Amendment SSA1-AB68

AB68-SSA1,1386,9 632.895 (14) (b) Except as provided in par. (d), every disability insurance policy, and every self-insured health plan of the state or a county, city, town, village, or school district, that provides coverage for a dependent of the insured shall provide coverage of appropriate and necessary immunizations, from birth to the age of 6 years, for an insured or plan participant, including a dependent who is a child of the insured or plan participant.

AB68-SSA1,3013 Section 3013. 632.895 (14) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1386,15 632.895 (14) (c) The coverage required under par. (b) may not be subject to any deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance under the policy or plan. This paragraph applies to a defined network plan, as defined in s. 609.01 (1b), only with respect to appropriate and necessary immunizations provided by providers participating, as defined in s. 609.01 (3m), in the plan.

AB68-SSA1,3014 Section 3014. 632.895 (14) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1386,19 632.895 (14) (d) 3. A health care plan offered by a limited service health organization, as defined in s. 609.01 (3), or by a preferred provider plan, as defined in s. 609.01 (4), that is not a defined network plan, as defined in s. 609.01 (1b).

AB68-SSA1,3015 Section 3015. 632.895 (14m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1386,22 632.895 (14m) Essential health benefits. (a) In this subsection, “self-insured health plan” has the meaning given in s. 632.85 (1) (c).

AB68-SSA1,1387,2 (b) On a date specified by the commissioner, by rule, every disability insurance policy, except as provided in par. (g), and every self-insured health plan shall provide coverage for essential health benefits as determined by the commissioner, by rule, subject to par. (c).

AB68-SSA1,1387,4 (c) In determining the essential health benefits for which coverage is required under par. (b), the commissioner shall do all of the following:

AB68-SSA1,1387,6 1. Include benefits, items, and services in, at least, all of the following categories:

AB68-SSA1,1387,7 a. Ambulatory patient services.

AB68-SSA1,1387,8 b. Emergency services.

AB68-SSA1,1387,9 c. Hospitalization.

AB68-SSA1,1387,10 d. Maternity and newborn care.

AB68-SSA1,1387,12 e. Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment.

AB68-SSA1,1387,13 f. Prescription drugs.

AB68-SSA1,1387,14 g. Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices.

AB68-SSA1,1387,15 h. Laboratory services.

AB68-SSA1,1387,16 i. Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management.

AB68-SSA1,1387,17 j. Pediatric services, including oral and vision care.

AB68-SSA1,1387,22 2. Conduct a survey of employer-sponsored coverage to determine benefits typically covered by employers and ensure that the scope of essential health benefits for which coverage is required under this subsection is equal to the scope of benefits covered under a typical disability insurance policy offered by an employer to its employees.

AB68-SSA1,1387,24 3. Ensure that essential health benefits reflect a balance among the categories described in subd. 1. such that benefits are not unduly weighted toward one category.

AB68-SSA1,1388,2 4. Ensure that essential health benefit coverage is provided with no or limited cost-sharing requirements.

AB68-SSA1,1388,6 5. Require that disability insurance policies and self-insured health plans do not make coverage decisions, determine reimbursement rates, establish incentive programs, or design benefits in ways that discriminate against individuals because of their age, disability, or expected length of life.

AB68-SSA1,1388,9 6. Establish essential health benefits in a way that takes into account the health care needs of diverse segments of the population, including women, children, persons with disabilities, and other groups.

AB68-SSA1,1388,13 7. Ensure that essential health benefits established under this subsection are not subject to a coverage denial based on an insured's or plan participant's age, expected length of life, present or predicted disability, degree of dependency on medical care, or quality of life.

AB68-SSA1,1388,20 8. Require that disability insurance policies and self-insured health plans cover emergency department services that are essential health benefits without imposing any requirement to obtain prior authorization for those services and without limiting coverage for services provided by an emergency services provider that is not in the provider network of a policy or plan in a way that is more restrictive than requirements or limitations that apply to emergency services provided by a provider that is in the provider network of the policy or plan.

AB68-SSA1,1388,25 9. Require a disability insurance policy or self-insured health plan to apply to emergency department services that are essential health benefits provided by an emergency department provider that is not in the provider network of the policy or plan the same copayment amount or coinsurance rate that applies if those services are provided by a provider that is in the provider network of the policy or plan.

