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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 309

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Relating to: funding for free and charitable clinics and defining telehealth. (FE)

Health services department of — Health Hospitals and health care facilities Safety and professional services department of Telecommunications

  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

This bill defines “free and charitable clinics” as health care organizations that

use a volunteer and staff model to provide health services to uninsured,

underinsured, underserved, economically and socially disadvantaged, and

vulnerable populations and that meet criteria specified in the bill. The bill

incorporates into statutory language an allocation made in the biennial budget act,

2019 Wisconsin Act 9

, that requires the Department of Health Services to give

$500,000 in grants annually to free and charitable clinics.

Additionally, this bill incorporates the definitions of “telehealth” and other

related terms from the Medical Assistance program into the statutory chapters that

pertain to occupational licensing. “Telehealth” means a practice of health care

delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, or transfer of medically relevant data

by means of audio, video, or data communications that are used either during a

patient visit or a consultation or are used to transfer medically relevant data about

a patient. The bill requires the Department of Safety and Professional Services and

any attached examining board or affiliated credentialing board to define and use

“telehealth” and related terms consistent with this bill in all promulgated rules.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Carpenter (D) , Cowles (R) , Erpenbach (D) , Kooyenga (R) , L. Taylor (D) , Marklein (R) , Ringhand (D)

20 cosponsors

Armstrong (R) , Born (R) , Bowen (D) , Brooks (R) , Cabrera (D) , Considine (D) , Dittrich (R) , Drake (D) , J. Rodriguez (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Kurtz (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Magnafici (R) , Mursau (R) , Plumer (R) , Rozar (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 27, 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 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 27, 2021 official source full page

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

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 32–0 Nov 8, 2021 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 95–0 Jan 20, 2022 official source full page

Aye · 95

Not voting · 4

Full history

  1. Apr 21, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Kooyenga, Ballweg, Carpenter, Cowles, Erpenbach, Marklein, Ringhand and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Loudenbeck, Rozar, Magnafici, Armstrong, Bowen, Brooks, Dittrich, Kuglitsch, Kurtz, Mursau, Plumer, J. Rodriguez, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck and Considine

  2. Apr 21, 2021 · Senate

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

  3. Apr 29, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Wichgers added as a cosponsor

  4. May 7, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. May 13, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. May 26, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  7. Jun 22, 2021 · Senate

    Representative Born added as a cosponsor

  8. Oct 22, 2021 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Kooyenga

  9. Oct 27, 2021 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  10. Oct 27, 2021 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Oct 27, 2021 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  12. Oct 27, 2021 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Insurance, Licensing and Forestry, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  13. Nov 5, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 11-8-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  14. Nov 8, 2021 · Senate

    Read a second time

  15. Nov 8, 2021 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  16. Nov 8, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Nov 8, 2021 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  18. Nov 8, 2021 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 32, Noes 0

  19. Nov 8, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Nov 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  21. Dec 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  22. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Cabrera added as a cosponsor

  23. Jan 18, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-20-2022 by Committee on Rules

  24. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  25. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  26. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  27. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  28. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 95, Noes 0

  29. Jan 20, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  30. Jan 20, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  31. Jan 24, 2022 · Senate

    Representative Drake added as a cosponsor

  32. Jan 28, 2022 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  33. Feb 1, 2022 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 2-1-2022 by directive of the Majority Leader

  34. Feb 7, 2022 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 2-4-2022. 2021 Wisconsin Act 121

  35. Feb 7, 2022 · Senate

    Published 2-5-2022