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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 11
February 6, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives GOEBEN, SUBECK, ALLEN,
ANDERSON, BEHNKE, BRILL, BROOKS, DITTRICH, KIRSCH, KNODL, MAXEY,
MURPHY, MURSAU, NEYLON, RODRIGUEZ, TUSLER, WICHGERS and TENORIO,
cosponsored by Senators JACQUE, CARPENTER, HABUSH SINYKIN, HESSELBEIN,
L. JOHNSON, KEYESKI, RATCLIFF, SPREITZER and LARSON. Referred to
Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to create 50.373 of the statutes; relating to: pelvic exams on
unconscious patients and creating an administrative rule related to hospital
requirements for pelvic exams on unconscious patients.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires hospitals to ensure written informed consent is obtained
from a patient before a pelvic exam is performed solely for educational purposes on
the patient while the patient is under general anesthesia or otherwise unconscious.
The bill also creates a Department of Health Services rule providing that hospitals
must maintain written policies and procedures requiring written informed consent
to be obtained from a patient before a pelvic exam is performed solely for
educational purposes on the patient while the patient is under general anesthesia
or otherwise unconscious.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 50.373 of the statutes is created to read:
50.373 Informed consent for pelvic examinations. A hospital shall
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ensure that, before a pelvic examination is performed solely for educational
purposes on a patient while the patient is under general anesthesia or otherwise
unconscious, written informed consent is obtained from the patient.
SECTION 2. DHS 124.10 of the administrative code is created to read:
DHS 124.10 Consent policy for pelvic examinations performed for
educational purposes. A hospital shall maintain written policies and procedures
requiring written informed consent to be obtained from a patient before a pelvic
examination is performed solely for educational purposes on the patient while the
patient is under general anesthesia or otherwise unconscious.
SECTION 3. Effective dates. This act takes effect on the day after
publication, except as follows:
(1) The creation of s. DHS 124.10, Wis. Adm. Code, takes effect as provided in
s. 227.265.
(END)
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