AB68-SSA1,1389,2 (d) The commissioner shall periodically update, by rule, the essential health benefits under this subsection to address any gaps in access to coverage.

AB68-SSA1,1389,7 (e) If an essential health benefit is also subject to mandated coverage elsewhere under this section and the coverage requirements are not identical, the disability insurance policy or self-insured health plan shall provide coverage under whichever subsection provides the insured or plan participant with more comprehensive coverage of the medical condition, item, or service.

AB68-SSA1,1389,11 (f) Nothing in this subsection or rules promulgated under this subsection prohibits a disability insurance policy or a self-insured health plan from providing benefits in excess of the essential health benefit coverage required under this subsection.

AB68-SSA1,1389,13 (g) This subsection does not apply to any disability insurance policy that is described in s. 632.745 (11) (b) 1. to 12.

AB68-SSA1,3016 Section 3016. 632.895 (16m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1389,19 632.895 (16m) (b) The coverage required under this subsection may be subject to any limitations, or exclusions , or cost-sharing provisions that apply generally under the disability insurance policy or self-insured health plan. The coverage required under this subsection may not be subject to any deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance.

AB68-SSA1,3017 Section 3017. 632.895 (17) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1389,25 632.895 (17) (b) 2. Outpatient consultations, examinations, procedures, and medical services that are necessary to prescribe, administer, maintain, or remove a contraceptive, if covered for any other drug benefits under the policy or plan sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all females with reproductive capacity.

AB68-SSA1,3018 Section 3018. 632.895 (17) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1390,16 632.895 (17) (c) Coverage under par. (b) may be subject only to the exclusions, and limitations, or cost-sharing provisions that apply generally to the coverage of outpatient health care services, preventive treatments and services, or prescription drugs and devices that is provided under the policy or self-insured health plan. A disability insurance policy or self-insured health plan may not apply a deductible or impose a copayment or coinsurance to at least one of each type of contraceptive method approved by the federal food and drug administration for which coverage is required under this subsection. The disability insurance policy or self-insured health plan may apply reasonable medical management to a method of contraception to limit coverage under this subsection that is provided without being subject to a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance to prescription drugs without a brand name. The disability insurance policy or self-insured health plan may apply a deductible or impose a copayment or coinsurance for coverage of a contraceptive that is prescribed for a medical need if the services for the medical need would otherwise be subject to a deductible, copayment, or coinsurance.

AB68-SSA1,3019 Section 3019. 632.897 (11) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1391,2 632.897 (11) (a) Notwithstanding subs. (2) to (10), the commissioner may promulgate rules establishing standards requiring insurers to provide continuation of coverage for any individual covered at any time under a group policy who is a terminated insured or an eligible individual under any federal program that provides for a federal premium subsidy for individuals covered under continuation of coverage under a group policy, including rules governing election or extension of election periods, notice, rates, premiums, premium payment, application of preexisting condition exclusions, election of alternative coverage, and status as an eligible individual, as defined in s. 149.10 (2t), 2011 stats.

AB68-SSA1,3020 Section 3020 . 700.19 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1391,11 700.19 (2) Husband and wife Spouses. If persons named as owners in a document of title, transferees in an instrument of transfer, or buyers in a bill of sale are described in the document, instrument, or bill of sale as husband and wife married to each other, or are in fact husband and wife married to each other, they are joint tenants, unless the intent to create a tenancy in common is expressed in the document, instrument, or bill of sale. This subsection applies to property acquired before January 1, 1986, and, if ch. 766 does not apply when the property is acquired, to property acquired on or after January 1, 1986.

AB68-SSA1,3021 Section 3021. 704.07 (2) (bm) 1. of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,3022 Section 3022. 704.07 (2) (bm) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1391,15 704.07 (2) (bm) 3. The violation presents a significant threat to the prospective tenant's health or safety.

AB68-SSA1,3023 Section 3023. 704.17 (3m) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,3024 Section 3024. 704.17 (5) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 704.17 (5) and amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1391,21 704.17 (5) Contrary provision in the lease. Except as provided in par. (b), provisions Provisions in the lease or rental agreement for termination contrary to this section are invalid except in leases for more than one year.

