Under current law, DHSS must award grants to local health departments to
fund specified activities related to lead poisoning or lead exposure, including
educational programs, screening, care coordination and follow-up services such as
lead inspection. Certain grants are awarded under criteria that ensure that funding
is provided for areas, including Milwaukee, with significant incidence of lead
poisoning or lead exposure. This bill eliminates these grants under the program.
Under current law, DHSS provides funds to the Marquette University School
of Dentistry to provide dental services at clinics in the city of Milwaukee. This bill
provides that the school of dentistry must also use the funds to provide dental
services at correctional centers in Milwaukee County.
Under current law, DHSS is authorized to award grants to provide
mammography services to women who are 40 years or older. The women must live
in any of 12 rural counties that are specified in rules promulgated by DHSS as having
the highest incidence of late-stage breast cancer in this state.
This bill expands the purpose of grants for mammography services to include
breast cancer screening services and makes these services available statewide to
women who are 40 years of age or older.
Under current law, DHSS must carry out a statewide immunization program
to eliminate mumps, measles, German measles, diptheria, whooping cough,
poliomyelitis and any other diseases that DHSS has specified by rule and to protect
against tetanus. Annually by July 1 until July 1, 1994, DHSS must submit a report
for distribution to the standing committees of the legislature on the success of the
statewide immunization program. This bill extends the reporting requirement until
July 1, 1996.
Under current law, DHSS is required to distribute not more than $375,600 in
fiscal year 1993-94 and not more than $491,500 in fiscal year 1994-95 to reimburse
or supplement the reimbursement of the cost of certain drugs for certain individuals
who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This bill removes
this statutory allocation. This allows DHSS to determine the amount that will be
used for drug reimbursement for HIV-infected individuals, subject to the
availability of funds in the pertinent appropriation.
Children
Under current law, DHSS investigates and licenses child welfare agencies,
group homes, shelter care facilities (nonsecure places of temporary care and physical
custody for children) and day care centers. Currently, DHSS, a county department
and, if licensed to do so by DHSS, a child welfare agency investigate and license foster
homes and treatment foster homes. This bill requires that, as part of the prelicensing
investigation of a child welfare agency, group home, shelter care facility or day care
center, DHSS, with the assistance of DOJ, conduct a background investigation of the
applicant for the license. If the applicant is applying for a license to operate a day
care center for 4 to 8 children, DHSS must also conduct a background investigation
of the employes and prospective employes of the day care center. The bill also
requires a shelter care facility, child welfare agency, group home or day care center
that cares for 9 or more children to conduct a background investigation of all
employes and prospective employes as a condition of initial licensure or license
renewal. Under the bill, if the person being investigated is a nonresident, or at any
time within the preceding 5 years has been a nonresident, or if the person conducting
the investigation has a reasonable basis for further investigation of the person, the
person conducting the investigation must require the person to be photographed and
fingerprinted and DOJ may submit the fingerprints to the federal bureau of
investigation for the purpose of verifying the identity of the person fingerprinted and
obtaining his or her arrest and conviction record. DHSS may not issue a license to
or renew the license of, and a shelter care facility, child welfare agency, group home
or day care center may not employ, any person who has been convicted of a felony
drug violation, who has had imposed on him or her an increased penalty for habitual
criminality, for certain domestic abuse offenses, for use of a dangerous weapon, for
committing a violent crime in a school zone, for use of a bulletproof garment, for
concealing his or her identity or for a hate crime or, subject to certain exceptions, who
has been convicted of a crime against life and bodily security, a crime against sexual
morality or a crime against children. DHSS may order a child welfare agency, group
home, shelter care facility or day care center that employs a person who has been so
convicted or so punished to terminate the employment of that person immediately
on receipt of the order. The bill also requires DHSS, a county department or a child
welfare agency to conduct the same background investigation of an applicant for a
foster home or a treatment foster home license and any adult resident of the home
and to deny licensure to any applicant who has been so convicted or so punished.
Under current law, no person may establish a shelter care facility without first
obtaining a license from DHSS. Current law does not specify a licensure period or
a license fee for shelter care facilities. This bill establishes a 2-year licensure period
for shelter care facilities and a biennial fee of $180, plus $24 per child, based on
licensed capacity.
