LRB-0310/1
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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE
October 5, 1995 - Introduced by Representatives Ladwig, Coggs, Gunderson,
Olsen, Grothman, Walker, Owens, F. Lasee, Green, Gard, Schneiders,
Porter, Hahn, Musser, Jensen, Ziegelbauer, Kreuser, Krusick, La Fave,
Riley, Turner
and Wirch, cosponsored by Senators Rude, Darling and A.
Lasee
. Referred to Committee on Children and Families.
AB600,2,2 1An Act to repeal 48.533 (1); to renumber and amend 304.07; to amend 46.03
2(6) (a), 46.03 (7) (e), 46.03 (32), 46.049, 46.10 (2), 46.18 (1), 46.20 (1), 46.21 (1m)
3(title), 46.21 (1m) (b), 46.21 (2) (a), 46.21 (2) (k), 46.21 (4), 46.21 (6), 46.22 (1)
4(c) 1. b., 46.26 (2) (c), 46.26 (3) (c), 46.26 (3) (d), 46.26 (4) (cm) 1., 46.26 (4) (d)
52., 46.26 (4) (d) 3., 46.26 (4) (d) 4., 48.02 (15m), 48.023 (4), 48.08 (3) (a) (intro.),
648.08 (3) (b), 48.34 (4m) (intro.), 48.355 (4) (a), 48.357 (4), 48.357 (4g) (a), 48.357
7(4m), 48.366 (8), 48.49, 48.50 (1), 48.505, 48.51 (1) (intro.), 48.53 (title), 48.532
8(2), 48.533 (2), 48.533 (3), 48.57 (1) (b), 48.57 (1) (c), 48.59 (1), 48.595, 48.78 (2)
9(d) (intro.), 48.78 (3), 63.03 (2) (y), 101.123 (1) (i), 101.123 (4) (bm), 118.125 (4),
10230.36 (1), 230.36 (3) (c) (intro.), 301.36 (1), 301.37 (1), 302.18 (7), 302.31 and
11973.013 (3m); to repeal and recreate 46.03 (6) (a), 46.26 (3) (d), 46.26 (4) (cm)
121., 48.02 (15m), 48.355 (4) (a), 48.50 (1), 48.51 (1) (intro.), 48.78 (3) and 118.125
13(4); and to create 46.21 (1) (e), 46.21 (1) (f), 46.21 (1m) (ar), 46.21 (3p), 48.57
14(1) (cm), 48.57 (1) (dm), 48.57 (1) (k), 48.57 (1) (L), 48.585, 48.587, 48.591,
1548.593, 59.031 (2) (bm) 1. f. and 101.123 (4) (am) 1m. of the statutes; relating

1to:
authorizing counties to establish juvenile secured correctional facilities and
2granting rule-making authority.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the department of health and social services (DHSS) is
authorized to operate or contract for secured correctional facilities for holding in
secure custody children who have been adjudicated delinquent and placed in a
secured correctional facility by a court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under the
children's code (juvenile court). Currently, a juvenile court may place a child in a
secured correctional facility only if the child has been adjudicated delinquent for
committing an act that would be punishable by a sentence of 6 months or more if
committed by an adult and has been found to be a danger to the public and in need
of restrictive custodial treatment.
This bill authorizes the county board of supervisors (county board) of any
county, or the county boards of any 2 or more counties jointly, to establish or contract
for a secured correctional facility for holding in secure custody children who have
been adjudicated delinquent and whose legal custody is transferred to the county
department of human services or social services (county department) for placement
in a county secured correctional facility.
Under current law, the services of a secured correctional facility are funded by
the community youth and family aids (youth aids) program under which DHSS
allocates various state and federal funds to counties to pay for state-provided
juvenile correctional services and local delinquency-related and juvenile justice
services and DHSS charges counties for their use of services provided by DHSS at
a per person daily assessment rate for those services. This bill requires DHSS to
reimburse counties for the cost of program services, including basic care and
supervision costs, provided for a child who is placed in a county secured correctional
facility. DHSS must provide that reimbursement from youth aids funds at the same
per person daily assessment rate that DHSS charges to counties for the care of
children who are placed in secured correctional facilities operated by DHSS.
Under current law, DHSS may operate a boot camp program for children who
have been adjudicated delinquent and placed in a secured correctional facility. This
bill authorizes a county that establishes a secured correctional facility to provide a
boot camp program for children who are placed at that facility.
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:
AB600, s. 1 3Section 1. 46.03 (6) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,3,2
146.03 (6) (a) Execute Except as provided in s. 48.585, execute the laws relating
2to the detention, reformation and correction of delinquents.
AB600, s. 2 3Section 2. 46.03 (6) (a) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 377
4and 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
AB600,3,65 46.03 (6) (a) Except as provided in ss. 48.537 and 48.585, execute the laws
6relating to the detention, reformation and correction of delinquents.
AB600, s. 3 7Section 3. 46.03 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,3,128 46.03 (7) (e) Administer the juvenile offender review program in the division
9of youth services in the department. The program shall be responsible for decisions
10regarding case planning and the release of juvenile offenders from juvenile
11correctional institutions operated or contracted for by the department to aftercare
12and corrective sanctions placements.
AB600, s. 4 13Section 4. 46.03 (32) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,3,1814 46.03 (32) Reimbursement to visiting families. The department may
15reimburse families visiting girls at a secured correctional facility that is operated or
16contracted for by the department
. If the department decides to provide the
17reimbursement, it shall establish criteria for the level of reimbursement, which shall
18include family income and size and other relevant factors.
AB600, s. 5 19Section 5. 46.049 of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 385, is
20amended to read:
AB600,4,7 2146.049 Training school for delinquent boys. The department, with the
22approval of the governor, may purchase or accept a gift of land for a suitable site for
23an additional training school for delinquent boys and erect and equip such buildings
24as it deems necessary at such time as funds may be allocated for that purpose by the
25building commission. The training school or other additional facilities for delinquent

