27,1521
Section 1521
. 46.76 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.76 (5) Submit, by December 31 annually, the plan developed under sub. (4) to the governor, the secretary, the secretary of education state superintendent of public instruction and the appropriate standing committees under s. 13.172 (3).
27,1521m
Section 1521m. 46.76 (5) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
46.76 (5) Submit, by December 31 annually, the plan developed under sub. (4) to the governor, superintendent of public instruction and the appropriate standing committees under s. 13.172 (3).
27,1522
Section 1522
. 46.765 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.765 (2) Purpose; amount. (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (3) (dr), the department shall provide start-up grants, awarded by the board on hunger, to one or more agencies, but not to exceed $20,000 per grant per year, for any of the following purposes:
27,1522d
Section 1522d. 46.765 (2) (intro.) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
46.765 (2) Purpose; amount. (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (3) (dr), the department shall provide start-up grants to one or more agencies, but not to exceed $20,000 per grant per year, for any of the following purposes:
27,1522j
Section 1522j. 46.765 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.765 (3) Grant awards; criteria. (intro.) The department shall provide start-up grants under this section pursuant to awards made by the board on hunger. In evaluating applications for grants, the board department shall give priority to proposals for any of the purposes enumerated in sub. (2) that do all of the following:
27,1523
Section 1523
. 46.77 of the statutes is amended to read:
46.77 Food distribution administration. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (3) (dn), the department shall allocate funds to eligible recipient agencies, as defined in the emergency food assistance act, P.L. 98-8, section 201A, as amended, for the storage, transportation and distribution of commodities provided under the hunger prevention act of 1988, P.L. 100-435, as amended.
27,1524
Section 1524
. 46.80 (2m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.80 (2m) (b) May operate the foster grandparent project specified under 42 USC 5011 (a). If the department operates that project, the department shall distribute funds from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (dh) to supplement any federal foster grandparent project funds received under 42 USC 5011 (a).
27,1525
Section 1525
. 46.86 (3m) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.86 (3m) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (md), the department shall may not distribute more than $900,000 in each fiscal year to fund a multidisciplinary prevention and treatment team in Milwaukee county for cocaine-abusing women and their children. The multidisciplinary prevention and treatment team must coordinate its activities with other prevention and treatment programs in Milwaukee county for cocaine-abusing women and their children. Residents from other counties may be served by the multidisciplinary prevention and treatment team. The department may carry forward funds distributed under this subsection, but not encumbered by December 31, for distribution for the purpose under this subsection in the following calendar year.
27,1526
Section 1526
. 46.86 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.86 (5) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (md), the department shall may not distribute more than $35,000 in each fiscal year as a grant to the ARC community services center for women and children in Dane county, to address a projected operation deficit of the center; to provide additional funding for transportation and meal expenses for chemically dependent women who receive services from the center; and to provide additional funding for staff of the center.
27,1527
Section 1527
. 46.87 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.87 (2) From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (7) (b), (kw) and (o), the department shall allocate funds to agencies designated under sub. (3) (c), to be used for the administration and implementation of an Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program for persons with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers.
27,1528c
Section 1528c. 46.93 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.93 (2) Purpose; allocation. (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.434 (1) (b), the board shall award not more than $566,300 in fiscal year 1995-96 and not more than $439,300 in fiscal year 1996-97
each of fiscal years 1997-98 and 1998-99 for grants to organizations to provide adolescent pregnancy prevention programs or pregnancy services that include health care, education, counseling and vocational training. Types of services and programs that are eligible for grants include all of the following:
27,1528ym
Section 1528ym. 46.93 (4) (b) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
46.93 (4) (b) Engaging in any activity specified in s. 20.9275 (2) (a) 1. to 3.
27,1529c
Section 1529c. 46.935 of the statutes is repealed.
27,1531
Section 1531
. 46.95 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.95 (2) (a) The secretary shall make grants from the appropriations under s. 20.435 (1) (3) (cd) and (hh) to organizations for the provision of any of the services specified in sub. (1) (d). Grants may be made to organizations which have provided those domestic abuse services in the past or to organizations which propose to provide those services in the future. No grant may be made to fund services for child abuse or abuse of elderly persons.
