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Wis. Stat. § 609.205 — WI Code / Chapter 609 / Section 609.205
Public health emergency for COVID-19.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “COVID-19” means an infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

(2) All of the following apply to a defined network plan or preferred provider plan during the state of emergency related to public health declared under s. 323.10 on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72, and for the 60 days following the date that the state of emergency terminates:

(a) The plan may not require an enrollee to pay, including cost sharing, for a service, treatment, or supply provided by a provider that is not a participating provider in the plan’s network of providers more than the enrollee would pay if the service, treatment, or supply is provided by a provider that is a participating provider. This subsection applies to any service, treatment, or supply that is related to diagnosis or treatment for COVID-19 and to any service, treatment, or supply that is provided by a provider that is not a participating provider because a participating provider is unavailable due to the public health emergency.

(b) The plan shall reimburse a provider that is not a participating provider for a service, treatment, or supply provided under the circumstances described under par. (a) at 225 percent of the rate the federal Medicare program reimburses the provider for the same or a similar service, treatment, or supply in the same geographic area.

(3) During the state of emergency related to public health declared under s. 323.10 on March 12, 2020, by executive order 72, and for the 60 days following the date that the state of emergency terminates, all of the following apply to any health care provider or health care facility that provides a service, treatment, or supply to an enrollee of a defined network plan or preferred provider plan but is not a participating provider of that plan:

(a) The health care provider or facility shall accept as payment in full any payment by a defined network plan or preferred provider plan that is at least 225 percent of the rate the federal Medicare program reimburses the provider for the same or a similar service, treatment, or supply in the same geographic area.

(b) The health care provider or facility may not charge the enrollee for the service, treatment, or supply an amount that exceeds the amount the provider or facility is reimbursed by the defined network plan or preferred provider plan.

(4) The commissioner may promulgate any rules necessary to implement this section.

History: 2019 a. 185 .
Wis. Stat. § 58.01 — WI Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58.01
Private institutions for orphans, indigents and delinquent children.
Status: in_force

(1) Any corporation organized for the establishment and maintenance of any hospital, asylum or other institution for the care and relief of sick, infirm, indigent or homeless persons, or for any similar charitable purpose may receive all such persons as shall be lawfully committed thereto or placed therein, and shall have and maintain the custody, care and control of such persons until lawfully discharged.

(5) Any member of the clergy of good standing shall be granted reasonable facilities, at proper times and places, freely to minister and impart moral and religious instruction, according to the usages of his or her church or denomination, to every inmate of such institution belonging to such church or denomination, or who shall desire the member of the clergy to do so.

(6) The officers designated therefor by the bylaws of such corporation may at any time discharge any adult inmate when, in their discretion, it is for the inmate’s interest or the interest of the corporation.

History: 1991 a. 316 .
Wis. Stat. § 813.015 — WI Code / Chapter 813 / Section 813.015
Subject matter jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

In an action filed pursuant to s. 813.12 , 813.122 , or 813.125 , the court has jurisdiction of the subject matter under s. 801.04 regardless of whether the alleged abuse or harassment occurred within the state.

History: 2015 a. 4 .
Wis. Stat. § 184.09 — WI Code / Chapter 184 / Section 184.09
Disposition of personal property of inactive nonprofit association.
Status: in_force

If a nonprofit association has been inactive for 3 years or longer, a person in possession or control of personal property of the nonprofit association may transfer the property to any of the following:

(1) If a document of a nonprofit association specifies a person to whom transfer is to be made under these circumstances, that person.

(2) If no person is so specified, a nonprofit association or nonprofit corporation pursuing broadly similar purposes, or to a government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality.

History: 1997 a. 140 .
Wis. Stat. § 632.755 — WI Code / Chapter 632 / Section 632.755
Public assistance and early intervention services.
Status: in_force

(1g)

(a) A disability insurance policy may not exclude a person or a person’s dependent from coverage because the person or the dependent is eligible for assistance under ch. 49 or because the dependent is eligible for early intervention services under s. 51.44 .

