SECTION 1999. 45.35 (13) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.35 (13) (b) The department may also receive moneys or other gifts and bequests in its name for the benefit of the Wisconsin veterans museum. All moneys so received shall be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the veterans trust fund and is appropriated therefrom by s. 20.485 (2) (z) (zm) to the department to be used, as far as practicable in accordance with the wishes of the donors, and in accordance with the policies adopted by the board.
SECTION 1999g. 45.351 (1g) of the statutes is created to read:
45.351 (1g) HEALTH CARE AID GRANTS. (a) The department may grant to any veteran or dependents such temporary health care aid as the department deems advisable to prevent want or distress. Health care aid to meet medical or hospital bills under this paragraph is limited to a payment of up to $5,000 per veteran or dependent for a maximum of 30 days within a 12-month period for the same condition or conditions. Health care aid may be used to provide payment for the treatment of alcoholism or other drug addiction or to provide payment for health care required because of alcoholism or other drug addiction or alcohol or other drug abuse. The department may not grant health care aid under this paragraph unless the aid recipient's health care provider agrees to accept, as full payment for the medical treatment for which the aid is to be granted, the amount of the grant, the amount of the recipient's health insurance or other 3rd-party payments, if any, and the amount which the department determines the aid recipient is capable of paying.
(b) This subsection does not apply after June 30, 1997.
SECTION 2000. 45.351 (2) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
45.351 (2) (a) 1. The department may lend any veteran not more than $4,000 $4,500 on loans approved before August 9, 1989 the effective date of this subdivision .... [revisor inserts date], and $4,500 $5,000 on loans approved during the period beginning on August 9, 1989 and after the effective date of this subdivision .... [revisor inserts date]. The loan is to be used for the purchase of a business or business property or the repairing of or adding to his or her home or business property, the construction of a garage, the education of the veteran or his or her children or to provide essential economic assistance if the department determines, after disregarding any payment described under s. 45.85, that the veteran satisfies the need requirements established by the department by rule. The need requirements may include, but are not limited to, consideration of the veteran's resources and credit available upon manageable terms. The department may prescribe loan conditions, but the interest rate shall be 6% per year for loan applications received by the department on or after July 20, 1985, and the term shall not exceed 10 years. The department may lend not more than the loan amount available to a veteran under this subdivision to a veteran's surviving spouse, whether remarried or not, or to the parent of a deceased veteran's children for the education of the minor or dependent children if the surviving spouse or parent is a resident of and living in this state on the date of application.
SECTION 2000d. 45.351 (2) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2000g. 45.351 (2) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
45.351 (2) (a) 4. Nothing in this paragraph prohibits a veteran from receiving loans a loan under subds. subd. 1. and 2. for any purpose specified in those subdivisions that subdivision.
SECTION 2000m. 45.351 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.351 (2) (c) No person may receive a loan under this subsection if the department receives a certification under s. 46.255 49.855 (7) that the person is delinquent in child support or maintenance payments.
SECTION 2001m. 45.352 of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2003c. 45.356 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.356 (6) No person may receive a loan under this section if the department receives a certification under s. 46.255 49.855 (7) that the person is delinquent in child support or maintenance payments.
SECTION 2004. 45.358 of the statutes is renumbered 45.358 (2).
SECTION 2005. 45.358 (1) of the statutes is created to read:
45.358 (1) DEFINITION. In this section, "veteran" means a person who has served on active duty in the U.S. armed forces.
SECTION 2006. 45.358 (2) (title) of the statutes is created to read:
45.358 (2) (title) CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF CEMETERIES.
SECTION 2007. 45.358 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
45.358 (3) ELIGIBILITY. The following persons are eligible for burial at a cemetery constructed and operated under sub. (2):
(a) A veteran who died while on active duty and who was a resident of this state at the time of his or her entry or reentry into active service and his or her children and unremarried surviving spouse who are residents of this state at the time of their deaths.
(b) A veteran who was discharged or released from active duty in the U.S. armed forces under conditions other than dishonorable and who was a resident of this state at the time of his or her death and his or her children and unremarried surviving spouse who are residents of this state at the time of their deaths.
