Subjects

Nursing homes and adult care

137 bills across 7 sessions, from the Legislature's subject index.

• AB 12 Relating to: state agency status for certain physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who provide services without compensation for local health departments or school districts. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 50 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 76 Relating to: creating an individual income tax deduction for certain income earned by an individual from the practice of psychiatry or from providing psychiatric or mental health services. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 31 Relating to: state agency status for certain physician assistants and advanced practice nurses who provide services without compensation for local health departments or school districts. (FE) Became law 2025
• SB 45 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE) Became law 2025
• SB 72 Relating to: creating an individual income tax deduction for certain income earned by an individual from the practice of psychiatry or from providing psychiatric or mental health services. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 104 Relating to: prohibiting gender transition medical intervention for individuals under 18 years of age. Vetoed 2025
• AB 119 Relating to: transfer of nursing home beds. Died at session end 2025
• AB 255 Relating to: assisted living facility referral agencies and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• AB 272 Relating to: eligibility for Family Care for individuals who are deaf-blind. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 418 Relating to: visitation of a long-term care facility resident or hospital patient during a communicable disease outbreak. Died at session end 2025
• AB 598 Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE) Became law 2025
• AB 607 Relating to: housing and homelessness; emergency rental assistance program; indigent civil legal services; workforce development; community action agencies; poverty reports; mental health; economic security; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services; urban mass transit aid; lead exposure and abatement services; lead service line replacement; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 931 Relating to: grants to HealthNet of Rock County, Inc.; a reference to generalized public health nursing programs; and updating terminology from “advanced practice nurse prescriber” to “advanced practice registered nurse” (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services). Became law 2025
• AB 982 Relating to: health care providers providing excused absences under the compulsory school attendance law. Died at session end 2025
• SB 139 Relating to: transfer of nursing home beds. Died at session end 2025
• SB 157 Relating to: prohibiting gender transition medical intervention for individuals under 18 years of age. Died at session end 2025
• SB 262 Relating to: assisted living facility referral agencies and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• SB 272 Relating to: eligibility for Family Care for individuals who are deaf-blind. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 417 Relating to: visitation of a long-term care facility resident or hospital patient during a communicable disease outbreak. Vetoed 2025
• SB 578 Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives without requiring a petition for guardianship or protective placement. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 605 Relating to: housing and homelessness; emergency rental assistance program; indigent civil legal services; workforce development; community action agencies; poverty reports; mental health; economic security; reimbursement for nonemergency medical transportation services; urban mass transit aid; lead exposure and abatement services; lead service line replacement; providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures; granting rule-making authority; and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 822 Relating to: allowing discounts for prompt payment of health care fees. Became law 2025
• SB 910 Relating to: grants to HealthNet of Rock County, Inc.; a reference to generalized public health nursing programs; and updating terminology from “advanced practice nurse prescriber” to “advanced practice registered nurse” (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services). Died at session end 2025
• SB 920 Relating to: health care providers providing excused absences under the compulsory school attendance law. Became law 2025
• AB 1043 Relating to: fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1044 Relating to: grants for patient lift devices and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1081 Relating to: modifying administrative rules relating to regulation of opioid treatment programs and requiring adjustments to the rates for substance use disorder treatment services with medications for opioid use disorder. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• AB 1146 Relating to: minimum nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, registered nurses’ right to refuse a work assignment, prohibiting mandatory overtime for registered nurses, and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• SB 1020 Relating to: grants for patient lift devices and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1021 Relating to: fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1047 Relating to: modifying administrative rules relating to regulation of opioid treatment programs and requiring adjustments to the rates for substance use disorder treatment services with medications for opioid use disorder. (FE) Died at session end 2025
• SB 1115 Relating to: minimum nurse staffing ratios in hospitals, registered nurses’ right to refuse a work assignment, prohibiting mandatory overtime for registered nurses, and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2025
• AB 43 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 70 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2023 legislature. (FE) Became law 2023
