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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Dombrowski, BB0401 - Office of Children's Mental Health Services
For 2013-2015 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Children
Under current law, various boards and councils are created in DHS. This bill creates an Office of Children's Mental Health (office) in DHS and requires the office to study and recommend ways, and coordinate initiatives, to improve the integration across state agencies of mental health services provided to children and monitor the performance of programs that provide those services. The bill also provides that the director of the office shall be appointed by the governor to serve at the pleasure of the governor.
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. 15.194 of the statutes is created to read:
15.194 Same; offices. (1) Office of children's mental health. There is created an office of children's mental health in the department of health services. The director of the office shall be appointed by the governor to serve at the pleasure of the governor.
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2. 51.025 of the statutes is created to read:
51.025 Office of children's mental health. The office of children's mental health shall study and recommend ways, and coordinate initiatives, to improve the integration across state agencies of mental health services provided to children and monitor the performance of programs that provide those services.
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3. 230.08 (2) (e) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
230.08 (2) (e) 5. Health services — 9 10.
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