(c) The spouse of a veteran who is serving an active duty at the time of the spouse's death if the veteran was a resident of this state at the time of the veteran's entry or reentry into active service and if the spouse was a resident of this state at the time of the spouse's death.
(d) The spouse of a veteran if the veteran was discharged or released from active duty in the U.S. armed forces under conditions other than dishonorable and if the veteran and spouse were residents of this state at the time of the spouse's death.
SECTION 2007m. 45.358 (3m) of the statutes is created to read:
45.358 (3m) FEES. The department may charge a fee for burials under this section and may promulgate rules for the assessment of the fee.
SECTION 2008. 45.358 (4) of the statutes is created to read:
45.358 (4) GIFTS, GRANTS AND BEQUESTS. The department of veterans affairs may accept for the state all gifts, grants and bequests for the purposes of maintenance, restoration, preservation and rehabilitation of the veterans cemeteries constructed under sub. (2).
SECTION 2008g. 45.36 (4m) of the statutes is created to read:
45.36 (4m) VITAL RECORDS. The service office may obtain a copy of a vital record under s. 69.30 (2) and may transmit the copy to the department or to the U.S. department of veterans affairs to assist a veteran or his or her dependent in obtaining a benefit to which he or she may be entitled.
SECTION 2008m. 45.37 (11) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.37 (11) DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY DESCENDING TO STATE. If a member dies without a relative that is entitled to an interest in the property of the member under the rules of intestate succession and without leaving a will the existence of which is made known to the commandant of the home within 60 days of the member's death, the member's property shall be converted to cash and turned over by the commandant of the home to the state treasurer secretary of administration to be paid into the appropriation under s. 20.485 (1) (h), without administration. The amount is subject to refund within 6 years to the estate of a veteran if it is subsequently discovered that the veteran left a will or a relative that is entitled to an interest in the property of the member under the rules of intestate succession or to any creditor of the veteran who establishes right to the fund or property or any portion thereof. The department, upon being satisfied that a claim out of such funds or property is legal and valid, shall pay the same out of such funds or property, except that payment of claims for a member's funeral and burial expenses may not exceed a total of $1,500 including any amount allowed by the United States for the member's funeral and burial and the right for burial and interment provided in sub. (15) (a).
SECTION 2008n. 45.375 of the statutes is created to read:
45.375 Hospital at Wisconsin Veterans Home. (1) The department of veterans affairs may establish a hospital at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King.
(2) A hospital established under sub. (1) may not have an approved bed capacity, as defined in s. 150.01 (4m), greater than 16 beds. The approved bed capacity of the nursing home licensed under s. 50.03 on the effective date of this subsection .... [revisor inserts date], and operated at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King is reduced by one bed for each approved bed at the hospital established under sub. (1).
SECTION 2009. 45.396 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 45.396 (1) (b), and 45.396 (1) (b) (intro.), as renumbered, is amended to read:
45.396 (1) (b) (intro.) In this section, "part-time "Part-time classroom study" means any of the following:
SECTION 2010. 45.396 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is created to read:
45.396 (1) (intro.) In this section:
SECTION 2011. 45.396 (1) (a) of the statutes is created to read:
45.396 (1) (a) "Institution of higher education" means an educational institution meeting the requirements of P.L. 89-329 for institutions covered therein and of P.L. 89-287 for business, trade, technical or vocational schools and full-time post-high school technical colleges.
SECTION 2012. 45.396 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.396 (2) Any veteran upon the completion of any correspondence course or part-time classroom study from an institution of higher education, as defined in s. 39.32 (1) (a), located in this state or from any public or private high school may be reimbursed in whole or in part for the cost of the course, including necessary textbooks, by the department upon presentation to the department of a certificate from the school indicating that the veteran has completed the course and stating the cost of the course and necessary textbooks and upon application for reimbursement completed by the veteran and received by the department no later than 60 days after the termination of the course for which the application for reimbursement is made. The department shall accept and process an application received more than 60 days after the termination of the course if the applicant shows good cause for the delayed receipt. The department may not require that an application be received sooner than 60 days after a course is completed. Benefits granted under this section shall be paid out of the appropriation under s. 20.485 (2) (vm).