1boys financed by the authorized 1965-67 building program shall be located north of
2a line between La Crosse and Manitowoc. The department shall operate and
3maintain the institution for the treatment of delinquent boys who are placed in a
4secured correctional facility under the supervision of the department under s. 48.34
5(4m). All laws pertaining to the care of children received under s. 48.34 shall apply.
6Officers and employes of the institution are subject to the same laws as apply to other
7facilities described in s. 48.52.
AB600, s. 6 8Section 6. 46.10 (2) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Acts 479,
9section 8, and 481, section 9, is amended to read:
AB600,5,1210 46.10 (2) Except as provided in subs. (2m) and (14) (b) and (c), any person,
11including but not limited to a person admitted, committed or placed under s. 975.01,
121977 stats., s. 975.02, 1977 stats., and s. 975.17, 1977 stats., and ss. 48.34 (4m),
1348.357 (4) and (5) (e), 48.366, 51.10, 51.13, 51.15, 51.20, 51.35 (3), 51.37 (5), 51.45
14(10), (11), (12) and (13), 55.05, 55.06, 971.14 (2) and (5), 971.17 (1), 975.06 and 980.06,
15receiving care, maintenance, services and supplies provided by any institution in
16this state including university of Wisconsin hospital and clinics, in which the state
17is chargeable with all or part of the person's care, maintenance, services and
18supplies, any person receiving care and services from a county department
19established under s. 51.42 or 51.437 or from a facility established under s. 48.585 or
2049.175, and any person receiving treatment and services from a public or private
21agency under s. 971.17 (3) (d) or (4) (e), 980.06 (2) (c) or 980.08 (5) and the person's
22property and estate, including the homestead, and the spouse of the person, and the
23spouse's property and estate, including the homestead, and, in the case of a minor
24child, the parents of the person, and their property and estates, including their
25homestead, and, in the case of a foreign child described in s. 48.839 (1) who became

1dependent on public funds for his or her primary support before an order granting
2his or her adoption, the resident of this state appointed guardian of the child by a
3foreign court who brought the child into this state for the purpose of adoption, and
4his or her property and estate, including his or her homestead, shall be liable for the
5cost of the care, maintenance, services and supplies in accordance with the fee
6schedule established by the department under s. 46.03 (18). If a spouse, widow or
7minor, or an incapacitated person may be lawfully dependent upon the property for
8their support, the court shall release all or such part of the property and estate from
9the charges that may be necessary to provide for those persons. The department
10shall make every reasonable effort to notify the liable persons as soon as possible
11after the beginning of the maintenance, but the notice or the receipt thereof is not
12a condition of liability.
AB600, s. 7 13Section 7. 46.18 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,5,2214 46.18 (1) Trustees. Every county home, infirmary, hospital, tuberculosis
15hospital or sanatorium, or similar institution, or county secured correctional facility,
16as defined in s. 48.02 (15m),
shall, subject to regulations approved by the county
17board, be managed by a board of trustees, electors of the county, chosen by ballot by
18the county board. At its annual meeting, the county board shall appoint an uneven
19number of trustees, from 3 to 9 at the option of the board, for staggered 3-year terms
20ending the first Monday in January. Any vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired
21term by the county board; but the chairperson of the county board may appoint a
22trustee to fill the vacancy until the county board acts.
AB600, s. 8 23Section 8. 46.20 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,6,724 46.20 (1) Any 2 or more counties may jointly, by majority vote of all the
25members of each county board, provide for a county home, infirmary, hospital,

1tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium, or similar institution, county secured
2correctional facility, as defined in s. 48.02 (15m),
or juvenile detention home, which
3shall be established, maintained and operated pursuant to all the statutes relating
4to the establishment, maintenance and operation of similar institutions,
5respectively, by any single county whose population is less than 250,000, except as
6otherwise provided in this section; and in all respects, except as herein specified,
7each such institution shall be the county institution of each of the counties so joining.
AB600, s. 9 8Section 9. 46.21 (1) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
AB600,6,109 46.21 (1) (e) "Secured correctional facility" has the meaning given in s. 48.02
10(15m).
AB600, s. 10 11Section 10. 46.21 (1) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
AB600,6,1312 46.21 (1) (f) "Superintendent" means the superintendent of the county secured
13correctional facility who is appointed under sub. (1m) (ar).
AB600, s. 11 14Section 11. 46.21 (1m) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,6,1615 46.21 (1m) (title) Director and, administrator and superintendent;
16appointments.
AB600, s. 12 17Section 12. 46.21 (1m) (ar) of the statutes is created to read:
AB600,7,318 46.21 (1m) (ar) The county executive shall appoint under ss. 63.01 to 63.17 a
19superintendent of the county secured correctional facility. The appointment shall be
20made on the basis of recognized and demonstrated public interest in and knowledge
21of the problems of juvenile corrections, and with due regard to training, experience,
22executive and administrative ability and efficiency, and general qualifications and
23fitness for performing the duties of the office. The superintendent shall file an official
24oath and bond in the amount determined by the county board of supervisors. The
25county board of supervisors may create positions to assist the superintendent. The

1superintendent shall be appointed by the county executive in the unclassified civil
2service and is subject to confirmation by the county board of supervisors under s.
359.031 (2) (bm).
AB600, s. 13 4Section 13. 46.21 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,7,85 46.21 (1m) (b) Provisions shall be made in the organization of the office offices
6of the director and in the office of, the administrator and the superintendent for the
7devolution of the director's or, the administrator's or the superintendent's authority
8in the case of his or her temporary absence, illness or other disability to act.
AB600, s. 14 9Section 14. 46.21 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,7,1910 46.21 (2) (a) Shall adopt policies for the management, operation, maintenance
11and improvement of the county hospital; the county secured correctional facility; the
12detention center; the probation section of the children's court center; the provision
13and maintenance of the physical facilities for the children's court and its intake
14section under the supervision and operation of the judges assigned to exercise
15jurisdiction under ch. 48 and as provided in s. 48.06 (1); the mental health complex;
16the county department of human services; the central service departments; and all
17buildings and land used in connection with any institution under this section. The
18powers and duties of the county board of supervisors are policy forming only, and not
19administrative or executive.
AB600, s. 15 20Section 15. 46.21 (2) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,8,321 46.21 (2) (k) Shall make sufficient appropriation annually for the support,
22maintenance, salaries, repairs and improvements to the county department of
23human services and the institutions. The appropriations shall be used subject to the
24order of the director or, administrator or superintendent and as the policies adopted
25by the county board of supervisors provide. The director or, administrator or

