Wisconsin SB 678: Relating to: providing complementary and alternative health care practitioners with exemptions from practice protection laws, requirements and prohibitions for individuals who provide complementary and alternative health care services, and providing a penalty. (FE)

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Wisconsin Legislature: SB678: Bill Text 

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2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE

2017 Senate BILL 678

January 4, 2018 - Introduced by Senators Lasee, 
Moulton and Tiffany, 
cosponsored by Representatives 
Murphy, Bernier, Felzkowski, Horlacher, 
Kooyenga, Mursau, Quinn, Ripp, Schraa and Tusler. Referred to Committee 
on Health and Human Services.

SB678,1,5
1An Act to create chapter 461 of the statutes; relating to: providing 
2complementary and alternative health care practitioners with exemptions 
3from practice protection laws, requirements and prohibitions for individuals 
4who provide complementary and alternative health care services, and 
5providing a penalty.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill does the following: 1) establishes certain requirements and 
prohibitions for complementary and alternative health care (CAHC) practitioners; 
2) provides exemptions for CAHC practitioners from prohibitions against acting 
without certain health-care related licenses, certifications, and other credentials if 
they comply with provisions in the bill; and 3) provides the Department of Safety and 
Professional Services with authority to investigate and take action against a CAHC 
practitioner for violating a provision in the bill.

Under current law, DSPS, in conjunction with a number of credentialing boards 
attached to DSPS, regulates and provides for the credentialing of various types of 
health-care professions. Current law contains numerous prohibitions against 
engaging in certain health-care related practices and against using titles associated 
with certain health-care related professions without a required credential.

This bill establishes certain requirements pertaining to CAHC practitioners, 
which are not specifically regulated or required to hold a specific credential under 
current law. The bill requires a CAHC practitioner to provide to each client, before 
first providing CAHC services to the client, certain information in a plainly worded 
written statement, including the following: 1) information about the CAHC 
practitioner; 2) a notice explaining that the CAHC practitioner is not practicing 
under a health-care related credential granted by the state; 3) information about the 
nature of the service to be provided; and 4) a list of any degrees, training, experience, 
or other qualification that the CAHC practitioner has.

The bill requires a CAHC practitioner, before providing CAHC services to a 
client, to obtain a written and signed acknowledgement from the client stating that 
the client has received the information required to be provided. The bill requires the 
CAHC practitioner to provide a copy of the acknowledgement to the client and to 
retain a copy of it for at least two years.

The bill prohibits a person from acting as a CAHC practitioner if the person is 
or was a credentialed health care professional and had his or her credential revoked 
or suspended, unless the credential was subsequently reinstated; if the person was 
convicted of certain felonies and has not completed