LRB-1565/P1
EHS:cjs
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bork, BB0374 - Domestic abuse survivor support
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Public assistance
Assistance for survivors of domestic abuse
Under this bill, DCF may allocate up to $14,000,000 per fiscal year to establish and administer the Living Independently through Financial Empowerment program. Under that program, DCF may provide short-term assistance to individuals who are survivors of domestic abuse. The bill allows DCF to contract with Wisconsin Works agencies to administer the program.
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. 20.437 (1) (ce) of the statutes is created to read:
20.437 (1) (ce) Assistance to survivors of domestic abuse. The amounts in the schedule for the purposes of the living independently through financial empowerment program under s. 49.166.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 49.166 of the statutes is created to read:
49.166 Living independently through financial empowerment. From the appropriation under s. 20.437 (1) (ce), the department may allocate no more than $14,000,000 in each fiscal year to establish and administer the living independently through financial empowerment program. Under that program, the department may provide short-term assistance to individuals who are survivors of domestic abuse. The department may contract with a Wisconsin works agency to administer the program under this section.
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