SB 128

The bill specifies that, until the earlier of the conclusion of a national emergency

declared by the U.S. president in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus or June 30,

2021, a physician or nurse anesthetist for whom Wisconsin is not a principal place

of practice but who is temporarily authorized to practice in Wisconsin may fulfill

financial responsibility requirements by filing with the commissioner of insurance

a certificate of insurance for a policy of health care liability insurance issued by an

insurer authorized in a certain jurisdiction specified in the bill. Additionally, under

those same circumstances, the physician or nurse anesthetist may elect to be covered

by Wisconsin's health care liability laws. These liability insurance provisions were

enacted in

2019 Wisconsin Act 185

but expired with the expiration of the state of

emergency related to public health declared on March 12, 2020, by the governor.