46.987 (2) (a) From the allocation under s. 46.979 (2) (c) 4. and from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (ie), the department may award grants to child care providers that meet the quality of care standards established under s. 46.98 (4) (e) to improve the retention of skilled and experienced child care staff. In awarding grants under this subsection, the department shall consider the applying child care provider's total enrollment of children and average enrollment of children who receive or are eligible for publicly funded care from the child care provider.
SECTION 2398. 46.987 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.987 (3) (a) From the allocation under s. 46.979 (2) (c) 3. and the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (ie), the department may award grants to child care providers for assistance in meeting the quality of care standards established under s. 46.98 (4) (e).
SECTION 2399. 46.987 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.987 (4) TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CONTRACTS. (intro.) From the allocation under s. 46.979 (2) (c) 4. and the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (ie), the department may contract with one or more agencies for the provision of training and technical assistance to improve the quality of child care provided in this state. The training and technical assistance activities contracted for under this subsection may include any of the following activities:
SECTION 2400. 46.987 (6) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2401. 46.987 (6) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 46.987 (6) and amended to read:
46.987 (6) GRANT ADMINISTRATION. The department may administer the grant application processes under subs. (2) and (3) or, if a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22 or 46.23 has established a child care advisory committee that has been approved by the department, the department may request the county department to administer the grant application processes under subs. (2) and (3) for grant applicants from the county of the county department. If a county department administers the grant application processes under subs. (2) and (3), the county department shall review the grant applications submitted to the county department using the criteria established by the department under par. (a). A county department that reviews grant applications under subs. (2) and (3) shall submit those applications and the county department's ranking of those applications to the department for final review contract for the administration of that process.
SECTION 2402. 46.987 (6) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2403. 46.995 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.995 (2) ADOLESCENT SELF-SUFFICIENCY SERVICES. (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (3) (eg), the department may allocate $582,100 in each fiscal year to provide a grant annually to a public or private entity or to the elected governing body of a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band to provide services in counties or to a tribe or band for adolescent parents which shall emphasize high school graduation and vocational preparation, training and experience and may be structured so as to strengthen the adolescent parent's capacity to fulfill parental responsibilities by developing social skills and increasing parenting skills. The public or private entity seeking to receive a grant to provide these services shall develop a proposed service plan that is approved by the department. Except with respect to award of a grant to a tribe or band, the department shall rank individual counties and give priority by this ranking for the award of grants under this subsection, based on all of the following factors:
SECTION 2404. 46.995 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.995 (3) ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY PREVENTION SERVICES. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (3) (eg), the department may allocate $340,000 in each fiscal year to provide a grant annually to a public or private entity or to the elected governing body of a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band to provide to high-risk adolescents pregnancy and parenthood prevention services which shall be structured so as to increase development of decision-making and communications skills, promote graduation from high school and expand career and other options and which may address needs of adolescents with respect to pregnancy prevention. Except with respect to award of a grant to a tribe or band, the department shall rank individual counties and give priority by this ranking for the award of grants under this subsection, based on the factors specified under sub. (2) (a) to (d).
SECTION 2405. 46.996 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.996 Adolescent services. (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (er) (eg), the department shall allocate funds in the following amounts:
SECTION 2406. 46.996 (intro.) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
46.996 Adolescent services. (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (3) (eg), the department shall allocate funds in the following amounts:
SECTION 2407. 46.997 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.997 (2) (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (6) (a), the department shall allocate not more than $65,500 in each fiscal year to solicit applications from organizations and provide technical assistance to grantees and, from the appropriation under s. 20.435 (7) (3) (eg), the department shall allocate not more than $210,000 in each fiscal year to make grants to applying organizations for the provision, on a regional or tribal project basis, of information to communities in order to increase community knowledge about problems of adolescents and information to and activities for adolescents, particularly female adolescents, in order to enable the adolescents to develop skills with respect to all of the following:
SECTION 2408. 47.01 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
47.01 (1m) "Department" means the department of industry, labor and human relations.
SECTION 2409. 47.02 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
47.02 (1m) The department may cooperate with the federal government in carrying out federal acts concerning vocational rehabilitation.
SECTION 2410. 47.02 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
47.02 (4) (a) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 20.445 (5) (bm), provide financial aid to any handicapped person who is receiving vocational rehabilitation training and who has no other source of aid.
SECTION 2411. 47.02 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
47.02 (4) (b) Accept gifts, grants and donations to be used for the purposes of this chapter. The department shall deposit all moneys received under this paragraph in the appropriation under s. 20.435 20.445 (5) (i).
SECTION 2412. 47.02 (6) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2413. 47.03 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 46.293.
