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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
December 22, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives Bare, Joers, Vining, Clancy,
Ratcliff, J. Anderson, Jacobson, Madison, Neubauer, Palmeri, Sinicki and
Drake, cosponsored by Senators Hesselbein, Roys,
Spreitzer, Agard and
Larson. Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.
AB858,1,2
1An Act to repeal 252.03 (2j) of the statutes;
relating to: local health officer
2authority to mandate business closure to control communicable disease.
Analysis by the 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.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