AB68-SSA1,3025 Section 3025. 704.17 (5) (b) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,3026 Section 3026. 704.19 (2) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1392,3 704.19 (2) (b) 2. Notwithstanding subd. 1., nothing in this section prevents termination of a tenancy before the end of a rental period because of an imminent threat of serious physical harm, as provided in s. 704.16, or for criminal activity or drug-related criminal activity, nonpayment of rent, or breach of any other condition of the tenancy, as provided in s. 704.17.

AB68-SSA1,3027 Section 3027 . 705.01 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1392,10 705.01 (4) “Joint account" means an account, other than a marital account, payable on request to one or more of 2 or more parties whether or not mention is made of any right of survivorship. “Joint account" also means any account established with the right of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be husband and wife married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both of the parties.

AB68-SSA1,3028 Section 3028 . 705.01 (4m) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1392,17 705.01 (4m) “Marital account" means an account established without the right of survivorship on or after January 1, 1986, by 2 parties who claim to be husband and wife married to each other, which is payable on request to either or both of the parties and which is designated as a marital account. An account established by those parties with the right of survivorship under s. 766.58 (3) (f) or 766.60 is a joint account.

AB68-SSA1,3029 Section 3029 . 706.09 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1392,25 706.09 (1) (e) Marital interests. Homestead of the spouse of any transferor of an interest in real estate, if the recorded conveyance purporting to transfer the homestead states that the person executing it is single, unmarried , or widowed a surviving spouse or fails to indicate the marital status of the transferor, and if the conveyance has, in either case, appeared of record for 5 years. This paragraph does not apply to the interest of a married person who is described of record as a holder in joint tenancy or of marital property with that transferor.

AB68-SSA1,3030 Section 3030. 753.06 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1393,2 753.06 (4) (a) Calumet County. The circuit has one branch 2 branches.

AB68-SSA1,3031 Section 3031. 753.06 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1393,4 753.06 (7) (e) Jackson County. The circuit has one branch 2 branches.

AB68-SSA1,3032 Section 3032. 753.06 (9) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1393,6 753.06 (9) (g) Marathon County. The circuit has 5 6 branches.

AB68-SSA1,3033 Section 3033. 753.06 (10) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1393,8 753.06 (10) (f) Dunn County. The circuit has 2 3 branches.

AB68-SSA1,3034 Section 3034 . 757.69 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1393,11 757.69 (1) (j) Hold hearings, make findings and issue temporary restraining orders under s. 813.122 or, 813.123 , or 813.124.

AB68-SSA1,3035 Section 3035 . 757.69 (1m) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1393,13 757.69 (1m) (g) Make any dispositional order under s. 938.34 (4d), (4h), or (4m).

AB68-SSA1,3036 Section 3036 . 757.69 (1m) (g) of the statutes, as affected by 2021 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1393,16 757.69 (1m) (g) Make any dispositional order under s. 938.34 (4d) or (4m).

AB68-SSA1,3037 Section 3037 . 765.001 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1394,10 765.001 (2) Intent. It is the intent of chs. 765 to 768 to promote the stability and best interests of marriage and the family. It is the intent of the legislature to recognize the valuable contributions of both spouses during the marriage and at termination of the marriage by dissolution or death. Marriage is the institution that is the foundation of the family and of society. Its stability is basic to morality and civilization, and of vital interest to society and the state. The consequences of the marriage contract are more significant to society than those of other contracts, and the public interest must be taken into account always. The seriousness of marriage makes adequate premarital counseling and education for family living highly desirable and courses thereon are urged upon all persons contemplating marriage. The impairment or dissolution of the marriage relation generally results in injury to the public wholly apart from the effect upon the parties immediately concerned. Under the laws of this state, marriage is a legal relationship between 2 equal persons, a husband and wife, who owe to each other mutual responsibility and support. Each spouse has an equal obligation in accordance with his or her ability to contribute money or services or both which are necessary for the adequate support and maintenance of his or her minor children and of the other spouse. No spouse may be presumed primarily liable for support expenses under this subsection.

AB68-SSA1,3038 Section 3038 . 765.01 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1394,15 765.01 A civil contract. Marriage, so far as its validity at law is concerned, is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties capable in law of contracting is essential, and which creates the legal status of husband and wife spouse to each other.

