Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 178 — Relating to: requiring notification to the medical examiner or coroner of any death that occurs within 24 hours of presentment at or admission to certain facilities.

Last action — Published 3-23-2024

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This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced April 03, 2023. Enacted.

Signed by Governor Tony Evers (Democratic) on March 26, 2024.

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Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

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  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 2 recorded votes so far.

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Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

41 added · 9 removed

Plain-language change summary

The amendment to Senate Bill 178 specifies that the requirement to notify a medical examiner or coroner of a death occurring within 24 hours of hospital admission does not apply to hospices. This change is significant because it exempts hospice facilities, which provide end-of-life care, from the notification requirements that would typically apply to other medical settings, recognizing the unique nature of hospice care and the circumstances surrounding deaths that occur there. This could streamline procedures in hospices and reduce unnecessary administrative burdens.

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- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRBa0515/1 SWB:wlj&amn SENATE AMENDMENT 1, TO SENATE BILL 178 September 29, 2023 - Offered by SenatoALLWEG.
- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRB-0458/1 SWB:amn&wlj SENATE BILL 178 April 3, 2023 - Introduced by J OINT LEGISLATIVE C OUNCIL .
At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:
Referred to Committee on Health.
1.
A N A CT to create 979.01 (5) of the statutes;
Page 2, line 8:
relating to:
after “sub.
requiring notification to the medical examiner or coroner of any death that occurs within 24 hours of presentment at or admission to certain facilities.
(1)." insert “This subsection does not apply to a hospice, as defined in s.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill is explained in the OTES provided by the Joint Legislative Council in the bill.
50.90 (1).".
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
JOINTL EGISLATIVCOUNCIL PREFATORY NOTE:This bill was prepared for the Joint Legislative Council Study Committee on Uniform Death Reporting Standards.
State law requires a medical examiner or coroner to determine the cause of death for certain types of deaths.
Under current law, physicians, authorities of various medical institutions, and other persons having knowledge of a death must report certain types of deaths, including suicide, to the sheriff, police chief, medical examiner, or coroner of the county where the death took place.
This bill creates a requirement to contact a medical examiner or coroner in certain circumstances to determine whether the medical examiner or coroner is required to investigate the death.
Specifically, the bill requires that, if a physician, authority, or other person required to report deaths has knowledge of a death that occurred within 24 hours after an individual either has presented at or is admitted to a hospital or similar institution, whichever is earlier, that person with knowledge must contact the medical examiner or coroner to determine whether the death is reportable under the current laws requiring a medical examiner or coroner to investigate certain deaths.
- 2024 Legislature - 2 - LRB-0458/1 SWB:amn&wlj SENATE BILL 178 SECTION 1 SECTION 1.
979.01 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
979.01 (5) If a person specified to report under sub.
(1) has knowledge of the death of any individual occurring within 24 hours after that individual either has presented at or is admitted to a hospital or other facility described under sub.
(1), whichever is earlier, the person specified to report under sub.
(1) shall immediately notify the medical examiner or coroner of the county where the death took place to allow the medical examiner or coroner to determine if the death is reportable under sub.
(1).
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Action History

  1. Published 3-23-2024

  2. Report approved by the Governor on 3-22-2024. 2023 Wisconsin Act 175

  3. Presented to the Governor on 3-18-2024

  4. Report correctly enrolled

  5. Received from Assembly concurred in

  6. Ordered immediately messaged

  7. Read a third time and concurred in

  8. Rules suspended

  9. Ordered to a third reading

  10. Read a second time

  11. Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  12. Placed on calendar 1-16-2024 by Committee on Rules

  13. Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  14. Received from Senate

  15. Ordered immediately messaged

  16. Read a third time and passed

  17. Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  18. Ordered to a third reading

  19. Senate Amendment 1 adopted

  20. Read a second time

  21. Placed on calendar 11-7-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  22. Available for scheduling

  23. Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0

  24. Report adoption of Senate Amendment 1 recommended by Committee on Health, Ayes 6, Noes 0

  25. Executive action taken

  26. Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senator Ballweg

  27. Public hearing held

  28. Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

  29. Introduced by Joint Legislative Council

Sponsors

  • Joint Legislative Council · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 131 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Joint Legislative Council

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (131)

131 members have not signed on to this bill.

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