• AB 160 Relating to: requiring allowance for health care providers to refer individuals to aging and disability resource centers for options counseling. Died at session end 2023
• AB 162 Relating to: notification of certain facility closures, change in type or level of services or means of reimbursement accepted, and care management organization notification of contract termination with a provider that is a nursing home or community-based residential facility. Died at session end 2023
• AB 242 Relating to: county of residence for care management organization facility placements. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 257 Relating to: patients' and residents' rights to visitors in a health care facility, restricting visitation, and liability for the actions of visitors. Died at session end 2023
• AB 570 Relating to: certain kinds of election fraud, defects on absentee ballot certificates, returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk, appointment of election officials, allowing an employee of a residential care facility or qualified retirement home to serve as a personal care voting assistant during a public health emergency or an incident of infectious disease, and providing a penalty. (FE) Vetoed 2023
• AB 572 Relating to: absentee voting in certain residential care facilities and retirement homes and court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote. Vetoed 2023
• AB 690 Relating to: student qualification for employment as a nurse aide. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 942 Relating to: fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities and hospices, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 943 Relating to: grants for patient lift devices and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 154 Relating to: requiring allowance for health care providers to refer individuals to aging and disability resource centers for options counseling. Died at session end 2023
• SB 155 Relating to: notification of certain facility closures, change in type or level of services or means of reimbursement accepted, and care management organization notification of contract termination with a provider that is a nursing home or community-based residential facility. Died at session end 2023
• SB 248 Relating to: county of residence for care management organization facility placements. (FE) Became law 2023
• SB 257 Relating to: patients' and residents' rights to visitors in a health care facility, restricting visitation, and liability for the actions of visitors. Died at session end 2023
• SB 593 Relating to: absentee voting in certain residential care facilities and retirement homes and court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote. Died at session end 2023
• SB 631 Relating to: certain kinds of election fraud, defects on absentee ballot certificates, returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk, appointment of election officials, allowing an employee of a residential care facility or qualified retirement home to serve as a personal care voting assistant during a public health emergency or an incident of infectious disease, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 671 Relating to: student qualification for employment as a nurse aide. (FE) Became law 2023
• SB 884 Relating to: fall prevention and recovery training, CPR and first aid certification, a duty to provide aid in certain residential facilities and hospices, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 885 Relating to: grants for patient lift devices and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 887 Relating to: absentee voting in certain residential care facilities and retirement homes. Died at session end 2023
• SB 919 Relating to: closure or change of services and relocation of residents in adult family homes. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1007 Relating to: closure or change of services and relocation of residents in adult family homes. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1086 Relating to: funding for supplemental payments to hospitals with avoidable patient days under the Medical Assistance program, for enhanced nursing home reimbursement rates under the Medical Assistance program for residents with bariatric and extensive wound care needs, and for the complex patient pilot program. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1087 Relating to: supplemental payments to hospitals with avoidable patient days and an enhanced rate to nursing homes for bariatric and extensive wound care under the Medical Assistance program. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1088 Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives, allocation of nursing beds for patients with certain complex needs, and a complex patient pilot program. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• AB 1100 Relating to: degree requirements for certain local health officers; admissions authorized by counties to mental health institutes; and eliminating references to defunct regional long-term care advisory committees (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services). Became law 2023
• SB 1027 Relating to: consent to admissions to certain health care facilities by patient representatives, allocation of nursing beds for patients with certain complex needs, and a complex patient pilot program. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 1028 Relating to: supplemental payments to hospitals with avoidable patient days and an enhanced rate to nursing homes for bariatric and extensive wound care under the Medical Assistance program. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 1029 Relating to: funding for supplemental payments to hospitals with avoidable patient days under the Medical Assistance program, for enhanced nursing home reimbursement rates under the Medical Assistance program for residents with bariatric and extensive wound care needs, and for the complex patient pilot program. (FE) Died at session end 2023
• SB 1053 Relating to: degree requirements for certain local health officers; admissions authorized by counties to mental health institutes; and eliminating references to defunct regional long-term care advisory committees (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health Services). Died at session end 2023
