Date of enactment: March 22, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 178 Date of publication*: March 23, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 175
AN ACT to create 979.01 (5) of the statutes; relating to: requiring notification to the medical examiner or coroner
of any death that occurs within 24 hours of presentment at or admission to certain facilities.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 979.01 (5) of the statutes is created to
read:
979.01 (5) If a person specified to report under sub.
(1) has knowledge of the death of any individual occur-
ring within 24 hours after that individual either has pre-
sented at or is admitted to a hospital or other facility
described under sub. (1), whichever is earlier, the person
specified to report under sub. (1) shall immediately
notify the medical examiner or coroner of the county
where the death took place to allow the medical examiner
or coroner to determine if the death is reportable under
sub. (1). This subsection does not apply to a hospice, as
defined in s. 50.90 (1).
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: 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.”