49.025 (2) (a) 2. The department shall subtract from the amount determined under subd. 1. amounts paid to hospitals in that county under s. 49.45 (6y) and (6z) in that year and amounts paid on behalf of individuals in that county under the demonstration project under s. 49.45 (23) in that year. If the amount determined under this subdivision is less than zero, the amount of the relief block grant is $0.
SECTION 4. 49.45 (23) of the statutes is created to read:
49.45 (23) ASSISTANCE FOR CHILDLESS ADULTS DEMONSTRATION PROJECT. (a) The department shall request a waiver from the secretary of the federal department of health and human services to permit the department to conduct a demonstration project to provide health care coverage for basic primary and preventive care to adults who are under the age of 65, who have family incomes not to exceed 200 percent of the poverty line, and who are not otherwise eligible for medical assistance under this subchapter, the Badger Care health care program under s. 49.665, or Medicare under 42 USC 1395 et seq. Any individual who had coverage under the Health Insurance Risk-Sharing Plan under subch. II of ch. 149 within 6 months before applying for the project under this subsection is not eligible to participate in the project under this subsection.
(b) If the waiver is granted and in effect, the department may promulgate rules defining the health care benefit plan, including more specific eligibility requirements and cost-sharing requirements. Notwithstanding s. 227.24 (3), the plan details under this subsection may be promulgated as an emergency rule under s. 227.24 without a finding of emergency. If the waiver is granted and in effect, the demonstration project under this subsection shall begin on January 1, 2009, or on the effective date of the waiver, whichever is later.
SECTION 5. 149.12 (2) (f) 2. g. of the statutes is created to read:
149.12 (2) (f) 2. g. Benefits under the demonstration project for childless adults under s. 49.45 (23).
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2007 - 2008 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Harshner, BB0355 - Child care waiting list
For 2007-09 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2007 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Wisconsin Works
The Wisconsin Works (W-2) program under current law provides work experience and benefits for low-income custodial parents who are at least 18 years old. Also, an individual who is the parent of a child under the age of 13 or, if the child is disabled, under the age of 19, may receive a child care subsidy under the W-2 program if the individual needs child care services to participate in various educational or work activities and satisfies other eligibility criteria.
This bill authorizes DWD to implement a prioritized waiting list system for child care subsidies under W-2 if DWD determines that the funding allocated for child care subsidies will be less than the projected amount necessary to pay the subsidies. An individual on a waiting list would not receive a child care subsidy unless sufficient funding became available. An eligible applicant for a child care subsidy who is participating in a work component of W-2, however, could not be placed on a waiting list.
For further information see the state and local 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 (1m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.155 (1m) ELIGIBILITY. (intro.) A Wisconsin works Works agency shall determine eligibility for a child care subsidy under this section. Under this section, subject to any waiting list placement under sub. (2), an individual may receive a subsidy for child care for a child who has not attained the age of 13 or, if the child is disabled, who has not attained the age of 19, if the individual meets all of the following conditions:
SECTION 2. 49.155 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
49.155 (2) WAITING LIST. (a) If the department determines that projected child care subsidies under this section will likely exceed the amount of funding allocated for child care subsidies under s. 49.175 (1) (p), the department may implement a prioritized waiting list system for applicants who are otherwise eligible for a child care subsidy under sub. (1m). Under the system, an applicant on the waiting list would not receive a child care subsidy until funding became sufficient.
(b) Notwithstanding par. (a), an applicant for a child care subsidy who is eligible under sub. (1m) and who is participating in a work component of Wisconsin Works under s. 49.147 may not be placed on a waiting list.
SECTION 3. 49.155 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.155 (3) (a) A Subject to any waiting list placement under sub. (2), a Wisconsin works Works agency shall refer an individual who has been determined eligible under sub. (1m) to a county department under s. 46.215, 46.22, or 46.23 for child care assistance.
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2007 - 2008 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Harshner, BB0353 - Child support incentive payments
For 2007-09 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2007 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Children
Under current law, counties receive a portion of federal child support incentive payments awarded to the state and additional state child support incentive payments, limited to $5,690,000 per year, from the support collections trust fund, which consists of moneys from various sources, including child support assigned to the state by payees of child support who receive certain benefits from the state. This bill eliminates the payment of child support incentive payments to counties from the support collections trust fund, creates a general purpose revenue appropriation for providing the state child support incentive payments, and limits the state child support incentive payments to $2,750,000 in fiscal year 2007-08, and thereafter to $5,500,000 per fiscal year, plus any unobligated amounts from the prior fiscal year.
Current law also provides that if federal child support incentive payments awarded to the state for a federal fiscal year are less than $12,340,000, the total federal and state child support incentive payments to counties may not exceed $12,340,000. The bill removes that provision.