• AB 1 Relating to: state government actions to address the COVID-19 pandemic, extending the time limit for emergency rule procedures, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Vetoed 2021
• AB 5 Relating to: facilitating and prioritizing COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Died at session end 2021
• AB 68 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Became law 2021
• AB 116 Relating to: reimbursement of wheelchairs and power mobility devices for recipients of Medical Assistance who reside in a nursing home. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• AB 148 Relating to: state response to COVID-19 related to health services and practice of health care providers licensed outside of this state. Became law 2021
• AB 179 Relating to: absentee voting in certain residential care facilities and retirement homes and providing a penalty. Died at session end 2021
• AB 215 Relating to: visitation of a long-term care facility resident or hospital patient by an essential visitor or member of the clergy. Died at session end 2021
• AB 236 Relating to: payments to certain long-term care facilities and their staff. (FE) Vetoed 2021
• AB 306 Relating to: absentee voting, voting procedures, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 103 Relating to: reimbursement of wheelchairs and power mobility devices for recipients of Medical Assistance who reside in a nursing home. (FE) Became law 2021
• SB 111 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2021 legislature. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 180 Relating to: absentee voting, voting procedures, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 202 Relating to: state response to COVID-19 related to health services and practice of health care providers licensed outside of this state. Died at session end 2021
• SB 205 Relating to: absentee voting in certain residential care facilities and retirement homes and providing a penalty. Vetoed 2021
• SB 230 Relating to: visitation of a long-term care facility resident or hospital patient by an essential visitor or member of the clergy. Died at session end 2021
• SB 277 Relating to: payments to certain long-term care facilities and their staff. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 654 Relating to: eligibility for Family Care for individuals who are deaf-blind. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• SB 935 Relating to: certain kinds of election fraud, private resources and contracts for election administration, who may perform tasks related to election administration, defects on absentee ballot certificates, returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk, appointment of election officials, allowing an employee of a residential care facility or qualified retirement home to serve as a personal care voting assistant during a public health emergency or an incident of infectious disease, and providing a penalty. (FE) Vetoed 2021
• AB 1004 Relating to: certain kinds of election fraud, private resources and contracts for election administration, who may perform tasks related to election administration, defects on absentee ballot certificates, returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk, appointment of election officials, allowing an employee of a residential care facility or qualified retirement home to serve as a personal care voting assistant during a public health emergency or an incident of infectious disease, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2021
• AB 56 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Became law 2019
• SB 59 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2019 legislature. Died at session end 2019
• AB 247 Relating to: absentee voting, voting procedures, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 614 Relating to: Alzheimer's and dementia training for direct care and support services workers. Died at session end 2019
• SB 242 Relating to: absentee voting, voting procedures, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 603 Relating to: Alzheimer's and dementia training for direct care and support services workers. Died at session end 2019
• SB 701 Relating to: eligibility for the family care benefit for individuals who are deaf-blind. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• SB 932 Relating to: state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (FE) Died at session end 2019
• AB 1038 Relating to: state government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (FE) Became law 2019
• AB 64 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Became law 2017
• SB 30 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2017 legislature. Died at session end 2017
• AB 473 Relating to: therapeutic diets in certain long-term care facilities. Died at session end 2017
• AB 529 Relating to: requirements for certain services covered under the Medical Assistance program. (FE) Became law 2017
• AB 628 Relating to: referrals for subjects of alerts for missing adults and operator's license review. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 819 Relating to: employment of individuals with disabilities enrolled in long-term care programs and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2017
• AB 925 Relating to: the duties of special voting deputies with regard to retirement homes that are part of a multiple-use facility. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 385 Relating to: therapeutic diets in certain long-term care facilities. Became law 2017
• SB 452 Relating to: requirements for certain services covered under the Medical Assistance program. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 517 Relating to: referrals for subjects of alerts for missing adults and operator's license review. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• SB 689 Relating to: employment of individuals with disabilities enrolled in long-term care programs and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2017
• AB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Died at session end 2015
