LRB-1263/P2
SWB:amn
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0176 - Community dental health coordinators
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Health
Community dental health coordinators
This bill requires DHS to award grants to support community dental health coordinators. Community dental health coordinators are individuals who help facilitate oral health care for families and individuals, particularly in underserved communities.
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 (4) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.435 (4) (bm) Medical Assistance, food stamps, and Badger Care administration; contract costs, insurer reports, and resource centers. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule to provide a portion of the state share of administrative contract costs for the Medical Assistance program under subch. IV of ch. 49 and the Badger Care health care program under s. 49.665 and to provide the state share of administrative costs for the food stamp program under s. 49.79, other than payments under s. 49.78 (8), to develop and implement a registry of recipient immunizations, to reimburse 3rd parties for their costs under s. 49.475, for costs associated with outreach activities, for state administration of state supplemental grants to supplemental security income recipients under s. 49.77, for grants under s. 46.73, and for services of resource centers under s. 46.283. No state positions may be funded in the department of health services from this appropriation, except positions for the performance of duties under a contract in effect before January 1, 1987, related to the administration of the Medical Assistance program between the subunit of the department primarily responsible for administering the Medical Assistance program and another subunit of the department. Total administrative funding authorized for the program under s. 49.665 may not exceed 10 percent of the amounts budgeted under pars. (p) and (x).
Section
2. 20.435 (4) (pa) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.435 (4) (pa) Federal aid; Medical Assistance and food stamp contracts administration. All federal moneys received for the federal share of the cost of contracting for payment and services administration and reporting, other than moneys received under pars. (nn) and (np), to reimburse 3rd parties for their costs under s. 49.475, for administrative contract costs for the food stamp program under s. 49.79, for grants under s. 46.73, and for services of resource centers under s. 46.283.
****Note: Because the initial version of the draft had the provision as a temporary grant program in a nonstatutory provision, it was unnecessary to modify the language of the referenced appropriations. However, because the program is now intended to be ongoing and has been placed in the statutes for that purpose, the appropriation language needs to accommodate the purpose. I have included proposed amendments to the appropriations, but let me know if you would like to discuss or make any changes.
Section
3. 46.73 of the statutes is created to read:
46.73 Community dental health coordinators. From the appropriations under s. 20.435 (4) (bm) and (pa), the department shall award grants to support community dental health coordinators.
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