Under current law, a child welfare agency that provides care and maintenance
for children must pay a biennial license fee of $75, plus $10 per child, based on
licensed capacity. This bill raises that fee to $180, plus $24 per child, based on
licensed capacity.
Under current law, a child welfare agency that places children in foster homes
or group homes must pay a biennial license fee of $200. This bill raises that fee to
$220.
Under current law, a group home must pay a biennial license fee of $75, plus
$10 per child, based on licensed capacity. This bill raises that fee to $180, plus $24
per child, based on licensed capacity.
Under current law, a day care center that provides care and supervision for 9
or more children must pay a biennial license fee of $25, plus $5 per child, based on
licensed capacity. This bill raises the per child fee to $10 per child.
Under current law, DHSS may order certain sanctions against a child welfare
agency, shelter care facility, group home or day care center (licensee) that violates a
provision of licensure or a rule promulgated by DHSS. If the licensee fails to comply
with such an order, DHSS may, after providing notice and an explanation of the
penalties and appeal process, directly assess forfeitures (civil monetary penalties) of
not less than $10 or more than $50 for each day of violation. This bill increases that
maximum daily forfeiture amount to $1,000. The bill also permits DHSS, after
providing notice and an explanation of the penalties and appeal process, to assess a
forfeiture against a licensee that violates a provision of licensure or a rule, without
first ordering a sanction against the licensee.
Under current law, a person whose birth parent's rights have been terminated,
or who has been adopted, in this state may request DHSS to provide the person, after
the person reaches 18 years of age, with medical or genetic information filed with
DHSS by the person's birth parents, with a copy of the person's original birth
certificate and with the identity and location of the person's birth parents. If the
person's birth parent has not filed the medical or genetic information with DHSS or
has not filed an affidavit authorizing DHSS to disclose the person's original birth
certificate or the identity and location of the birth parent, DHSS must conduct a
search for the birth parent to obtain the medical or genetic information or to inform
the birth parent that he or she may file an affidavit authorizing that disclosure. This
process is called the adoption search program. This bill permits DHSS to contract
with a county department or a licensed child welfare agency to administer the
adoption search program.
Under current law, DHSS provides adoption services for children with special
needs. This bill requires DHSS to develop a plan by July 1, 1997, for contracting out
the adoption services currently provided by DHSS for children with special needs.
Under current law, DHSS administers various child care grant programs.
Current law specifies certain procedures and eligibility criteria that DHSS must
follow in awarding grants under those programs. This bill simplifies those
procedures and criteria by eliminating certain requirements specified in current law.
Under current law, DHSS distributes state revenues, as community aids, and
federal child care grant moneys to counties for child care services for parents who are
gainfully employed and who need child care services (low-income child care); for
parents who are at-risk of becoming eligible for AFDC (at-risk child care); and for
parents who need child care services to prevent or remedy child abuse or neglect, to
alleviate stress in the family or to preserve the family unit (respite child care). This
bill requires DHSS to recover overpayments made for low-income, at-risk and
respite child care. The bill requires DHSS to promulgate rules regarding the
recovery of those child care overpayments.
Currently, if the at-risk child care funds distributed to a county are insufficient
to meet the needs of all eligible parents, the county must distribute those funds to
the following persons according to the following order of priority: 1) to parents who
are working and who have been recipients of AFDC within the last 12 months
(transitional child care); 2) to parents who are working and who have been recipients
of AFDC, but not within the last 12 months (post-transitional child care); and 3) to
participants in the new hope project (a program to assist low-income people in
finding jobs). This bill eliminates the order of priority for at-risk child care funds.
Under current law, unspent or unencumbered child care funds that DHSS
carries forward from one calendar year to the next may be used to provide child care
in counties with unmet needs, to provide child care start-up and expansion grants
and to provide training for child care providers. This bill eliminates the use of those
funds for child care start-up and expansion grants and permits DHSS to use those
funds to provide child care for certain recipients of AFDC and for former recipients
of AFDC and to automate state child care licensing.
Current law appropriates a sum sufficient to provide state aid for certain
county-administered public assistance programs, including AFDC, and for the cost
of foster care and treatment foster care provided by certain nonlegally responsible
relatives under state-administered or county-administered programs. Currently,
this aid for the cost of this foster care by nonlegally responsible relatives is provided
by reimbursing counties for their costs of providing this foster care. As a result,
counties need not use community aids foster care funds for foster care provided by
nonlegally responsible relatives under state-administered or county-administered
programs. This bill limits the amount that may be paid from the sum sufficient
appropriation to a county for foster care provided by nonlegally responsible relatives
to the amount that the county received for these reimbursements in 1994.
