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WI AB192

Bill

Status

Engrossed

2/19/2026

Primary Sponsor

Clint Moses

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes fatality review teams under Wisconsin law as multidisciplinary teams to review deaths including suicide, overdose, homicide, child abuse/neglect, maternal deaths, and unexpected child deaths, with the goal of developing prevention recommendations

  • Requires the Department of Health Services to create a fatality review program with local teams formed optionally by municipalities, counties, or health departments, and authorizes DHS to create state-level teams

  • Grants fatality review teams access to records from law enforcement, medical examiners, health care providers, schools, child welfare agencies, courts, and the prescription drug monitoring program for overdose, suicide, and maternal mortality reviews

  • Makes all information and records provided to or created by fatality review teams confidential and exempt from public records laws, discovery, and subpoena, while prohibiting team members from testifying about information obtained through reviews

  • Exempts fatality review team meetings from open meetings requirements and provides civil and criminal immunity for good faith participation in reviews; takes effect 13 months after publication

Legislative Description

Fatality review teams and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

Last Action

Representative Billings added as a coauthor

3/10/2026

Committee Referrals

Organization2/25/2026
Rules2/5/2026
Local Government4/15/2025

Full Bill Text

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