LRB-2164/P1
TJD:wlj
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0443 - Title V and Title X
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. Title V and Title X family planning funding
Current law requires DHS to apply for federal Title X grant funds and to distribute any funds received to public entities for family planning and related preventive health services. This bill eliminates that requirement.
Under current law, DHS must allocate women's health funds, which are federal Title V funds and women's health block grant funds, to develop and maintain an integrated system of community health services and maximize coordination of family planning services. Current law excludes from the definition of “family planning” performance, promotion, encouragement, or counseling in favor of, or referral either directly or through an intermediary for, voluntary termination of pregnancy but includes in the definition of “family planning” the provision of nondirective information explaining prenatal care and delivery or infant care, foster care, or adoption. DHS must distribute women's health funds only to public entities. Currently, those public entities may provide some or all of the funds to other public entities or private entities as long as the recipients of the funds do not provide abortion services, make referrals for abortion services, or have an affiliate that provides abortion services or makes referrals for abortion services. The bill retains the authorization for the public entity that receives funds from DHS to provide some or all of the funds to other public or private entities but eliminates the restriction on which public or private entities may receive those funds. The bill also includes in the definition of “family planning” the provision of nondirective information explaining pregnancy termination.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 253.07 (1) (a) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
253.07 (1) (a) 3. Pregnancy termination.
Section
2. 253.07 (1) (b) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
253.07 (1) (b) 3. Pregnancy termination.
Section 3
. 253.07 (5) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 253.07 (5) (b) and amended to read:
253.07 (5) (b) Subject to par. (c), a A public entity that receives women's health funds under this section may provide some or all of the funds to other public or private entities provided that the recipient of the funds does not do any of the following:.
Section 4
. 253.07 (5) (b) 1. to 3. of the statutes are repealed.
Section 5
. 253.07 (5) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
Section
6. 253.075 of the statutes is repealed.
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