Under current law, the child abuse and neglect prevention board awards
general purpose revenues (GPR), program revenues (PR) received by the board as
contributions, gifts, grants and bequests and segregated revenues (SEG) received by
the children's trust fund as contributions, gifts, grants and bequests, to nonprofit
organizations and public agencies to provide parenting education services and
culturally competent outreach services to the parents of newborn infants (right from
the start program). This bill eliminates GPR funding for this program and provides
instead for PR funding from duplicate birth certificate fees for the program. The bill
also increases the fee for a copy of a birth certificate from $10 to $15 and increases
the amount of that fee that is credited to the board from $5 to $7.50.
Under current law, DHSS awards grants to counties that have high numbers
of substantiated cases of child abuse and neglect to provide 24-hour crisis and
respite care for abused and neglected children (children-in-crisis program). This
bill eliminates this program.
Under current law, DHSS must allocate $250,000 in each fiscal year to enter
into a contract with an organization to provide services in Milwaukee County to
divert youths from gang activities. In addition, current law requires DHSS to
allocate $300,000 in each fiscal year to that organization for alcohol and other drug
abuse (AODA) education and treatment services for participants in the
organization's youth diversion program. This bill eliminates the allocation to that
organization for AODA education and treatment.
Mental illness and developmental disabilities
Under current law, a law enforcement officer or a juvenile court intake worker
may take a person into custody, in a process known as emergency detention, if the
officer or worker has cause to believe that the person is mentally ill, drug dependent
or developmentally disabled and if the person evidences certain dangerousness. The
law enforcement officer must transport the person to a mental health treatment
facility, where the treatment director must, within 24 hours, determine if the person
must be detained and, if the person consents, treated. If the person is detained, he
or she must be released within 72 hours, excluding holidays and weekends, or a
petition for commitment must be filed against the person. Individuals who act in
accordance with the authorization provided by these laws are not liable in civil court
for actions taken in good faith.
This bill authorizes a treatment director of a mental health treatment facility
or his or her designee to evaluate and diagnose, as well as treat, an individual who
so consents and who has been transported to the facility under emergency detention
or who has voluntarily entered the facility. The immunity in civil court that is
provided to individuals who act in accordance with the laws under emergency
detention is, by the bill, extended to the evaluation and diagnosis of persons under
emergency detention or who voluntarily enter mental health treatment facilities.
The bill also specifically extends immunity to the making of a determination that an
individual has or does not have mental illness or is or is not dangerous. Lastly, the
bill extends immunity to a director of a treatment facility, or his or her designee, who
under a court order evaluates, diagnoses or treats an individual who is confined in
a jail.
This bill requires DHSS to investigate the feasibility of and analyze the
potential savings and efficiencies of contracting with a private vendor to operate the
state centers for the developmentally disabled and selling the state centers for the
developmentally disabled to such a private vendor. By June 30, 1996, DHSS must
report the findings resulting from its investigation and analysis to the appropriate
standing committees of the legislature and to the governor.
Under this bill, beginning on January 1, 1996, a county must annually
establish, from the sum of the county's annual allocation of moneys under the
community integration program for persons relocated or meeting reimbursable
levels of care (commonly known as "CIP II") and under the community options
program, a maximum amount of not more than 25% for expenditure for services to
persons residing in C-BRFs. The county must deny eligibility to these persons if they
are initially applying for CIP II or community options program services and if the
funding for their care would exceed the 25% maximum, unless DHSS, under criteria
promulgated as rules, grants an exception based on the person's hardship that would
result if the requirement is enforced. If a county's services, under CIP II or the
community options program, to persons residing in community-based residential
facilities exceed the 25% maximum as of January 1, 1996, the county may seek a
waiver of the requirement from DHSS. DHSS must provide technical assistance to
counties to explore alternative methods of providing services. DHSS also must
submit, by October 1, 1995, rules establishing criteria for hardship exceptions, as
proposed, and the proposed standards for granting variances to counties to DOA for
review and approval.
