Wisconsin House Bill 553 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38)
Status: Failed on April 8 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-04-08 - Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

An Act to repeal 146.38 (2m), 893.555 and 904.16; to renumber and amend 895.043 (6); to amend 146.38 (1m), 146.38 (2) and 146.38 (3t); and to create 50.057, 146.38 (3) (em) and 895.043 (6) (b) of the statutes; 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)

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)

Rep. Jon Richards [D]	Rep. Gary Hebl [D]	Rep. Dana Wachs [D]	Rep. Evan Goyke [D]
Rep. Mandela Barnes [D]	Rep. Terese Berceau [D]	Rep. Jill Billings [D]	Rep. Andrew Jorgensen [D]
Rep. Frederick Kessler [D]	Rep. Cory Mason [D]	Rep. Nick Milroy [D]	Rep. Tod Ohnstad [D]
Rep. Sondy Pope [D]	Rep. Daniel Riemer [D]	Sen. Janis Ringhand [D]	Sen. Melissa Agard [D]
Rep. Katrina Shankland [D]	Rep. Christine Sinicki [D]	Rep. Chris Taylor [D]	Rep. Amy Vruwink [D]
Rep. Mandy Wright [D]	Rep. Leon Young [D]	Rep. Jocasta Zamarripa [D]	Rep. Josh Zepnick [D]
Rep. Gordon Hintz [D]	Sen. LaTonya Johnson [D]	Rep. Fred Clark [D]	Rep. Christopher Danou [D]
Sen. Timothy Cullen [D]	Sen. Timothy Carpenter [D]	Sen. Jon Erpenbach [D]	Sen. David Hansen [D]
Sen. Nikiya Harris Dodd [D]	Sen. Christopher Larson [D]	Sen. Julie Lassa [D]	Sen. John Lehman [D]
Sen. Fred Risser [D]	Sen. Lena Taylor [D]

2014-02-13 - House - Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Judiciary and take up (Y: 38 N: 60 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-08	House	Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
2014-02-13	House	Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Judiciary and take up, Ayes 38, Noes 60
2013-12-09	House	Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary
2013-12-09	House	Introduced

Type	Source
Summary	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2013/proposals/reg/asm/bill/ab553
Text	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2013/REG/AB553.pdf
Roll Call	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/votes/2013/av0313