(b) A disability insurance policy may not terminate its coverage of a person or a person’s dependent because the person or the dependent is eligible for assistance under ch. 49 or because the dependent is eligible for early intervention services under s. 51.44 .

(c) A disability insurance policy may not provide different benefits of coverage to a person or the person’s dependent because the person or the dependent is eligible for assistance under ch. 49 or because the dependent is eligible for early intervention services under s. 51.44 than it provides to persons and their dependents who are not eligible for assistance under ch. 49 or for early intervention services under s. 51.44 .

(2) Benefits provided by a disability insurance policy shall be primary to those benefits provided under ch. 49 or under s. 51.44 or 253.05 .

History: 1985 a. 29 ; 1989 a. 173 ; 1991 a. 178 , 214 ; 1995 a. 407 ; 1997 a. 27 .
Wis. Stat. § 757.295 — WI Code / Chapter 757 / Section 757.295
Barratry.
Status: in_force

(1) Soliciting legal business. Except as provided under SCR 20:7.1 to 20:7.5, no person may solicit legal matters or a retainer, written or oral, or any agreement authorizing an attorney to perform or render legal services.

(2) Solicitation of a retainer for an attorney. Except as provided under SCR 20:7.1 to 20:7.5, no person may communicate directly or indirectly with any attorney or person acting in the attorney’s behalf for the purpose of aiding, assisting or abetting the attorney in the solicitation of legal matters or the procurement through solicitation of a retainer, written or oral, or any agreement authorizing the attorney to perform or render legal services.

(3) Employment by attorney of person to solicit legal matters. Except as provided under SCR 20:7.1 to 20:7.5, no attorney may employ any person for the purpose of soliciting legal matters or the procurement through solicitation of a retainer, written or oral, or of any agreement authorizing the attorney to perform or render legal services.

(4) Penalty. Any person guilty of any violation of this section shall be imprisoned not more than 6 months or fined not exceeding $500.

History: 1977 c. 187 s. 96 ; 1977 c. 273 , 357 ; 1977 c. 447 ss. 190 , 210 ; Stats. 1977 s. 757.295; 1985 a. 135 ; 1997 a. 35 .
Wis. Stat. § 450.135 — WI Code / Chapter 450 / Section 450.135
Section 450.135
Status: in_force

(8) Applicability. This section applies only with respect to prescriptions for biological products.

(8m) Disclosure to consumers. Each pharmacy shall post in a prominent place at or near the place where prescriptions are dispensed a sign that clearly describes a pharmacist’s ability under this state’s law to substitute a less expensive interchangeable biological product under sub. (2) unless the consumer or the prescribing practitioner has indicated otherwise under sub. (3) .

(9) Links to be maintained by board. The board shall maintain links on the department’s Internet site to the federal food and drug administration’s lists of all currently approved interchangeable biological products. Each pharmacy shall make available for the public information on how to access the federal food and drug administration’s lists of all currently approved interchangeable biological products through the department’s Internet site.

History: 2017 a. 149 ; 2021 a. 9 ; 2025 a. 17 .
Wis. Stat. § 807.05 — WI Code / Chapter 807 / Section 807.05
Stipulations.
Status: in_force

No agreement, stipulation, or consent between the parties or their attorneys, in respect to the proceedings in an action or special proceeding shall be binding unless made in court or during a proceeding conducted under s. 807.13 or 967.08 and entered in the minutes or recorded by the reporter, or made in writing and subscribed by the party to be bound thereby or the party’s attorney.

History: Sup. Ct. Order, 67 Wis. 2d 585, 744 (1975); 1975 c. 218 ; Sup. Ct. Order, 141 Wis. 2d xiii (1987).
Wis. Stat. § 893.10 — WI Code / Chapter 893 / Section 893.10
Actions, time for commencing.
Status: in_force

The period within which an action may be commenced shall not be considered to have expired when the court before which the action is pending is satisfied that the person originally served knowingly gave false information to the officer with intent to mislead the officer in the performance of his or her duty in the service of any summons or civil process. If the court so finds, the period of limitation is extended for one year.

