46.45(3)(am) (am) A county may not use any funds carried forward under par. (a) for administrative or staff costs.
46.45(3)(b) (b) The department may not carry forward funds allocated to a private nonprofit organization for a calendar year for use in the next calendar year unless the organization continues to be eligible to receive an allocation under s. 46.87 (4) in the next calendar year.
46.45(6) (6) The department may carry forward 10% of any funds not carried forward under sub. (3) for emergencies, for justifiable unit services costs above planned levels and to provide compensation for increased costs due to population shifts.
46.46 46.46 Expenditure of income augmentation services receipts.
46.46(1)(1) From the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (8) (mb), the department shall support costs that are exclusively related to the operational costs of augmenting the amount of moneys received under 42 USC 670 to 679a, 42 USC 1395 to 1395ddd and 42 USC 1396 to 1396v. In addition, the department may expend moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (8) (mb) as provided in sub. (2).
46.46(2) (2) If the department proposes to use any moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.435 (8) (mb) for any purpose other than the purpose specified in sub. (1), the department shall submit a plan for the proposed use of those moneys to the secretary of administration by September 1 of the fiscal year after the fiscal year in which those moneys were received. If the secretary of administration approves the plan, he or she shall submit the plan to the joint committee on finance by October 1 of the fiscal year after the fiscal year in which those moneys were received. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the secretary of administration within 14 working days after the date of submittal of the plan that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the plan, the department may implement the plan. If within 14 working days after the date of the submittal by the secretary of administration the cochairpersons of the committee notify him or her that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the plan, the department may implement the plan only with the approval of the committee.
46.46 History History: 1997 a. 27, 86; 1999 a. 9.
46.48 46.48 Grants for community programs.
46.48(1) (1)General. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (bc), the department shall distribute grants for community programs as provided in this section.
46.48(4) (4)Treatment alternative program. For grants under s. 46.65, the department shall award not more than $261,300 in each fiscal year as grants to applicants that have previously received grants under s. 46.65.
46.48(5) (5)Alcohol and other drug abuse residential treatment. For funding of at least 8 beds at a community-based residential facility in which English and Spanish are spoken, to provide treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse to residents of a 1st class city, the department may distribute not more than $248,200 for each fiscal year as a grant to the New Beginning residential treatment program in the city of Milwaukee.
46.48(6) (6)Career youth development center. The department shall distribute $80,000 in each fiscal year to the career youth development center in the city of Milwaukee for the operation of a minority youth substance abuse treatment program.
46.48(7) (7)Services to residents of Christian league for the handicapped. The department shall distribute $53,800 in each fiscal year to county departments under s. 46.23, 51.42 or 51.437 of the counties that are fiscally responsible for persons who resided in the Christian League for the Handicapped in Walworth County on the date that the facility gave up its status as a medical assistance provider for the purpose of providing services to those persons.
46.48(8) (8)Prisoner reintegration program.
46.48(8)(a)(a) In this subsection, "prisoner" has the meaning given in s. 301.01 (2).
46.48(8)(b) (b) The department shall award $125,000 in each fiscal year as a grant to an organization or a group of organizations to provide a pilot program in Milwaukee County for prisoner reintegration.
46.48(8)(c) (c) The department shall provide application procedures and selection criteria for awarding the grant under par. (b) in accordance with that department's request-for-proposal procedures.
46.48(8)(d) (d) The program under par. (b) shall provide at least all of the following:
46.48(8)(d)1. 1. The use of liaisons to meet with prospective program participants to provide information about the program and to assist program participants, prior to their release on extended supervision or parole, in planning for and obtaining the housing, employment, education and treatment that they will need upon release.
46.48(8)(d)2. 2. The use of mentors to assist participants in their reintegration into the community.
46.48(10) (10)Competency examinations. The department shall provide not more than $484,300 in each fiscal year to a county with a population of 500,000 or more to fund examinations under s. 971.14 (2) in that county.
46.48(13) (13)Supported employment opportunities. The department shall distribute at least $60,000 in each fiscal year for programs to provide supported employment opportunities for severely disabled persons.
46.48(14) (14)Epilepsy services grants. The department shall distribute not more than $150,000 in each fiscal year for grants under s. 46.57 for services to persons with epilepsy.
