This bill prohibits insurers that offer an individual or group health benefit plan,
pharmacy benefit managers, or self-insured governmental health plans from doing
any of the following based on a current or past diagnosis or suspected diagnosis of
COVID-19: establishing rules for the eligibility of any individual, employer, or group
to enroll or remain enrolled in a plan or for the renewal of coverage under the plan;
cancelling coverage during a contract term; setting rates for coverage; or refusing to
grant a grace period for payment of a premium that would generally be granted.

The bill prohibits insurers that offer health insurance, self-insured
governmental health plans, and pharmacy benefit managers from requiring prior
authorization for early refills of a prescription drug or otherwise restricting the
period of time in which a prescription drug may be refilled and from imposing a limit
on the quantity of prescription drugs that may be obtained if the quantity is no more
than a 90-day supply. These prohibitions do not apply if the prescription drug is a
controlled substance.

This bill specifies that, during the public health emergency declared on March
12, 2020, by executive order 72, a physician or nurse anesthetist for whom Wisconsin
is not a principal place of practice but who is temporarily authorized to practice in
Wisconsin may fulfill financial responsibility requirements by filing with the
commissioner of insurance a certificate of insurance for a policy of health care
liability insurance issued by an insurer authorized in a certain jurisdiction specified
in the bill and may elect to be covered by Wisconsin's health care liability laws.

The bill requires every health insurance policy and every self-insured
governmental health plan that generally covers testing for infectious disease to
provide coverage of testing for COVID-19 without imposing any copayment or
coinsurance before March 13, 2021. A health insurance policy is referred to in the
bill as a disability insurance policy.

The Joint Committee on Finance may currently transfer moneys between sum
certain and continuing appropriations if JCF finds that unnecessary duplication of
functions can be eliminated, more efficient and effective methods for performing
programs will result, or legislative intent will be more effectively carried out because
of the transfer.

This bill authorizes JCF to transfer moneys from sum sufficient appropriations
during the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order
72 and for 90 days after the end of the emergency. The total amount that may be
transferred from all sum sufficient appropriations during the emergency may not
exceed $75,000,000.

Under this bill, beginning on July 1, 2020, and ending on June 30, 2021, the
Legislative Audit Bureau must review programs affected by this act and
expenditures authorized under this act and must report the results of its reviews at
least quarterly to the legislature and to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee.

Under current law, a town, city, or village annually convenes a meeting of the
board of review to hear objections to local assessments. The board must meet during
the 45-day period beginning on the fourth Monday in April, but no sooner than seven
days after the last day on which the property tax assessment roll is open for public
examination. If the assessment roll is not complete in time for the board's first
meeting, the board meets, but adjourns until the roll is complete. Under the bill,
regardless of whether the 2020 assessment roll is complete at the time of the 45-day

period beginning on the 4th Monday of April, the board may publish a notice that the
board has adjourned and will proceed as provided under current law.

Under current law, a town is required to hold an annual town meeting. The
town meeting must be held on the third Tuesday of April, except that the town may
set another date within ten days after the third Tuesday of April. This bill allows a
town board or, if the town board is unable to promptly meet, the town chair to
postpone the town meeting so that it does not occur during the period beginning on
the first day of the public health emergency declared by the governor by executive
order 72 and ending 60 days after the termination of that order.

This bill exempts certain health care provider credentials issued by
credentialing boards in the Department of Safety and Professional Services from
having to be renewed during the period covered by the public health emergency
declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72, through the 60th day after the
conclusion of that emergency (exemption period).

For the next applicable renewal period after the exemption period, the
credential holder is not subject to any late renewal fee, and the applicable
credentialing board may provide an exemption from or reduction of continuing
education or other renewal requirements.

This bill authorizes former health care providers to obtain a temporary
credential granted by DSPS and provide health care services for which they have
been previously licensed or certified. Under the bill, DSPS may grant a temporary
credential to a person who applies and was at any time during the previous five years,
but is not currently, any of the following, if the person's credential was never revoked,
limited, suspended, or denied renewal: 1) a physician, physician assistant, or
perfusionist; 2) a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or nurse-midwife; 3) a
dentist; 4) a pharmacist; 5) a psychologist; 6) a social worker; 7) a marriage and
family therapist; 8) a professional counselor; 9) a clinical substance abuse counselor;
or 10) a practitioner holding a credential to practice a profession identified by DHS.
A temporary credential granted under the bill expires 90 days after the conclusion
of the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72.