LRB-0557/P4
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2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0031 - Rural crisis grant statutory change
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Mental illness and developmental disabilities
1. Crisis program enhancement grants
This bill requires DHS to award grants each fiscal biennium to counties or regions comprising multiple counties to establish or enhance crisis programs to serve individuals having crises in rural areas. Under current law, DHS is required to award grants, but only for the purpose of establishing certified crisis programs that create mental health mobile crisis teams. The bill allows DHS to award grants for the purpose of establishing or enhancing crisis programs.
For further information see the state and local 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. 20.435 (5) (cf) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.435 (5) (cf) Mobile crisis team Crisis program enhancement grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for awarding grants to counties or regions to establish certified or enhance crisis programs that create mental health mobile crisis teams under s. 46.536.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 46.536 of the statutes is amended to read:
46.536 Mobile crisis team Crisis program enhancement grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (cf), the department shall award grants in the total amount of $250,000 in each fiscal biennium to counties or regions comprised of multiple counties to establish certified or enhance crisis programs that create mental health mobile crisis teams to serve individuals having mental health crises in rural areas. The department shall award a grant under this section in an amount equal to one-half the amount of money the county or region provides to establish certified or enhance crisis programs that create mobile crisis teams.
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