46.48(26) (26)Community improvement job training. The department shall award $250,000 in each fiscal year, beginning in fiscal year 1994-95, as a grant to a community organization to conduct a community improvement job training program which shall do all of the following:
46.48(26)(a) (a) Provide job training, counseling and education for persons 16 to 23 years of age who reside in neighborhoods that have gang problems.
46.48(26)(b) (b) Provide projects to rebuild and strengthen neighborhoods that have gang problems.
46.48(26)(c) (c) Assist program participants who want to start their own small businesses by referring those participants to sources of grants, loans, venture capital and other funding and by assisting those participants with the funding application process.
46.48(26)(d) (d) Encourage former gang members to participate in the program.
46.48(29) (29)ARC Community Services, Inc. The department shall distribute $175,000 in each fiscal year to ARC Community Services, Inc., for a program to provide substance abuse day treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women and their infants.
46.48(30) (30)Substance abuse treatment grants.
46.48(30)(a)(a) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (bc), the department shall distribute grants on a competitive basis to county departments of social services and to private nonprofit organizations, as defined in s. 103.21 (2), for the provision of alcohol and other drug abuse treatment services in counties with a population of 500,000 or more. Grants distributed under this subsection may be used only to provide treatment for alcohol and other drug abuse to individuals who are eligible for federal temporary assistance for needy families under 42 USC 601 et. seq. and who have a family income of not more than 200% of the poverty line, as defined in s. 49.001 (5).
46.48(30)(b) (b) Notwithstanding par. (a), the department may distribute grants under par. (a) only to the extent that the distribution meets the maintenance-of-effort requirement under the federal temporary assistance for needy families program under 42 USC 601 et. seq.
46.481 46.481 Grants for children's community programs. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (3) (bc), the department shall distribute the following grants for children's community programs:
46.481(1) (1)Foster care placement continuation.
46.481(1)(a)(a) The department shall distribute $497,200 in each fiscal year to counties for the purpose of supplementing payments for the care of an individual who attains age 18 after 1986 and who resided in a foster home, as defined in s. 48.02 (6), or a treatment foster home, as defined in s. 48.02 (17q), for at least 2 years immediately prior to attaining age 18 and, for at least 2 years, received exceptional foster care or treatment foster care payments in order to avoid institutionalization, as provided under rules promulgated by the department, so that the individual may live in a family home or other noninstitutional situation after attaining age 18. No county may use funds provided under this paragraph to replace funds previously used by the county for this purpose.
46.481(1)(b) (b) A county shall evaluate the proposed living arrangement of an individual under par. (a) to determine whether that living arrangement is cost-effective compared to other care reasonably available to the county including other community care as well as institutional care. If the proposed living arrangement is not cost-effective, the county may not use funds distributed under par. (a) for the care of that individual in the proposed living arrangement. A county shall evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the living arrangement of an individual for whom funds are provided under par. (a) at least once every 5 years.
46.481(2) (2)Police athletic league recreational activities. The department shall award $5,000 in each fiscal year as a grant to the Milwaukee police athletic league to purchase sports and recreational equipment for a gymnasium facility located at 2449 N. 36th Street in the city of Milwaukee and for a gymnasium facility located at 2544 N. 30th Street in the city of Milwaukee, and to contribute to the operating expenses of those gymnasium facilities.
46.481(3) (3)Grants to runaway programs. The department shall distribute $50,000 in each fiscal year as grants to programs that provide services for runaway children.
46.481(4) (4)Grants for court-appointed special advocates. The department shall distribute $50,000 in each fiscal year as grants to court-appointed special advocate programs that are recognized by a chief judge of a judicial administrative district under s. 48.07 (5) to perform advocacy services in proceedings under s. 48.13.
46.481(6) (6)Children's safe house child care program. The department shall distribute $50,000 in each fiscal year to the children's safe house child care program in Kenosha County for the operation of that program.
46.481 History History: 1999 a. 9, 149.
46.485 46.485 Mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children.
46.485(1)(1) In this section:
46.485(1)(a) (a) "Inpatient facility" has the meaning given in s. 51.01 (10).
46.485(1)(b) (b) "Limited service health organization" has the meaning given in s. 609.01 (3).
46.485(1)(c) (c) "Serious emotional disturbance" has the meaning given in 42 USC 290ff-4 (d) (4).
