2019 Wisconsin Act 88

  Date of enactment: February 5, 2020
2019 Assembly Bill 192   Date of publication*: February 6, 2020

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2019 WISCONSIN ACT 88

An Act to amend 49.45 (29y) (a) (intro.); and to create 49.45 (29y) (am) of the statutes; relating to: mental health clinical consultations under the Medical Assistance program.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

88,1 Section 1. 49.45 (29y) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

49.45 (29y) (a) (intro.) In this subsection, “clinical consultation" means, for a student up to age 21, communication from a mental health professional or a qualified treatment trainee working under the supervision of a mental health professional to another individual who is working with the client or to a parent of the student to inform, inquire, and instruct regarding all of the following and to direct and coordinate clinical service components:

88,2 Section 2. 49.45 (29y) (am) of the statutes is created to read:

49.45 (29y) (am) In this subsection, “parent” means any of the following:

1. A parent.

2. A foster parent.

3. A guardian.

4. A relative, other than a parent, who lives with the student.