LRB-1764/P4
SWB:cdc
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0271 - Minority Health Grant Language
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. Minority health grant funding
This bill modifies the funding for the DHS minority health program through which DHS annually awards grants to organizations for activities to improve the health status of economically disadvantaged minority group members. Under current law, DHS awards grants of up to $50,000 per year per applicant from program revenues. The bill instead uses general purpose revenues for these grants and eliminates the program revenues appropriation. Current law requires that applicants that are not federally qualified health centers receive priority for grants. The bill requires that applicants providing maternal and child health services also receive priority for these grants.
Under current law, DHS is also required to award, from the same program revenues appropriation, a grant of up to $50,000 to a private nonprofit corporation to conduct a public information campaign on minority health. Under the bill, this grant is also funded by general purpose revenues.
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. 20.435 (1) (cr) of the statutes is created to read:
20.435 (1) (cr) Minority health grants. The amounts in the schedule for the minority health program under s. 250.20 (3) and (4).
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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
. 20.435 (1) (kb) of the statutes is repealed.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 3
. 20.505 (8) (hm) 6e. of the statutes is repealed.
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
4. 250.20 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
250.20
(3) From the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (1)
(kb) (cr), the department shall annually award grants for activities to improve the health status of economically disadvantaged minority group members. A person may apply, in the manner specified by the department, for a grant of up to $50,000 in each fiscal year to conduct these activities. An awardee of a grant under this subsection shall provide, for at least 50 percent of the grant amount, matching funds that may consist of funding or an in-kind contribution. An applicant that is not a federally qualified health center, as defined under
42 CFR 405.2401 (b) shall receive priority for grants awarded under this subsection.
An applicant that provides maternal and child health services shall receive priority for grants awarded under this subsection.
Section 5
. 250.20 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
250.20 (4) From the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (1) (kb) (cr), the department shall award a grant of up to $50,000 in each fiscal year to a private nonprofit corporation that applies, in the manner specified by the department, to conduct a public information campaign on minority health.
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