AB43,1021 24Section 1021 . 49.141 (1) (j) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,721,2525 49.141 (1) (j) 1. A biological natural parent.
AB43,1022
1Section 1022. 49.141 (1) (j) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
AB43,1023 2Section 1023 . 49.148 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,722,173 49.148 (4) (a) A Wisconsin works Works agency shall require a participant in
4a community service job or transitional placement who, after August 22, 1996, was
5convicted in any state or federal court of a felony that had as an element possession,
6use or distribution of a controlled substance to submit to a test for use of a controlled
7substance as a condition of continued eligibility. If the test results are positive, the
8Wisconsin works Works agency shall decrease the presanction benefit amount for
9that participant by not more than 15 percent for not fewer than 12 months, or for the
10remainder of the participant's period of participation in a community service job or
11transitional placement, if less than 12 months. If, at the end of 12 months, the
12individual is still a participant in a community service job or transitional placement
13and submits to another test for use of a controlled substance and if the results of the
14test are negative, the Wisconsin works Works agency shall discontinue the reduction
15under this paragraph. In this subsection, “controlled substance” does not include
16tetrahydrocannabinols in any form, including tetrahydrocannabinols contained in
17marijuana, obtained from marijuana, or chemically synthesized.
AB43,1024 18Section 1024. 49.155 (1m) (a) 1m. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,722,2419 49.155 (1m) (a) 1m. b. The individual has not yet attained the age of 18 years
20and the individual resides with his or her custodial parent or with a kinship care
21relative provider under s. 48.57 (3m) or with a long-term kinship care relative
22provider under s. 48.57 (3n) or is in a foster home licensed under s. 48.62, a subsidized
23guardianship home under s. 48.623, a group home, or an independent living
24arrangement supervised by an adult.
AB43,1025 25Section 1025 . 49.155 (1m) (c) 1g. of the statutes is amended to read:
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149.155 (1m) (c) 1g. If the individual is a foster parent of the child or a subsidized
2guardian or interim caretaker of the child under s. 48.623, the child's biological
3natural or adoptive family has a gross income that is at or below 200 percent of the
4poverty line. In calculating the gross income of the child's biological natural or
5adoptive family, the department or county department or agency determining
6eligibility shall include court-ordered child or family support payments received by
7the individual, if those support payments exceed $1,250 per month, and income
8described under s. 49.145 (3) (b) 1. and 3.
AB43,1026 9Section 1026 . 49.155 (1m) (c) 1h. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,723,1710 49.155 (1m) (c) 1h. If the individual is a relative of the child, is providing care
11for the child under a court order, and is receiving payments under s. 48.57 (3m) or
12(3n) on behalf of the child, the child's biological natural or adoptive family has a gross
13income that is at or below 200 percent of the poverty line. In calculating the gross
14income of the child's biological natural or adoptive family, the department or county
15department or agency determining eligibility shall include court-ordered child or
16family support payments received by the individual, if those support payments
17exceed $1,250 per month, and income described under s. 49.145 (3) (b) 1. and 3.
AB43,1027 18Section 1027 . 49.155 (6) (e) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
AB43,1028 19Section 1028. 49.155 (6) (e) 3. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,723,2220 49.155 (6) (e) 3. (intro.) The department may modify a child care provider's
21maximum payment rate under subd. 2. pars. (a) to (c) on the basis of the provider's
22quality rating, as described in the quality rating plan, in the following manner:
AB43,1029 23Section 1029 . 49.163 (2) (am) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,724,224 49.163 (2) (am) 2. If over 25 years of age, be a biological natural or adoptive
25parent of a child under 18 years of age whose parental rights to the child have not

1been terminated or be a relative and primary caregiver of a child under 18 years of
2age.
AB43,1030 3Section 1030. 49.163 (2) (am) 4. of the statutes is repealed.
AB43,1031 4Section 1031. 49.163 (2) (am) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,724,65 49.163 (2) (am) 5. Be ineligible Have not filed for unemployment insurance
6benefits or have filed but is not eligible
to receive unemployment insurance benefits.
AB43,1032 7Section 1032. 49.1635 (1) of the statutes is repealed.
AB43,1033 8Section 1033. 49.1635 (2) of the statutes is repealed.
