Children
Under current law, DHFS may license a person to operate a day care center, a county department of human services or social services (county department) may certify a day care provider for reimbursement under the Wisconsin Works (W-2) program, and a school board may establish or contract for the provision of day care programs for children. This bill requires DWD to provide a child care quality rating system that rates the quality of the child care provided by a child care provider that is licensed by DHFS, certified by a county department, or established or contracted for by a school board and to make the rating information provided under that system available to parents, guardians, and legal custodians of children who are recipients, or prospective recipients, of care and supervision from a child care provider, including making that information available on DWD's Internet site.
Wisconsin Works
Under current law, a child care subsidy is available under the W-2 program, which is administered by DWD, to an individual who needs child care to maintain employment or pursue basic or technical college education. Under this child care subsidy program, DWD reimburses child care providers directly and distributes funds to county departments and American Indian tribal governing bodies for child care services provided to children of migrant workers and to children of W-2 participants. Under the statutes county departments are required to set maximum reimbursement rates for child care providers that provide child care services under the child care subsidy program. This bill provides that DWD may establish a tiered reimbursement system for the child care subsidy program. Under such a system, a child care provider would be reimbursed at a rate that is based on the child care quality rating system established by DWD under the bill that rates the quality of the child care provided by a child care provider. The amount paid to a child care provider under the tiered reimbursement system may exceed the maximum reimbursement rate set by the county department.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 49.155 (6) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
49.155 (6) (e) The department may establish a tiered reimbursement system under which the department reimburses a child care provider for child care services provided under this section at a rate that is based on the child care provider's quality rating under the rating system established under s. 48.982 (5). Notwithstanding pars. (a), (b), and (c), the rate at which a child care provider is reimbursed under a system established under this paragraph may exceed the maximum reimbursement rate established under par. (a), (b), or (c).
SECTION 2. 49.982 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
49.982 (5) The department shall provide a child care quality rating system that rates the quality of the child care provided by a child care provider that is licensed under s. 49.98, certified under s. 49.156, or established or contracted for under s. 120.13 (14). The department shall make the rating information provided under that system available to the parents, guardians, and legal custodians of children who are recipients, or prospective recipients, of care and supervision from a child care provider that is licensed under s. 49.98, certified under s. 49.156, or established or contracted for under s. 120.13 (14), including making that information available on the department's Internet site.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Fath, BB0370 - Appropriation for child support transfers
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Other health and human services
Under current law, general program operations for the program under which child support obligations are established, modified, and enforced may be paid from various appropriation accounts, including appropriation accounts containing federal moneys, general purpose revenue, and moneys from fees. This bill adds another appropriation account from which general program operations of the state's child support program may be paid: an appropriation account containing moneys assigned to the state by current or former public assistance recipients and transferred from the support collections trust fund, which contains child support paid by persons with child support obligations, delinquent child support collections, moneys received from DOR that were withheld from state income tax refunds owed to persons with delinquent child support obligations, and moneys received under judgments and orders in actions affecting the family.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.445 (3) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.445 (3) (k) Child support transfers. All moneys transferred from the appropriation account under par. (r), to be expended under the Wisconsin works Works program under subch. III of ch. 49 and under the work experience program for noncustodial parents under s. 49.36, to be distributed as child support incentive payments as provided in s. 49.24, for costs associated with receiving and disbursing support and support-related payments, including any contract costs, for administering the program under s. 49.22 and all other purposes specified in s. 49.22, and for the support of dependent children in accordance with applicable federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and state rules.
****NOTE: This is reconciled s. 20.445 (3) (k). This SECTION has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -0474 and -1523
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Fath, BB0372 - Sharing health insurance data
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Other health and human services
Under current law, DHFS may request from health insurers information to enable DHFS to identify medical assistance beneficiaries who are eligible, or who would be eligible as dependents, for health insurance coverage. An insurer that receives a request must provide the information within a certain period of time. Under the bill, DHFS must provide any information that it receives from a health insurer to DWD for purposes of DWD's program related to child and spousal support, paternity establishment, and medical support liability. DWD may allow county and tribal child support agencies access to the information, subject to use and disclosure restrictions under current law, and must consult with DHFS regarding procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of the information.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 49.22 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.22 (1) There is created a child and spousal support and establishment of paternity and medical liability support liability program in the department. The purpose of this program is to establish paternity when possible, to establish or modify support obligations, to enforce support obligations owed by parents to their children and maintenance obligations owed to spouses or former spouses with whom the children reside in this state or owed in other states if the support order was issued in this state or owed in other states if the parent, spouse, or former spouse resides in this state, to locate persons who are alleged to have taken their child in violation of s. 948.31 or of similar laws in other states, and to locate and value property of any person having a support duty. To accomplish the objectives of this program and of other assistance programs under this chapter, county and state agencies will cooperate with one another to implement a child and spousal support and paternity establishment and medical support liability program in accordance with state and federal laws, regulations, and rules and to assure proper distribution of benefits of all assistance programs authorized under this chapter.