AB68-SSA1,3039 Section 3039 . 765.02 (3) of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,1394,18 765.02 (3) Marriage may be contracted between persons of the same sex or different sexes.

AB68-SSA1,3040 Section 3040 . 765.03 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1395,5 765.03 (1) No marriage shall be contracted while either of the parties has a husband or wife spouse living, nor between persons who are nearer of kin than 2nd cousins except that marriage may be contracted between first cousins where the female has attained the age of 55 years or where if either party, at the time of application for a marriage license, submits an affidavit signed by a physician stating that either party is permanently sterile or that the 2 parties are otherwise permanently biologically incapable of producing a child together. Relationship under this section shall be computed by the rule of the civil law, whether the parties to the marriage are of the half or of the whole blood. A marriage may not be contracted if either party has such want of understanding as renders him or her incapable of assenting to marriage.

AB68-SSA1,3041 Section 3041 . 765.16 (1m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1395,12 765.16 (1m) (intro.) Marriage may be validly solemnized and contracted in this state only after a marriage license has been issued therefor, and only by the mutual declarations of the 2 parties to be joined in marriage that they take each takes the other as husband and wife his or her spouse, made before an authorized officiating person and in the presence of at least 2 competent adult witnesses other than the officiating person. The following are authorized to be officiating persons:

AB68-SSA1,3042 Section 3042 . 765.16 (1m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1395,17 765.16 (1m) (c) The 2 parties themselves, by mutual declarations that they take each takes the other as husband and wife his or her spouse, in accordance with the customs, rules, and regulations of any religious society, denomination, or sect to which either of the parties may belong.

AB68-SSA1,3043 Section 3043 . 765.23 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1396,8 765.23 Immaterial irregularities otherwise. No marriage hereafter contracted shall be void either by reason of the marriage license having been issued by a county clerk not having jurisdiction to issue the same; or by reason of any informality or irregularity of form in the application for the marriage license or in the marriage license itself, or the incompetency of the witnesses to such marriage; or because the marriage may have been solemnized in a county other than the county prescribed in s. 765.12, or more than 30 days after the date of the marriage license, if the marriage is in other respects lawful and is consummated with the full belief on the part of the persons so married, or either of them, that they have been lawfully joined in marriage. Where a marriage has been celebrated in one of the forms provided for in s. 765.16 (1m), and the parties thereto have immediately thereafter assumed the habit and repute of husband and wife a married couple, and having continued the same uninterruptedly thereafter for the period of one year, or until the death of either of them, it shall be deemed that a marriage license has been issued as required by ss. 765.05 to 765.24 and 767.803.

AB68-SSA1,3044 Section 3044 . 765.24 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1396,23 765.24 Removal of impediments to subsequent marriage. If a person during the lifetime of a husband or wife spouse with whom the marriage is in force, enters into a subsequent marriage contract in accordance with s. 765.16, and the parties thereto live together thereafter as husband and wife a married couple, and such subsequent marriage contract was entered into by one of the parties in good faith, in the full belief that the former husband or wife spouse was dead, or that the former marriage had been annulled, or dissolved by a divorce, or without knowledge of such former marriage, they the parties shall, after the impediment to their marriage has been removed by the death or divorce of the other party to such former marriage, if they continue to live together as husband and wife a married couple in good faith on the part of one of them, be held to have been legally married from and after the removal of such impediment and the issue of any children born during such subsequent marriage shall be considered as the marital issue children of both parents parties.

AB68-SSA1,3045 Section 3045 . 765.30 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB68-SSA1,1397,9 765.30 (3) (a) Penalty for unlawful solemnization of marriage. Any officiating person who solemnizes a marriage unless the contracting parties have first obtained a proper marriage license as heretofore provided; or unless the parties to such marriage declare that they take each takes the other as husband and wife his or her spouse; or without the presence of 2 competent adult witnesses; or solemnizes a marriage knowing of any legal impediment thereto; or solemnizes a marriage more than 30 days after the date of the marriage license; or falsely certifies to the date of a marriage solemnized by the officiating person; or solemnizes a marriage in a county other than the county prescribed in s. 765.12.