LRB-0315/P2
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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0002 - State ombudsman
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Other health and human services
State long-term care ombudsman
Under current law, the Board on Aging and Long-term Care appoints an executive director of the Office of Long-term Care Ombudsman. This bill requires the executive director to employ the state long-term care ombudsman within the classified service and allows the state long-term care ombudsman to delegate operation of the office to staff..
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. 16.009 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
16.009 (2) (a) Appoint an executive director within the classified service who. The executive director shall serve as employ the state long-term care ombudsman as specified under sub. (4) (a) within the classified service, and who shall employ staff within the classified service.
Section
2. 16.009 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
16.009
(4) (a) The board shall operate the office in order to carry out the requirements of the long-term care ombudsman program, as defined in
42 USC 3058g (a) (2), under
42 USC 3027 (a) (12) (A) and
42 USC 3058f to
3058h and in compliance with
42 CFR 1321 and
1324. The executive director
appointed by the board shall
serve as employ the state long-term care ombudsman. The
executive director state long-term care ombudsman may delegate operation of the office to the staff employed under sub. (2) (a), as designated representatives of the ombudsman.
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