46.485(1)(d) (d) "Severely emotionally disturbed child" has the meaning given in s. 49.45 (25) (a).
46.485(2g) (2g) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (b), the department may in each fiscal year transfer funds to the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (kb) for distribution under this section and from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (mb) the department may not distribute more than $1,330,500 in each fiscal year to applying counties in this state that meet all of the following requirements, as determined by the department:
46.485(2g)(a) (a) Any of the following applies to the county:
46.485(2g)(a)1. 1. The county receives a grant under 42 USC 290ff to 290ff-4 for community mental health services for children with serious emotional disturbances.
46.485(2g)(a)2. 2. The county receives any grant for services to severely emotionally disturbed children.
46.485(2g)(a)3. 3. The county is in compliance with the requirements of s. 46.56, except that the county need not receive funding under s. 46.56 (15).
46.485(2g)(b) (b) The county submits to the department a plan that specifies the proposed use of funds to implement the program under this section, including, at the time of termination of funding under this section, enrollment of children served under the program in a limited service health organization that covers both inpatient and outpatient expenses.
46.485(3g) (3g) The amount that the department may transfer under sub. (2g) for a county may not exceed the estimated state share of payments under s. 49.45, 49.46 or 49.47 for mental health care and treatment that is provided in inpatient facilities for children with a severe emotional disturbance who reside in the county.
46.485(3m) (3m) Funds that are distributed under sub. (2g) may be used for all of the following:
46.485(3m)(a) (a) Mental health care and treatment, other than care and treatment under s. 51.35 (3), in an inpatient facility for children with severe emotional disturbances.
46.485(3m)(b) (b) Community mental health services for children with severe emotional disturbances.
46.485(3r) (3r) Funds that a county does not encumber before 24 months after June 30 of the fiscal year in which the funds were distributed under sub. (2g) lapse to the appropriation under s. 20.435 (4) (b).
46.485(4) (4) The county receiving funds under sub. (2g) is not liable for payment for any care and treatment of the type authorized to be paid under sub. (3m) that is above the amount transferred under sub. (2g) (intro.).
46.49 46.49 Allocation of federal funds for community aids and child welfare.
46.49(1)(1) Subject to s. 46.40 (1) (b) and (c), if the department receives unanticipated federal community mental health services block grant funds under 42 USC 300x to 300x-9, federal prevention and treatment of substance abuse block grant funds under 42 USC 300x-21 to 300x-35, or foster care and adoption assistance payments under 42 USC 670 to 679a and it proposes to allocate the unanticipated funds so that an allocation limit in s. 46.40 is exceeded, the department shall submit a plan for the proposed allocation to the secretary of administration. If the secretary of administration approves the plan, he or she shall submit it to the joint committee on finance. If the cochairpersons of the committee do not notify the secretary of administration that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the plan within 14 working days after the date of his or her submittal, the department may implement the plan, notwithstanding any allocation limits under s. 46.40. If within 14 working days after the date of the submittal by the secretary of administration the cochairpersons of the committee notify him or her that the committee has scheduled a meeting for the purpose of reviewing the plan, the department may implement the plan, notwithstanding s. 46.40, only with the approval of the committee.
46.49(2) (2) If the department receives unanticipated federal social services block grant funds under 42 USC 1397 to 1397e, the department shall deposit the moneys in the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (o), unless the funds are for a specified purpose that is not included in s. 20.435 (7) (o), in which case the department shall deposit the moneys in the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (md) or (me), as appropriate.
46.495 46.495 Distribution of community aids funds to counties.
46.495(1)(1)
46.495(1)(am)(am) The department shall reimburse each county from the appropriations under s. 20.435 (3) (o) and (7) (b), (kw) and (o) for social services as approved by the department under ss. 46.215 (1), (2) (c) 1. and (3) and 46.22 (1) (b) 1. d. and (e) 3. a. except that no reimbursement may be made for the administration of or aid granted under s. 49.02.
