{"data":{"id":"us-wi/wis.-stat.-154.07","jurisdiction":"us-wi","citation":"Wis. Stat. § 154.07","heading":"Duties and immunities.","body":"(1) Liability.\n(a) No health care professional, inpatient health care facility, or person who is licensed, certified, or registered under ch. 441, 448, or 455 or holds a compact privilege under subch. XI of ch. 448 and who is acting under the direction of a health care professional may be held criminally or civilly liable, or charged with unprofessional conduct, for any of the following:\n1. Participating in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or feeding tubes under this subchapter.\n2. Failing to act upon a revocation unless the person or facility has actual knowledge of the revocation.\n3. Failing to comply with a declaration, except that failure by a health care professional to comply with a declaration of a qualified patient constitutes unprofessional conduct if the health care professional refuses or fails to make a good faith attempt to transfer the qualified patient to another health care professional who will comply with the declaration.\n(b)\n1. No person who acts in good faith as a witness to a declaration under this subchapter may be held civilly or criminally liable for participating in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or feeding tubes under this subchapter.\n2. Subdivision 1. does not apply to a person who acts as a witness in violation of s. 154.03 (1).\n(c) Pars. (a) and (b) apply to acts or omissions in connection with a provision of a document that is executed in another jurisdiction if the provision is valid and enforceable under s. 154.11 (9).\n(2) Effect of declaration. The desires of a qualified patient who is competent supersede the effect of the declaration at all times. If a qualified patient is adjudicated incompetent at the time of the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining procedures or feeding tubes, a declaration executed under this subchapter is presumed to be valid. The declaration of a qualified patient who is diagnosed as pregnant by the attending health care professional has no effect during the course of the qualified patient’s pregnancy. For the purposes of this subchapter, a health care professional or inpatient health care facility may presume in the absence of actual notice to the contrary that a person who executed a declaration was of sound mind at the time.","path":["Chs. 145-160, Public Health","Chapter 154 Advance Directives","SUBCHAPTER II DECLARATION TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS"],"source_url":"https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/154.07","current_through":"2023-24 Wisconsin Statutes updated through 2025 Wis. Act 247 (published 9-4-26)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T12:00:58Z","sha256":"44cbe0b842908bfdcbdd6977f1ce7b69fec0a83da9c31af87049d2fe230e1f05","source_id":"us-wi","stale":false,"prev":"us-wi/wis.-stat.-154.05","next":"us-wi/wis.-stat.-154.11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}