Category: Legislature

Republican lawmakers on the Legislature’s budget-writing committee did not attend a Tuesday meeting called by Gov. Tony Evers to consider his proposals for releasing millions of dollars to address healthcare facility closures in the Chippewa Valley and contamination by “forever chemicals.” Read More

​​​​​​​​Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday scheduled a special meeting of the Legislature’s budget-writing committee for next week, putting on its agenda a proposal to create a $15 million grant program to respond to western Wisconsin healthcare facility closures.  Read More

Advocates are lauding a new law that will create a program providing those with disabilities accounts that allow them to work, earn and save more without losing access to programs with low-income and asset limits, like Medicaid long-term care.  Read More

Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday once again vetoed a plan that would have allowed some nurses to work independently of physicians.  Read More

The co-chairs of the Legislature’s budget-writing committee are asking Gov. Tony Evers to reverse course and sign into law a bill that aims to tackle contamination by “forever chemicals.”  Read More

Gov. Tony Evers on Friday signed into law a bill intended to broaden Wisconsin’s mental health crisis response infrastructure. He also vetoed healthcare-related bills affecting licensing, telehealth and vaccine requirements at organ transplant centers and higher education institutions.  Read More

The Department of Health Services will establish a pilot program that will connect law enforcement virtually with behavioral healthcare providers when responding to mental health crises, under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Tony Evers.  Read More

Gov. Tony Evers signed into law Friday more than 25 health-related bills, including a measure that would expand Medicaid’s ability to cover short-term inpatient psychiatric hospital stays.  Read More