LRB-0786/2
PJK:sac&kjf:rs
2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Major, BB0257 - TANF and CCDF allocations
For 2015-2017 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Health and human services
Public assistance
Under current law, DCF allocates specific amounts of federal moneys in each fiscal year, including Child Care Development Funds and moneys received under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, for various public assistance programs, for child care-related purposes, including its day care licensing activities, and for paying a portion of the claims under the earned income tax credit. This bill continues, increases, decreases, and modifies those allocations.
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:
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1. 49.163 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.163 (2) (a) The department shall establish a Transform Milwaukee Jobs program in Milwaukee County and, if funding is available, may establish a Transitional Jobs program outside of Milwaukee County. To the extent of available funds, the department shall conduct the Transitional Jobs program, if established, in one or more geographic areas in the state that are not in Milwaukee County. In selecting the geographic area or areas in which to conduct the Transitional Jobs program, the department shall give priority to those areas with relatively high rates of unemployment and childhood poverty and to other areas with special needs that the department determines should be given priority.
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2. 49.175 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) Allocation of funds. (intro.) Except as provided in sub. subs. (2) and (3), within the limits of the appropriations under s. 20.437 (2) (a), (cm), (dz), (k), (kx), (L), (mc), (md), (me), and (s) and (3) (kp), the department shall allocate the following amounts for the following purposes:
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3. 49.175 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (a) Wisconsin Works benefits. For Wisconsin Works benefits, $82,014,000 $89,796,000 in fiscal year 2013-14 2015-16 and $72,696,000 $88,796,000 in fiscal year 2014-15
2016-17.
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4. 49.175 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (b) Wisconsin Works agency contracts; job access loans. For contracts with Wisconsin Works agencies under s. 49.143 and for job access loans under s. 49.147 (6), $57,586,500 in fiscal year 2013-14 and $58,336,500 $58,336,500 in each fiscal year 2014-15.
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5. 49.175 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (g) State administration of public assistance programs and overpayment collections. For state administration of public assistance programs and the collection of public assistance overpayments, $12,697,100 $14,834,100 in fiscal year 2013-14 2015-16 and $12,812,700 $14,967,700 in fiscal year 2014-15 2016-17.
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6. 49.175 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (i) Emergency assistance. For emergency assistance under s. 49.138 and for transfer to the department of administration for low-income energy or weatherization assistance programs, $7,500,000 $8,500,000 in fiscal year 2015-16 and $8,400,000 in each fiscal year 2016-17.
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7. 49.175 (1) (k) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (k) Transform Milwaukee and Transitional Jobs programs. For contract costs under the Transform Milwaukee Jobs program and the Transitional Jobs program under s. 49.163, $3,750,000 $6,000,000 in fiscal year 2013-14 2015-16 and $5,000,000 $7,000,000 in fiscal year 2014-15 2016-17.
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8. 49.175 (1) (n) of the statutes is created to read:
49.175 (1) (n) Fostering futures: connections count. For funding community connectors to interact with vulnerable families with young children and to connect families with formal and informal community support, $360,300 in fiscal year 2016-17.
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9. 49.175 (1) (p) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (p) Direct child care services. For direct child care services under s. 49.155, $271,400,200 $267,945,900 in fiscal year 2013-14 2015-16 and $274,734,000 $286,777,400 in fiscal year 2014-15 2016-17.
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10. 49.175 (1) (q) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (q) Child care state administration and licensing activities. For state administration of child care programs under s. 49.155 and for child care licensing activities, $29,719,000 $34,244,600 in fiscal year 2013-14 2015-16 and
$31,799,500 $33,248,300 in fiscal year 2014-15
2016-17.
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11. 49.175 (1) (qm) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (qm) Quality care for quality kids. For the child care quality improvement activities specified in s. 49.155 (1g), $13,095,800 $15,492,700 in each fiscal year.
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12. 49.175 (1) (r) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (r) Children of recipients of supplemental security income. For payments made under s. 49.775 for the support of the dependent children of recipients of supplemental security income, $33,688,000 $31,338,200 in each fiscal year.
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13. 49.175 (1) (s) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (s) Kinship care and long-term kinship care assistance. For kinship care and long-term kinship care payments under s. 48.57 (3m) (am) and (3n) (am), for assessments to determine eligibility for those payments, and for agreements under s. 48.57 (3t) with the governing bodies of Indian tribes for the administration of the kinship care and long-term kinship care programs within the boundaries of the reservations of those tribes, $20,335,200 $21,222,700 in fiscal year 2013-14 2015-16 and $20,774,400 $21,435,000 in fiscal year 2014-15 2016-17.
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14. 49.175 (1) (t) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (t) Safety and out-of-home placement services. For services provided to ensure the safety of children who the department or a county determines may remain at home if appropriate services are provided, and for services provided to families with children placed in out-of-home care, $7,711,100 $3,647,200 in each fiscal year 2015-16 and $5,392,700 in fiscal year 2016-17.
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15. 49.175 (1) (u) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175 (1) (u) Prevention services. For services to prevent child abuse or neglect in counties having a population of 500,000 or more, $1,489,600 $1,389,600 in each fiscal year.
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16. 49.175 (1) (z) of the statutes is amended to read:
49.175
(1) (z)
Grants to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. For grants to the Wisconsin Chapter of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America to fund programs that improve social, academic, and employment skills of youth who are eligible to receive temporary assistance for needy families under
42 USC 601 et seq., focusing on study habits, intensive tutoring in math and English, and exposure to career options and role models,
$1,250,000 in fiscal year 2013-14 and $1,100,000 $1,100,000 in
each fiscal year
2014-15. Grants provided under this paragraph may not be used by the grant recipient to replace funding for programs that are being funded, when the grant proceeds are received, with moneys other than those from the appropriations specified in sub. (1) (intro.).
The total amount of the grants for fiscal year 2013-14 includes $25,000 for the greater Wisconsin Rapids Area Boys and Girls Club to fund the Cranberry Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program and, if the program provides $125,000 in matching funds, $125,000 for the Green Bay Boys and Girls Clubs for the BE GREAT: Graduate program, to be used only for activities for which federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant moneys may be used.
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17. 49.175 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
49.175 (3) Limit on certain funds. Moneys from the appropriation account under s. 20.437 (3) (kp) for the allocations specified in sub. (1) shall be limited to $4,730,300 and may be expended only for obligations incurred between October 1, 2015, and September 30, 2016.
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