Date of enactment: March 22, 2024
2023 Senate Bill 526 Date of publication*: March 23, 2024
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 181
AN ACT to renumber and amend 15.195 (8); and to create 15.195 (8) (b) of the statutes; relating to: adding rural
emergency medical services providers to the Emergency Medical Services Board.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 15.195 (8) of the statutes is renumbered
15.195 (8) (a) and amended to read:
15.195 (8) (a) There is created an emergency medical
services board, which is attached to the department of
health services under s. 15.03. The board shall consist of
11 13 voting members, appointed for 3−year terms, who
have an interest and expertise in emergency medical ser-
vices issues, who represent the various geographical
areas of the state, and, subject to par. (b), who include rep-
resentatives of the various types of emergency medical
services providers.
(c) In addition to the 11 13 voting members, the sec-
retary of health services, the secretary of transportation,
the director of the technical college system board and the
state medical director for emergency medical services or
their designees shall serve as nonvoting members of the
board.
SECTION 2. 15.195 (8) (b) of the statutes is created to
read:
15.195 (8) (b) At least 2 of the voting members of the
board shall satisfy all of the following:
1. Be an emergency medical responder, as defined in
s. 256.01 (4p), an emergency medical technician, as
defined in s. 256.01 (6), an advanced emergency medical
technician, as defined in s. 256.01 (1k), or an emergency
medical technician − intermediate, as defined in s. 256.01
(7).
2. Have a local credentialing agreement solely with
a volunteer department that serves a rural area or multiple
volunteer departments that serve a rural area. For pur-
poses of this subdivision, “rural area” means an area for
which the population of the largest single municipality,
as defined in s. 5.02 (11), in the volunteer department’s
service area is less than 10,000.
SECTION 3.0Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES BOARD MEMBERS.
The 2 additional members of the emergency medical ser-
vices board under s. 15.195 (8) that are appointed on or
after the effective date of this subsection shall meet the
criteria required under s. 15.195 (8) (b).
* 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.”