2007 WISCONSIN ACT 139 Relating to: creating an exception to the prohibition on protective placement or continued protective placement of an individual in a nursing facility (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family ...

Date of enactment: March 21, 2008
2007 Assembly Bill 611 Date of publication*: April 4, 2008

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2005-06 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2007 WISCONSIN ACT 139

An Act to amend 46.279 (5) of the statutes; relating to: creating an exception to the prohibition on protective placement or continued protective placement of an individual in a nursing facility (suggested as remedial legislation by the Department of Health and Family Services).

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 46.279 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

46.279 (5) Exceptions. Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to entrance to a facility under s. 49.45 (6c) (e) 1., to an emergency protective placement under s. 55.135 , or to a temporary protective placement under s. 55.135 (5) or 55.055 (5).