LRB-1720/P4
SWB:kjf&ahe
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Ames, BB0244 - Dental services (Seal-a-Smile)
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Health
1. Evidence-based oral health grants and Seal-A-Smile program
This bill expands the grants awarded annually by DHS for the Seal-A-Smile program and modifies the scope of other grants awarded by DHS from fluoride programs to include grants for fluoride varnish and other evidence-based oral health activities. Under current law, DHS annually awards grants totaling $25,000 for fluoride supplements, $25,000 for a fluoride mouth-rinse program, and $120,000 for a school-based dental sealant program. Under the bill, DHS is required to award grants totaling no less than $50,000 for fluoride varnish and other evidence-based oral health activities, $700,000 for school-based preventive dental services, and $100,000 for school-based restorative dental services, except that in fiscal year 2019-20, DHS is required to award $525,000 for school-based preventive dental services, $100,000 for school-based restorative dental services, and $50,000 for fluoride varnish and other evidence-based oral health activities.
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. 250.10 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
250.10 (1m) (b) Award in each fiscal year to qualified applicants grants totaling $25,000 no less than $50,000 for fluoride supplements, $25,000 for a fluoride mouth-rinse program varnish and other evidence-based oral health activities, $700,000 for school-based preventive dental services, and $120,000 for a school-based dental sealant program $100,000 for school-based restorative dental services.
Section 9119.
Nonstatutory provisions; Health Services.
(1) Evidence-based oral health grants and Seal-A-Smile program. Notwithstanding s. 250.10 (1m) (b), in fiscal year 2019-20, the department of health services shall, from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (de), award to qualified applicants grants totaling $50,000 for fluoride varnish and other evidence-based oral health activities, $525,000 for school-based preventive dental services, and $100,000 for school-based restorative dental services.
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