LRB-1999/P1
MLJ:kjf
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Schmidt, BB0356 - Nonviolent Offender Treatment Diversion Pilot
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Justice
1. Nonviolent offender treatment diversion pilot program
2017 Wisconsin Act 32 created a nonviolent offender treatment diversion pilot program that expires on July 1, 2019. This bill continues the nonviolent offender treatment diversion pilot program until July 1, 2021, and requires that in each fiscal year of the 2019-21 biennium, $250,000 of the moneys appropriated to the program be allocated to police departments in cities of the first class.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.455 (2) (en) of the statutes is created to read:
20.455 (2) (en) Diversion pilot program. The amounts in the schedule to create a diversion pilot program for nonviolent offenders to be diverted to a treatment option.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 20.455 (2) (en) of the statutes, as created by 2019 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed.
Section 9127.
Nonstatutory provisions; Justice.
(1) Diversion pilot program. From the appropriation under s. 20.455 (2) (en), the department of justice shall establish a diversion pilot program for nonviolent offenders to be diverted to a treatment program and under the program shall allocate $250,000 in each fiscal year of the 2019-21 biennium to law enforcement agencies in cities of the first class.
Section 9427.
Effective dates; Justice.
(1) Diversion pilot program. The repeal of s. 20.455 (2) (en) takes effect on July 1, 2021.
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