Wisconsin legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Wisconsin AB674: An Act to create 157.06 (15m) of the statutes; Relating to: prohibiting knowingly covering organ transplantation and related care under health insurance policies and the Medical Assistance program if the organ is transplanted in or originates from a country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting. (FE)
Status: Vetoed, May 13, 2026
What the bill says
An Act to create 157.06 (15m) of the statutes; relating to: prohibiting knowingly covering organ transplantation and related care under health insurance policies and the Medical Assistance program if the organ is transplanted in or originates from a country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting.
From the enrolled text, February 20, 2026:
An Act to create 157.06 (15m) of the statutes; relating to: prohibiting knowingly covering organ transplantation and related care under health insurance policies and the Medical Assistance program if the organ is transplanted in or originates from a country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: AB674,1Section 1. 157.06 (15m) of the statutes is created to read: 157.06 (15m) Coverage prohibited if organ is transplanted in or originates from certain countries. (a) In this subsection, "forced organ harvesting" means the removal of one or more organs from a living person, by means of coercion, abduction, deception, fraud, or abuse of power over a position of vulnerability, or from a person killed for the purpose of removal of one or more organs. (b) Subject to par. (c), no payer to which this subsection applies under par. (e) may knowingly cover a human organ transplant or posttransplant care if any of the following apply: 1. The transplant operation is performed in the People's Republic of China or in another country known to have participated in forced organ harvesting, as designated by the department under par. (d). 2. The human organ to be transplanted was procured by sale or donation originating in the People's Republic of …
Sponsors
- Moses, Clint (R, HD-092) · primary sponsor