LRB-1115/P2
MED:cjs
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0172 - Maternal and infant mortality prevention and response
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the DHS to do all of the following for the prevention of and response to maternal and infant mortality, including 1) award grants to community organizations with the aim of preventing maternal and infant mortality, 2) award grants to support the expansion of fetal and infant mortality review and maternal mortality review teams statewide and expand technical assistance and support for existing fetal and infant mortality review and child death review teams, 3) provide funding and technical assistance to community-based organizations aimed at preventing infant morality, and 4) provide funding for grief and bereavement programming for those impacted by infant loss.
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. 20.435 (1) (ex) of the statutes is created to read:
20.435 (1) (ex) Maternal and infant mortality prevention and response. The amounts in the schedule for the prevention of and response to maternal and infant mortality under s. 253.143.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 253.143 of the statutes is created to read:
253.143 Maternal and infant mortality prevention and response. From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (ex), the department shall do all of the following:
(1) Annually award grants to community organizations whose goal is the prevention of maternal and infant mortality.
(2) Annually award grants to support the expansion of fetal and infant mortality review and maternal mortality review teams statewide and expand technical assistance and support for existing fetal and infant mortality review and child death review teams.
(3) Provide funding and technical assistance to community-based organizations aimed at preventing infant morality.
(4) Provide funding for grief and bereavement programming for those impacted by infant loss.
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