Under this bill, community options program services that are funded solely
from state general purpose revenues may not be used to provide services in a C-BRF
with more than 8 beds unless DHSS approves. DHSS is authorized to approve the
provision if the C-BRF is composed of independent apartments for certain disabled
or elderly residents or if the C-BRF meets standards that, under the bill, DHSS must
establish by January 1, 1996. DHSS must submit the proposed standards to DOA
for approval by October 1, 1995.
This bill requires DHSS to develop, by January 1, 1996, a model contract for
purchase of long-term community support services under the community options
program for persons who reside in C-BRFs. Under the bill, county departments of
social services, human services, community programs or developmental disabilities
services, agencies of county and tribal governments that are directed by county or
tribal commissions on aging and private nonprofit agencies that contract with
providers for these services must use the model contract.
Under current law, long-term support services under the community options
program are funded from state revenues; under a waiver of federal medicaid laws,
home and community-based services under the community options program are
funded from a combination of state revenues and federal medicaid funds. The latter
funding is commonly known as "COP waiver" funding. If a person who is eligible for
community options program services and for medical assistance refuses the offer of
community options program services that are funded under the "COP waiver", the
person may not receive community options program services that are funded solely
from state revenues, except for services funded during a 90-day period in which an
application for "COP waiver" funding is processed. A person who is denied services
on this basis may not request a hearing to review the denial.
This bill expands the limitation on use of solely state-funded community
options program services by denying these services to persons who are eligible for
and are offered and yet refuse home and community-based services under the
community integration programs for persons who are relocated from certain
institutions or who meet certain level-of-care requirements.
Current federal medicaid law prohibits federal funding, under this state's
medical assistance program, of mentally ill persons aged 21 to 64 who receive
services in a facility that the federal health care financing administration finds is an
institution for mental diseases (IMD). Currently, 2 programs under DHSS fund,
from state revenues, services for persons who reside in or who are relocated into
communities from facilities that are found to be IMDs.
This bill expands eligibility for a program that funds services for persons who
reside in or who are relocated from IMDs. The bill permits funding, at a rate that
is 90% of the medical assistance reimbursement rate for the IMD in fiscal year
1987-88, for community-based care for persons who are at least 65 and are relocated
from an IMD, if the IMD closes a bed for the relocation.
This bill eliminates an appropriation to DHSS to provide community mental
health protection and advocacy services.
This bill eliminates a program under which DHSS must award a grant to a
private nonprofit organization to collect and disseminate information on Alzheimer's
disease, to coordinate public awareness activities related to the disease and to
provide training, technical assistance and training material to certain entities that
provide services to persons with the disease.
This bill revises the program of mental health services for severely emotionally
disturbed children. The bill authorizes DHSS to transfer funds, for use as inpatient
and community mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children,
from the medical assistance appropriation for distribution to applying counties that
meet certain requirements. In order to receive the funding, a county must be the
recipient of a federal grant for comprehensive community mental health services for
children with serious emotional disturbances; be the recipient of any other grant for
services for severely emotionally disturbed children; or meet requirements for
participating in the integrated services programs for children with severe
disabilities and meet certain other requirements. The bill requires that a county that
is applying for the funds submit a proposed plan for children who are served under
the program to be enrolled in a limited services health organization at the time that
the program terminates. Funding that is used under this revised program that is not
encumbered by a recipient county by the June 30 that is 24 months after the fiscal
year in which the funds were distributed lapses to the medical assistance
appropriation.
The bill also permits moneys received as payments in restitution of property
that is damaged at the Mendota or Winnebago mental health institutes or at the
state centers for the developmentally disabled and money that is received from the
sale of surplus property at the mental health institutes or state centers for the
developmentally disabled to be used for replacement of the damaged property.
Other health and social services
This bill changes the name of DHSS, on July 1, 1996, to the department of
health and family services.
Under current law, the division of vocational rehabilitation, a subunit of DHSS,
administers the vocational rehabilitation laws. Under these laws, DHSS assists
eligible handicapped persons to become capable of competing in the labor market,
practicing a profession, raising a family and making a home or participating in
sheltered employment or other gainful work. Among other requirements under
current law, DHSS must assess and evaluate services appropriate to each individual,
develop an individualized written rehabilitation program with each handicapped
person and develop and supervise services that are part of any handicapped person's
vocational rehabilitation program. DHSS must also provide medical or other
evaluations at no cost to the applicant to determine the applicant's eligibility for
vocational rehabilitation services. DHSS must also provide rehabilitation teaching
services for persons who are blind or visually impaired regardless of their eligibility
for vocational rehabilitation services. Finally, under current law, DHSS may provide
interpreters for the hearing impaired and must, subject to availability of funds,
provide assistance to hearing-impaired persons to secure telecommunication
devices. DHSS must provide, free of charge, at the request of an eligible hearing
impaired person, a vehicle sticker that apprises law enforcement officers of the fact
that the operator or owner of the vehicle is hearing impaired.
