LRB-1301/P2
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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Major, BB0456 - Services for youth victims of sex trafficking
For 2015-2017 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, if an agency to which a report of child abuse is made determines that a child is in need of services, the agency must offer to provide appropriate services or make arrangements for the provision of services. This bill appropriates general purpose revenues to DCF to purchase or provide treatment and services for children who are the victims of sex trafficking. The bill requires DCF, within the availability of funding appropriated for that treatment and those services, to ensure that that treatment and those services are available to children in all geographic areas of the state, including both urban and rural communities.
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) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
20.437 (1) (e) Services for sex-trafficking victims. The amounts in the schedule for treatment and services for sex-trafficking victims under s. 48.48 (19).
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 48.48 (19) of the statutes is created to read:
48.48 (19) To purchase or provide treatment and services for children who are the victims of trafficking, as defined in s. 940.302 (1) (d), for purposes of a commercial sex act, as defined in s. 940.302 (1) (a). Within the availability of funding under s. 20.437 (1) (e), the department shall ensure that that treatment and those services are available to children in all geographic areas of the state, including both urban and rural communities.
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