History: 1979 c. 323 .
Wis. Stat. § 704.10 — WI Code / Chapter 704 / Section 704.10
Electronic delivery.
Status: in_force

A rental agreement may include a provision that permits the landlord to provide and indicate agreement by electronic means any of the following:

(1) A copy of the rental agreement and any document related to the rental agreement.

(2) A security deposit and any documents related to the accounting and disposition of the security deposit and security deposit refund.

(3) A promise made before the initial rental agreement to clean, repair, or otherwise improve any portion of the premises.

(4) Advance notice of entry under s. 704.05 (2) .

History: 2017 a. 317 .
Wis. Stat. § 701.0814 — WI Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.0814
Discretionary powers; tax savings.
Status: in_force

(1) Notwithstanding the breadth of discretion granted to a trustee in the terms of the trust, including the use of such terms as “absolute,” “sole,” or “uncontrolled,” the trustee shall exercise a discretionary power in good faith and in accordance with the terms and purposes of the trust and the interests of the beneficiaries. A court may not determine that a trustee abused its discretion merely because the court would have exercised the discretion in a different manner or would not have exercised the discretion.

(2) Subject to sub. (4) , and unless the terms of the trust expressly indicate that a provision of this subsection does not apply, all of the following apply:

(a) A person other than a settlor who is a beneficiary and a trustee, directing party, or trust protector of a trust that confers on the trustee, directing party, or trust protector a power to make discretionary distributions to or for the trustee’s, directing party’s, or trust protector’s personal benefit may exercise the power only in accordance with an ascertainable standard.

(b) A trustee, directing party, or trust protector may not exercise a power to make discretionary distributions to satisfy a legal obligation of support that the trustee, directing party, or trust protector personally owes another person.

(3) A power whose exercise is limited or prohibited by sub. (2) may be exercised by a majority of the remaining trustees, directing parties, or trust protectors whose exercise of the power is not so limited or prohibited. If the power of all trustees, directing parties, or trust protectors is so limited or prohibited, the court may appoint a trustee, directing party, or trust protector with authority to exercise the power.

(4) Subsection (2) does not apply to any of the following:

(a) A power held by the settlor’s spouse who is the trustee, directing party, or trust protector of a trust for which a marital deduction, as defined in section 2056 (b) (5) or 2523 (e) of the Internal Revenue Code, was previously allowed.

(b) A trust during a period when the trust may be revoked or amended by its settlor.

(c) A trust if contributions to the trust qualify for the annual exclusion under section 2503 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code.

History: 2013 a. 92 .
Wis. Stat. § 857.10 — WI Code / Chapter 857 / Section 857.10
Failure to comply with certain statutes.
Status: in_force

Failure of the personal representative to comply with ss. 858.03 , 859.29 or 862.11 is prima facie evidence of neglect of duty.

History: 1971 c. 211 s. 126 .
Wis. Stat. § 88.04 — WI Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.04
General rules relating to signatures on petitions.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person entitled to sign a petition to the court or the drainage board under this chapter may sign through an agent. The authority of the agent shall be in writing and shall be filed with the drainage board but need not be acknowledged, sealed or witnessed.

(2) If any minor or individual adjudicated incompetent owns land in a drainage district or proposed drainage district or proposed annex to a drainage district, the guardian or next of kin of the minor or individual may sign petitions under this chapter for and on behalf of the minor or incompetent.

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 1993 a. 456 ; 2005 a. 387 .
Wis. Stat. § 969.11 — WI Code / Chapter 969 / Section 969.11
Release upon arrest in another county.
Status: in_force

(1) If the defendant is arrested in a county other than the county in which the offense was committed, he or she shall, without unreasonable delay, either be brought before a judge of the county in which arrested for the purpose of setting bail or other conditions of release or be returned to the county in which the offense was committed. The judge shall release him or her on conditions imposed in accordance with this chapter to appear before a court in the county in which the offense was committed at a specified time and place.