SECTION 2. 49.475 (6) of the statutes is created to read:
49.475 (6) SHARING INFORMATION. The department of health and family services shall provide to the department of workforce development, for purposes of the medical support liability program under s. 49.22, any information that the department of health and family services receives under this section. The department of workforce development may allow a county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) or a tribal child support agency access to the information, subject to the use and disclosure restrictions under s. 49.83, and shall consult with the department of health and family services regarding procedures and methods to adequately safeguard the confidentiality of the information provided under this subsection.
SECTION 3. 49.855 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.855 (6) If the state implements the child and spousal support and establishment of paternity and medical support liability program under ss. 49.22 and 59.53 (5), the state may act under this section in place of the county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5).
SECTION 4. 59.40 (2) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:
59.40 (2) (p) Cooperate with the department of workforce development with respect to the child and spousal support and establishment of paternity and medical liability support liability program under ss. 49.22 and 59.53 (5), and provide that department with any information from court records which it requires to administer that program.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Fath, BB0373 - Job access loan program
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Wisconsin Works
Under current law, DWD makes job access loans to persons who are eligible for W-2 and who need such loans to obtain or continue employment. The loans are funded with federal moneys received under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, with general purpose revenue required as maintenance of effort, and with job access loan repayments. This bill eliminates the federal moneys and the general purpose revenue as funding for job access loans, leaving only repayments of job access loans for funding more job access loans. The bill also provides that job access loan repayments may be used for administrative costs associated with collecting delinquent job access loan repayments.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.445 (3) (jL) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.445 (3) (jL) Job access loan repayments. All moneys received from repayments of loans made under s. 49.147 (6), and from the department of revenue under s. 71.93 for delinquent job access loan repayments certified under s. 49.85, for the purpose of making loans under s. 49.147 (6) and for administrative costs associated with collecting delinquent job access loan repayments.
SECTION 2. 49.147 (6) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.147 (6) (c) Distribution and administration. From the appropriations appropriation under s. 20.445 (3) (dz), (jL), and (md), the department shall distribute funds for job access loans to a Wisconsin Works agency, which shall administer the loans in accordance with rules promulgated by the department.
SECTION 3. 49.175 (1) (n) of the statutes is repealed.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Binau, BB0363 - Eliminate inactive UW appropriations
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Higher education
This bill eliminates five inactive UW System appropriations.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.285 (1) (ee) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 2. 20.285 (1) (fh) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 3. 20.285 (1) (ga) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 4. 20.285 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.285 (1) (i) State laboratory of hygiene. From the All moneys received for or on account of the operation of the state laboratory of hygiene, all moneys not appropriated under par. (ih), to be used for general program operations of the laboratory of hygiene.
SECTION 5. 20.285 (1) (ih) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 6. 20.285 (5) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 7. 36.54 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.54 (2) (b) From the appropriations under s. 20.285 (1) (ee), (j), (r) and (rc), the environmental education board shall award grants to corporations and public agencies for the development, dissemination and presentation of environmental education programs. Programs shall be funded on an 18-month basis. The environmental education board may not award a grant unless the grant recipient matches at least 25% of the amount of the grant. Private funds and in-kind contributions may be applied to meet the matching requirement. Grants under this paragraph may not be used to replace funding available from other sources.
SECTION 8. 36.54 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
36.54 (2) (c) The environmental education board shall promulgate rules establishing the criteria and procedures for the awarding of grants for programs and projects under par. (b). The environmental education board shall use the priorities established under sub. (1) for awarding grants if the amount in the appropriations under s. 20.285 (1) (ee), (j), (r) and (rc) in any fiscal year is insufficient to fund all applications under this subsection.
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Rogers, BB0368 - English for Southeast Asian children; headstart supplement funding
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