SECTION 2414. 47.03 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
47.03 (2) The department may accept gifts, grants and donations to be used for the purposes of this section. The department shall deposit all moneys received as gifts, grants and donations in the appropriation under s. 20.435 20.445 (5) (i).
SECTION 2415. 47.03 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
47.03 (4) (b) The department may charge a portion of the expenses of its supervised business enterprise program to the net proceeds of each business operating under the program. The department shall establish the procedure for setting these charges by rule, with the participation of a committee of blind vendors established under 20 USC 107b-1. The department shall deposit the moneys from the charges made under this paragraph in the appropriations under s. ss. 20.435 (7) (kd) and 20.445 (5) (h) and (hd) (he).
SECTION 2416. 47.03 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
47.03 (7) If the department decides that a business under sub. (4) would not be feasible and profitable in any state building, the department may contract with vending machine operators to install vending machines in the building, giving preference to blind operators of vending machines. The department may, under the procedures established as required under sub. (4) (b), charge the net proceeds of each business operating under this subsection. The department shall deposit the moneys from the charges made under this subsection in the appropriations under s. 20.435 20.445 (5) (h) and (hd) and shall disburse the proceeds to provide services to blind persons under sub. (4) and blind or visually impaired persons under sub. (1), in accordance with 20 USC 107 to 107f.
SECTION 2417. 47.03 (10) of the statutes is renumbered 46.295, and 46.295 (1), (4) (b) and (6), as renumbered, are amended to read:
46.295 (1) The department may, on the request of any hearing-impaired person, city, village, town or county or private agency, provide funds from the appropriations appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (a) and (hh) (6) (a) and (hs) to reimburse interpreters for hearing-impaired persons for the provision of interpreter services.
(4) (b) If an interpreter under subd. 1. par. (a) is unavailable, an interpreter for hearing-impaired persons whose qualifications have been determined appropriate by the department.
(6) The department shall promulgate rules to implement this subsection section.
SECTION 2418f. 47.03 (11) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 47.03 (11) (a) (intro.) and amended to read:
47.03 (11) (a) (intro.) The department shall provide services, including vocational training, craft instruction and a supervised business initiatives program for severely handicapped persons who are eligible for vocational rehabilitation services. Under this subsection, the department may own, lease, manage, supervise or operate businesses for the benefit of severely handicapped persons, including home-based employment and craft work, with the ultimate objective of enabling severely handicapped persons to operate their own businesses. The department shall assist persons who receive these services do all of the following:
4. Assist homecraft clients in marketing the finished products and develop additional markets for the finished products.
SECTION 2418g. 47.03 (11) (a) 1. of the statutes is created to read:
47.03 (11) (a) 1. Through a wholesale distributor, purchase or provide for the purchase of any supplies needed by any client participating in the homecraft program to produce craftwork for the homecraft program.
SECTION 2418h. 47.03 (11) (a) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
47.03 (11) (a) 2. Deliver or provide for the delivery of supplies purchased under subd. 1. to the homecraft client.
SECTION 2418i. 47.03 (11) (a) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
47.03 (11) (a) 3. Transport or provide for the transportation of finished homecrafted products to distribution centers.
SECTION 2419c. 47.03 (11) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
47.03 (11) (e) The department shall distribute at least $218,600 from the appropriations in s. 20.435 (5) (bm) and (na) in each fiscal year for homecraft services relating to the marketing and distribution of homecraft products and to the purchase of capital equipment for each client who participates in the homecraft program.
SECTION 2419d. 47.03 (11) (e) of the statutes, as created by 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is amended to read:
47.03 (11) (e) The department shall distribute at least $218,600 from the appropriations in s. 20.435 20.445 (5) (bm) and (na) in each fiscal year for homecraft services relating to the marketing and distribution of homecraft products and to the purchase of capital equipment for each client who participates in the homecraft program.
SECTION 2420. 47.10 of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2421. 47.20 of the statutes is renumbered 46.297, and 46.297 (1), as renumbered, is amended to read:
46.297 (1) ASSISTANCE. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (7) (d), the department shall, subject to the availability of funds, provide assistance to hearing-impaired persons to secure telecommunication devices capable of serving their needs. Except in extraordinary circumstances, the department shall purchase or provide funds for the purchase of telecommunication devices.
SECTION 2422. 47.25 of the statutes is renumbered 46.298.
SECTION 2423. 48.02 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.02 (1) "Adult" means a person who is 18 years of age or older, except that for purposes of prosecuting a person who is alleged to have violated any state or federal criminal law, "adult" means a person who has attained 17 years of age.
SECTION 2424. 48.02 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.02 (2) "Child" means a person who is less than 18 years of age, except that for purposes of prosecuting a person who is alleged to have violated a state or federal criminal law, "child" does not include a person who has attained 17 years of age.
