AB300-ASA1,1,9 1An Act to renumber and amend 66.0137 (1) (ae); to amend 20.835 (1) (db),
259.23 (2) (s), 66.0137 (3), 66.0137 (4m) (a), 66.0137 (5) (c) 1., 66.0137 (5) (c) 2.,
379.01 (2d) and 79.035 (5); to repeal and recreate 66.0137 (5) (c) 3. and 79.035
4(5); and to create 66.0137 (1) (ac), 66.0137 (1) (af), 66.0137 (1) (ah), 66.0137 (1)
5(am), 66.0137 (1) (ap), 66.0137 (1) (c), 66.0137 (5) (c) 1m., 66.0137 (5) (c) 4.,
666.0137 (5) (d) and 79.035 (8) of the statutes; relating to: requiring political
7subdivisions, the state, and Marquette University to pay health insurance
8premiums, including on a limited retroactive basis, for survivors of a law
9enforcement officer who dies in the line of duty and making an appropriation.

This bill requires a political subdivision (a city, village, town, or county), the
state, the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (board), and
Marquette University to pay health insurance premiums for the surviving spouse
and dependent children of a law enforcement officer or emergency medical services
practitioner who dies in the line of duty if the political subdivision, state, board, or

university paid such premiums for the law enforcement officer or emergency medical
services practitioner while he or she was employed by the political subdivision, state,
board, or university. The requirement does not apply to a surviving spouse who
remarries or reaches the age of 65, or to a surviving child after he or she reaches the
age of 26. Current law provides similar benefits to the surviving spouse and
dependent children of a fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty if the
municipality (city, village, or town) paid such premiums for the fire fighter while he
or she was employed by the municipality.

Also, under the bill, if a political subdivision pays such health insurance
premiums, the political subdivision must file a request for reimbursement for its
costs with the Department of Revenue, which is required to provide reimbursement.
The reimbursement payments are funded from county and municipal aid shared
revenue by a reduction in each county's and municipality's shared revenue in
proportion to each entity's share of the total distribution of shared revenue
payments.