LRB-0158

LRB-0158/P2

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2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE

DOA:......Wavrunek, BB0046 - Administrative costs for services for sexual assault victims

For 2011-13 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction

An Act ...; relating to: the budget.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Justice

Under current law, when a person is convicted of a crime, or if a person was charged with a crime but the criminal charge was amended to a civil offense and a court finds that the person committed the civil offense, the person pays a crime victim and witness assistance surcharge. DOJ uses a percentage of the surcharge to provide grants for sexual assault victim services.

This bill specifies that DOJ may use some of the funds it provides as grants for sexual assault victim services to pay the costs of administering the grant program.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 20.455 (5) (gc) of the statutes, as affected by 2009 Wisconsin Act 28, section 538c, is amended to read:

20.455 (5) (gc) Crime victim and witness surcharge, sexual assault victim services. All moneys received from any crime victim and witness assistance surcharge authorized under s. 973.045 (1) that are allocated to this appropriation account under s. 973.045 (2m) (a), to provide grants for sexual assault victim services under s. 165.93 and to administer the grant program.

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