(2) If the defendant is released on bail or other conditions pursuant to sub. (1) , the judge shall make a record of the proceedings and shall certify his or her minutes thereof and shall forward the bond and bail to the court before whom the defendant is bound to appear.

History: 1981 c. 183 .
Wis. Stat. § 88.09 — WI Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.09
Certiorari; drainage board decisions.
Status: in_force

Any person subject to an order or rule of the drainage board may, within 30 days after publication of the order or rule, commence an action seeking the remedy available by certiorari. The court may not stay proceedings involving the order or rule when an action is commenced, but may, on application, on notice to the board and for cause, grant a restraining order. The board is not required to return the original papers acted upon by it, but may return certified or sworn copies of the papers. If necessary for the proper disposition of the matter, the court may take evidence, or appoint a referee to take evidence and report findings of fact and conclusions of law as the court directs, which shall constitute a part of the proceedings upon which the determination of the court shall be made. The court may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify, the order or rule brought up for review.

History: 1977 c. 187 s. 134 ; 1983 a. 219 ; 1993 a. 456 .
Wis. Stat. § 402.505 — WI Code / Chapter 402 / Section 402.505
Seller’s shipment under reservation.
Status: in_force

(1) Where the seller has identified goods to the contract by or before shipment:

(a) The seller’s procurement of a negotiable bill of lading to the seller’s own order or otherwise reserves in the seller a security interest in the goods. The seller’s procurement of the bill to the order of a financing agency or of the buyer indicates in addition only the seller’s expectation of transferring that interest to the person named.

(b) A nonnegotiable bill of lading to the seller or the seller’s nominee reserves possession of the goods as security but except in a case of conditional delivery (s. 402.507 (2) ) a nonnegotiable bill of lading naming the buyer as consignee reserves no security interest even though the seller retains possession or control of the bill of lading.

(2) When shipment by the seller with reservation of a security interest is in violation of the contract for sale it constitutes an improper contract for transportation within s. 402.504 but impairs neither the rights given to the buyer by shipment and identification of the goods to the contract nor the seller’s powers as a holder of a negotiable document of title.

History: 1991 a. 316 ; 2009 a. 322 .
Wis. Stat. § 804.015 — WI Code / Chapter 804 / Section 804.015
Limits on discovery by prisoners.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “prisoner” has the meaning given s. 801.02 (7) (a) 2.

(2) Unless ordered by the court, a prisoner in an action or special proceeding may not obtain discovery before the court receives a copy of the answer or other responsive pleading in the action commenced by the prisoner. If a defendant submits a motion to dismiss or a motion for summary judgment, no discovery may be obtained until the court decides that the prisoner has a reasonable opportunity to prevail on the merits, or until the court decides the merits of the motion, unless the court orders a party to submit to discovery.

(3) If a court allows a prisoner to obtain discovery under sub. (2) before the court decides that the prisoner has a reasonable opportunity to prevail on the merits, receives a copy of the answer or other responsive pleading in the action, or decides the merits of a motion to dismiss or a motion for summary judgment, the court order shall be narrowly tailored to limit the discovery to allow only discovery that is essential to enable the prisoner to obtain the evidence necessary to his or her case. The court shall limit the discovery so as to provide a minimal intrusion in the activities of any person subject to discovery under this subsection.

(4) If a prisoner commences an action or special proceeding, the court shall limit the number of requests for interrogatories, production of documents or admissions to 15, unless good cause is shown for any additional requests. This number may not be expanded by the use of subparts to the interrogatories.

(5) This section does not apply when the prisoner appears by an attorney who is licensed to practice law in this state.

