2. “Health care facility” means a system, care clinic, care provider, long-term care facility, or any other health care facility where health care services are provided.

3. “Temporary credential” mean a visiting, locum tenens, temporary, or similar non-permanent license or certificate.

(b) Temporary practice; emergency.

1. Notwithstanding ss. 440.982 (1), 441.06 (4), 441.15 (2), 446.02 (1), 447.03 (1), 448.03 (1) (a), (b), and (c) and (1m), 448.51 (1), 448.61, 448.76, 448.961 (1) and (2), 449.02 (1), 450.03 (1), 451.04 (1), 455.02 (1m), 457.04 (4), (5), (6), and (7), 459.02 (1), 459.24 (1), and 460.02, a health care provider may provide services within the scope of the credential that the health care provider holds if all of the following apply:

a. Practice by the health care provider is necessary for an identified health care facility to ensure the continued and safe delivery of health care services.

b. The identified health care facility's needs reasonably prevented the health care provider from obtaining a credential before beginning to provide health care services at the facility.

c. The health care provider applies for a temporary credential or permanent credential within 10 days of beginning to provide health care services at a health care facility.

d. The health care facility notifies the department of safety and professional services within 5 days of the date on which the health care provider begins providing health care services at the facility.

2. A health care provider who provides services authorized under this subsection shall maintain malpractice insurance that satisfies the requirements of the profession for which the health care provider has been licensed or certified.

3. This subsection does not apply 30 days after the conclusion of the period covered by the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72.

(a) In this subsection:

1. “Emergency period” means the period covered by the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72.

2. “State agency” means any office, commission, board, department, or independent agency in the executive branch of state government.

(b) During the emergency period, the secretary of administration may transfer any employee from one state agency to another state agency to provide services for the receiving state agency. The receiving state agency shall pay all salary and fringe benefit costs of the employee during the time he or she is providing services for the receiving state agency. Any action by the secretary under this paragraph shall remain in effect until rescinded by the secretary or 90 days after the public health emergency is terminated, whichever is earliest.

(c) If an employee is transferred under par. (b), the receiving agency may not increase the employee's salary at the time of transfer or during the time he or she is providing services for the receiving agency and the transferring agency may not increase the employee's salary at the time the employee returns to the transferring agency.

(d) The secretary of administration shall submit a report to the joint committee on finance no later than June 1, 2020, and on the first day of each subsequent month during the emergency period, that provides information on all employee transfers under par. (b ). The report shall specify the number of employees transferred, the title of each employee transferred, the title the employee assumed at the receiving agency, and the reasons for each employee transfer.

(a) Definitions. In this subsection:

2. “COVID-19 public health emergency” means the public health emergency declared on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72.

1. The board may loan moneys under its control or belonging to the trust funds to a municipal utility to ensure that the municipal utility is able to maintain liquidity during the emergency period. The loan shall be for the sum of money, for the time, and upon the conditions as may be agreed upon between the board and the borrower.

2. The legislature finds and determines that the loans authorized under this subsection serve a public purpose.

(a) Section 20.940 does not apply to a request for a waiver, amendment to a waiver, or other federal approval from the department of health services submitted to the federal department of health and human services during the public health emergency declared under 42 USC 247d by the secretary of the federal department of health and human services on January 31, 2020, in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus, only if the request is any of the following, relating to the Medical Assistance program:

1. Allowing providers to receive payments for services provided in alternative settings to recipients affected by 2019 novel coronavirus.