This bill transfers the division of vocational rehabilitation from DHSS to
DILHR on July 1, 1996. Under this bill, DILHR is responsible for administering the
vocational rehabilitation laws for handicapped persons except that DHSS retains
responsibility for administering nonvocational services for the hearing and visually
impaired.
This bill authorizes DHSS to regulate a type of facility, known as an assisted
living facility, beginning on July 1, 1996. Under the bill, an assisted living facility
is defined as a place in which at least 5 adults reside, that consists entirely of
independent apartments and that provides not more than 28 hours per week of
supportive, personal and nursing services to a resident of the facility. The bill
requires that an assisted living facility be certified by DHSS as a provider of medical
assistance in order to operate and requires DHSS to promulgate rules, approved by
DOA, that establish standards for the certification.
Under current law, DHSS allocates $52,400 in each state fiscal year to contract
with an organization to provide services to Hispanic workers who have been injured
in industrial accidents. The services provided include group support and self-help
activities, counseling, advocacy on behalf of injured workers for appropriate services,
interpreter services, outreach and assistance in maximizing utilization of certain
public programs. This bill eliminates this funding.
Under current law, generally only after a man has been adjudicated to be the
father of a nonmarital child in a paternity action may the man be ordered to pay child
support for the child. However, if the man has signed and filed with the state
registrar a statement acknowledging paternity, a judge or family court commissioner
may order the man to pay child support in any action affecting the family, such as
an action for support. Within one year after signing a statement acknowledging
paternity or one year after attaining age 18, whichever is later, a person who signed
the statement may request that the judge or family court commissioner order blood
tests. If the results of the blood tests exclude the man as the father of the child, the
court must dismiss any action for support, or vacate any order for support, with
respect to the man.
This bill provides that, if the results of the blood tests exclude the man, the court
must also notify the state registrar, who must prepare a new birth certificate for the
child, omitting the man's name. If no action for support has been filed, a person who
has signed a statement acknowledging paternity may request that the county child
support agency arrange for blood tests. If the results exclude the man, the child
support agency must notify the state registrar. The bill also provides that a
nonjudicial determination of paternity that has the same effect as a judgment of
paternity becomes effective when a statement acknowledging paternity has been on
file with the state registrar for one year or one year after the man who signed the
statement attains age 18, whichever is later. Such a determination may be reopened
under the same circumstances as a judgment of paternity.
This bill prohibits a C-BRF from initially admitting a potential resident who
intends to pay for residency from private funds unless the C-BRF first obtains
financial information from the potential resident at the time that he or she applies
for admission. The potential resident must waive to specified persons his or her right
to confidentiality of the information provided. From this information, the C-BRF
must prepare a statement of financial condition of the potential resident and provide
the statement to him or her. The statement must estimate a date, if any, by which
the person's assets and other funding sources would be depleted, must indicate that,
at the time of depletion, public funding may not be available in order to remain in
the C-BRF and must specify options available to the individual at that time. If the
estimated date of depletion of the individual's funds is less than 24 months after the
date of the financial statement, the C-BRF must forward the statement to the county
department of social services.
Under current law, DHSS, as part of the home-based enterprise program, is
required to provide services, vocational rehabilitation, craft instruction and a
supervised business initiatives program to severely handicapped persons who are
eligible for vocational rehabilitation services. DHSS is permitted to own, lease,
manage, supervise or operate businesses for the benefit of severely handicapped
persons, including home-based craft work, also known as the homecraft program.
Currently, the homecraft program is funded, in part, by a federal grant. Those
persons ineligible to participate under the federal grant may participate in a portion
of the program funded by state revenue.
This bill eliminates the homecraft portion of the home-based enterprise
program funded by state revenue.