46.495(1)(d) (d) From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (3) (o) and (7) (b), (kw) and (o), the department shall distribute the funding for social services, including funding for foster care or treatment foster care of a child on whose behalf aid is received under s. 46.261, to county departments under ss. 46.215, 46.22 and 46.23 as provided under s. 46.40. County matching funds are required for the distributions under s. 46.40 (2), (8) and (9) (b). Each county's required match for the distributions under s. 46.40 (2) and (8) for a year equals 9.89% of the total of the county's distributions under s. 46.40 (2) and (8) for that year for which matching funds are required plus the amount the county was required by s. 46.26 (2) (c), 1985 stats., to spend for juvenile delinquency-related services from its distribution for 1987. Each county's required match for the distribution under s. 46.40 (9) (b) for a year equals 9.89% of that county's amounts described in s. 46.40 (9) (a) (intro.) for that year. Matching funds may be from county tax levies, federal and state revenue sharing funds or private donations to the county that meet the requirements specified in s. 51.423 (5). Private donations may not exceed 25% of the total county match. If the county match is less than the amount required to generate the full amount of state and federal funds distributed for this period, the decrease in the amount of state and federal funds equals the difference between the required and the actual amount of county matching funds.
46.495(1)(dc) (dc) The department shall prorate the amount allocated to any county department under s. 46.215 or 46.22 under par. (d) to reflect actual federal funds available.
46.495(1)(f)1.1. If any state matching funds allocated under par. (d) to match county funds are not claimed, the funds shall be redistributed for the purposes the department designates.
46.495(1)(f)2. 2. The county allocation to match aid increases shall be included in the contract under s. 46.031 (2g) and approved by January 1 of the year for which funds are allocated, in order to generate state aid matching funds. All funds allocated under par. (d) shall be included in the contract under s. 46.031 (2g) and approved.
46.495(2) (2)
46.495(2)(a)(a) The county treasurer and each director of a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23 shall monthly certify under oath to the department in such manner as the department prescribes the claim of the county for state reimbursement under this section and if the department approves such claim it shall certify to the department of administration for reimbursement to the county for amounts due under this subsection and payment claimed to be made to the counties monthly. The department may make advance payments prior to the beginning of each month equal to one-twelfth of the contracted amount.
46.495(2)(b) (b) To facilitate prompt reimbursement the certificate of the department may be based on the certified statements of the county officers filed under par. (a). Funds recovered from audit adjustments from a prior fiscal year may be included in subsequent certifications only to pay counties owed funds as a result of any audit adjustment. By September 30 of each year the department shall submit a report to the appropriate standing committees under s. 13.172 (3) on funds recovered and paid out during the previous calendar year as a result of audit adjustments.
46.495 History History: 1995 a. 27 ss. 3129, 3132, 3135 to 3139; 1995 a. 289, 404; 1997 a. 3, 27, 252; 1999 a. 9.
46.50 46.50 State mental health authority. In order to promote coordination and efficient development of mental health services by the state and by municipalities in the state, the department is declared to be the state mental health authority of Wisconsin and as such is authorized to receive federal grants in aid and to cooperate with the federal government in promoting the extension of such services.
46.51 46.51 Child abuse and neglect and unborn child abuse services.
46.51(1)(1) From the amounts distributed under s. 46.40 (1) for services for children and families, the department shall distribute funds to eligible counties for services related to child abuse and neglect and to unborn child abuse, including child abuse and neglect and unborn child abuse prevention, investigation and treatment.
46.51(3) (3) The department shall distribute the funds under sub. (1) to counties that have a serious problem with child abuse and neglect or with unborn child abuse according to eligibility criteria and distribution criteria to be developed by the department.
46.51(4) (4) A county may use the funds distributed under this section to fund additional foster parents and treatment foster parents to care for abused and neglected children and to fund additional staff positions to provide services related to child abuse and neglect and to unborn child abuse.
46.51(5) (5) A county may not use the funds distributed under this section to reduce its expenditures from other sources for services related to child abuse and neglect or to unborn child abuse below the level in the year before the year for which the funds are distributed.
46.51 History History: 1993 a. 16 ss. 982 to 986; 1993 a. 446; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 292.
46.513 46.513 Services for children and families. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (3) (bm), the department shall distribute grants to counties in each fiscal year to fund services for children and families. The department shall determine the amount of a county's grant under this section based on the county's proportion of the state's population as last estimated by the department of administration under s. 16.96. The department of health and family services shall distribute the grants under this section in the calendar year after the calendar year in which the amount available for those grants is certified by the department of revenue under s. 77.63 (2).
46.513 History History: 1999 a. 9.
46.515 46.515 Child abuse and neglect prevention program.
46.515(1)(1)Definitions. In this section:
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