MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin State Assembly met Tuesday to vote on a number of healthcare-related proposals.
“Today my colleagues and I approved several commonsense health bills, many of which received bipartisan support in committee and already received votes in the Senate,” State Rep. Dave Armstrong (R-Rice Lake) said.
Examples of the legislation passed on May 13:
- Senate Bill 14 requires hospitals to obtain written consent before performing pelvic exams for educational purposes on patients under general anesthesia.
- Assembly Bill 23 creates a Palliative Care Council to advise the Department of Health Services on palliative care issues.
- Assembly Bill 43 allows pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptive patches and self-administered oral hormonal contraceptives under certain circumstances.
- Senate Bill 43 allows advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the deaths of patients.
- Assembly Bill 45 ratifies Wisconsin’s participation in the interstate Dietitian Licensure Compact, which, when enough states ratify it, will make it easier for Wisconsin dietitians to practice across state lines for and out-of-state dietitians to practice in Wisconsin.
The Assembly also passed a number of resolutions, including Assembly Joint Resolution 37, which Representative Armstrong introduced to recognize May 2025 as Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month. EDS and HSD are rare but potentially debilitating, and their wide range of symptoms are often mistaken for other, more common, conditions, which makes effective treatment difficult.
Last Update: May 14, 2025 7:13 pm CDT
