218 Relating to: prohibiting coverage of abortions through health plans sold through exchanges.

Date of enactment: April 5, 2012
2011 Senate Bill 92 Date of publication*: April 19, 2012

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2009-10 : 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].

2011 WISCONSIN ACT 218

An Act to create 632.8985 of the statutes; relating to: prohibiting coverage of abortions through health plans sold through exchanges.

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

Section 1 . 632.8985 of the statutes is created to read:

632.8985 Prohibiting abortion coverage. (1) In this section, "abortion" has the meaning given in s. 253.10 (2) (a).

(2) A qualified health plan, as defined in 42 USC 18021 (a), that is offered through any American health benefit exchange, as described in 42 USC 18031 , that is operating in the state may not cover any abortion the performance of which is ineligible for funding under s. 20.927.