In this chapter:

1. (1) “Agency” means any private or public organization.
2. (2) “Communication access services” means a service that ensures individuals who are deaf, deafblind or hard of hearing can communicate effectively with others. Communication access services include sign language interpretation, tactile communication, and captioning.
3. (3) “Communication access services provider” or “provider” means a trained individual who facilitates communication on behalf of individuals who are deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing.
4. (4) “Deaf, deafblind or hard of hearing person” means a person with some degree of hearing loss who requires communication access services to effectively communicate with others.
5. (5) “Department” means the Wisconsin department of health services or its designated administrative agency.
6. (6) “Emergency” means a situation in which the life, liberty, health or property of a deaf or hard of hearing person or a member of a deaf, deafblind or hard of hearing person’s family is in immediate danger.
7. (7) “Final payment” means financial compensation by the department to a person or communication access services coordination agency providing communication access services and which the department will not seek to recover by billing a person or agency.

History

History: CR 99-009: cr. Register November 2002 No. 563, eff. 12-1-02; correction in (12) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6., Stats., Register November 2008 No. 635; CR 22-019: r. (2) to (6), renum. (7), (8) to (2), (3) and am., r. (9), (10), renum. (11) to (14) to (4) to (7) and, as renumbered, am (4)., r. (15) to (24) Register May 2023 No. 809, eff. 6-1-23.