LRB-0928/P2
EAW:cdc
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bork, BB0323 - Adoption Recruitment
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Children
Recruitment for adoptive placements
This bill requires DCF to provide $300,000 annually to the Wendy's Wonderful Kids program at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, which provides support in finding adoptive placements for children with special needs in foster care. The bill specifies that the funding is to recruit adoptive placements for children in Milwaukee County.
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. 48.551 of the statutes is created to read:
48.551 Adoption recruitment services for children with special needs. From the appropriation accounts under s. 20.437 (1) (cx) and (mx), the department shall provide $300,000 annually to the Wendy's Wonderful Kids program at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin to recruit adoptive placements for children with special needs in a county with a population of 750,000 or more.
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