For further information see the state and local 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) (b) of the statutes is created to read:
20.445 (3) (b) Child support local assistance. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule to be distributed as child support incentive payments under s. 49.24 (1).
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 2. 20.445 (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 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.
SECTION 3. 49.24 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.24 (1) From the appropriation under s. 20.445 (3) (k) (b), the department shall provide child support incentive payments to counties. Total payments In fiscal year 2007-08, amounts allocated by the department under this subsection may not exceed $2,750,000, plus any amounts not obligated in the prior fiscal year. Beginning with fiscal year 2008-09, amounts allocated under this subsection may not exceed $5,690,000 $5,500,000 per fiscal year, plus any amounts not obligated in the prior fiscal year.
SECTION 4. 49.24 (2) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.24 (2) (b) (intro.) Subject to the incentive payments limit specified in par. (a), the department shall distribute to counties, in accordance with the formula established under par. (a), all of the following:
SECTION 5. 49.24 (2) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
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2007 - 2008 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Milioto, BB0385a - Changing family care district to long-term care district
For 2007-09 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2007 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 administers the Family Care program to provide long-term care services to people who are at least 18 years of age, have a physical or developmental disability or a degenerative brain disorder, and satisfy financial eligibility criteria. Under Family Care, DHFS contracts with care management organizations to provide a flexible long-term care benefit called the family care benefit for a capitated payment rate, and contracts with resource centers to provide information and referral services pertaining to long-term care and to assess financial and functional eligibility for the family care benefit, among other services. DHFS may contract with a county, an American Indian tribe or band, the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, a family care district, or a private entity to operate either a care management organization or a resource center, but not both. A family care district is a special purpose district created by one or more counties that is independent of the county and that may operate either a care management organization or a resource center.
Also under current law, in several counties organizations administer the Wisconsin Partnership Program or the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), capitated payment rate programs to provide both acute health and long-term care services to elderly people or people with physical disabilities who are eligible for nursing home care.
This bill renames a family care district a long-term care district and provides for American Indian tribes or bands acting alone or in conjunction with other tribes or bands or counties to create a long-term care district. The bill allows a long-term care district to operate the Wisconsin Partnership Program or PACE, as long as the district does not also operate a resource center. The bill also does the following: modifies provisions governing membership of long-term care district boards; modifies compensation and benefit provisions relevant to former county employees who are hired by a long-term care district; specifies that counties are not responsible for providing or paying for any services that a long-term care district is required by statute or contract to provide or pay for; and provides for a county or American Indian tribe or band to withdraw or be removed from a long-term care district. Finally, the bill modifies provisions governing membership of a governing board of a care management organization.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 13.94 (4) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
13.94 (4) (a) 1. Every state department, board, examining board, affiliated credentialing board, commission, independent agency, council or office in the executive branch of state government; all bodies created by the legislature in the legislative or judicial branch of state government; any public body corporate and politic created by the legislature including specifically the Fox River Navigational System Authority and the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority, a professional baseball park district, a local professional football stadium district, a local cultural arts district and a family long-term care district under s. 46.2895; every Wisconsin works agency under subch. III of ch. 49; every provider of medical assistance under subch. IV of ch. 49; technical college district boards; development zones designated under s. 560.71; every county department under s. 51.42 or 51.437; every nonprofit corporation or cooperative or unincorporated cooperative association to which moneys are specifically appropriated by state law; and every corporation, institution, association or other organization which receives more than 50% of its annual budget from appropriations made by state law, including subgrantee or subcontractor recipients of such funds.
SECTION 2. 13.94 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
13.94 (4) (b) In performing audits of family long-term care districts under s. 46.2895, Wisconsin works agencies under subch. III of ch. 49, providers of medical assistance under subch. IV of ch. 49, corporations, institutions, associations, or other organizations, and their subgrantees or subcontractors, the legislative audit bureau shall audit only the records and operations of such providers and organizations which pertain to the receipt, disbursement or other handling of appropriations made by state law.
SECTION 3. 17.13 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
17.13 Removal of village, town, town sanitary district, school district, and technical college and family care district officers. (intro.) Officers of towns, town sanitary districts, villages, school districts, and technical college districts and family care districts may be removed as follows:
SECTION 4. 17.13 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
SECTION 5. 17.15 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
17.15 (5) FAMILY LONG-TERM CARE DISTRICT. Any member of a family long-term care district governing board appointed under s. 46.2895 (3) (a) 2. may be removed by the appointing authority for cause.