1superintendent
may not incur any expense or contract for new buildings, additions
2to present buildings or the purchase of land until the county board of supervisors has
3appropriated or provided for the money to defray such expense.
AB600, s. 16 4Section 16. 46.21 (3p) of the statutes is created to read:
AB600,8,105 46.21 (3p) Powers and duties of the superintendent. All of the administrative
6and executive powers and duties of managing, operating, maintaining and
7improving the county secured correctional facility and other institutions and
8departments that the county board of supervisors may place under the jurisdiction
9of the superintendent are vested in the superintendent, subject to the policies and
10in accordance with the principles adopted by the county board of supervisors.
AB600, s. 17 11Section 17. 46.21 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,8,1612 46.21 (4) Management personnel. The director may appoint personnel to
13manage the county department of human services and, the administrator may
14appoint personnel to manage the county hospital and the superintendent may
15appoint personnel to manage the county secured correctional facility
, in accordance
16with ordinances of the county board of supervisors.
AB600, s. 18 17Section 18. 46.21 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,9,218 46.21 (6) Reports; expenditures. The director and, the administrator and the
19superintendent
shall submit annually to the county board of supervisors reports,
20including itemized statements of receipts and disbursements, at the times and in the
21manner that the county board of supervisors specifies and as are required to comply
22with applicable federal statutes and regulations and state statutes and rules.
23Disbursements shall be made in the manner that the county board of supervisors
24adopts, consistent with sound accounting and auditing procedure and with

1applicable federal statutes and regulations, state statutes and rules and
2requirements of the county auditor and county department of administration.
AB600, s. 19 3Section 19. 46.22 (1) (c) 1. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,9,74 46.22 (1) (c) 1. b. State institutions. Mendota mental health institute,
5Winnebago mental health institute, university of Wisconsin hospital and clinics,
6centers for the developmentally disabled and secured correctional facilities, as
7defined in s. 48.02 (15m), operated or contracted for by the department.
AB600, s. 20 8Section 20. 46.26 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,9,199 46.26 (2) (c) All funds to counties under this section shall be used to purchase
10or provide juvenile delinquency-related services under ch. 48, except that no funds
11to counties under this section may be used for purposes of land purchase, building
12construction or maintenance of buildings under ss. 46.17 and, 46.175 and 48.585, for
13reimbursement of costs under s. 48.209, for city lockups or for reimbursement of care
14costs in temporary shelter care under s. 48.22. Funds to counties under this section
15may be used for reimbursement of costs of program services, other than basic care
16and supervision costs, in juvenile secure detention facilities. Funds to counties
17under this section may be used for reimbursement of costs of program services,
18including basic care and supervision costs, in juvenile correctional institutions that
19are operated or contracted for by a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23.
AB600, s. 21 20Section 21. 46.26 (3) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,9,2521 46.26 (3) (c) Subject to pars. (dd), (de) and (dg), within the limits of the
22appropriations under s. 20.435 (3) (cd) and (oo), the department of health and social
23services shall allocate funds to each county for services under this section. If a county
24department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23 operates or contracts for the provision of
25a juvenile correctional institution, the department of health and social services shall

1reimburse the county department for the cost of program services, including basic
2care and supervision costs, provided for a child who is placed in that juvenile
3correctional institution at the per person daily rate for care in a juvenile correctional
4institution specified in sub. (4) (d) 2., 3. or 4., whichever is applicable.
AB600, s. 22 5Section 22. 46.26 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,10,166 46.26 (3) (d) Subject to pars. (dd), (de) and (dg), in addition to the funds
7allocated under par. (c), the department of health and social services shall allocate
8funds to counties under sub. (4) (b) 2. and shall consider each county's proportionate
9use of applicable services of the department of health and social services under ss.
1048.34 and 48.366 or the department of corrections under ss. 48.366 and 48.537 during
11previous calendar years. If a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23
12operates or contracts for the provision of a juvenile correctional institution, in
13addition to the funds allocated under par. (c), the department of health and social
14services shall allocate funds to that county department to cover any increases in the
15per person daily rate for care in a juvenile correctional institution specified in sub.
16(4) (d) 2. to 4.
AB600, s. 23 17Section 23. 46.26 (3) (d) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 377
18and 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
AB600,11,419 46.26 (3) (d) Subject to pars. (dd), (de) and (dg), in addition to the funds
20allocated under par. (c), the department of health and social services shall allocate
21funds to counties under sub. (4) (b) 2. and shall consider each county's proportionate
22use of applicable services of the department of health and social services under ss.
2348.34 and 48.366 or the department of corrections under ss. 48.366 and 48.537 during
24previous calendar years. If a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23
25operates or contracts for the provision of a juvenile correctional institution, in

