LRB-0555/P3
MIM:amn&kjf
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kirschbaum, BB0014 - Project Search
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
employment
1. Project SEARCH
This bill authorizes DWD to enter into contracts to provide employment skills services to individuals with developmental disabilities under the Project SEARCH program. The program is currently operated by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation administers the program for residents of this state. The bill also requires DWD to allocate $250,000 each fiscal year to the program.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 16.705 (1b) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
16.705 (1b) (f) The department of workforce development for the Project SEARCH program under s. 47.07.
Section
2. 20.445 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.445 (1) (b) Workforce training; programs, grants, and services, and contracts. The amounts in the schedule for the workforce training programs, grants, and services under s. 106.27 (1), (1g), (1j), and (1r), and (1u) and for the costs associated with contracts entered into under s. 47.07.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
****Note: This is reconciled s. 20.445 (1) (b). This Section has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -0555/P2 and -1980/P1.
Section
3. 47.07 of the statutes is created to read:
47.07 Project SEARCH. (1) The department shall allocate for each fiscal year at least $250,000 from the appropriation under s. 20.445 (1) (b) for contracts entered into under this section.
(2) The department may enter into contracts to provide services to persons with disabilities under the Project SEARCH program operated by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital or its successor organization.
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