Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 933 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 157.06 (15) (a) (intro.), 157.06 (15) (a) 5. and 157.06 (15) (b); and to create 157.06 (2) (ze), 157.06
(15) (a) 4m. and 157.06 (16) of the statutes; relating to: prohibiting discrimination in organ transplantation and dona-
tion on the basis of an individual’s vaccination status.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 157.06 (2) (ze) of the statutes is created
to read:
157.06 (2) (ze) “Vaccination status” means the status
of an individual having received or not received, for rea-
sons of health, religion, or personal conviction, one or
more doses of a vaccine to which any of the following
apply:
1. The vaccine is authorized for emergency use by the
federal food and drug administration under 21 USC
360bbb−3.
2. The vaccine operates through the transfer of
genetic material into humans.
3. The dosing schedule for the vaccine is annual.
4. The vaccine is for the prevention of a disease
against which the individual has a sufficient concentra-
tion of antibodies in the individual’s blood to confer pro-
tection, as shown by an antibody titer.
SECTION 2. 157.06 (15) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is
amended to read:
157.06 (15) (a) (intro.) Except as provided in pars. (c)
and (d), no hospital or transplant hospital may, solely on
the basis of an individual’s vaccination status or disabil-
ity, do any of the following:
SECTION 3. 157.06 (15) (a) 4m. of the statutes is cre-
ated to read:
157.06 (15) (a) 4m. Remove the individual from an
organ transplant waiting list.
SECTION 4. 157.06 (15) (a) 5. of the statutes is
amended to read:
157.06 (15) (a) 5. Place the individual on an organ
transplant waiting list at a lower priority position than the
position at which the individual would have been placed
if not for the individual’s vaccination status or if the indi-
vidual did not have a disability, unless the individual is
placed at a lower priority position because the individu-
al’s disability relates directly to the medical need of the
individual to receive the organ transplant and the individ-
ual’s relative placement on the waiting list is reflective of
the individual’s medical need for the organ transplant.
SECTION 5. 157.06 (15) (b) of the statutes is amended
to read:
157.06 (15) (b) No person may refuse an individual
insurance coverage for any procedure associated with
being evaluated for or receiving an anatomical gift,
including posttransplantation and posttransfusion care,
solely on the basis of the individual’s vaccination status
or physical or mental disability.
* 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.” − 2 −2023 Wisconsin Act 2023 Senate Bill 933
SECTION 6. 157.06 (16) of the statutes is created to
read:
157.06 (16) DISCRIMINATION ON BASIS OF VACCINA-
TION STATUS PROHIBITED. No person may discriminate
against an individual in any matter relating to donating or
receiving an anatomical gift on the basis of the individu-
al’s vaccination status.