SECTION 6. 17.27 (3m) of the statutes is amended to read:
17.27 (3m) FAMILY LONG-TERM CARE DISTRICT BOARD. If a vacancy occurs in the position of any appointed member of a family long-term care district board, the appointing authority shall appoint to serve for the residue of the unexpired term a person who meets the applicable requirements under s. 46.2895 (3) (b).
SECTION 7. 19.32 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.32 (1) "Authority" means any of the following having custody of a record: a state or local office, elected official, agency, board, commission, committee, council, department or public body corporate and politic created by constitution, law, ordinance, rule or order; a governmental or quasi-governmental corporation except for the Bradley center sports and entertainment corporation; a local exposition district under subch. II of ch. 229; a family long-term care district under s. 46.2895; any court of law; the assembly or senate; a nonprofit corporation which receives more than 50% of its funds from a county or a municipality, as defined in s. 59.001 (3), and which provides services related to public health or safety to the county or municipality; a nonprofit corporation operating the Olympic ice training center under s. 42.11 (3); or a formally constituted subunit of any of the foregoing.
SECTION 8. 19.82 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
19.82 (1) "Governmental body" means a state or local agency, board, commission, committee, council, department or public body corporate and politic created by constitution, statute, ordinance, rule or order; a governmental or quasi-governmental corporation except for the Bradley center sports and entertainment corporation; a local exposition district under subch. II of ch. 229; a family long-term care district under s. 46.2895; a nonprofit corporation operating the Olympic ice training center under s. 42.11 (3); or a formally constituted subunit of any of the foregoing, but excludes any such body or committee or subunit of such body which is formed for or meeting for the purpose of collective bargaining under subch. I, IV or, V, or VI of ch. 111.
****NOTE: This is reconciled s. 19.82 (1). This SECTION has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: 1524 and 1352.
SECTION 9. 20.927 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.927 (1m) Except as provided under subs. (2) and (3), no funds of this state or of any county, city, village, town or family long-term care district under s. 46.2895 or of any subdivision or agency of this state or of any county, city, village or town and no federal funds passing through the state treasury shall be authorized for or paid to a physician or surgeon or a hospital, clinic or other medical facility for the performance of an abortion.
SECTION 10. 20.9275 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.9275 (1) (b) "Local governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county or family long-term care district under s. 46.2895 or an agency or subdivision of a city, village, town, or county.
SECTION 11. 25.50 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
25.50 (1) (d) "Local government" means any county, town, village, city, power district, sewerage district, drainage district, town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district, local professional baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, family long-term care district under s. 46.2895, local professional football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229, public library system, school district or technical college district in this state, any commission, committee, board or officer of any governmental subdivision of this state, any court of this state, other than the court of appeals or the supreme court, or any authority created under s. 114.61, 149.41, 231.02, 233.02 or 234.02.
****NOTE: This is reconciled s. 25.50 (1) (d). This SECTION has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: 1524 and 1006.
SECTION 12. 40.02 (28) of the statutes is amended to read:
40.02 (28) "Employer" means the state, including each state agency, any county, city, village, town, school district, other governmental unit or instrumentality of 2 or more units of government now existing or hereafter created within the state, any federated public library system established under s. 43.19 whose territory lies within a single county with a population of 500,000 or more, a local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229 and a family long-term care district created under s. 46.2895, except as provided under ss. 40.51 (7) and 40.61 (3) and subch. X. "Employer" does not include a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229. Each employer shall be a separate legal jurisdiction for OASDHI purposes.
SECTION 13. 40.02 (28) of the statutes, as affected by 1999 Wisconsin Act 65, is amended to read:
40.02 (28) "Employer" means the state, including each state agency, any county, city, village, town, school district, other governmental unit or instrumentality of 2 or more units of government now existing or hereafter created within the state, any federated public library system established under s. 43.19 whose territory lies within a single county with a population of 500,000 or more, a local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229 and a family long-term care district created under s. 46.2895, except as provided under ss. 40.51 (7) and 40.61 (3). "Employer" does not include a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229. Each employer shall be a separate legal jurisdiction for OASDHI purposes.
SECTION 14. 40.02 (36) of the statutes is amended to read:
40.02 (36) "Governing body" means the legislature or the head of each state agency with respect to employees of that agency for the state, the common council in cities, the village board in villages, the town board in towns, the county board in counties, the school board in school districts, or the board, commission or other governing body having the final authority for any other unit of government, for any agency or instrumentality of 2 or more units of government, for any federated public library system established under s. 43.19 whose territory lies within a single county with a population of 500,000 or more, for a local exposition district created under subch. II of ch. 229 or for a family long-term care district created under s. 46.2895, but does not include a local cultural arts district created under subch. V of ch. 229.
SECTION 15. 46.21 (2m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