SECTION 2424m. 48.02 (2c) of the statutes is created to read:
48.02 (2c) "Child caring institution" means a facility operated by a child welfare agency licensed under s. 48.60 for the care and maintenance of children residing in that facility.
SECTION 2425. 48.02 (3m) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.02 (3m) "Delinquent" means a child who is less than 18 17 years of age and 12 years of age or older who has violated any state or federal criminal law, except as provided in ss. 48.17, 48.18 and 48.183, or who has committed a contempt of court, as defined in s. 785.01 (1), as specified in s. 48.355 (6g).
SECTION 2426g. 48.02 (15g) of the statutes is created to read:
48.02 (15g) "Secured child caring institution" means a child caring institution operated by a child welfare agency that is licensed under s. 48.66 (1) to hold in secure custody persons adjudged delinquent.
SECTION 2426m. 48.02 (15m) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 377, is amended to read:
48.02 (15m) "Secured correctional facility" means a correctional institution operated or contracted for by the department of health and social services or the department of corrections for holding in secure custody persons adjudged delinquent. "Secured correctional facility" includes the facility at which the juvenile boot camp program under s. 48.532 is operated.
SECTION 2426p. 48.02 (15m) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin 377 and 1995 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), is repealed and recreated to read:
48.02 (15m) "Secured correctional facility" means a correctional institution operated or contracted for by the department of corrections for holding in secure custody persons adjudged delinquent. "Secured correctional facility" includes the facility at which the juvenile boot camp program under s. 48.532 is operated.
SECTION 2426r. 48.023 (4) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 385, is amended to read:
48.023 (4) The rights and responsibilities of legal custody except when legal custody has been vested in another person or when the child is under the supervision of the department of corrections under s. 48.34 (4h), (4m) or (4n) or the supervision of a county department under s. 48.34 (4n).
SECTION 2426t. 48.025 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.025 (1) Any person claiming to be the father of a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.60 may, in accordance with procedures under this section, file with the department of revenue a declaration of his interest in matters affecting such child.
SECTION 2426v. 48.025 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.025 (3) A copy of a declaration filed with the department of revenue under sub. (1) shall be sent to the mother at her last-known address. Nonreceipt of such copy shall not affect the validity of the declaration. The mother may send a written response to the declaration to the department of revenue, and the written response shall be filed with the declaration. Failure to send a written response shall not constitute an admission of the statements contained in the declaration.
SECTION 2427. 48.06 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (1) (b) Notwithstanding par. (a), the county board of supervisors may institute changes in the administration of services to the children's court center in order to qualify for the maximum amount of federal and state aid as provided in sub. (4) and s. 49.52 46.495.
SECTION 2428. 48.06 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.06 (4) STATE AID. State aid to any county for court services under this section shall be at the same net effective rate that each county is reimbursed for county administration under s. 49.52 46.495, except as provided in s. 46.26 301.26. Counties having a population of less than 500,000 may use funds received under ss. 46.26 and 49.52 (1) (d) 46.495 (1) (d) and 301.26, including county or federal revenue sharing funds allocated to match funds received under s. 49.52 (1) (d) 46.495 (1) (d), for the cost of providing court attached intake services in amounts not to exceed 50% of the cost of providing court attached intake services or $30,000 per county per calendar year, whichever is less.
SECTION 2428m. 48.069 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.069 (1) (intro.) The staff of the department of health and social services, the department of corrections, the court, a county department or a licensed child welfare agency designated by the court to carry out the objectives and provisions of this chapter shall:
SECTION 2428p. 48.069 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.069 (2) Licensed child welfare agencies and, the department of health and social services and the department of corrections shall provide services under this section only upon the approval of the agency from whom services are requested.
SECTION 2429. 48.07 (1) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2429m. 48.08 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.08 (2) Except as provided in sub. (3), any person authorized to provide or providing intake or dispositional services for the court under ss. 48.067 and 48.069 and any department of corrections staff member designated by agreement between the department of corrections and the department of health and social services has the power of police officers and deputy sheriffs only for the purpose of taking a child into physical custody when the child comes voluntarily or is suffering from illness or injury or is in immediate danger from his or her surroundings and removal from the surroundings is necessary.
SECTION 2430. 48.08 (3) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
48.08 (3) (a) (intro.) In addition to the law enforcement authority specified in sub. (2), department of health and social services personnel designated by that department, personnel of a nonprofit corporation operating a secured correctional facility for girls designated by agreement between that nonprofit corporation and the department of health and social services, and department of corrections personnel designated by agreement between the department of health and social services and the department of corrections have the power of law enforcement authorities to take a child into physical custody under the following conditions:
