to the recipient's independent completion of activities of daily

living.

2. Support the recipient's vocational, occupational, and psychosocial activities.

3. Provide the recipient the independent ability to move about the nursing

home, or to attain or retain self-care.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Cowles (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Testin (R) , Wanggaard (R)

16 cosponsors

Brandtjen (R) , Cabrera (D) , Carpenter (D) , Dittrich (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , Jagler (R) , Moses (R) , Rozar (R) , Sinicki (D) , Skowronski (R) , Spiros (R) , Steffen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Tittl (R) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 4, Noes 0

Passed 4–0 Apr 7, 2021 official source full page

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

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 4, Noes 0

Passed 4–0 Apr 7, 2021 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Testin, Ballweg, Cowles, L. Taylor and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Thiesfeldt, Wichgers, Brandtjen, Cabrera, Dittrich, Edming, Gundrum, Jagler, Moses, Sinicki, Skowronski, Steffen, Tittl, Rozar and Spiros

  2. Feb 11, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry

  3. Mar 16, 2021 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Testin

  4. Mar 17, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Mar 18, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Apr 1, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 4, Noes 0

  8. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 4, Noes 0

  9. Apr 7, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  10. Sep 24, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 9-28-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  11. Sep 28, 2021 · Senate

    Read a second time

  12. Sep 28, 2021 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  13. Sep 28, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Sep 28, 2021 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  15. Sep 28, 2021 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  16. Sep 28, 2021 · Senate

    Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor

  17. Sep 28, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  19. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Read

  20. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up

  21. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  22. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  23. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  24. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  25. Sep 28, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  26. Sep 29, 2021 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  27. Oct 8, 2021 · Senate

    LRB correction (Senate Amendment 1)

  28. Oct 8, 2021 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  29. Nov 4, 2021 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 11-4-2021

  30. Nov 5, 2021 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 11-5-2021. 2021 Wisconsin Act 88

  31. Nov 5, 2021 · Senate

    Published 11-6-2021