SECTION 2013. 45.396 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.396 (3) (intro.) A veteran who is a resident of this state and otherwise qualified to receive benefits under this section may receive the benefits under sub. (2) upon the completion of any correspondence courses or part-time classroom study from an educational institution of higher education located outside this state which is accredited by the north central association of colleges and schools or, if outside the jurisdiction of that accrediting association, by an equivalent accrediting association, if any of the following applies:
SECTION 2013c. 45.396 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.396 (6) The department may not make a grant to a person under this section if it receives a certification under s. 46.255 49.855 (7) that the person is delinquent in child support or maintenance payments.
SECTION 2014. 45.397 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.397 (2) (a) The veteran is enrolled or accepted for enrollment in an institution of higher education, as defined in s. 39.32 (1) (a), in the state or is engaged in a structured on-the-job training program certified by the department of industry, labor and human relations, the department of health and social services or the U.S. department of veterans affairs.
SECTION 2015. 45.397 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.397 (2) (c) The veteran is unemployed, underemployed, as defined by administrative rule, or has received a notice of termination of employment.
SECTION 2021m. 45.74 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
45.74 (6) DELINQUENT SUPPORT PAYMENTS. It has received a certification under s. 46.255 49.855 (7) that the person is delinquent in child support or maintenance payments.
SECTION 2021t. 46.001 of the statutes is amended to read:
46.001 Purposes of chapter. The purposes of this chapter are to conserve human resources in Wisconsin; to provide a just and humane program of services to children in need of protection or services and nonmarital children; to prevent dependency, mental illness, developmental disability, mental infirmity, delinquency and other forms of social maladjustment by a continuous attack on causes; to provide effective aid and services to all persons in need thereof and to assist those persons to achieve or regain self-dependence at the earliest possible date; to provide a just, humane and efficient program for the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents; to avoid duplication and waste of effort and money on the part of public and private agencies; and to coordinate and integrate a social welfare program.
SECTION 2022. 46.011 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.011 Definitions. (intro.) In chs. 46 to, 48, 50, 51, 55 and 58, unless the context requires otherwise:
****NOTE: This is reconciled s. 46.011 (intro.). This SECTION has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -2153/1 and -2182/5.
SECTION 2023m. 46.016 of the statutes is amended to read:
46.016 Cooperation with federal government. The department may cooperate with the federal government in carrying out federal acts concerning public assistance, social security, child welfare and youth services, youth corrections, mental hygiene, services for the blind, vocational rehabilitation, and in other matters of mutual concern pertaining to public welfare.
SECTION 2025. 46.02 of the statutes is amended to read:
46.02 Agency powers and duties. Any institution which is subject to chs. 46, 48 to 51, 55 and 58 and to regulation under ch. 150 shall, in cases of conflict between chs. 46, 48 to 51, 55 and 58 and ch. 150, be governed by ch. 150. The department shall promulgate rules and establish procedures for resolving any such controversy.
SECTION 2026. 46.025 of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2026g. 46.027 of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2026m. 46.03 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.03 (1) INSTITUTIONS GOVERNED. Maintain and govern all secured correctional facilities, as defined in s. 48.02 (15m), that are operated by the department; the Mendota and the Winnebago mental health institutes; and the centers for the developmentally disabled.
SECTION 2026p. 46.03 (4) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
46.03 (4) (b) 1. The department, in order to discharge more effectively its responsibilities under this chapter and ch. 48 and other relevant provisions of the statutes, is authorized to study causes and methods of prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency, mental illness, mental deficiency, mental infirmity, and related social problems, including establishment of demonstration projects to apply and evaluate such methods in actual cases. The department is directed and authorized to utilize all powers provided by the statutes, including the authority under sub. (2a), to accept grants of money or property from federal, state or private sources, and to enlist the cooperation of other appropriate agencies and state departments; it may enter into agreements with local government subdivisions, departments and agencies for the joint conduct of such projects; and it may purchase services when deemed appropriate.
SECTION 2026r. 46.03 (6) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Acts 377 and 385, is repealed.