27,1532
Section 1532
. 46.95 (2) (f) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.95 (2) (f) (intro.) From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (1) (3) (cd) and (hh), the department shall do all of the following:
27,1532c
Section 1532c. 46.95 (2) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
46.95 (2) (f) 1. Award $95,000
$545,000 in grants each in fiscal year 1997-98 and $995,000 in grants in each fiscal year thereafter to organizations for domestic abuse services that are targeted to children. In awarding the grants, the department shall use a competitive request-for-proposals process and, to the extent possible, shall ensure that the grants are equally distributed on a statewide basis.
27,1533
Section 1533
. 46.972 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.972 (2) (b) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (5) (ce), the department shall allocate up to $125,000 in each fiscal year as grants to applying public or nonprofit private entities for the costs of providing primary health services and any other services that may be funded by the program under 42 USC 256 to homeless individuals. Entities that receive funds allocated by the department under this paragraph shall provide the primary health services as required under 42 USC 256 (f). The department may allocate to an applying entity up to 100% of the amount of matching funds required under 42 USC 256 (e).
27,1534
Section 1534
. 46.972 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.972 (3) (b) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (ce), the department shall allocate up to $125,000 may not allocate more than $45,000 in each fiscal year to applying public or nonprofit private entities for the costs of providing certain mental health services to homeless individuals with chronic mental illness. Entities that receive funds allocated by the department under this subsection shall provide the mental health services required under 42 USC 290cc-24. The amount that the department allocates to an applying entity may not exceed 50% of the amount of matching funds required under 42 USC 290cc-23.
27,1535m
Section 1535m. 46.974 of the statutes is amended to read:
46.974 Joint alcohol and drug abuse prevention plan. The department in cooperation with the department of education public instruction shall prepare, and the secretary and the secretary of education
state superintendent shall approve, a coordinated plan for the development, testing and implementation of cooperative and integrated school-community alcohol and drug abuse prevention, intervention, treatment and rehabilitation services. The department and the department of education public instruction shall submit a report biennially to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2) on the implementation of the plan.
27,1536
Section 1536
. 46.985 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.985 (7) (a) From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (7) (b), (kw) and (o), the department shall allocate to county departments funds for the administration and implementation of the program.
27,1544
Section 1544
. 46.997 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.997 (2) (intro.) From the appropriation under
s. 20.435 (6) (a), the department shall allocate not more than $65,500 in each fiscal year to solicit applications from organizations and provide technical assistance to grantees and, from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (3) (eg), the department shall allocate not more than $210,000 in each fiscal year to make grants to applying organizations for the provision, on a regional or tribal project basis, of information to communities in order to increase community knowledge about problems of adolescents and information to and activities for adolescents, particularly female adolescents, in order to enable the adolescents to develop skills with respect to all of the following:
27,1547
Section 1547
. 46.997 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.997 (5) The department shall work closely with the women's council and the department of education public instruction, on a continuing basis, concerning the scope and direction of activities under projects funded by the program under sub. (2).
27,1548m
Section 1548m. 47.02 (8) of the statutes is created to read:
47.02 (8) The department shall amend the state plan under 29 USC 721 to establish a grant program for the establishment, development or improvement of community rehabilitation programs as authorized under 29 USC 723 (b) (2). Under the grant program, the department shall distribute grants to community rehabilitation programs and shall require any community rehabilitation program that receives a grant to provide funds to match 25% of the amount of the grant awarded.
27,1549
Section 1549
. 47.03 (11) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
47.03 (11) (e) The department shall distribute at least $218,600 from the appropriations in s. 20.445 (5) (bm) and (na) in each fiscal year for homecraft services relating to the marketing and distribution of homecraft products and to the purchase of capital equipment for each client who participates in the homecraft program.
27,1550
Section 1550
. 48.02 (2g) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.02 (2g) “County department" means a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23, unless the context requires otherwise.
27,1552
Section 1552
. 48.06 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (a) 1. In counties with a population of 500,000 or more, the county board of supervisors
department shall provide the court with the services necessary for investigating and supervising child welfare cases by operating a children's court center under the supervision of a director who is appointed as provided in s. 46.21 (1m) (a). The director is the chief administrative officer of the center and of the intake and probation sections and secure detention facilities of the center except as otherwise provided in this subsection. The director under this chapter. The department is charged with providing child welfare intake and dispositional services and with administration of the personnel and services of the child welfare intake and dispositional sections and of the secure detention facilities, and is responsible for supervising both the operation of the physical plant and the maintenance and improvement of the buildings and grounds of the center of the department. The center
department shall include investigative services for all children alleged to be in need of protection or services to be provided by the county department, and the services of an assistant district attorney or assistant corporation counsel or both, who shall be assigned to the center to provide investigative as well as legal work in the cases.
