LRB-1346/P2
JPC:cdc
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Lessner, BB0457 - Crisis program enhancement grants
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Mental health
Crisis program enhancement grants
This bill expands the crisis program enhancement grant program to include grants to establish and enhance law enforcement and behavioral health emergency response collaboration services and grants to Milwaukee County to enhance mobile crisis teams. Under current law, the program requires DHS to award grants to counties or regions of counties to establish or enhance crisis programs to serve individuals having crises in rural areas. The bill instructs DHS to annually award at least $1,250,000 to establish and enhance law enforcement and behavioral health services emergency response collaboration programs, and at least $850,000 to Milwaukee County to enhance mobile crisis teams.
The bill requires any entity, including a county or region, that receives a grant to establish and enhance law enforcement and behavioral health services emergency response collaboration programs to contribute at least 25 percent of the grant amount awarded for the purpose that the grant money is received.
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. 46.536 of the statutes is renumbered 46.536 (intro.) and amended to read:
46.536 Crisis program enhancement grants. (intro.) From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (5) (cf), the department shall award
all of the following grants:
(1) A in the total amount of $250,000 in each fiscal biennium to counties or regions comprised of multiple counties to establish or enhance crisis programs to serve individuals having crises in rural areas. The department shall award a grant under this section subsection in an amount equal to one-half the amount of money the county or region provides to establish or enhance crisis programs.
Section
2. 46.536 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
46.536 (2) At least $1,250,000 in each fiscal year to establish and enhance law enforcement and behavioral health services emergency response collaboration programs. Grant recipients under this subsection shall match at least 25 percent of the grant amount awarded for the purpose that the grant is received.
Section
3. 46.536 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
46.536 (3) At least $850,000 in each fiscal year to a county with a population of more than 750,000 to enhance mobile crisis teams.
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