The bill requires every health insurance policy and every self-insured
governmental health plan that generally covers testing for and treatment of
infectious disease to provide coverage of testing for and treatment of COVID-19 or
any other communicable disease for a frontline health care worker who has been
diagnosed with or is under investigation of having COVID-19 or any other
communicable disease without imposing any copayment or coinsurance. A health
insurance policy is referred to in the bill as a disability insurance policy. For purposes
of required insurance coverage, the treatment that must be covered is any treatment
that is medically necessary and reasonably related to COVID-19 or any other
communicable disease or complications from COVID-19 or other communicable
disease.

The bill prohibits a health insurance policy or a self-insured health plan of the
state or a county, city, village, town, or school district from denying coverage for a
treatment or service provided through telehealth if that treatment or service is
covered under the policy or plan when provided in person by a health care provider.
This prohibition applies through December 31, 2021. Health insurance policies are
known as disability insurance policies in the bill. Telehealth is a practice of health
care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, or transfer of medically relevant
data by means of audio, video, or data communications that are used either during
a patient visit or a consultation or are used to transfer medically relevant data about
a patient.

The bill creates an optional license for third-party logistics providers that are
located in the state or are located outside the state but provide third-party logistics
provider services in the state. A third-party logistics provider is defined under
current law as a person that contracts with a prescription drug manufacturer to
provide or coordinate warehousing, distribution, or other services on behalf of the
manufacturer but that does not take title to the manufacturer's prescription drug or
have general responsibility to direct the prescription drug's sale or disposition.

The bill requires an applicant for a third-party logistics provider license to
submit certain information prior to licensure, including proof of a recent facility
inspection, and a personal statement relating to a designated representative of the
facility. The license created by the bill will no longer apply if the federal Food and
Drug Administration establishes a licensing program for third-party logistics
providers under federal law and the Pharmacy Examining Board determines that
state licensure is not required for a resident third-party logistics provider to provide
third-party logistics services in another state.

The bill also directs the Pharmacy Examining Board to promulgate rules that
regulate third-party logistics providers and out-of-state third-party logistics

providers consistent with federal law. The authority of the Pharmacy Examining
Board to promulgate rules is restricted to only rules that are equivalent to
requirements under federal law and only rules that do not mandate licensing under
state law.

Finally, the bill requires the Pharmacy Examining Board to issue interim
licenses for third-party logistics providers and out-of-state third-party logistics
providers between the date of enactment until permanent or emergency rules take
effect, whichever is sooner, if, in the opinion of the board, the applicant is currently
in compliance with federal law relating to third-party logistics providers. An
interim license to act as a third-party logistics provider or out-of-state third-party
logistics provider expires 90 days after the date that emergency rules take effect or
90 days after the date that permanent rules take effect, whichever is sooner. No fee
is required for an interim license to act as a third-party logistics provider or an
out-of-state third-party logistics provider.

Under current law, certain people who receive a retirement or disability
annuity from the Wisconsin Retirement System and who are hired by an employer
that participates in the WRS must suspend that annuity and may not receive a WRS
annuity payment until the person is no longer in a WRS-covered position. This
suspension applies to a person who 1) has reached his or her normal retirement date;
2) is appointed to a position with a WRS-participating employer, or provides
employee services as a contractor to a WRS-participating employer; and 3) is
expected to work at least two-thirds of what is considered full-time employment by
the Department of Employee Trust Funds.

The bill creates an exception to this suspension if 1) the person is either hired
or provides employee services as a contractor in a critical position during the period
beginning on the effective date of the bill and ending on December 31, 2021; 2) at the
time the person initially retires from covered employment with a participating
employer, the person does not have an agreement with any participating employer
to return to employment; and 3) the person elects to not become a participating
employee at the time the person is rehired or enters into a contract after retirement.
In other words, the bill allows a WRS annuitant who is either hired or provides
employee services as a contractor in a critical position during the period beginning
on the effective date of the bill and ending on December 31, 2021, to return to work
with an employer who participates in the WRS and continue to receive his or her
annuity.

Current law allows a state entity to waive any requirement that an individual
appear in person during the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020.
The bill expands that provision so that a state entity may waive such in-person
requirements through December 31, 2021, if enforcing the requirement would
increase the public health risk.

Under the bill, each state agency and authority and each local governmental
unit may waive any interest, penalty, or payment that accrues or becomes due
beginning on the day the bill becomes law and ending on December 31, 2021, with
respect to a debt any person owes to the agency, authority, or local unit of
government.