27,1553
Section
1553. 48.06 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (a) 2. The chief judge of the judicial administrative district shall formulate written judicial policy governing intake and court services for juvenile
child welfare matters under this chapter and the
director department shall be charged with executing the judicial policy. The chief judge shall direct and supervise the work of all personnel of the court, except the work of the district attorney or corporation counsel assigned to the court. The chief judge may delegate his or her supervisory functions under s. 48.065 (1).
27,1554
Section 1554
. 48.06 (1) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (a) 3. The county board of supervisors shall develop policies and establish necessary rules for the management and administration of the nonjudicial operations of the children's court center. The director of the center shall report and is responsible to the director of the county department for the execution of all nonjudicial operational policies and rules governing the center, including activities of probation officers whenever they are not performing services for the court. The director of the center is also responsible for the preparation and submission to the county board of supervisors of the annual budget for the center except for the judicial functions or responsibilities which are delegated by law to the judge or judges and clerk of circuit court. The county board of supervisors shall make provision in the organization of the office of director for the devolution of the director's authority in the case of temporary absence, illness, disability to act or a vacancy in position and shall establish the general qualifications for the position. The county board of supervisors also has the authority to investigate, arbitrate and resolve any conflict in the administration of the center as between judicial and nonjudicial operational policy and rules. The county board of supervisors does not have authority and may not assert jurisdiction over the disposition of any case or child after a written order is made under s. 48.21 or if a petition is filed under s. 48.25. All personnel of the intake and probation sections and of the secure detention facilities shall be appointed under civil service by the director except that existing court service personnel having permanent civil service status may be reassigned to any of the respective sections within the center specified in this paragraph.
27,1555
Section 1555
. 48.06 (1) (am) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (am) 1. All intake workers beginning providing services under this chapter who begin employment after May 15, 1980, shall have the qualifications required to perform entry level social work in a county department and shall have successfully completed 30 hours of intake training approved or provided by the department prior to the completion of the first 6 months of employment in the position. The department shall monitor compliance with this subdivision according to rules promulgated by the department.
27,1556
Section 1556
. 48.06 (1) (am) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (am) 2. The department shall make training programs available annually that permit intake workers who provide services under this chapter to satisfy the requirements specified under subd. 1.
27,1557
Section 1557
. 48.06 (1) (am) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (am) 3. Each intake worker providing services under this chapter whose responsibilities include investigation or treatment of child abuse or neglect shall successfully complete additional training in child abuse and neglect protective services approved by the department under s. 48.981 (8) (d). Not more than 4 hours of the additional training may be applied to the requirement under subd. 1.
27,1558
Section 1558
. 48.06 (1) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
27,1559
Section 1559
. 48.06 (2) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (2) (b) 1. All intake workers beginning providing services under this chapter who begin employment after May 15, 1980, shall have the qualifications required to perform entry level social work in a county department and shall have successfully completed 30 hours of intake training approved or provided by the department prior to the completion of the first 6 months of employment in the position. The department shall monitor compliance with this paragraph according to rules promulgated by the department.
27,1560
Section 1560
. 48.06 (2) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (2) (b) 2. The department shall make training programs available annually that permit intake workers who provide services under this chapter to satisfy the requirements specified under subd. 1.
27,1561
Section 1561
. 48.06 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (2) (c) Each intake worker providing services under this chapter whose responsibilities include investigation or treatment of child abuse or neglect shall successfully complete additional training in child abuse and neglect protective services approved by the department under s. 48.981 (8) (d). Not more than 4 hours of the additional training may be applied to the requirement under par. (b).
27,1562
Section 1562
. 48.06 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (3) Intake services. The court or, the department in a county having a population of 500,000 or more or the county department responsible for providing intake services under s. 48.067 shall specify one or more persons to provide intake services. If there is more than one such worker, one of the workers shall be designated as chief worker and shall supervise other workers.
