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Legislation: Wisconsin - 2006 Archives


June 2006 - Governor signs important legislation

Governor Doyle recently signed legislation that would expand Family Care statewide, thus expanding long-term, community-based care to thousands more low-income seniors and people with disabilities. Until now, Family Care has only been available in just 5 Wisconsin counties.

In addition, Governor Doyle has signed the following bills:

SB-157: Access to places by people with disabilities accompanied by service dogs.
This bill conforms current law to those federal regulations by extending the Public Accommodations Law to cover any type of service animal, not just guide dogs, and by eliminating the requirements that a guide dog accompanying a person with a disability must wear a harness or leash and special cape and that the person with a disability who is accompanied by a guide dog must present credentials issued by a guide dog training school.

SB-181: Harassment of or causing injury to a service dog.
This bill creates new crimes involving dogs that are trained for the purpose of assisting persons with sensory, mental, or physical disabilities or accommodating such disabilities (service dogs).

SB-312: Expands relocations from nursing homes under a community integration program to include persons who are diverted from imminent entry into nursing homes.

March 2006 - Legislative Update

The information, as follows, has been provided by DAWN Disability Advocates: Wisconsin Network.

The legislature has been very busy acting on a number of bills. The following are bills that have passed both houses of the legislature. They are now available for the governor's action. He has until April 20, 2006 to act on them. Contact the governor's office to express your views on these bills. He can be reached via mail at P.O. Box 7863, Madison, WI 53707, via phone at (608) 266-1212 or via a web form at www.wisgov.state.wi.us/contact.asp.

For more information about these and other disability related bills go to the DAWN web site at: www.dawninfo.org/advocacy/leg/intro_leg.cfm.

  • AB-122 - Medical assistance reimbursement for transportation by specialized medical vehicles.
  • AB-308 - Establishes a clearinghouse for information about special education transition services and vocational opportunities available in each county.
  • AB-785 - Protective placements and protective services.
  • AB-792 - Home care worker placement.
  • AB 1071 - Time limit for a person under the age of 18 to bring action against a health care provider.
  • SB-68 - Supplementing special education funding with lapsed SAGE contract money.
  • SB-157 - Access to places by disabled persons accompanied by service dogs.
  • SB-181 - Harassment of or causing injury to a service dog.
  • SB-226 - Informed consent for minors for inpatient and outpatient treatment for mental illness and developmental disability, informed consent for the administration to minors of psychotropic medication.
  • SB-312 - Expands relocations from nursing homes under a community integration program to include persons who are diverted from imminent entry into nursing homes.
  • SB-529 - Special education programs for children with disabilities.
  • SB-579 - Caregiver background information.

    February 7, 2006 - AB 700 - Autism Scholarship Bill Hearing in Madison

    A Public Hearing on AB 700, a bill that would provide up to $15,000 scholarships to the parents of students identified with autism to pay for tuition to attend a specialized school to implement the student's IEP, will be held at the State Capitol, Room 412-East on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. For more information about AB 700 go to the DAWN web site at: www.dawninfo.org/advocacy/leg/intro_leg.cfm#ab700.

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