46.245 Information for certain pregnant women.
46.266 Treatment funds for mentally ill persons.
46.268 Relocation services for individuals with mental illness.
46.27 Long-term support community options program.
46.271 Long-term support pilot projects.
46.275 Community integration program for residents of state centers.
46.277 Community integration program for persons relocated or meeting reimbursable levels of care.
46.278 Community integration program and brain injury waiver program for persons with developmental disabilities.
46.2785 Community Opportunities and Recovery Program.
46.279 Restrictions on placements and admissions to intermediate and nursing facilities.
46.28 Revenue bonding for residential facilities.
46.2804 Client management of managed care long-term care benefit.
46.2805 Definitions; long-term care.
46.281 Powers and duties of the department, secretary, and counties; long-term care.
46.2825 Regional long-term care advisory committees.
46.284 Care management organizations.
46.285 Operation of resource center and care management organization.
46.286 Family care benefit.
46.2895 Long-term care district.
46.2897 Self-directed services option; advocacy services.
46.2898 Quality home care.
46.29 Council on physical disabilities.
46.293 Specialized programs for the blind and visually impaired.
46.295 Interpreters for the hearing-impaired.
46.297 Telecommunication aid for the hearing impaired.
46.298 Vehicle sticker for the hearing impaired.
46.33 Employee counseling referral programs.
46.34 Emission standards for hazardous air contaminants.
46.37 Certain water and sewerage service in Winnebago County.
46.40 Community aids funding.
46.45 Carry-over of community aids funds.
46.46 Expenditure of income augmentation services receipts.
46.48 Grants for community programs.
46.485 Mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children.
46.49 Allocation of federal funds for community aids.
46.495 Distribution of community aids funds to counties.
46.50 State mental health authority.
46.52 Systems change grants.
46.53 Mental health treatment provider training.
46.54 Consumer and family self-help and peer-support programs.
46.55 Grants for services to persons in treatment.
46.56 Initiatives to provide coordinated services for children and families.
46.57 Grants for services to persons with epilepsy.
46.65 Treatment alternative program.
46.70 Delivery of services to American Indians.
46.71 American Indian drug abuse prevention, treatment and education.
46.75 Food distribution grants.
46.77 Food distribution administration.
46.81 Benefit specialist program.
46.85 Programs for older individuals.
46.856 Alzheimer's disease; training and information grants.
46.86 Treatment programs.
46.87 Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program.
46.90 Elder abuse reporting system.
46.96 Independent living center grants.
46.972 Primary health for homeless individuals.
46.973 Drug dependence program.
46.975 Grant and funding program; services related to alcohol and other drug abuse.
46.977 Guardianship grants.
46.985 Family support program.
46.986 Respite care program.
46.99 Medical assistance waiver for Birth to 3 participants.
46.001
46.001
Purposes of chapter. The purposes of this chapter are to conserve human resources in Wisconsin; to prevent dependency, mental illness, developmental disability, mental infirmity, and other forms of social maladjustment by a continuous attack on causes; to provide effective aid and services to all persons in need of that aid and those services and to assist those persons to achieve or regain self-dependence at the earliest possible date; 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.
46.011(1)
(1) "Department" means the department of health services.
46.011(2)
(2) "Prisoner" means any person who is either arrested, incarcerated, imprisoned or otherwise detained in excess of 12 hours by any law enforcement agency of this state, except when detention is pursuant to
s. 51.15,
51.20,
51.45 (11) (b) or
55.135 (1) or
ch. 980. "Prisoner" does not include any person who is serving a sentence of detention under
s. 973.03 (4) unless the person is in the county jail under
s. 973.03 (4) (c).
46.011(3)
(3) "Secretary" means the secretary of health services.
46.011(4)
(4) "State health planning and development agency" means the department, as designated under
s. 250.04 (12).
46.014
46.014
Secretary, powers and duties. 46.014(1)
(1)
Inventories. On or before July 1 in each year, the secretary shall cause full and complete inventories and appraisals to be made of all the property of each institution administered by the department, which shall be recorded and so classified as to show separately the amount, kind and value of such property.
46.014(2)
(2) Visitation. The secretary shall cause each of said institutions to be visited and inspected at least once a month to ascertain whether the officers and employees therein are competent and faithful in the discharge of their duties, all inmates properly cared for and governed, all accounts, books and vouchers properly kept, and all the business affairs properly conducted.
46.014(3)
(3) Powers and duties. The secretary shall plan for and establish within the department a program of research designed to determine the effectiveness of the treatment, curative and rehabilitative programs of the various institutions and divisions of the department. The secretary may inquire into any matter affecting social welfare and hold hearings and subpoena witnesses and make recommendations to the appropriate agencies, public or private, thereon.
46.016
46.016
Cooperation with federal government. The department may cooperate with the federal government in carrying out federal acts concerning public assistance, social security, mental hygiene, services for the blind, and in other matters of mutual concern pertaining to public welfare.
46.016 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also chs.
DHS 5 and
149, Wis. adm. code.
46.017
46.017
Legal actions. The department may sue and be sued.
46.018
46.018
Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures. Withdrawal or disbursement of moneys deposited in a public depository, as defined in
s. 34.01 (5), to the credit of the department or any of its divisions or agencies shall be by check, share draft or other draft signed by the secretary or by one or more persons in the department designated by written authorization of the secretary. Such checks, share drafts and other drafts shall be signed personally or by use of a mechanical device adopted by the secretary or his or her designees for affixing a facsimile signature. Any public depository shall be fully warranted and protected in making payment on any check, share draft or other draft bearing such facsimile signature notwithstanding that the facsimile may have been placed thereon without the authority of the secretary or his or her designees.