AB43,1034 9Section 1034. 49.1635 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
AB43,1035 10Section 1035. 49.1635 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
AB43,1036 11Section 1036. 49.1635 (5) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 49.1635 (1m) and
12amended to read:
AB43,724,1713 49.1635 (1m) From the allocation under s. 49.175 (1) (j), the department shall
14make a grant of $500,000 $1,000,000 in each fiscal year to Wisconsin Trust Account
15Foundation, Inc., for distribution of annual awards of not more than $75,000 per year
16per program
to programs that provide legal services to persons who are eligible under
17par. (b) 2. sub. (2m) (b) if all of the following apply:
AB43,724,2118 (a) Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., submits a plan to the
19department detailing the proposed use of the grant; the proposed use of the grant
20conforms to the requirements under par. (b) sub. (2m); and the secretary of the
21department, or his or her designee, approves the plan.
AB43,724,2522 (b) Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., enters into an agreement with
23the department that specifies the conditions for the use of the grant proceeds, and
24the conditions conform to the requirements under par. (b) sub. (2m) and include
25training, reporting, and auditing requirements.
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1(c) Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., agrees in writing to submit to the
2department the reports required under par. (c) sub. (3m) by the times required under
3par. (c) sub. (3m).
AB43,1037 4Section 1037. 49.1635 (5) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 49.1635 (2m), and
549.1635 (2m) (a), as renumbered, is amended to read:
AB43,725,86 49.1635 (2m) (a) Subject to subd. 3. par. (c), the grant may be used only to
7provide legal services in civil matters related to eviction, domestic abuse, or sexual
8abuse, or to restraining orders or injunctions for individuals at risk under s. 813.123.
AB43,1038 9Section 1038. 49.1635 (5) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 49.1635 (3m) and
10amended to read:
AB43,725,1911 49.1635 (3m) For each fiscal year in which the department makes a grant
12under this subsection section, Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., shall
13submit to the department, within 3 months after spending the full amount of that
14grant, a report detailing how the grant proceeds were used. The department may not
15make a grant in a subsequent fiscal year unless Wisconsin Trust Account
16Foundation, Inc., submits the report under this paragraph subsection within the
17time required and the department determines that the grant proceeds were used in
18accordance with the approved plan under par. (a) 1. sub. (1m) (a), the agreement
19under par. (a) 2. sub. (1m) (b), and the requirements under par. (b) sub. (2m).
AB43,1039 20Section 1039. 49.166 of the statutes is created to read:
AB43,726,2 2149.166 Living independently through financial empowerment. From
22the appropriation under s. 20.437 (1) (ce), the department may allocate no more than
23$14,000,000 in each fiscal year to establish and administer the living independently
24through financial empowerment program. Under that program, the department
25may provide short-term assistance to individuals who are survivors of domestic

1abuse. The department may contract with a Wisconsin works agency to administer
2the program under this section.
AB43,1040 3Section 1040. 49.170 of the statutes is created to read:
AB43,726,6 449.170 Boys and Girls Clubs of Wisconsin. From the appropriation account
5under s. 20.437 (2) (er), the department shall provide funding annually to the Boys
6and Girls Clubs of Wisconsin.
AB43,1041 7Section 1041. 49.175 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,726,148 49.175 (1) Allocation of funds. (intro.) In this section, with respect to any
9of the following that fund a contract for services, “allocate” means to designate an
10amount of money equal to the amount under the contract that the department is
11obligated to pay.
Except as provided in sub. (2), within the limits of the
12appropriations under s. 20.437 (2) (a), (cm), (dz), (k), (kx), (L), (mc), (md), (me), and
13(s) and (3) (kp), the department shall allocate the following amounts for the following
14purposes:
AB43,1042 15Section 1042. 49.175 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,726,1816 49.175 (1) (a) Wisconsin Works benefits. For Wisconsin Works benefits,
17$37,000,000 $30,717,200 in fiscal year 2021-22 2023-24 and $34,000,000
18$32,913,100 in fiscal year 2022-23 2024-25.
AB43,1043 19Section 1043. 49.175 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,726,2320 49.175 (1) (b) Wisconsin Works agency contracts; job access loans. For contracts
21with Wisconsin Works agencies under s. 49.143 and for job access loans under s.
2249.147 (6), $54,009,700 $52,580,300 in fiscal year 2021-22 2023-24 and $57,071,200
23$59,854,900 in fiscal year 2022-23 2024-25.
