LRB-1215/P2
CMH:skw&wlj
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Schmidt, BB0143 - Crime Victim Services Grants
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Justice
Grants for services to crime victims
Under current law, DOJ awards grants for many purposes, including grants to organizations to provide services for sexual assault victims. This bill adds that DOJ must award grants to organizations that provide services for crime victims.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.455 (5) (bf) of the statutes is created to read:
20.455 (5) (bf) Grants to provide services to crime victims. As a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule to provide grants under s. 165.935 for crime victim service programs.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 165.935 of the statutes is created to read:
165.935 Grants for crime victim services. The department of justice shall award grants from the appropriation under s. 20.455 (5) (bf) to organizations that provide services for crime victims.
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