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January 2014 Special Session

2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 6, TO 2013 ASSEMBLY BILL 1

February 11, 2014 - Offered by Representative Hulsey.

AB1-ASA6,1,4 An Act to amend 79.15; and to create 20.435 (4) (ww), 25.17 (1) (aL), 25.76 and 49.45 (23p) of the statutes; relating to: BadgerCare Plus restoration fund, well-woman program, maternal home visits, first-dollar property tax credit, the budget stabilization fund, and making appropriations.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB1-ASA6,1 Section 1. 20.435 (4) (ww) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-ASA6,1,8 20.435 (4) (ww) BadgerCare Plus restoration fund. From the BadgerCare Plus restoration fund, a sum sufficient to provide outreach services and reimbursements under the program under s. 49.45 (23p).

AB1-ASA6,2 Section 2. 25.17 (1) (aL) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-ASA6,1,10 25.17 (1) (aL) BadgerCare Plus restoration fund (s. 25.76);

AB1-ASA6,3 Section 3. 25.76 of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-ASA6,2,4 25.76 BadgerCare Plus restoration fund. There is established a separate nonlapsible trust fund designated as the BadgerCare Plus restoration fund consisting of all moneys transferred from the general fund to the BadgerCare Plus restoration fund.

AB1-ASA6,4 Section 4. 49.45 (23p) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1-ASA6,2,11 49.45 (23p) BadgerCare Plus restoration program. The department shall create a program to provide outreach services to individuals who lost eligibility for the BadgerCare Plus program and to provide payment for claims that would have been paid by the BadgerCare Plus program had the individual not lost eligibility for the program. An individual shall make a claim within one year of losing eligibility for BadgerCare Plus to be eligible for reimbursement under this program.

AB1-ASA6,5 Section 5. 79.15 of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1-ASA6,2,17 79.15 Improvements credit. The total amount paid each year to municipalities from the appropriation account under s. 20.835 (3) (b) for the payments under s. 79.10 (5m) is $75,000,000 in 2009, $145,000,000 in 2010, and $150,000,000 in each year beginning in 2011 and ending in 2014, and $600,000,000 in 2015 and in each year thereafter.

AB1-ASA6,6 Section 6. Fiscal changes.

AB1-ASA6,2,21 (1) BadgerCare Plus restoration fund. An amount equal to $36,000,000 shall be transferred from the general fund to the BadgerCare Plus restoration fund during the 2013-14 fiscal year.

AB1-ASA6,3,2 (2) Fetal and infant mortality. In the schedule under section 20.005 (3) of the statutes for the appropriation to the department of health services under section 20.435 (1) (eu) of the statutes, as affected by the acts of 2013, the dollar amount is increased by $10,000,000 for the first fiscal year of the fiscal biennium in which this subsection takes effect to increase home visits to pregnant women.

AB1-ASA6,3,9 (3) Transfer to budget stabilization fund. Notwithstanding the amounts that are required to be transferred from the general fund to the budget stabilization fund during the 2013-15 fiscal biennium under section 16.518 (3) of the statutes, an amount equal to $365,000,000 shall be transferred from the general fund to the budget stabilization fund during the 2013-14 fiscal year and an amount equal to $0 shall be transferred from the general fund to the budget stabilization fund during the 2014-15 fiscal year.

AB1-ASA6,3,19 (4) Well-woman program. In the schedule under section 20.005 (3) of the statutes for the appropriation to the department of health services under section 20.435 (1) (cb) of the statutes, as affected by the acts of 2013, the dollar amount is increased by $15,000,000 for the first fiscal year of the fiscal biennium in which this subsection takes effect for the purposes for which the appropriation is made. In the schedule under section 20.005 (3) of the statutes for the appropriation to the department of health services under section 20.435 (1) (cb) of the statutes, as affected by the acts of 2013, the dollar amount is increased by $35,000,000 for the second fiscal year of the fiscal biennium in which this subsection takes effect for the purposes for which the appropriation is made.

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