AB43,1044 24Section 1044. 49.175 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,727,4
149.175 (1) (d) Families and Schools Together. For the families and schools
2together program in 5 Milwaukee elementary schools to be chosen by the
3department, $250,000 in each fiscal year and an additional $250,000 in each fiscal
4year for this purpose to be distributed only if the recipient provides matching funds
.
AB43,1045 5Section 1045. 49.175 (1) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,727,96 49.175 (1) (f) Homeless case management services grants. For grants to shelter
7facilities under s. 16.3085, $500,000 $1,000,000 in each fiscal year. All moneys
8allocated under this paragraph shall be credited to the appropriation account under
9s. 20.505 (7) (kg).
AB43,1046 10Section 1046. 49.175 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,727,1411 49.175 (1) (g) State administration of public assistance programs and
12overpayment collections.
For state administration of public assistance programs and
13the collection of public assistance overpayments, $17,231,100 $19,160,100 in fiscal
14year 2021-22 2023-24 and $17,482,300 $19,569,100 in fiscal year 2022-23 2024-25.
AB43,1047 15Section 1047. 49.175 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,727,1916 49.175 (1) (j) Grants for providing civil legal services. For the grants under s.
1749.1635 (5) to Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc., for distribution to
18programs that provide civil legal services to low-income families, $500,000
19$1,000,000 in each fiscal year.
AB43,1048 20Section 1048. 49.175 (1) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,727,2321 49.175 (1) (k) Transform Milwaukee and Transitional Jobs programs. For
22contract costs under the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional
23Jobs program under s. 49.163, $9,500,000 $11,200,000 in each fiscal year.
AB43,1049 24Section 1049. 49.175 (1) (Lm) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,728,4
149.175 (1) (Lm) Jobs for America's Graduates. For grants to the Jobs for
2America's Graduates-Wisconsin to fund programs that improve social, academic,
3and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive temporary assistance for
4needy families under 42 USC 601 et seq., $500,000 $1,000,000 in each fiscal year.
AB43,1050 5Section 1050 . 49.175 (1) (ms) of the statutes is created to read:
AB43,728,86 49.175 (1) (ms) Child support debt reduction. For the child support debt
7reduction program for low-income noncustodial parents under s. 49.226, $3,472,000
8in fiscal year 2023-24 and $6,944,000 in fiscal year 2024-25.
AB43,1051 9Section 1051 . 49.175 (1) (o) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,728,1210 49.175 (1) (o) Evidence-based substance abuse prevention grants Grants for
11youth services
. For grants awarded under s. 48.545 (2) (c) 48.481, $500,000 in each
12fiscal year.
AB43,1052 13Section 1052. 49.175 (1) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,728,1614 49.175 (1) (p) Direct child care services. For direct child care services under s.
1549.155 or 49.257, $376,700,400 $385,628,800 in fiscal year 2021-22 2023-24 and
16$383,900,400 $403,573,700 in fiscal year 2022-23 2024-25.
AB43,1053 17Section 1053. 49.175 (1) (q) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,728,2118 49.175 (1) (q) Child care state administration and licensing activities. For state
19administration of child care programs under s. 49.155 and for child care licensing
20activities, $42,117,800 $45,957,600 in fiscal year 2021-22 2023-24 and $41,803,100
21$46,043,900 in fiscal year 2022-23 2024-25.
AB43,1054 22Section 1054. 49.175 (1) (qm) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,729,223 49.175 (1) (qm) Quality care for quality kids. For the child care quality
24improvement activities specified in ss. 49.155 (1g) and 49.257, $16,683,700 in each
25fiscal year
and the establishment of an early childhood education center under 2023

1Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 9106 (3 ), $42,850,900 in fiscal year 2023-24 and
2$42,647,700 in fiscal year 2024-25
.
AB43,1055 3Section 1055. 49.175 (1) (r) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,729,74 49.175 (1) (r) Children of recipients of supplemental security income. For
5payments made under s. 49.775 for the support of the dependent children of
6recipients of supplemental security income, $18,564,700 $12,762,400 in fiscal year
72021-22 2023-24 and $18,145,000 $12,188,900 in fiscal year 2022-23 2024-25.
