Wisconsin Senate Bill 244 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Broadly Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on March 23 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-23 - 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.

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.

Sen. Christopher Larson [D]	Sen. Timothy Carpenter [D]	Sen. Spencer Coggs [D]	Sen. Timothy Cullen [D]
Sen. Jon Erpenbach [D]	Sen. David Hansen [D]	Sen. Jim Holperin [D]	Sen. Bob Jauch [D]
Sen. Julie Lassa [D]	Sen. Fred Risser [D]	Sen. Lena Taylor [D]	Rep. Jon Richards [D]
Rep. Tony Staskunas [D]	Sen. Kelda Roys [D]	Rep. Brett Hulsey [D]	Rep. Gary Hebl [D]
Rep. David Cullen [D]	Rep. Terese Berceau [D]	Rep. Penny Schaber [D]	Rep. Fred Clark [D]
Rep. Elizabeth Coggs [D]	Rep. Christopher Danou [D]	Rep. Jason Fields [D]	Rep. Tamara Grigsby [D]
Rep. Nick Milroy [D]	Rep. Louis Molepske [D]	Rep. Sandra Pasch [D]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D]
Sen. Janis Ringhand [D]	Rep. Christine Sinicki [D]	Rep. Chris Taylor [D]	Rep. Jocasta Zamarripa [D]
Rep. Josh Zepnick [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-23	Senate	Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
2011-10-19	Senate	Read first time and referred to committee on Judiciary, Utilities, Commerce, and Government Operations
2011-10-19	Senate	Introduced

Type	Source
Summary	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb244
Text	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2011/REG/SB244.pdf