27,1563
Section 1563
. 48.069 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.069 (1) (intro.) The staff of the department, the court, a county department or a licensed child welfare agency designated by the court to carry out the objectives and provisions of this chapter, or, in a county having a population of 500,000 or more, the department or an agency under contract with the department to provide dispositional services, shall:
27,1564
Section 1564
. 48.069 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.069 (2) Licensed Except in a county having a population of 500,000 or more, licensed child welfare agencies and the department shall provide services under this section only upon the approval of the agency from whom services are requested. In a county having a population of 500,000 or more, the department or, with the approval of the department, a licensed child welfare agency shall provide services under this section.
27,1565
Section 1565
. 48.069 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.069 (3) A court or county department responsible for disposition staff or, in a county having a population of 500,000 or more, the department may agree with the court or county department responsible for providing intake services that the disposition staff may be designated to provide some or all of the intake services.
27,1566
Section 1566
. 48.07 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.07 (3) (title) County The department in populous counties. In counties having a population of 500,000 or more, the director of the county department may be ordered by the court to provide services for furnishing emergency shelter care to any child whose need therefor is determined by the intake worker under s. 48.205. The court may authorize the director
department to appoint members of the county department to furnish emergency shelter care services for the child. The emergency shelter care may be provided as specified in s. 48.207.
27,1567
Section 1567
. 48.207 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.207 (2) If a facility listed in sub. (1) (b) to (k) is used to hold children in custody, or if supervisory services of a home detention program are provided to children held under sub. (1) (a), its authorized rate shall be paid by the county for the care of the child shall be paid by the county in a county having a population of less than 500,000 or by the department in a county having a population of 500,000 or more. If no authorized rate has been established, a reasonable sum to be fixed by the court shall be paid by the county in a county having a population of less than 500,000 or by the department in a county having a population of 500,000 or more for the supervision or care of the child.
27,1568
Section 1568
. 48.275 (2) (d) of the statutes is renumbered 48.275 (2) (d) 1. and amended to read:
48.275 (2) (d) 1. Reimbursement
In a county having a population of less than 500,000, reimbursement payments shall be made to the clerk of courts of the county where the proceedings took place. Each payment shall be transmitted to the county treasurer, who shall deposit 25% of the amount paid for state-provided counsel in the county treasury and transmit the remainder to the state treasurer. Payments transmitted to the state treasurer shall be deposited in the general fund and credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.550 (1) (L). The county treasurer shall deposit 100% of the amount paid for county-provided counsel in the county treasury.
27,1569
Section 1569
. 48.275 (2) (d) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
48.275 (2) (d) 2. In a county having a population of 500,000 or more, reimbursement payments shall be made to the clerk of courts of the county where the proceedings took place. Each payment shall be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall deposit the amount paid in the general fund and credit 25% of the amount paid to the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (3) (gx) and the remainder to the appropriation account under s. 20.550 (1) (L).
27,1570
Section 1570
. 48.295 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.295 (1) After the filing of a petition and upon a finding by the court that reasonable cause exists to warrant an examination or an alcohol and other drug abuse assessment that conforms to the criteria specified under s. 48.547 (4), the court may order any child coming within its jurisdiction to be examined as an outpatient by personnel in an approved treatment facility for alcohol and other drug abuse, by a physician, psychiatrist or licensed psychologist, or by another expert appointed by the court holding at least a master's degree in social work or another related field of child development, in order that the child's physical, psychological, alcohol or other drug dependency, mental or developmental condition may be considered. The court may also order an examination or an alcohol and other drug abuse assessment that conforms to the criteria specified under s. 48.547 (4) of a parent, guardian or legal custodian whose ability to care for a child is at issue before the court. The court shall hear any objections by the child, the child's parents, guardian or legal custodian to the request for such an examination or assessment before ordering the examination or assessment. The expenses of an examination, if approved by the court, shall be paid by the county of the court ordering the examination in a county having a population of less than 500,000 or by the department in a county having a population of 500,000 or more. The payment for an alcohol and other drug abuse assessment shall be in accordance with s. 48.361.
27,1571
Section 1571
. 48.33 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.33 (4) (b) A recommendation for an amount of child support to be paid by either or both of the child's parents or for referral to the county designee
child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) for the establishment of child support.
27,1572
Section 1572
. 48.345 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