Under current law, community aids funds are distributed in accordance with
certain statutory allocations. There is a basic county allocation from which DHSS
allocates money to the counties for social services in general. There are also a
number of specific categorical allocations for specific types of social services. Current
law has categorical allocations for services to children and families; supportive home
care services; child care services; community support programs; community-based
programs for the developmentally disabled; family support programs; Alzheimer's
family and caregiver support services; emergency services; and alcohol, drug abuse
and mental health services. This bill restructures community aids allocations into
a single general community aids allocation and 3 specific categorical allocations —
one for prevention and treatment of substance abuse, one for community mental
health services and one for child care services — and allocates funding for each of the
categories.
Under current law, community aids funds that are not spent or encumbered by
December 31 of each year lapse to the general fund. However, current law contains
a number of provisions allowing counties, tribal governing bodies and nonprofit
organizations to carry over certain community aids funds to the next year. Under one
of these provisions, DHSS is permitted to carry forward up to 3% of the total amount
of community aids funds, other than certain child care funds, that are allocated for
use by the county, tribal governing body or nonprofit organization. These funds may
be used in the following calendar year, subject to certain limitations. One of these
limitations prevents DHSS from carrying forward more than 25% of the amount
allocated to the county, tribal governing body or nonprofit organization under certain
community aids categorical allocations. This bill repeals this 25% rule. Under
current law, if DHSS determines that a county department will be unable to expend
certain funds for at-risk child care, low-income child care and respite child care by
December 31 each year, DHSS may authorize that county department to expend part
of these funds for the start-up, improvement or expansion of child care services or
facilities, to the extent permitted by federal law. This bill repeals this provision.
Under current law, counties are required to provide matching funds for
community aids funds distributed from certain allocations. Each county's yearly
required match equals 9.89% of the total of the county's distributions for that year
for which matching funds are required. These matching funds may come from county
tax levies, federal and state revenue sharing funds or, subject to certain limitations,
private donations. This bill eliminates these county matching requirements.
The bill also makes certain changes relating to the administration of the
community aids program. The bill requires county departments of health or social
services, county departments of community programs, county departments of
developmental disabilities services and tribal governing bodies to submit to DHSS,
before October 1 of each year beginning in 1995, a proposed budget for the
expenditure of community aids funds. The proposed budget must be submitted on
a form developed by DHSS and approved by DOA. In addition, the bill requires
DHSS to develop performance standards for all services funded through community
aids. These performance standards are to be developed after consultation with DOA
and with county departments and are required to be implemented no later than July
1, 1996.
Under current law, the payee or payer under a judgment or order providing for
child or family support may file a petition, motion or order to show cause with the
court to have the amount of support revised. The court or family court commissioner
may not revise the amount of support unless the person requesting the change can
show a substantial change in circumstances since the last order or revision. If the
court or family court commissioner revises child or family support, it must be done
by using a percentage standard. The revised amount may deviate from the amount
that would result from use of the percentage standard if, on the basis of various
factors, the court or family court commissioner determines that use of the percentage
standard would be unfair to the child or to either of the parties.
This bill provides that a payee under a judgment or order for child or family
support may file an affidavit with the court for a revision of the support, unless the
current judgment or order is based on the percentage standard and is expressed as
a percentage of income or unless less than 33 months have elapsed since the entry
of the current judgment or order. The affidavit must include: facts supporting a
reasonable basis for a substantial change in circumstances; the proposed amount of
support, which must be determined by using the percentage standard; the number
of children to be supported under the revised judgment or order; and the payer's
current income or earning capacity, if the proposed amount of support is expressed
as a fixed sum or as a combination of a percentage and a fixed sum in the alternative.
The payee must serve the affidavit on the payer, or send it by registered or certified
mail to the payer's last-known address. Upon proof of service on the payer, the court
must send notice to the payer that informs the payer that the court or family court
commissioner may revise the support amount as requested in the affidavit unless the
payer requests a hearing within 30 days.
If the payer does not timely request a hearing, the court or family court
commissioner may revise the support amount as requested in the affidavit if the
affidavit complies with all of the requirements under the statute and demonstrates
to the satisfaction of the court or family court commissioner that the revision in
support is determined in a manner consistent with the statute under current law
that provides for revision of support. If the support is revised, the court must send
the revised order to the payer along with notice that an assignment is in effect for
the new amount of support. If the payer does timely request a hearing, the court or
family court commissioner must hold a hearing and determine, in accordance with
the statute in current law that provides for revision of support, whether the support
should be revised.