SECTION 2027m. 46.03 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.03 (7) (a) Promote the enforcement of laws for the protection of developmentally disabled children, delinquent children, children in need of protection or services and nonmarital children; and to this end cooperate with courts assigned to exercise jurisdiction under ch. 48 and licensed child welfare agencies and institutions (public and private) and take the initiative in all matters involving the interests of such children where adequate provision therefor has not already been made, including the establishment and enforcement of standards for services provided under ss. 48.34 and s. 48.345.
SECTION 2027p. 46.03 (7) (am) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 385, is repealed.
SECTION 2027r. 46.03 (7) (b) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2027t. 46.03 (7) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.03 (7) (bm) Maintain a file containing records of artificial inseminations under s. 891.40 and records of declarations of paternal interest under s. 48.025 and of statements acknowledging paternity under s. 69.15 (3) (b). The department shall release these records only upon an order of the court except that the department may use nonidentifying information concerning artificial inseminations for the purpose of compiling statistics and except that records relating to declarations of paternal interest and statements acknowledging paternity may be used without a court order upon the request of the department or its designee under s. 59.07 (97) pursuant to the program responsibilities under s. 46.25 or by any other person with a direct and tangible interest in the record.
SECTION 2028m. 46.03 (7) (e) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2029. 46.03 (7m) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.03 (7m) FOSTER CARE. For the In each federal fiscal years commencing October 1, 1994, and October 1, 1995 year, ensure that there are no more than 2,200 children in foster care and treatment foster care placements for more than 24 months, consistent with the best interests of each child. Services provided in connection with this requirement shall comply with the requirements under P.L. 96-272.
SECTION 2030. 46.03 (8) of the statutes is renumbered 103.005 (17) and amended to read:
103.005 (17) Administer The department shall administer those programs of public assistance, as provided in that are specified in subch. III of ch. 49.
****NOTE: This is reconciled s. 46.03 (8). This SECTION has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -2153/1 and -2243/2.
SECTION 2031. 46.03 (12) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 2031m. 46.03 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.03 (13) CHARGES. In compliance with the compensation plan established under s. 230.12 (3), have authority to make and determine charges for meals, living quarters, laundry and other services furnished to employes of the several institutions and members of the employe's family maintained as such. All moneys received from each person on account of these services shall be used for operation of the institutions under s. 20.435 (2) (a) and (gk) and (3) (a), (hm) and (j). If a chaplain employed in any state institution administered by the department is not furnished a residence by the state, $1,800 or 20% of the chaplain's salary, whichever is greater, is designated as his or her housing allowance.
SECTION 2031p. 46.03 (17) (c) of the statutes, as affected by 1993 Wisconsin Act 385, is repealed.
SECTION 2032. 46.03 (18) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.03 (18) (a) Except as provided in s. 46.10 (14) (b) and (c), the department of health and social services shall establish a uniform system of fees for services provided or purchased by the department of health and social services, or a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22, 51.42 or 51.437, except for services provided under subch. III of ch. 49; services relating to adoption, or; services provided to courts, for provision of child support and paternity establishment services to recipients of aid to families with dependent children or for; outreach, information and referral services,; or where, as determined by the department of health and social services, a fee is administratively unfeasible or would significantly prevent accomplishing the purpose of the service. A county department under s. 46.215, 46.22, 51.42 or 51.437 shall apply the fees which it collects under this program to cover the cost of such services. The department of health and social services shall report to the joint committee on finance no later than March 1 of each year on the number of children placed for adoption by the department of health and social services during the previous year and the costs to the state for services relating to such adoptions.
****NOTE: This is reconciled s. 46.03 (18) (a). This SECTION has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -2153/1 and -2481/3.
SECTION 2033. 46.03 (20) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
46.03 (20) (a) The Except for payments provided under subch. III of ch. 49, the department may make payments directly to recipients of public assistance or to such persons authorized to receive such payments in accordance with law and rules of the department on behalf of the counties. The Except for payments provided under subch. III of ch. 49, the department may charge the counties for the cost of operating public assistance systems which make such payments.
