2007 WISCONSIN ACT 201 Relating to: expanding types of volunteer health care providers to include pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

Date of enactment: March 31, 2008
2007 Senate Bill 48 Date of publication*: April 14, 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 201

An Act to amend 146.89 (1) (r) of the statutes; relating to: expanding types of volunteer health care providers to include pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

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

Section 1 . 146.89 (1) (r) of the statutes is amended to read:

146.89 (1) (r) "Volunteer health care provider" means an individual who is licensed as a physician under ch. 448, dentist or dental hygienist under ch. 447, registered nurse, practical nurse, or nurse-midwife under ch. 441, optometrist under ch. 449, or physician assistant under ch. 448, or pharmacist under ch. 450, who is certified as a dietitian under subch. V of ch. 448, or who is a nurse practitioner, as defined in s. 255.06 (1) (d), or who performs functions described for pharmacy technicians in rules promulgated by the pharmacy examining board, and who receives no income from the practice of that health care profession or who receives no income from the practice of that health care profession when providing services at the nonprofit agency or school specified under sub. (3).