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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 808

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Relating to: local health officer authority to mandate business closure to control communicable disease.

Business Disease Public health Public inland lake management

  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

This bill repeals a prohibition enacted as part of

2023 Wisconsin Act 12

under

which a local health officer may not issue a mandate to close a business in order to

control an outbreak or epidemic of communicable disease for longer than 30 days

unless the governing body of the political subdivision in which the order is intended

to apply approves an extension, which may not exceed 30 days. The bill eliminates

those restrictions.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Hesselbein (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D)

14 cosponsors

Bare (D) , Clancy (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , J. Anderson (D) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Larson and Agard , Madison (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Sinicki (D) , Vining (D)

Full history

  1. Dec 12, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Hesselbein, Roys and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Bare, Joers, Vining, Clancy, Ratcliff, J. Anderson, Jacobson, Madison, Neubauer, Sinicki and Drake

  2. Dec 12, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  3. Dec 14, 2023 · Senate

    Senators Larson and Agard added as coauthors

  4. Dec 21, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  5. Feb 21, 2024 · Senate

    Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor

  6. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1