History: 1997 a. 133 .
Wis. Stat. § 20.932 — WI Code / Chapter 20 / Section 20.932
Discrimination based on antisemitism.
Status: in_force

(1) Definitions. In this section:

(a) “Local governmental unit” means a political subdivision, a special purpose district, an agency or corporation of a political subdivision or special purpose district, a school district, or a combination or subunit of any of the foregoing, in this state.

(b) “Political subdivision” means a city, village, town, or county.

(c) “State agency” means an association, authority, board, department, commission, independent agency, institution, office, society, or other body in state government created or authorized to be created by the constitution or any law.

(2) Consideration of definition of antisemitism. Each state agency and local governmental unit and each employee or official of this state or of a local governmental unit shall consider the definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on May 26, 2016, including its examples, when evaluating evidence of discriminatory intent for any law, ordinance, or policy in this state that prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin or that provides for enhanced criminal penalties for criminal offenses when the defendant intentionally selects the victim or group of victims or selects the property that is damaged or otherwise affected by the crime because of the victim’s or group of victims’ actual or perceived race, religion, color, or national origin.

(3) Constructions.

(a) Nothing in this section may be construed to diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution or to conflict with federal or state antidiscrimination laws.

(b) Nothing in this section may be construed to create any additional civil or criminal penalty, including for activity protected under the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution at any public school in this state or at any University of Wisconsin System institution or technical college.

History: 2025 a. 143 .
Wis. Stat. § 110.05 — WI Code / Chapter 110 / Section 110.05
Inspection of human service vehicles.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall adopt and enforce such rules as the department deems necessary in the interests of the safety of persons being transported to cover the design, construction, equipment, inspection and operation of human service vehicles.

(2) The owner of the human service vehicle shall have the vehicle inspected at least annually by the department or a certified law enforcement officer for compliance with the requirements of s. 110.075 , ch. 347 and any rules promulgated under this section.

(3) Vehicles required to be inspected under sub. (2) which were in service prior to March 28, 1984, need only be in compliance with the requirements of ch. 347 , 1981 stats.

(4) Any person violating this section, or rules promulgated pursuant thereto, may be required to forfeit not less than $50 nor more than $200.

History: 1983 a. 175 ss. 2 , 25 .
Wis. Stat. § 655.005 — WI Code / Chapter 655 / Section 655.005
Section 655.005
Status: in_force

(2t) Subsection (2) does not affect the liability of a health care provider described in s. 655.002 (1) (d) , (e) , (em) , or (f) for the acts of its employees.

History: 1985 a. 340 ; 1987 a. 27 ; Stats. 1987 s. 655.005; 1989 a. 187 ; 1991 a. 214 ; 1993 a. 473 ; 1995 a. 167 ; 2001 a. 52 ; 2005 a. 36 ; 2025 a. 17 .
Wis. Stat. § 610.01 — WI Code / Chapter 610 / Section 610.01
Definitions.
Status: in_force

In chs. 610 to 620 and 644 , unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) “Director” includes “trustee”.

(2) “Officer” does not include “director”.

(3) “Promoter stock” means shares issued by a domestic stock corporation under ss. 611.18 (2) (a) 2. and 611.32 (1) , and shares issued within 5 years after the initial issuance of the certificate of authority, to incorporators, directors, principal officers, members of the families of any of these persons, and to any corporations controlled by, or any trustee acting in behalf of, any of these persons.

(4) In any provision of ch. 180 or 181 made applicable by any section of chs. 600 to 646 , “department” shall be read “commissioner of insurance”.

History: 1971 c. 260 ; 1979 c. 102 , 177 ; 1983 a. 189 ; 1995 a. 27 ; 1997 a. 227 .
Wis. Stat. § 71.122 — WI Code / Chapter 71 / Section 71.122
Definition.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter, “Wisconsin taxable income” means federal taxable income, as defined in s. 71.01 (4) , as modified under s. 71.05 (6) to (12) , (19) and (20) .

History: 1997 a. 27 .