AB43,1056 8Section 1056. 49.175 (1) (s) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,729,159 49.175 (1) (s) Kinship care and long-term kinship care assistance. For kinship
10care and long-term kinship care payments under s. 48.57 (3m) (am) and (3n) (am),
11for assessments to determine eligibility for those payments, and for agreements
12under s. 48.57 (3t) with the governing bodies of Indian tribes for the administration
13of the kinship care and long-term kinship care programs within the boundaries of
14the reservations of those tribes, $28,727,100 $43,574,100 in fiscal year 2021-22
152023-24 and $31,441,800 $53,719,500 in fiscal year 2022-23 2024-25.
AB43,1057 16Section 1057. 49.175 (1) (t) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,729,2417 49.175 (1) (t) Safety and out-of-home placement services. For services provided
18to ensure the safety of children who the department or a county determines may
19remain at home if appropriate services are provided, and for services provided to
20families with children placed in out-of-home care, $10,314,300 $6,282,400 in each
21fiscal year. To receive funding under this paragraph, a county shall match a
22percentage of the amount received that is equal to the percentage the county is
23required to match for a distribution under s. 48.563 (2) as specified by the schedule
24established by the department under s. 48.569 (1) (d).
AB43,1058 25Section 1058. 49.175 (1) (u) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,730,1
149.175 (1) (u) (title) Prevention Child welfare prevention services.
AB43,1059 2Section 1059. 49.175 (1) (y) of the statutes is repealed.
AB43,1060 3Section 1060. 49.175 (1) (z) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,730,164 49.175 (1) (z) Grants to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. For grants to the
5Wisconsin Chapter of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America to fund programs that
6improve social, academic, and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive
7temporary assistance for needy families under 42 USC 601 et seq., focusing on study
8habits, intensive tutoring in math and English, and exposure to career options and
9role models, $2,807,000 $3,307,000 in each fiscal year. Grants provided under this
10paragraph may not be used by the grant recipient to replace funding for programs
11that are being funded, when the grant proceeds are received, with moneys other than
12those from the appropriations specified in sub. (1) (intro.). The total amount of the
13grants includes funds for the BE GREAT: Graduate program in the amount of
14matching funds that the program provides, up to $1,532,000 in each fiscal year, to
15be used only for activities for which federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
16block grant moneys may be used.
AB43,1061 17Section 1061. 49.175 (1) (zh) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,730,2218 49.175 (1) (zh) Earned income tax credit supplement. For the transfer of
19moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.437 (2) (md) to the appropriation
20account under s. 20.835 (2) (kf) for the earned income tax credit, $63,600,000
21$109,020,000 in fiscal year 2021-22 2023-24 and $66,600,000 $111,260,000 in fiscal
22year 2022-23 2024-25.
AB43,1062 23Section 1062 . 49.19 (1) (a) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,731,924 49.19 (1) (a) 2. a. Is living with a parent; a blood relative, including those of
25half-blood, and including first cousins, nephews or nieces and persons of preceding

1generations as denoted by prefixes of grand, great or great-great; a stepfather,
2stepmother
stepparent, stepbrother, or stepsister; a person who legally adopts the
3child or is the adoptive parent of the child's parent, a natural or legally adopted child
4of such person or a relative of an adoptive parent; or a spouse of any person named
5in this subparagraph subd. 2. a. even if the marriage is terminated by death or
6divorce; and is living in a residence maintained by one or more of these relatives as
7the child's or their own home, or living in a residence maintained by one or more of
8these relatives as the child's or their own home because the parents of the child have
9been found unfit to have care and custody of the child; or
AB43,1063 10Section 1063 . 49.19 (4) (d) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,731,1311 49.19 (4) (d) (intro.) Aid may be granted to the mother or stepmother parent
12or stepparent
of a dependent child if he or she is without a husband spouse or if he
13or
she:
AB43,1064 14Section 1064 . 49.19 (4) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,731,1615 49.19 (4) (d) 1. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who is incapacitated for
16gainful work by mental or physical disability; or
AB43,1065 17Section 1065 . 49.19 (4) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,731,2118 49.19 (4) (d) 2. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who is incarcerated or
19who is a convicted offender permitted to live at home but precluded from earning a
20wage because the husband person is required by a court imposed sentence to perform
21unpaid public work or unpaid community service; or
AB43,1066 22Section 1066 . 49.19 (4) (d) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB43,731,2523 49.19 (4) (d) 3. Is the wife spouse of a husband person who has been committed
24to the department pursuant to ch. 975, irrespective of the probable period of such
25commitment; or
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