• SB 21 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2015 legislature. Became law 2015
• AB 240 Relating to: electioneering at a retirement home or residential care facility. Died at session end 2015
• AB 242 Relating to: modifying administrative rules related to maintenance and use standards for oxygen equipment in nursing homes. Died at session end 2015
• AB 389 Relating to: electronic voter registration, verification of certain registrations, proof of residence for voting in an election, authorizing Wisconsin to enter into agreements to share information related to the registration and voting of electors; election registration officials; testing election officials after training; electronic poll lists; election equipment approval; overvoted ballots; voter registration proof of residency for an individual in a residential care facility; counting of absentee ballots; witness address required for valid absentee ballot; and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 453 Relating to: requiring the Family Care benefit and self-directed services option to be provided in Rock County. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 674 Relating to: visitation of residents of certain facilities by adult children. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 731 Relating to: repealing the authority to create ABLE accounts in this state and creating tax benefits for contributions to ABLE accounts in other states. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 787 Relating to: funding for respite care under the Alzheimer's Family and Caregiver Support Program and making an appropriation. (FE) Became law 2015
• AB 791 Relating to: informed consent for psychotropic medications in nursing homes and community-based residential facilities. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 792 Relating to: referrals for subjects of alerts for missing adults and operator's license review. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 856 Relating to: long-term care districts and care management organizations. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 921 Relating to: facilities serving persons with traumatic brain injuries. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 160 Relating to: modifying administrative rules related to maintenance and use standards for oxygen equipment in nursing homes. Became law 2015
• SB 161 Relating to: electioneering at a retirement home or residential care facility. Died at session end 2015
• SB 295 Relating to: electronic voter registration, verification of certain registrations, proof of residence for voting in an election, authorizing Wisconsin to enter into agreements to share information related to the registration and voting of electors; election registration officials; testing election officials after training; electronic poll lists; election equipment approval; overvoted ballots; voter registration proof of residency for an individual in a residential care facility; counting of absentee ballots; witness address required for valid absentee ballot; and granting rule-making authority. (FE) Became law 2015
• SB 487 Relating to: visitation of residents of certain facilities by adult children. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 687 Relating to: long-term care districts and care management organizations. (FE) Became law 2015
• SB 746 Relating to: facilities serving persons with traumatic brain injuries. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 748 Relating to: informed consent for psychotropic medications in nursing homes and community-based residential facilities. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• SB 760 Relating to: referrals for subjects of alerts for missing adults and operator's license review. (FE) Died at session end 2015
• AB 40 Relating to: state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2013 legislature. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 120 Relating to: inadmissibility of a statement of apology or condolence by a health care provider. Became law 2013
• AB 292 Relating to: therapeutic alternate drug selections in nursing homes, performance of patient services by a pharmacist, and the practice of pharmacy. Died at session end 2013
• AB 299 Relating to: requiring the Family Care benefit and self-directed services option to be provided in certain northeastern Wisconsin counties. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 396 Relating to: absentee voting at residential care facilities. (FE) Became law 2013
• AB 428 Relating to: requiring the Family Care benefit and self-directed services option to be provided in certain northeastern Wisconsin counties. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 468 Relating to: admission of Family Care enrollees to mental health institutes and making an appropriation. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 553 Relating to: arbitration agreements used by long-term care facilities, civil and criminal actions against health care providers and long-term care providers, use in civil and criminal actions and confidentiality of incident and occurrence reports, use as evidence of records given to a regulatory agency, use in criminal actions of records of reviews and evaluations of health care providers, limits on noneconomic damages, limits on punitive damages, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• AB 575 Relating to: psychiatric and behavioral care and treatment for individuals with dementia, dementia care units, and providing a penalty. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 129 Relating to: inadmissibility of a statement of apology or condolence by a health care provider. Died at session end 2013
• SB 251 Relating to: therapeutic alternate drug selections in nursing homes, performance of patient services by a pharmacist, and the practice of pharmacy. Became law 2013
• SB 297 Relating to: absentee voting at residential care facilities. (FE) Died at session end 2013
• SB 503 Relating to: requiring the Family Care benefit and self-directed services option to be provided in certain northeastern Wisconsin counties. (FE) Died at session end 2013