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allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records

allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records

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This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Senators Cabral-Guevara and Nass, cosponsored by Representatives Summerfield, Dittrich, Gundrum, Knodl, Kreibich, Murphy, O'Connor, Penterman and Steffen
Last action
2025-08-11
Official status
S - Enacted into law
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records

allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records Status: S - Enacted into law

What This Bill Does

  • allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records Status: S - Enacted into law

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  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-08-11 Sen.

    Report approved by the Governor on 8-8-2025. 2025 Wisconsin Act 19

  2. 2025-08-11 Sen.

    Published 8-9-2025

  3. 2025-08-07 Sen.

    Presented to the Governor on 8-7-2025

  4. 2025-05-14 Sen.

    Report correctly enrolled

  5. 2025-05-13 Asm.

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  6. 2025-05-13 Asm.

    Read a second time

  7. 2025-05-13 Asm.

    Ordered to a third reading

  8. 2025-05-13 Asm.

    Rules suspended

  9. 2025-05-13 Asm.

    Read a third time and concurred in

  10. 2025-05-13 Asm.

    Ordered immediately messaged

  11. 2025-05-13 Sen.

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  12. 2025-05-09 Asm.

    Withdrawn from committee on Rules and referred to calendar of 5-13-2025

  13. 2025-05-08 Asm.

    Representative Vining added as a cosponsor

  14. 2025-05-07 Asm.

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  15. 2025-05-07 Asm.

    Representatives Stubbs and Fitzgerald added as cosponsors

  16. 2025-03-26 Asm.

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  17. 2025-03-19 Asm.

    Received from Senate

  18. 2025-03-18 Sen.

    Read a second time

  19. 2025-03-18 Sen.

    Ordered to a third reading

  20. 2025-03-18 Sen.

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  21. 2025-03-18 Sen.

    Read a third time and passed

  22. 2025-03-18 Sen.

    Ordered immediately messaged

  23. 2025-03-14 Sen.

    Executive action taken

  24. 2025-03-14 Sen.

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Health , Ayes 5, Noes 0

  25. 2025-03-14 Sen.

    Available for scheduling

  26. 2025-03-14 Sen.

    Placed on calendar 3-18-2025 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  27. 2025-03-13 Sen.

    Representative Miresse added as a cosponsor

  28. 2025-03-12 Sen.

    Public hearing held

  29. 2025-02-19 Sen.

    Representative Tusler added as a cosponsor

  30. 2025-02-12 Sen.

    Introduced by Senators Cabral-Guevara and Nass ; cosponsored by Representatives Summerfield , Dittrich , Gundrum , Knodl , Kreibich , Murphy , O'Connor , Penterman and Steffen

  31. 2025-02-12 Sen.

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Health

Official Summary Text

allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the preparation of death records
Status: S - Enacted into law

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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 43
February 12, 2025 - Introduced by Senators
Cabral-Guevara
and
Nass
, cosponsored by Representatives
Summerfield
,
Dittrich
,
Gundrum
,
Knodl
,
Kreibich
,
Murphy
,
O'Connor
,
Penterman
and
Steffen
. Referred to Committee on Health.
SB43,1,4
1
An Act

to amend
69.01 (6g);
to create
69.01 (1g) and 69.18 (1) (cL) of the
2
statutes;
relating to:
allowing advanced practice nurse prescribers to
3
pronounce the date, time, and place of a patient’s death for purposes of the
4
preparation of death records.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, any person who moves a corpse for the purpose of final disposition must file a death record for the corpse in a manner prescribed by the state registrar when the death occurred in this state, the corpse was found in this state, or certain other circumstances apply. For purposes of preparing the death record, certain health care providers may pronounce the date, time, and place of the death in certain circumstances, including naturopathic doctors and physician assistants. This bill allows advanced practice nurse prescribers who are directly involved with the care of a patient who dies to pronounce the date, time, and place of the patient’s death for purposes of preparation of the death record.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB43,1
5
Section

1
.
69.01 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:
SB43,2,2
1
69.01
(1g)
“Advanced practice nurse prescriber” means an advanced practice
2
nurse who is certified under s. 441.16 (2) to issue prescription orders.
SB43,2
3
Section
2
.
69.01 (6g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB43,2,7
4
69.01
(6g)
“Date of death” means the date that a person is pronounced dead by
5
a physician, naturopathic doctor, coroner, deputy coroner, medical examiner, deputy
6
medical examiner, physician assistant,
advanced practice nurse prescriber,
or
7
hospice nurse.
SB43,3
8
Section
3
.
69.18 (1) (cL) of the statutes is created to read:
SB43,2,12
9
69.18
(1)
(cL) Except as provided in par. (cm), for purposes of preparation of
10
the death record and in accordance with accepted medical standards, an advanced
11
practice nurse prescriber who is directly involved with the care of a patient who dies
12
may pronounce the date, time, and place of the patient’s death.
SB43,2,13
13
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