Wisconsin Legislature: AB156

AB156

Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Public Health
Assembly Bill 156
Relating to: permitting certain individuals to subject another individual's blood to a test for the human immunodeficiency virus, requiring the withdrawal and preservation of a blood specimen from certain corpses, permitting certain persons to subject a corpse or blood specimen withdrawn from a corpse to a test for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus or other blood-borne pathogens, the recovery of costs of certain tests for the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus, and requiring a funeral director to obtain a release before embalming certain corpses.
By Representatives Wade, Hundertmark, Kestell, Musser, M. Lehman, Gronemus, Miller, Olsen, Freese, Albers, Gunderson, Shilling and Sykora; cosponsored by Senator Welch and Roessler.

March 1, 2001 Referred to Committee on Public Health.

March 21, 2001

PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (8) Representatives Urban, Lippert, Freese, Johnsrud, McCormick, Carpenter, Wasserman and Coggs.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· Rep. Joan Wade, author

· Tom Bannen, self

· Matt Graf, self

Appearances against

· Bob Schwoch, AIDS Resource Center of WI

Appearances for Information Only

· Mark Bognar, MD, Asst. Phy. UW

Registrations for

· None.

Registrations against

· None.

March 14, 2002

Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.

Sara Buschman
Committee Clerk