1addition to the funds allocated under par. (c), the department of health and social
2services shall allocate funds to that county department to cover any increases in the
3per person daily rate for care in a juvenile correctional institution specified in sub.
4(4) (d) 2. to 4.
AB600, s. 24 5Section 24. 46.26 (4) (cm) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,11,136 46.26 (4) (cm) 1. Notwithstanding pars. (a), (b) 1. and (bm), the department
7shall transfer funds from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (3) (cg) to the
8appropriation under s. 20.435 (3) (hm) for the purpose of reimbursing juvenile
9correctional institutions that are operated or contracted for by the department for
10costs incurred beginning on January 1, 1995, for the care of any child who is placed
11in a juvenile correctional facility that is operated or contracted for by the department
12based on a delinquent act that is a violation of s. 940.01, 940.02, 940.03, 940.05,
13940.225 (1) or 943.32 (2).
AB600, s. 25 14Section 25. 46.26 (4) (cm) 1. of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act
15377
and 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
AB600,11,2316 46.26 (4) (cm) 1. Notwithstanding pars. (a), (b) 1. and (bm), but subject to par.
17(dr), the department shall transfer funds from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (3)
18(cg) to the appropriation under s. 20.435 (3) (hm) for the purpose of reimbursing
19juvenile correctional institutions that are operated or contracted for by the
20department for costs incurred beginning on January 1, 1995, for the care of any child
21who is placed in a juvenile correctional facility that is operated or contracted for by
22the department based on a delinquent act that is a violation of s. 940.01, 940.02,
23940.03, 940.05, 940.225 (1) or 943.32 (2).
AB600, s. 26 24Section 26. 46.26 (4) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,12,9
146.26 (4) (d) 2. Beginning July 1, 1993 1995, and ending December 31, 1993
21995, the per person daily cost assessment to counties shall be $101.55 for care in a
3departmental juvenile correctional institution, $101.55 for care for children
4transferred from a departmental juvenile correctional institution under s. 51.35 (3),
5the dollar amount set by the department of corrections by rule for maintaining a
6prisoner in an adult correctional institution, $131.65 for care in a child caring
7institution, $92.03 for care in a group home for children, $21.02 for care in a foster
8home, $58.37 for care in a treatment foster home and $11.57 for departmental
9aftercare services.
AB600, s. 27 10Section 27. 46.26 (4) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,12,1911 46.26 (4) (d) 3. In calendar year 1994 1996, the per person daily cost assessment
12to counties shall be $111.73 for care in a departmental juvenile correctional
13institution, $111.73 for care for children transferred from a departmental juvenile
14correctional institution under s. 51.35 (3), the dollar amount set by the department
15of corrections by rule for maintaining a prisoner in an adult correctional institution,
16$141.05 for care in a child caring institution, $98.47 for care in a group home for
17children, $22.49 for care in a foster home, $62.46 for care in a treatment foster home,
18$66.75 for departmental corrective sanctions services and $12.96 for departmental
19aftercare services.
AB600, s. 28 20Section 28. 46.26 (4) (d) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,13,421 46.26 (4) (d) 4. Beginning January 1, 1995 1997, and ending June 30, 1995
221997, the per person daily cost assessment to counties shall be $115.68 for care in a
23departmental juvenile correctional institution, $115.68 for care for children
24transferred from a departmental juvenile correctional institution under s. 51.35 (3),
25the dollar amount set by the department of corrections by rule for maintaining a

1prisoner in an adult correctional institution, $146.07 for care in a child caring
2institution, $101.92 for care in a group home for children, $23.28 for care in a foster
3home, $64.65 for care in a treatment foster home, $66.75 for departmental corrective
4sanctions services and $12.96 for departmental aftercare services.
AB600, s. 29 5Section 29. 48.02 (15m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB600,13,106 48.02 (15m) "Secured correctional facility" means a correctional institution
7operated or contracted for by the department or a county department for holding in
8secure custody persons adjudged delinquent. "Secured correctional facility" includes
9the facility at which the a juvenile boot camp program under s. 48.532 or 48.585 (3)
10is operated.
AB600, s. 30 11Section 30. 48.02 (15m) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 377
12and 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
AB600,13,1713 48.02 (15m) "Secured correctional facility" means a correctional institution
14operated or contracted for by the department of health and social services, the
15department of corrections or a county department for holding in secure custody
16persons adjudged delinquent. "Secured correctional facility" includes the facility at
17which the juvenile boot camp program under s. 48.532 or 48.585 (3) is operated.
AB600, s. 31 18Section 31. 48.023 (4) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 385,
19is amended to read:
AB600,13,2320 48.023 (4) The rights and responsibilities of legal custody except when legal
21custody has been vested in another person or when the child is under the supervision
22of the department or a county department under s. 48.34 (4m) or (4n) or the
23supervision of a county department under s. 48.34 (4n)
.
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